Worth getting up for in October: Yep Roc 15, the Hold Steady, Kathleen Edwards, the Old 97s, Rhett Miller solo opening for himself, the Heartless Bastards; Admiral Fallow twice; new friends; sunny Sunday afternoon outdoor music; the new Rayland Baxter record; fried things at the State Fair; plastic flamingos, which just made me happy in October; dinner…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
two sentence reviews of new records i listened to in october
I listened to a lot of records in October. Golden Gardens — How Brave The Hunted Wolves: dreamy indie pop from a Seattle duo, this sounds like wind chimes on a lonely porch at twilight. It’s sunrise after a thunderstorm on the beach, the closing credits of a horror movie with a happy ending, goosebumps…
read what you own (sort of) october
At the beginning of October, I became completely overwhelmed by the state of my Goodreads to-read list. This was one part oh God I will never read all the books in the world and one part I got a Kindle and suddenly there were all these new books! That looked good! That weren’t on my…
old 97s @ cat’s cradle
Okay, look, let’s just get this out of the way: if you’re touring the anniversary of Too Far To Care, and thus are playing the record start to finish, and thus are opening every show with “Timebomb”, I don’t care that you’ve been using it as your closer for 15 years, since the album was…
kathleen edwards @ haw river ballroom
asking for flowers is like asking you to be nice
album review: ryan bingham — tomorrowland
Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses — Tomorrowland. Out now, Lost Highway Records. Ryan Bingham, of course, made his name a few years ago when he collaborated on the soundtrack to Crazy Heart with T-Bone Burnett, including Best Original Song “The Weary Kind”. “The Weary Kind” was typical spectacular Bingham: a heartbreaking commentary on how…
speakers in code garden party: admiral fallow
And then on Sunday, the North Carolina division of Speakers In Code took over the stage that’s immediately in front of Matt and Tracey’s new house (most convenient stage ever), loaded it with a full PA system, plugged the keggerator full of Fullsteam’s summer basil beer (graciously donated by Sean from Fullsteam, who turned up…
admiral fallow @ local 506
A double shot of Admiral Fallow photos today; Speakers in Code had the pleasure of hosting the charming Scottish indie rockers for two shows in Chapel Hill over the weekend. The first was Saturday night at the 506, and we had a great turn out including people Matt and I didn’t know. I really expected…
lucius @ local 506
Had the pleasure of seeing Lucius open up for Milo Greene at the 506 on Friday night; they play deeply eerie candy-colored synth pop that I’m completely smitten by. (Their first self-titled EP is out now.) If ’60s girl group doowop made a baby with Owen Pallett, that baby would be Lucius, with their matching…
youngblood hawke @ disco rodeo
First: I refuse to call Disco Rodeo “the Ritz”, even if they have big stupid red letters on their building calling it that. Disco Rodeo is a big old cave of a venue in an old storage building in an office park, and it is not the Ritz. Jesus Christ. Second: I have spent seven…
brand new kind of photography 