The mark of a great band is this: not how they perform as a headliner, but how they perform as an opener. Last night Girl in a Coma, touring as an opener for the Features, completely owned the crowd in the 506. Not a huge crowd, but one that whooped and hollered and even danced…
Month: January 2012
ink and skin
First Poem for You (Kim Addonizio) I like to touch your tattoos in complete darkness, when I can’t see them. I’m sure of where they are, know by heart the neat lines of lightning pulsing just above your nipple, can find, as if by instinct, the blue swirls of water on your shoulder where a…
promo photos: wylie hunter & the cazadores
Spent an hour Monday horsing around with Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores, rifling stock in CD Alley and being noisy in empty parking lots and trying to think up hilarious four letter words besides YMCA. Behind the jump, a couple of shots. NSFW if your employer is opposed to 20-something men spelling Four Letter Words…
color me obsessed: a follow-up
(I call this shot “Montgomery, Rapt”.) A few days late but hopefully not short any dollars but what I always am, I just wanted to put a few thank yous out to everyone who made the screening of Color Me Obsessed such a success last week. First, to Gorman, who made it possible for this…
red collar @ local 506
My face was suitably rocked by three of the most talented (and occasionally delightfully offensive) rock bands in the Triangle. Sometimes you just need a lot of electric guitars. Full set is here.
some army 7″ release show @ local 506
Some Army plays rattling, shining indie rock with clever lyrics and shimmering harmonies. Fan Modine makes some of the most melodic, danceable garage rock I’ve ever heard. And Prypyat plays songs that wouldn’t be out of place being done by Duncan Webster’s hard rocking Hammer No More The Fingers, except that he and Leah Gibson…
interview: mipso trio
Yesterday I had the undeniable pleasure of sitting down, in a noisy Weaver Street Market, with the three guys who make up fast-rising North Carolina Americana band Mipso Trio. Joseph Terrell, Jacob Sharp, and Wood Robinson will be headlining at the Cradle on Saturday night, with Overmountain Men and Jim Avett. (Details: Saturday 1/14, doors…
new track from lost in the trees
Yesterday NPR debuted the first track from Chapel Hill’s own Lost in the Trees, off their upcoming second album for Anti- Records, A Church That Fits Our Needs, due out 3/20. (Happy birthday to me.) The track is “Red”, and you can hear it here. LITT has been gaining buzz and admirers since Anti- re-released…
kinda brilliant. kinda dumb.
I lived in Minnesota for four years and never saw the Replacements. This, of course, is because I lived in Minnesota a good ten years after they split up, but still. That’s really sad, for me, and that’s part of why I’m so psyched to see Color Me Obsessed, because it’s that little bit of…
promo photos: some army
I spent some time yesterday doing cover images (hint: it involved 100+ photos of a closet) for the new Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores record, and as I was leaving Wylie’s, I got an email from my buddy Russ, who fronts locals Some Army. He had a photo emergency, so I scooted over to the…
brand new kind of photography 