I was going to be all sentimental, and write about how much the Static Minds have meant to me the last year, how much I’ve always loved shooting them, how much I adore their 2010 album Electricity, how much I adore all four of the guys and value Erik’s friendship … but it was really…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
local beer local bands: gross ghost & lilac shadows
A lovely pre-Thanksgiving Wednesday night LBLB with two of my recent local favorites: the dreamy indie-post-pop of Sam Logan’s Lilac Shadows (Sam was the brains behind the excellent Huguenots; Lilac Shadows is his latest project) and the über-catchy garage punk of Gross Ghost. Wild psych screamo punk outfit Exquisite Corpse opened. I hadn’t been to Raleigh…
and be grateful
Happy Thanksgiving to all you US of A-ers, and happy Thursday to the rest of you. Be joyful, and be thankful, and be safe.
some things i used to be
good things come when you stop waiting around — Kathleen Edwards
a little of both
Maybe they aren’t artists, maybe they’re just assholes. — Heather Havrilesky, Disaster Preparedness
josh ritter @ mcglohon theatre
The only word for last night’s solo acoustic Josh Ritter show is “magical”. It was sheer magic, like he always is, and it was perfect. Setlist: Come And Find Me/Rumours/Me & Jiggs/Wolves/Southern Pacifica/You Don’t Make It Easy Babe/Folk Bloodbath/Rattlin’ Locks/Harrisburg/Sweet Water (? new song)/Girl In The War/What Happened To The Girl I Knew*/In The Dark/Galahad/New…
rock it local
From top to bottom, Hammer No More the Fingers, Free Electric State, Lonnie Walker, the Brand New Life, and Murphy’s End. Five local bands at two venues last night, and I’d really wanted to catch Gross Ghost’s set at the Cave after Hammer, but ill-advised application of a final whiskey and ginger forced shep. and…
everything is illuminated (and an accident)
This is how it goes. You thrash around, then you meet people, and maybe you wind up becoming friends. You just don’t know where it goes. But I believe you’ve got to be out there thrashing around, creating ways for yourself. — Ken Markus
home is wherever i’m with you
the Deep Dark Woods — The Place I Left Behind. Out now, Sugar Hill Records. I have to retract what I said about Blitzen Trapper being the band most likely to slay a deep cut cover by the Band (although they’re still second on the list); that honor really belongs to the Deep Dark Woods,…
bottom string sessions: gross ghost
Saturday Grant and I went out and taped a Bottom String session with Gross Ghost at Mike Dillon’s cabin in the woods. Seriously in the middle of the woods. Gorgeous gorgeous setting and lovely guys. Full set is here.
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