What a fantastic rock and roll night, full of people I love doing amazing things. Full set, with Last Year’s Men and Schooner, here.
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
album review: gross ghost – public housing
Public Housing is a break up album; there’s nothing to hide that from the opening lines of “Seeds”: nothing to do, nothing to say. “Seeds” echoes and weeps with the clarity of the drums under Mike Dillon’s aching vocals in the first chorus. The vocals maintain in that way over the rest of the disc,…
the first album i ever bought: n.w.a. – straight outta compton
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. EXPRESS YOURSELF When I was a suburban Chicago 4th grader,…
the first album i ever bought: run-dmc – self-titled
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 bought my first album around the time that music…
families: b & n
I took these shots of my great coworker B. and her adorable 5 year old son N. on Monday; we had a blast.
concert: the head & the heart @ the ritz
I wrote about this show for Speakers In Code. Thao & the Get Down Stay Down opened the show, same as the last time I saw THATH in 2011, and they were equally as excellent now as then. I forget between seeing Thao how much I love her slithery, funky, sometimes dirty rock and roll,…
the first album i ever bought: the new radicals – maybe you’ve been brainwashed too
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 remember my nervous walk into Record Town like my…
wilson, nc whirl-i-gig festival
Part of my life list: 63. Attend 10 North Carolina festivals. Wilson has an annual whirl-i-gig festival celebrating the work of Vollis Simpson, and the parentals and I stopped there yesterday. Mr. Simpson’s work is being restored by artists in Wilson and surroundings, and being installed in a park in downtown Wilson to preserve and…
life list: 100 foods in 100 counties
58. Eat at every restaurant in Our State magazine’s 100 Foods To Eat In North Carolina’s 100 Counties. Chatham County. Foie gras at Fearrington House Restaurant. I’m not super into goose liver, but the meal as a whole was the best I’ve ever eaten. Plus a bonus carved root vegetable from Halloween. Fearrington’s pumpkins were awesome.
worth getting up for in october
Worth getting up for in October: a weekend with my sister and my mom, and my extended family, in Augusta; the hot-dipped pan fried chicken from Keaton’s BBQ in Rowan County; all five of my cousins’ children, only two of whom I had met; the new Head and the Heart record; seeing Jonny Rodgers play…
brand new kind of photography 