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/…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
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…
these girls
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.
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…
brand new kind of photography 