Houston’s Wild Moccasins were great on Thursday night; smart songwriting and hella mad stage presence. Loved loved their set. But damn it’s been a while since the 506 was a sucking black hole pit of no light like that. Didn’t miss it.
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
review: epiphanie bags “sydney”
I have been engaged in a long battle to find the perfect camera bag / purse — and over the winter, I finally resigned myself to the fact that I really needed a camera bag, and I needed a purse, and those were separate things. A purse I could still shove my camera into if…
concert: typhoon w/ PHOX and wild ones @ cat’s cradle
I started crying two and a half minutes into Typhoon’s set and didn’t stop until they finished playing. It was was an extraordinarily beautiful show, White Lighter is even more powerful live, the crowd was incredibly into the set, and when I took my earplugs out at the end of “Young Fathers”, mid set, for…
the first album i ever bought: michael jackson – bad
The First Album I Ever Bought is an occasional guest post series where friends, family, and strangers talk about, well, the first album they ever bought. A new piece runs (almost) every Wednesday, and sometimes more often. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. My friends at This Is American Music are…
poem: vii (wendell barry)
VII (Wendell Barry) I know I am getting old and I say so, but I don’t think of myself as an old man. I think of myself as a young man with unforeseen debilities. Time is neither young nor old, but simply new, always counting, the only apocalypse. And the clouds —no mere measure or…
show previews: what a week
It’s been a while since I’ve been to a show — a combination of bad weather and laziness has compounded it. But hot damn if there isn’t an amazing four days in a row just in Chapel Hill (and Carrboro, mostly in Carrboro) where I can tell you go and watch some live music. Tuesday 3/18: Typhoon w/…
the first album i ever bought: the wallflowers – bringing down the horse
The First Album I Ever Bought is an occasional guest post series where friends, family, and strangers talk about, well, the first album they ever bought. A new piece runs (almost) every Wednesday, and sometimes more often. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. My friends at This Is American Music are about…
quote: patti smith on good things
Whenever anyone does something of worth, including myself, it just makes me happy to be alive. — Patti Smith Feeling really grateful for a particular handful of people in my life today. If we’ve talked about making art or doing things that scare you in the last few days, consider yourself even more loved than…
to hate like this is to be happy forever
I finished my annual re-read of Will Blythe’s To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever this week. It seemed important to finish it before Duke at Duke, because usually I try to finish it before the ACC season even starts. I didn’t this year, because December was occupied by house-buying, and then I…
brothers in arms: erin and willie breeding (the breedings)
W: But what if I lose my inspiration because I don’t see the lights? A: I don’t know what to do then. I’ll give you an inspirational quote. (This interview was taped last August, which makes me both a bad music writer and a bad friend for taking so long to transcribe it. But it’s…
brand new kind of photography 