Finished up my photo shoot with A & B on Sunday. If I’d been half as awesome as them when I was 15, my life would have been way easier.
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
album review: party dolls – love wars baby
I’ve decided to get rid of the phrases “side project” and “supergroup”. Henceforth if someone plays and / or writes for multiple bands, they will just play and write for multiple bands. Because, yes, technically, Party Dolls is both a side project — an outlet for Athens rockers the District Attorneys’ frontman Drew Beskin to…
interview: drew beskin of the district attorneys & party dolls
Drew Beskin, who fronts Athens/ATL bands the District Attorneys and Party Dolls, was kind enough to answer a few questions for me in the wake of the release of Party Dolls’ debut LP, Love Wars Baby. I’ll have a review up later this afternoon, but for now, enjoy Drew’s thoughtful responses to my dumb questions….
show preview: new madrid @ kings, 3/6
I’m kind of really into Georgia bands right now, apparently. I didn’t mean for it to happen — I thought there was only one person in the state of Georgia with whom I was smitten! You know! The one I like to kiss! — but then all of a sudden I’ve got a couple of…
poem: “we talked about the fact …” (robert lax)
We talked about the fact … (Robert Lax) We talked about the fact that it wasn’t the danger, it wasn’t the skill, it wasn’t the applause that made the act what it was. It was principally the grace; the bringing into being, for a moment, the beautiful thing, the somersault, the leap, the entrechat on…
why you don’t want to go to a festival with a photographer
Music festivals are awesome. But as music festival season comes upon us, I have realized: if you like music, you probably don’t want to go to a music festival with a working photographer, because going to a music festival with a working photographer is no fun. There’s some festivals that are exceptions — like Hopscotch,…
quote: frank turner kicks your ass
Work hard and be your own harshest critic. — Frank Turner I’m really excellent at the second one, and not always in a good way. But I’m working on it.
the first album i ever bought: deana carter – did i shave my legs for this?
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. In 1997, I was twelve years old, in…
album review: lydia loveless – somewhere else
If Lydia Loveless’s 2011 Indestructible Machine was a 38 minute punch of broken hearted and bitter but not down or out cowpunk, 2013’s Somewhere Else starts with a blast of guitars that can’t be mistaken for anything but rock and roll. “Really Wanna See You” has a typical Loveless theme: an ex who broke her…
tv: BOSCH
I don’t talk much about TV on here, because frankly no one but my friend Amy wants to hear my feelings about how Nick Burkhardt on Grimm is a moron (and I’m continually about six episodes behind in Justified), but I’ve just watched the Amazon Prime pilot of BOSCH — based loosely on City of…
brand new kind of photography 