Panic! at the Disco’s fourth albums opens with a fuzzy, electronic plea; it sounds nothing like anything else they’ve ever done, and then it explodes into Brendon Urie’s unmistakeable voice and a chorus crying that this is the beat of my heart. Urie lets it all out on the line if you love me, let…
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album review: curtis eller’s american circus — how to make it in hollywood
Curtis Eller immediately captivated me a few years ago when he moved back to the Triangle after a number of years in Brooklyn; his songs were a mix of the macabre and the historical, the morbid and the hilarious, and his stage presence was the sort that you couldn’t take your eyes from. How To…
album review: thea gilmore – regardless
Unless you hung out with a particular batch of Carleton College alums in the early aughts, and thus hung out with my badass friend Rosie, you might not know British singer/songwriter Thea Gilmore — you probably don’t, in fact. Rosie introduced me to Thea in 2003, with a copy of Loft Music — Thea’s excellent…
concert: reggie & the full effect @ local 506
More punk in 2014.
the first album i ever bought: kriss kross – totally krossed out
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 every Wednesday, and sometimes more often. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. For a little while I thought I could beat…
concert: jason isbell @ haw river ballroom
I detailed a lot about this show for SiC, but it’s worth nothing that I haven’t, before, written about Jason Isbell on this particular blog. The last time I saw Jason play predates my starting a photo blog. The photoblog postdates a long-standing Jason Isbell related grudge. Etc. When I first listened to, and fell…
concert: against me! @ the cradle
This is totally late, because my photos went up on SiC on Wednesday along with my thoughts on Against Me!’s set, but I wanted to write about first openers the Shondes, too, and it took me a day or four. The Shondes are a punk band from Brooklyn; fronted by the fierce and dynamic Louisa…
the first album i ever bought: ac/dc – dirty deeds done dirt cheap
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 every Wednesday, and sometimes more often. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. I got a few records before this for Christmas…
concert: camper van beethoven @ the cradle
I went to a show Friday night; my first show of 2014. My first show in more than a month, in fact. It was hot, and full of people, and I had to wear both real pants and a bra, and these are all things that displease me in general: heat, humans, real pants*, leaving…
the first album i ever bought: ace of base – the sign
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 every Wednesday, and sometimes more often. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. It is early 1994. I am a 10 years old,…
brand new kind of photography 