Author: brandnewkindof

Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.

frightened rabbit & wintersleep @ cat’s cradle

Frightened Rabbit absolutely destroyed the Cradle last night; a sold out crowd hung on every word that frontman Scott Hutchison — in a particularly cheerful, gregarious mood — said, and those moments when the crowd’s collective voice rose up over the band in chorus, those are the moments that give me shivers. I was in…

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phuzz phest, day one

William Tyler is a genius. Some Army made me wish I’d given MORE money to their Kickstarter. Mount Moriah’s new album sounds gorgeous live. Drag Sounds was my favorite discovery. Spider Bags are some of my favorite humans and musicians ever. And I kept seeing people I thought I knew, only to turn and see…

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worth getting up for in march

Worth getting up for in March: Carolina’s gorgeous 2-1 victory over Team Wayne Graham; 24-1;  Bombadil, Drive-By Truckers, Gaslight Anthem, Hollis Brown live; a week at the beach; crossing three more restaurants off the 100 restaurants list; roadtrips with Mom; painted barns; US 1 in North Carolina; Florida Gulf Coast, Cinderella; starfish and shark’s teeth; sunshine; my…

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perfection’s always flawed: a baseball mix

My all-time favorite photo of Matt Wieters, future of the Orioles organization, existed before the Big Bang, subject of all love songs ever written, bad ass new god. He hit a two-run homer in the first inning of the O’s first game today. This is a playlist of baseball songs. You should listen to it,…

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festival preview / interview: phuzz phest

I have a lot of long-running jokes about Winston-Salem, and I have to be honest: most of them aren’t particularly nice. Most of them do involve the notion of time travel and how if we could harness the vortex of six thousand miles from nowhere that Winston seems to exist in, we could actually build…

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hollis brown @ local 506

Hollis Brown, you guys. Look. Y’all know that I basically don’t like to leave the house because I’m lazy and misanthropic and also because I’m old and I like to fall asleep in front of NBA games at 8:45 on weeknights. But I go out, for bands I really love, and I am generally rewarded….

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video share: michael rank & stag – “the surrender”

and i’ll be your hero down to the weeds I am really, really crazy about Michael Rank’s new record, In The Weeds, and this video for “The Surrender” is just gorgeous on every level. The song is amazing, just gutwrenchingly lovely, and the light in the video is staggering. Michael and the band open for…

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