I always eat well when I go home to see my folks.
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
frontier ruckus @ local 506
The thing about Frontier Ruckus is that everything about their music is dense; their new record, Eternity Of Dimming, features over 50,000 words in the lyrics of 20 songs. Matthew Milia knows how to make words work for him. His lyrics are visceral, raw, intimate, and always the perfect word at the perfect time. What…
album review: roger knox – stranger in my land
Roger Knox & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts – Stranger In My Land. Out 2/12, Bloodshot Records. One of the reasons I love Bloodshot Records — besides the fact that they release consistently great records, and also that they love me back, which is all I ask for from a record label — is that they are…
scott h. biram @ local 506
I’m slowly working my way through Scott H. Biram’s back catalog; slowly enough that I don’t know the titles to most of the songs that he plays, but fast enough that I love the hell out of everything he does. A “one dirty old man band”, Scott is a great songwriter, and what he does…
interview: mike dixon of people in a position to know on kris kristofferson
(This is not a photo of Kris Kristofferson. It is a photo of Willie Nelson. I have no photos of Kris, so I substituted best I could.) A few months ago, I backed a project on Kickstarter — a double LP of Kris Kristofferson covers. The Kickstarter was successful, the digital download of the record…
quoth the raven, ‘sack kaepernick’
“Just witnessing a Baltimore ritual. I’ve lived here all my life and never visited Poe’s grave, much less seen the Visitor. That’s akin to never going to Fort McHenry or watching the Orioles play.” “Bunch of bums.” Rainer frowned. “I hate the American League.” “Where did you grow up, Detective?” “Jersey. I’m a Mets fan….
book review: the polaroid book (taschen 25th anniversary edition)
I have a Polaroid. It was my maternal grandmother’s, and it came with two packs of expired, unusable film. I haven’t bought any film from the Impossible Project yet, because I never have any money, but I love Polaroid cameras, and photos. I love the instance of it; the whole point of it, really. I…
read what i had, volume two
In January, I resolved to only read books that were on my GoodReads to-read list on January 1. This went … sort of well. What I ended up reading in January: Second Chance Summer, Morgan Mattson Carry The One, Carol Anshaw Gone, Gone, Gone, Hannah Moskowitz Teeth, Hannah Moskowitz Ryan Adams: Losering, A Story of…
worth getting up for in january
Worth getting up for in January: the new Wooden Wand album; the new Elin Ruth album; the Dorado album; Frontier Ruckus’s Eternity of Dimming; Beach Boys covers; Willie Nelson live; Mike Carey’s Felix Castor novels; Jefferson Bass’s Bill Brockton novels; chili cookoffs; the Ravens beating the Colts, embarrassing Peyton, and crushing Tom Brady; Angry Birds…
two sentence reviews of albums i listened to in january
A Mad Affair — Retro Honey Pop: the title of this record, from a new-ish Triangle trio, is a pretty good descriptor; it’s noir-y, sultry, rootsy pop, all dominated by Valerie Wood’s gorgeous, enormous voice. Torch songs for the new generation, really, and I’m deeply impressed by this release, which hooks into the current Americana…
brand new kind of photography 