Author: brandnewkindof

Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.

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…

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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…

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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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album review: cory branan — the no-hit wonder

When Cory opened for Gaslight earlier this year, he told a story about a friend who occasionally covers his song “The Corner” and sings a line wrong; he sings down on the corner of what I want and what I intend to get, where the actual line is what I tend to get. They both…

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video share: the love language – heart to tell

I’ve had this stuck in my head since #merge25. Yesterday my brain mashed it up with JKutchma’s “Teenage DMZ” (because I put them both on a mix for Trav, and we listened to it driving around last weekend, and honestly? It’s a pretty good mashup. Thanks, brain!). Pretty psyched to see them twice in ten…

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album reviews: caleb caudle & fire mountain

A double shot from This Is American Music! You know I love those guys like whoa. Fire Mountain – All Dies Down: this is an album full of contradictions; it’s lovely but lonely. The rough vocals and the acoustic guitar driving the songs play against the electric guitars and piano that sound the way heat…

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the sun don’t rise and set on louisiana

I was down in the ATL this past weekend seeing Trav, the fourth time I’ve been down since we got back together in February. Long distance, of course, sometimes means that you often just want to sit on the couch and be within arms’ reach of each other, and the first three trips down, Trav…

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