A January tradition by now, this benefit show pitting covers of two bands against each other. (Dylan vs Petty ; Springsteen vs Young ; REM vs U2) It is always for a good cause, and it is always fun. This year it was the Beach Boys and the Beatles getting the versus treatment, and it…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
album review: goodnight texas – a long life of living
Goodnight, Texas: A Long Life Of Living. Out now, self-released. Goodnight, Texas is a real town. It’s the halfway point between San Francisco, where Avi Vinocur lives, and Chapel Hill, where Patrick Dyer Wolf plays solo and often with the Tender Fruit. A Long Life Of Living sounds like Goodnight, Texas should sound, a bit…
luck, timing, and a quick trigger finger
Augustana plays an acoustic show at the 506 tonight; it’s sold out, so you’re probably out of luck in getting to see them, alas, just like me, but I can share this photo, which remains one of the best shots I’ve ever taken. The summer of 2010, the Counting Crows summer tour, my beloved now-dead…
when i’m not here
Places you can find me when I’m not posting as much here: Twitter: @brandnewkindof ; day-to-day life stuff, retweeting photo posts and sports links, music links, general ephemera of my brain, immediate links to blog posts and photos on Flickr. Tumblr: brandnewkindof ; other people’s stuff that I like reblogged, mostly sports photos, travel photos,…
willie nelson @ dpac
Got to see Willie Nelson for the first time last night, at the DPAC with Dan. He did Will The Circle Be Unbroken / I’ll Fly Away / Amazing Grace at the end, and I cried like a baby. A few more photos of Willie and Lukas, who opened, are here.
song share: gratitude (for curt flood) – the baseball project
Today is the birthday of Curt Flood, whose refusal to be traded from the Cardinals to the Phillies and the subsequent legal battle (Flood v. Kuhn) defined free agency as we know it today. Flood sacrificed his career, which might have been a Hall of Fame one, for the rights of baseball players not to…
the jon spencer blues explosion @ cat’s cradle
Matt wrote about last night’s show, and interviewed Jon Spencer, over at Speakers in Code. I was deeply smitten with the opening set from Pittsburgh’s Shockwave Riderz, Dex and Sara Romweber are always joys to watch (wouldn’t it be nice if you could, in your 40s, decide that what you wanted to do with your…
photo preview: jon spencer blues explosion
Some nights you just need to know when to put the camera down.
in search of: an art director / art intern
I am a pretty good photographer; I’m not a terrible designer, either, because I did spend four years getting a degree in scenic design, a long time and a lot of student loans ago. What I am bad at, however, is starting a design; I was in college, too. I have big ideas, but then…
southern folklife collection fiddle symposium concert
One of the best things about living in a college town — one of the best things that I don’t take nearly enough advantage of, to the point where I put it on my life list — is all the cool free and cheap events that Carolina sponsors, throws, has, etc. Last night was the…
brand new kind of photography 