March is my favorite month in North Carolina, because unlike in Minneapolis and Chicago and even Baltimore, spring actually happens here in March. There’s cold days, and there’ll be another cold snap, probably, but the sun starts to shine and the flowers start to bloom and winter starts to retreat, and it all makes me…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
a family of tiny rawrs
I bought 12 tiny plastic dinosaurs on Amazon. I’m going to use them to practice my macro photography.
fanfarlo @ cat’s cradle
Everything about seeing Fanfarlo last night at the Cradle — a small crowd, but one that really, really wanted to see this band, especially irritating underage drunk asshole who yelled for “Fire Escape” all show; with Hospitality at the 506 and War on Drugs at Kings, there was competition, plus, oh, you know, the ACC…
empty bowls durham
My buddy Matt from Speakers In Code chaired the committee that organized the Empty Bowls event for Durham this year; it’s a grassroots benefit to help end hunger, and in Durham benefits Urban Ministries, an organization I think quite highly of, as I work with them extensively in my day job life. Matt traded me…
christopher paul stelling @ nightlight
Shame on you, Chapel Hill. I know it’s spring break, I know people are thinking about the tournament and the basketball team, but that’s still no reason why the turnout for Christopher Paul Stelling, Cousins, and JPhono1 was so craptastic last night. None at all. CPS and JPhono1 are both amazingly talented, and so I…
caveman @ local 506
Caveman’s debut album, CoCo Beware, took at least the segment of the music blogging world that I read by storm at the end of 2011; their pounding, dreamy indie rock was the kind that you can dance to while still taking off on fairly amazing flights of fancy and guitar work. I wasn’t certain, however,…
gemma ray @ local 506
Gemma Ray has a voice like Polly Jean Harvey, plays guitar licks like Chris Isaak, and owns a pair of red vintage t-strap heels that I covet beyond belief. Also, her upcoming album Island Fire is going to be amazing and she absolutely slayed at the Local 506 last night, despite a tiny and polite…
flesh wounds @ all day records
I rarely understand what’s going on musically when Flesh Wounds play, and there’s a very real chance that I shall perish mid-job at some point when Montgomery cracks me in the skull with his guitar, but that just makes me love Flesh Wounds more. Full set here.
interview: christopher paul stelling
Brooklyn’s Christopher Paul Stelling’s debut album, Songs of Praise and Scorn, came out last month; it’s an intricate, intimate portrait of sadness, darkness, and hope, and one of my favorite releases of 2012 thus far. CPS was kind enough to answer some questions for me from the road, and behind the jump, he talks about…
craig finn & some guns @ local 506
Craig Finn told what has to be the most Chapel Hill story ever last night before he got started on his set: he was excited to watch the Carolina/Duke game in Chapel Hill, but he didn’t realize you had to get somewhere three hours early to get a table. So he wandered around Carrboro, watching…
brand new kind of photography 