Revival (Luci Shaw) March. I am beginning to anticipate a thaw. Early mornings the earth, old unbeliever, is still crusted with frost where the moles have nosed up their cold castings, and the ground cover in shadow under the cedars hasn’t softened for months, fogs layering their slow, complicated ice around foliage and stem night…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
bowerbirds @ cat’s cradle
The crowd was packed so tight last night for Bowerbirds’ CD release show that I gave up trying to squish through and get shots; I went back and sat with my mama and we loved on Phil and Beth and Mark and Leah and Yan from halfway back in the Cradle. The Clearing sounds even…
the devil makes three @ cat’s cradle
After two shows, the Devil Makes Three are rapidly becoming one of my favorite bands to see live; I like their studio stuff, but their stage presence — unassuming until WHAM! they start really rocking — is a huge part of why they’re so great live. The harmonies, the thumping bass, the way they all…
make
This is a blurry photo of a CD, poorly white-balanced and not quite in focus, but it’s important because under those words and that disc, it’s my photo on the inside of Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores’ upcoming full-length. One of the shots that we took at CD Alley back in January. It’s on my…
in like a lion
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…
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,…
brand new kind of photography 