The final Two Sentence Reviews of 2011! December is all year-end lists and Christmas songs. And maybe six paragraphs of gibbering about the new Black Keys. Maybe not, though. Anyway: two sentence reviews, boom. Behind the jump: Grand Tetons, Los Campesinos!, Ian Cooke, Low Roar, Frank Turner, 13ghosts, the Miracals, the Violet Lights, Matthew Mayfield….
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
interview: wylie hunter
The second of two interviews today! Wylie Hunter and the Cazadores will be opening for Jon Lindsay (my interview with Lindsay is here) at Slim’s on Thursday, 12/1, and Wylie was also nice enough to answer some questions for me in advance of the show. Behind the jump, Wylie on the writing process, how the band takes…
interview: jon lindsay
I had the pleasure last week of thinking up a bunch of questions to ask Charlotte singer/songwriter Jon Lindsay, who’s in the process of recording his second LP, Summer Wilderness Program, as we speak. Type. Read this on our phones, whatever. Behind the jump, he talks writing, recording, touring, Charlotte, human beings, inspiration, and answers the all-important…
dex romweber duo @ nightlight
Last night Dex started his set by telling the crowd that, when he was 15, he used to see shows in this room. It’s true — the Nightlight’s space was the original Cradle space, before Frank bought it and moved it to Carrboro. I never saw a show there (too young!) but the sincere sentimentality…
the static minds’ final show @ kings
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…
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…
brand new kind of photography 