I thought all day yesterday about what I wanted to say in my personal (rather than the official SiC) Hopscotch wrap-up, and I flashed through plenty of things. It was a great weekend; it will be a great weekend as long as Grayson and Greg choose to keep it going. But ultimately, what I came…
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hopscotch preview: triangle bands i love
Plenty of blogs out there — including Speakers in Code! — will tell you which national acts to catch at Hopscotch. For you, my dear readers, I shall tell out-of-towners and Triangle-residents-who-only-leave-the-house-once-a-year which locals are worth their salt, your time, and more, like who pays for photo jobs in vinyl. Aren’t those the important things?…
promo photos: bombadil
Had the pleasure of shooting some new promo images for the Bombadil boys on Saturday night, all spiffed up in their white suits. Such fun.
album review: patterson hood — heat lightning rumbles in the distance
Patterson Hood — Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance. Out 9/4, ATO Records. Patterson Hood has always been my least favorite songwriter of those who’ve passed through and stayed in the Drive-By Truckers; this doesn’t mean I don’t love Patterson’s songwriting, not by any stretch of the imagination, because I do, and he’s written some of…
phil cook & his feat – the weather station @ the FARM
Another beautiful show at the FARM, thanks to Elyse and Colie and Leland, Ampersand Booking, Phil Cook, Tamara from the Weather Station, and Ryan Gustafson & Josh Moore, who I heard put on an amazing set during a killer lightning storm (though we’d bailed for home before then). Rapidly becoming one of my favorite places…
bombadil & you won’t @ the cradle
Bombadil, like Josh Ritter, is a band that performs with such a sense of sheer joy at what they do — it radiates from the stage and infects the audience, who gives it back to him. Last night at the Cradle, there was a moment where I was standing in the crow’s nest, shooting the…
worth getting up for, summer edition
Worth getting up for this summer: the Menzingers and Lucero at the Cradle, Langhorne Slim and Ha Ha Tonka at the Casbah; long conversations with musicians I like and respect; field trips with the tiny dinosaurs; Gaslight Anthem and Dave Hause together at the Cradle, Girl in a Coma at the 506; the new light…
two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums i listened to in august
Short on numbers, long on excellence! Rhett Miller — The Dreamer: Rhett always saves some of his strongest songwriting for his occasional solo records — “I Need To Know Where I Stand”, off the self-titled, would have made a killer 97s rock anthem, except that instead it’s a gorgeous acoustic plaint — and his June…
spider bags @ all day records
Spider Bags’ new record, Shake My Head, is fucking kickass, and they sounded great at All Day yesterday. One of my hands down favorite local bands these days. Full set is here. The shutter on Six, my beloved workhorse D60, gave up the ghost yesterday mid-set, so I have a D80 winging her way to…
chris mcfarland @ the cave
This wasn’t the show I set out to shoot last night, but circumstances kept me from shooting the Reigning Sound, and I’m glad that I caught this one instead. McFarland, from Brooklyn via Austin, TX, plays the same kind of high energy punk-folk that Dave Hause does, and he was a delightful surprise when I…
brand new kind of photography 