Damien Jurado — Maraqopa: psychdelic, ringing, and bleak, this is my first encounter with Jurado beyond a perennial favorite promo photo of him smoking a cigarette in a bathroom, and I love it. It’s scary and huge, and the guitar work on it is otherworldly in both talent and sound. Estrogen Highs — Irrelevant Future:…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
leland sundries @ the cave
Leland Sundries is the brainchild of Brooklyn songwriter Nick Loss-Eaton; it’s a showcase for his exceptional songwriting, his wide-ranging musicality, and his excellent beard. On the recently released The Foundry EP, he takes on everything from a sea chanty about the burning of the Greenpoint warehouse district to a straight up country rocker about giving…
february helplessness blues
“I guess it is like an archaeologist, where you’re always wanting to find something you’ve never heard before. And people now are, even at a young age, they’re looking back into the past and trying to make connections. They’re trying to connect ’60s Pakistani pop music to punk rock in Washington, DC in the ’90s….
hacking a brownie
A few years ago, Ash gave me a vintage Kodak Brownie, in working condition but minus its 620mm spools, for my birthday — I’ve been trying to find spools for it since, albeit half-heartedly, but when a pair turned up on my Etsy favorites list for cheap last week, I had to jump on them….
craig finn — clear heart full eyes
Craig Finn — Clear Heart Full Eyes. Out 1/24/2012. Vagrant Records. The thing is — and this doesn’t make me an expert, or smug and self-satisfied, or anything but opinionated, this is just the way I feel — the thing is that I think there’s a certain something in Craig Finn’s songwriting, a tiny pinch…
enough
Rock ‘n’ roll did not need a museum. The fact that it existed was enough. — Dave Thompson writing on Patti Smith in Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story
college baseball: xavier @ unc, game three
One. I call this shot “The Unbearable Loneliness of Being An Awkward 19 Year Old Third Baseman”.
they might be giants @ lincoln theatre
I could write another post about this weird and amazing life of mine would delight and awe my sixteen year old self, but isn’t that kind of getting old? Here’s what I can say instead: They Might Be Giants can still rock the hell out of a room, even though they’re all sort of old…
tour preview: jonathan coulton
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of chatting with Jonathan Coulton, the funny, irreverent singer-songwriter who made his name writing and posting a “Thing A Week” in 2006. Coulton is touring in support of his first new album of all new material since 2006, Artificial Heart, and opening up for hipster-nerd icons They…
dex romweber duo @ duke coffeehouse
Before February 1, I hadn’t set foot in Duke Coffeehouse in four years … circumstance, booking, a bad website, my inability to use Facebook, whatever. But now I’ve been there twice in 10 days, and both shows were great. Last night’s hardcore-punk-surferrockabilly triple bill was fantastic, just the short of shattering electric guitars that I…
brand new kind of photography 