A quietly beautiful show at the FARM for 2012; Des Ark and the Tender Fruit both such heart-stopping songs about heart-stopping feelings, and the company, though a smaller crowd than the last show, was warm and funny and full of people I love. I ate a quesadilla and warmed my hands over a bonfire and…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
on how to be an adult
I’ve resolved to be more of a real adult in 2013. I know that November is a weird time to make resolutions, being that, you know, it’s not 2013 and most of 2012 has gone by without a change in my adulthood status, but still. This morning I got a busted tail light on Azula…
grant hart @ slim’s
It is always a pleasure and a privilege to shoot Grant Hart, and see him play; he’s a genius songwriter, he’s one of the weirdest and most interesting people I’ve ever met, and as a photographer, he has one of those gorgeous, odd, sharp-angled faces that are fascinating, endlessly, to shoot. It was a lovely…
heartless bastards @ haw river ballroom
Erika Wennerstrom is a badass. The wall of guitar and bass that Heartless Bastards produce is enough to rattle your fillings in the best possible way. Haw River Ballroom is one of my favorite places to shoot in the Triangle, if not my favorite, because the lights are so perfect and dramatic. Futurebirds are more…
worth getting up for: october
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…
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…
brand new kind of photography 