J. Roddy Walston & the Business rock. Sometimes that’s a cliche, and sometimes it’s the only way to describe what a band does. This band, fronted by the volatile and captivating Walston, rocks, and rocks hard. I had the pleasure of seeing them back in September in Chicago, and they had an incredibly diverse crowd —…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
request for submissions: the first album i ever bought
Since people seem interested in this, here’s a template for submitting a piece on The First Album You Ever Bought! Email the piece — 200-300 words minimum, no maximum but do try to contain yourself to not, say, 10,000 words — to asdonkar AT gmail with the subject line The First Album I Ever Bought. Include…
saxapahaw oktober fest: sarah shook + gasoline stove
It’s been a while since I’ve seen any local bands that I didn’t already know … or at least local bands who weren’t composed of people I knew from other bands with new projects. So last night’s Oktoberfest in Saxapahaw was a lovely change, because I got to see a couple of well-respected country acts…
ep review / interview: animal parts – six arms to hold you
Toronto musician Joshua Cockerill — who performs solo and with a band as Animal Parts — came onto my radar about this time last year, when he played a couple of North Carolina shows with Scots Admiral Fallow and recently-visited Erin Rae and John Isaac Davey; he writes deeply intense and personal songs, often just accompanied…
jonny rodgers @ the cave
Jonny Rodgers plays wine glasses. He does more than that, of course — he loops his own ethereal voice over itself, electric guitar, keyboards, and programmed drum-and-basslines, combined with exquisitely simple and heart-rendingly personal songwriting about love, loss, and loneliness — but if that isn’t new, it isn’t old, either. What is new is the…
erin rae & courtney marie andrews @ steel string brewery
Speakers In Code favorite Erin Rae rolled into town on Friday night with Seattle songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews in tow, and it was the loveliest night, of women with big voices singing smart, thoughtful songs. Courtney sounds like a young Joni Mitchell, and Erin Rae impressed me even more this time around than she did…
film review: muscle shoals
I’ve been thinking about Jason Isbell a lot lately. For a couple of reasons: first, writing about the origins of blog name sent me looking through 2009 photos for some good ones of Jason; I haven’t photographed him since then, so it was a trip down memory lane for the shows I did. Second, because…
link: the head and the heart – let’s be still review
I wrote about the Head and the Heart’s Let’s Be Still for Speakers in Code: A band like THATH, whose first album exploded in such an organic way, has a lot of weight on their shoulders in producing a second one, and while I don’t think there’s a song on Let’s Be Still that’s as…
life list: 100 foods, 100 counties
One off the 100 foods list … Hot Dipped Fried Chicken from Keaton’s Barbeque, in Cleveland, NC, Rowan County. I need to go back because I think the chicken suffered from a drive to Augusta, GA, in my trunk, which is not Keaton’s fault. But when they say hot, they mean hot. The spice is…
goathouse mondays are BACK
We’ll go back to themed kitties next week, but for now, just look at that face. Don’t you just want to kiss it all up? Goathouse hosted a benefit on Friday night, and you might want to go read about it, but be warned: it is definitely full of animal cruelty triggers, if that upsets…
brand new kind of photography 