It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of the retro soul and ’60 doowop pop sound that’s making huge waves in the indie music community these days; I almost love it more than boys with beards and banjos. (It’s close, but I’m a sucker for a banjo.) But it’s hard to call what electric…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
sugar + the hi-lows @ greene street
If you’re not having fun while you’re watching Sugar & the Hi-Lows, you’re doing it wrong. Buddy Holly pop with a garage rock kick, and enough sass from Amy Stroup to hand any dozen men their asses. Great show. Full set here.
sinful savage tigers @ the station
If you didn’t stay til the bitter end of this great show, you missed me bullying Josh Moore and SST into covering ‘The Weight’ for me. They killed it, and I am terrifically bossy. Sinful Savage Tigers’ last Americana Revue … the Station better get somebody as good as SST and predecessors Magnolia Collective to…
micah schnabel — i’m dead, serious
Micah Schnabel — I’m Dead, Serious. Out now. In case you’re unfamiliar with my feelings about Micah Schnabel and his songwriting, you might want to go spend some time with the thousand words I spent on his first solo record, When The Stage Lights Go Dim, or the second thousand I spent on Two Cow…
need promo photos? i’m your girl.
Locals — or out-of-towners playing in Chapel Hill; wish I could do Raleigh or Durham for a shoot, but I can’t — if you’re in the market for new promo photos for an upcoming release, a tour, or just because your bassist quit, I’m running a May special: Email me — asdonkar AT gmail, subject…
future kings of nowhere @ local 506
What a gorgeous, triumphant show. Full of people I love, and people loved by people I love, and indie pop punk and songs about the Jonestown Massacre and Missouri and Texas and Pirates and accidentally murdering people. The definition of the best kind of local show; the best kind of show. Full set here.
promo photos: the fooligans
Spent Sunday afternoon with the Fooligans, goofing around and doing their promo photos. Full set is here. If you’re a local band who needs promo photos, I’ll cut you a price deal if you book me in the next two weeks: asdonkar AT gmail. I have two days in May and four in June open.
promo photos: slingshot cash
Mocking up album art for the Cowboy’s new record, Summer’s Gone, out in July.
jesca hoop @ west end wine bar
Yep Roc’s Jesca Hoop played a quietly delicate set to a small crowd at the West End Wine Bar; an off-night from touring with the Punch Brothers, she writes intricate and shimmering songs in the vein of Sharon Van Etten and plays them with an electric kick like Carrie Brownstein. She had her voice reigned…
worth getting up for in april
Worth getting up for in April: Delta Spirit, Alabama Shakes, Hoots & Hellmouth, the Lumineers, Deep Dark Woods live; my new tattoo all healed up; paid photo jobs, unpaid photo jobs, and photo jobs paid in beer and dope; vintage pick-up trucks at twilight; not paying my undergrad loan (because it’s paid off); crossing things…
brand new kind of photography 