One of the great pleasures of reviewing books from Cicada Books, a London-based publisher, is that they’re all gorgeous, which is exactly their goal: they publish the book equivalent of an incredibly well-brewed small-batch craft beer, or a gorgeous screenprinted limited edition 7″ cover. They’re a pleasure to hold, and to read, as works of…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
slingshot cash @ the speakeasy
The Cowboy’s band is sounding really, really good lately. They’re finally a permanent four piece — four piece four part harmony four part bourbon band, he calls them — and it’s paying off. The early mixes of his new album are also sounding truly excellent. It was a good night. I know good people. I…
goat + faun @ jessee’s
I went to see my friend Robinson play yesterday. Sometimes he plays great blues slide guitar, and sometimes he plays wild stuff on his electric guitar with a loop pedal and sometimes his lovely lady Sara sings with him. They’re both pretty awesome.
two sentence reviews of albums i listened to in may
Reptar — Body Faucet: if the weather is getting hot where you live, and you have been thinking to yourself, self, I really could use an excellently danceable, shimmer-chime electronic pop album with surprisingly clever and catchy songwriting for the summer, look! Reptar made you an album. If you can listen to this without dancing…
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More reviews of 33 1/3 books! Yay. (Now I just need them to send me the new Talking Heads book and an advance of the Exile On Guyville one and I will be halfway to a third entry in this series! Please, 33 1/3? I LOVE YOU GUYS A LOT OKAY. One, your books are…
william beckett @ local 506
The last time I saw William Beckett perform, he had a lot more hair and a much bigger audience; he was still fronting my beloved and late, lamented Chicago-based The Academy Is … on a mainstage at Warped Tour in Charlotte in 2008. I hadn’t figured out how to get press passes yet, so I…
red collar cd release party for ‘welcome home’
I’ve been pretty lousy, over the last six weeks or so, at making it out to see local shows, which is generally something I pride myself on; mostly, because I’ve been broke and not able to cough up the five or ten bucks for door. Luckily, I bought a ticket to see Red Collar at…
college baseball: va tech @ unc
Five. Freshman LHP Hobbs Johnson carried a perfect game into the 8th, and Carolina swept a fairly woeful VaTech team in a bid to secure a national seed for the NCAA tournament.
jc brooks & the uptown sound @ kings
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…
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.
brand new kind of photography 