i’m close to the age that i only do things that i know how to do i can make coffee and i can make small talk ’cause who wants to try something new? And so starts “Dead To The World” and Lessons, the astonishing 4th LP from Missouri quartet Ha Ha Tonka. I have spent…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
concert: deerhunter & crystal stilts @ cat’s cradle
Deerhunter — one of Bradford Cox’s many monikers, and the one under which he and four compatriots released the stellar Monomania — is loud. They are very, very loud. They’re also challenging and fierce and strange and not, exactly, despite how much I liked that record, a band I would be drawn to. I don’t…
interview: brian roberts of ha ha tonka
Tomorrow Ha Ha Tonka drops Lessons, their spectacular 4th LP follow-up to three previous spectacular LPs (there’ll be a review tomorrow morning!), and I’ve got some answers from Brian Roberts, guitarist and lead singer, on a variety of subjects — Maurice Sendak, making art, Brett’s mandolin, and the Pirates’ resurgence. Read more below, and thanks…
fun with search strings, summer 2013 edition
More things that people Googled instead of, I don’t know, Wikipedia-ing them. Or having opinions of their own. north carolina triple a baseball: the Durham Bulls, and the Charlotte Knights, who technically belong to Charlotte and also technically play in South Carolina. 100 foods in 100 counties nc: I assume you’re looking for Our State…
concert: lucinda williams @ haw river ballroom
When Lucinda Williams announced a show at Haw River Ballroom about a month ago — she’s on her way to Tennevirginia to headline Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion this upcoming weekend — it sold out so fast that Lucinda (and the Cat’s Cradle, who sponsored the show) added a second show, tonight’s set. So I…
riotfest chicago 2013
I wrote a little about RiotFest for SiC; the only other things I can say are that the women at this festival — a festival that is, by nature of punk and ska, very male-dominated — were incredibly badass. Joan Jett, Exene, Debbie Harry, Laura Jane Grace — I was incredibly proud to be a…
concert: j. roddy walston & the business @ double door
Started my Chicago weekend off onThursday evening with pizza with Adam, and finished it by shooting in a venue I hadn’t set foot in in years, Chicago’s venerable dive the Double Door. The pizza was great, Adam is awesome, and the new J. Roddy record rocks harder live than it does in the recording, but…
dear chicago you’ll never guess
my life’s gotten simple since and it fluctuates so much happy and sad and back again i’m not crying out too much
album review: two cow garage – the death of the self preservation society
The new Two Cow Garage starts off with a blast of static and feedback, before it gallops into opening track “The Little Prince and Johnny Toxic”, and what may very well be their finest album to date. Over the last few albums, Two Cow has polished their recording sound up, and one of my favorite…
festival: hopscotch music festival 2013
This is the third year in a row that I’ve photographed Raleigh’s weird, charming, brilliant Hopscotch Music Festival, and while it might have been the year I saw the fewest number of bands (… 30 or so over the weekend), it might be the year I had the most fun. Hopscotch is, always, a festival…
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