There’s a few things in here I discuss — including animal cruelty — that might be triggering to people, so please be aware. Last night Haw River Ballroom hosted a concert / benefit put together by Goathouse Cat Refuge — who y’all know that I volunteer with — in support for the shutting down of…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
song share: kathleen grace – ‘no place to fall’ (townes van zandt)
Los Angeles country singer/songwriter Kathleen Grace wasn’t on my radar before this cover, but she certainly is now: this is a honest and true cover of one of Townes’ best (and most heartbreaking) songs, the same kind of desperate love and crushing loneliness rolled up together in the more-covered ‘If I Needed You’. Grace’s voice…
concert: surfer blood @ cat’s cradle
Over on Speakers In Code. Team Spirit was the second open, and their furious brand of crashing poppy garage punk was just absolutely compelling. Hook-filled, and noisy, and they just looked like they were having so much fun playing. Their bassist was a dervish of the Frank Iero variety, their lead singer looked like Weird…
words: where my domain name comes from
Occasionally when I give someone my card, they ask me where my domain name — my Twitter user name — comes from. It is, at this point, a clever play on the fact that I work hard to make sure that my concert photographs don’t look like everyone else’s concert photographs, but it was, originally,…
carrboro music festival 2013
Sometimes it’s just nice to wander around your town on a sunny Sunday afternoon in September and watch bands play. Yep. Full set here.
photos: then and now (blitzen trapper and langhorne slim)
I was emailing with Adam last week — as I often am — and I realized, after pulling that 2009 photo of Hayes Carll for comparison to this year’s photo of Hayes Carll, that all of last week’s shows were bands that I shot very early on in my concert photography career. And, for the…
concert: langhorne slim @ haw river ballroom
My favorite live musicians are the ones who play with unbridled joy — I mean, come on, if you’re going to live the damn rough life of a musician, you might as well love it, despite the roughness. Josh Ritter, for example. Langhorne Slim, for another, who played a balls-to-the-wall joyous set at Haw River…
concert: blitzen trapper @ haw river ballroom
I wrote about this one for Speakers In Code. Phox, a super charming 6-piece indie pop group from Madison, Wisconsin, opened; their music is great, and they were all lovely. They’re about to start work on their new record, and I have to tell you that I’m pretty damn psyched about it. They were great….
worth getting up for in september
Worth getting up for in September: Hopscotch; the Breeders; San Fermin; RiotFest; seeing Pam, Adam, N., and Sid; Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, Exene Cervenka, the lady tuba player in DeVotchKa, and Laura Jane Grace; hanging out with Erica, whom I previously only knew as J’s DC photographer friend; Fall Out Boy in front off 20,000…
concert: hayes carll & corb lund @ southland ballroom
well, you’re probably a democrat why, what the hell is wrong with that? nothing if you’re taliban well, i bet you slept with half the south oh, don’t you ever shut your mouth? yeah, how much did you pay for that tan? The top photo here is one I took of Hayes Carll almost five years…
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