Lydia Loveless lead off her raucous almost two hour set on Tuesday night with “Head” from this year’s spectacular Somewhere Else, and honestly, it takes a certain kind of fabulously awesome person to open a weekday show with a smaller crowd with a raunchy but somehow sweet song about, well. Oral sex. It’s one of…
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concerts: caleb caudle @ the cave
Caleb Caudle’s Paint Another Layer On My Heart is one of my very, very favorite records of 2014 — the songwriting is so delicate and heartbreaking, and it feels terrifically like a long distance love affair album, which I appreciate. He played an excellent hour long set at the Cave on Friday night, including my…
concerts: amanda shires @ cat’s cradle backroom
I went to see Amanda Shires on a whim, on an invitation from my friend Shannon, on the desire to see some live music in a small space. I figured she’d be good because Jason Isbell wouldn’t marry a bad musician, but she absolutely blew me away; her songwriting is arch and clever, a little…
brothers in arms: dex & sara romweber
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in celebration of the southern folklife collection
Saturday afternoon at the Cradle, a bunch of great bands got together and played a show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC — I missed the morning panel about the history of the Cradle because I was super lazy on Saturday. I shot photos of Dex Romweber Duo and…
concerts: carolina still @ cat’s cradle
I love these guys so much. Too much fun.
concerts: shannon o’connor @ cat’s cradle
I met Shannon O’Connor when she was stomping on PBR cans in the Cradle parking lot during Merge 25, so I knew I was going to like her from the start, because, come on, why not? We then discussed my camera and her CD release show, so I knew I was going to like her…
friday nonsense: what’s for dinner
After the year of Everything I Ate, I thought I’d swear off food photography, but lately I’ve actually been remembering to feed myself, and as housewarming gifts I got some gorgeous white plates and gorgeous glass bowls, and, well, here I am, taking pictures of dinner. Don’t they all look good, though?
concerts: rock*a*teens & the love language @ cat’s cradle back room
What a lovely night of Merge Records indie pop rock last Wednesday — despite starting at 10:30pm (much too late for this old person), the Love Language’s set was shimmery delicious danceable goodness, and Rock*A*Teens made me doubly sad that I missed their set at Merge 25, because they were equally great. Give me hooky…
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