The National have utterly ruined their new album for me. I can’t think of a higher compliment for a live show; the National were so great last night, so powerful and overwhelming, that the superb High Violet now sounds like a pale imitation of itself. It was, of course, a set heavy on songs from…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
cameron mcgill @ local 506
Margot & the Nuclear So-and-So’s and Cameron McGill & What Army had a rough Sunday; a trip to the emergency room is never fun, especially in Asheville, NC, and then they were stymied by closures on I-40 trying to get down to the CH. The show got started late, and I had to bail on Margot’s…
holy ghost tent revival @ festifall, chapel hill
Beautiful weather, beautiful light, and some of my favorite people in the world.
when all they do is have opinions
“If you go home with someone, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em.” — John Waters
what to do this weekend: october 1-4
Sure, there are weekends that shep. and I sit around the apartment and drink beer and moan that there’s nothing to do; but that’s usually untrue, there’s just nothing we want to do. October, though — October is a month of riches here in the Triangle, and I’m going to try and remind you of…
worth getting up for: september
Worth getting up for in September: football; Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion; the sandwich I ate at Macado’s in Bristol; Justin Townes Earle’s Harlem River Blues & Two Cow Garage’s Sweet Saint Me; free Hopscotch day parties; fall weather and cool mornings, the summer heat finally breaking; red wine weather; long sleeved shirts; knock-off Topsiders;…
film school @ local 506
Back in May — or June, or July; I don’t know, I can’t remember what I ate for dinner five days ago, much less when I had a revelation — I decided that what I was going to do in the back half of the year was expand my musical horizons. I was going to…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in september
Two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums I listened to in September: Various Artists — Wisco: A Wisconsin Tribute to Wilco’s Summerteeth: I love this. I mean it — I love this. Masterminded by Muzzle of Bees’ Ryan Matteson, this is a track-by-track covering of Wilco’s Summerteeth (aka my favorite Wilco album) by local Wisconsin…
semi-regular inspiration
Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this month. (Inspiration which I am desperately in need of, I might add.) Gorgeous illustrated letterforms by Jonny Wan. Tilt-shift Van Gogh. Now I have to watch the Van Gogh episode of Doctor Who again. This photo of Bruce Springsteen. Sweet Home Style, because I am tired of…
after the waltz
You must, after the age of 33, continue to do a certain type of work, or else go into the shoe business; forget music or it’ll turn into hatred, or else reiteration, redundancy, and in many cases death. — Garth Hudson of the Band, 1984. I wonder what Patterson Hood would think of that. One…
