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the where’s the band? tour @ cat’s cradle

When Lisa at Sneak Attack got in touch with me about covering Matt Pryor and the Where’s the Band? tour, I have to admit: I was a little smirky about the tour. Besides Pryor, I made the snap judgment that it was lead singers from candy pop punk bands, it would be full of teenagers,…

kathleen edwards — voyageur

Kathleen Edwards — Voyageur. Out 1/17, Zoe Records. When I fell in love with Kathleen Edwards, between Back to Me and Asking for Flowers, it was on the strength of her songwriting: I am tired of playing defense and I don’t even own hockey skates, or asking for flowers is like asking you to be…

onward soldiers — monsters

Onward, Soldiers — Monsters. Out 2/21, Winoca Records, unless you’re in Raleigh, in which case out 1/26, at the Pour House. The Alpha Site has had a copy of Monsters in my car for a few weeks now, and when we were driving home from somewhere last week, we were talking about why it’s good….

like a record baby right round

I read a bunch of Continuum’s 33⅓ books! Now I am going to talk about them. Behind the jump: Music from Big Pink, Exile On Main Street, Horses, Highway 61 Revisited, Radio City. Pink Moon — Amanda Petrusich: one of my favorite things about this series is the flexibility of form in the books; you…

grown but not grown up

When I Grow Up (Catherine Wiley) I want to be the waitress snapping gum, who leaves an orange crescent on the thick white cup, calls the six a.m. men sagging at the counter “Hon,” even when I know their names. In the rumpled wallet photos, their kids’ hair moves up, then over, ears; tuxes lead…

don’t you know that you’re paid to be funny

For those of you who know me, you know that I have a long and complicated history with Comedy; comedy with a big C, a stand-in for amateur and professional improv, sketch, stand-up. For those of you who don’t know me that well, well: I have a long and complicated history with Comedy. I have,…

girl in a coma @ local 506

The mark of a great band is this: not how they perform as a headliner, but how they perform as an opener. Last night Girl in a Coma, touring as an opener for the Features, completely owned the crowd in the 506. Not a huge crowd, but one that whooped and hollered and even danced…

ink and skin

First Poem for You (Kim Addonizio) I like to touch your tattoos in complete darkness, when I can’t see them. I’m sure of where they are, know by heart the neat lines of lightning pulsing just above your nipple, can find, as if by instinct, the blue swirls of water on your shoulder where a…

color me obsessed: a follow-up

(I call this shot “Montgomery, Rapt”.) A few days late but hopefully not short any dollars but what I always am, I just wanted to put a few thank yous out to everyone who made the screening of Color Me Obsessed such a success last week. First, to Gorman, who made it possible for this…

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