Out now. Frank Turner, man. Frank Turner, like Josh Ritter, wrote a break-up album. It can’t not be a breakup album, when it starts off with the upbeat and playful “Recovery”, a song whose sound is disingenuous, or maybe I mean totally true, to its content. It’s about, well, about recovering — from a broken…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
a guide to concert photography: the ugly bits
There are lots of tutorials out there about how to take great concert photographs, thorough posts that cover pit etiquette and all the technical specs and hints you’ll ever need to know, but none of them ever seem to cover what I could have used most when I was starting out: how to get into…
why i bag on matt harvey
Matt Harvey was a non-entity to me his freshman year. He started on the weekends, but I was much more concerned with the bullpen, with Alex White and Adam Warren, than I was with the Harv. To the point where I have more photos of Buster Posey (two), who didn’t even play for Carolina, than…
college baseball: duke @ carolina
2, 3, & 4. Spent the weekend with the Paternal Unit, who flew down for the UNC series at the Bosh, against Duke. Beautiful weather on Saturday and Sunday, and Friday’s foul weather meant we got to catch a true day-night doubleheader yesterday. Carolina swept Duke, outscoring them 21-3 over three games, and moves to…
poem: baseball (gail mazur)
I haven’t celebrated baseball or National Poetry Month enough. Baseball (Gail Mazur) the question of what makes a man slump when his form, his eye, his power aren’t to blame, this isn’t like the bad luck that hounds us, and his frustration in the games not like our deep rage for disappointing ourselves the ball…
fitz & the tantrums @ haw river ballroom
I have been to two shows lately that have surprised me; I am sometimes a little snotty about the fact that Triangle concert crowds can be a bit … stodgy. Appreciative, sure. But non-reactive, often. And I don’t what’s been different at these two shows: call it a change in audience demographic, call it drunkenness,…
the new kacey musgraves record is great
you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t so you might as well just do whatever you want so make lots of noise, kiss lots of boys or kiss lots of girls if that’s something you’re into
weary engine blues: the songs of jason molina
The news of Jason Molina’s death broke on my 33rd birthday; this is not new for me, a beloved musician dying as I age a year, since Alex Chilton passed away the night before my 30th birthday. Both left me grief-stricken, restless, unsure of myself and my life. For Chilton, I resolved it with the…
hot dogs everywhere: skippy’s, winston-salem
Where: Skippy’s, 624 W 4th St, Winston Salem, NC. What: the chili cheese dog With whom: Allison Why: I love chili cheese dogs. Grade: A-. The dog and the chili were straightforward; loved that they use shredded cheddar for cheese, leaving it to melt on the warm chili, instead of standard orange nacho stuff. The…
giveaway: mike tyler – money grows on your knees 7″
One of the reasons that I find New York noise-pop artist Mike Tyler so terrifically charming is that he talks about music like I write about it: not quite on center, maybe with some strange comparisons, some unique sentence structure, words that are as oddly off-center and delightful as his music. On the subject of…
brand new kind of photography 