I spent twenty hilarious, enlightening minutes on the phone with Graham Lovelis, bassist and sometimes singer of Long Beach’s the Fling, on Sunday night; we talked about writing songs on the road, who his mom loves best (Graham or older brother and guitarist Dustin), their East Coast tour (currently heading south with NC’s Floating Action),…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
girl in a coma @ local 506
Science has not yet found a way to rock illness away, but I am sure that some diligent grown-up punk with a PhD in biology is working on it. And if science could rock a sinus infection away, the band to do it would be San Antonio’s Girl in a Coma, who did their best…
unguarded
Two from a new long-term collaborative project. Into it.
mister heavenly — out of love
Mister Heavenly — Out of Love. Out 8/16, Sub Pop Records. I’m never at a loss when it comes to describing a band, even if my descriptions are out there. I once said that Augustana sounded like trees, as you might remember, and earlier this year I compared Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr to salad dressing. But…
fitz & the tantrums @ cat’s cradle
The revolution will have a horn section.
girls make noise
Girl In A Coma — Exits & All The Rest. Out now. I’ve broadened my horizons this year; sometimes on purpose (mostly thanks to Pam) and sometimes accidentally (Doughty’s opener this tour is avant-garde jazz dub step trio Moon Hooch, who he found playing in a subway tunnel in NYC). But sometimes you want your…
things they don’t teach you in art school
Or maybe they do; I don’t know, I didn’t go to art school. But it surprised me today, when I stopped and thought about the most important thing I’ve learned building a photo business from the ground. The most important thing I’ve learned over the last four years is how important it is to say…
manic creativity
Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you’re just really miserable. — Florence Welch
two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums i listened to in october
Two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums I listened to in October; one of the only good parts of October! Quiet Americans — Medicine EP: belying their name, this EP is fantastic fuzzy garage rock, full of distorted vocals and guitars run through so many pedals it’s amazing they sound like guitars at all. It…
worth getting up for: october
Worth getting up for in October: Stephen Malkmus, Adam WarRock, Wild Flag, Blitzen Trapper, Mike Doughty live; interviewing Frontier Ruckus; MLB playoffs; having a car that you cannot hear arriving at 100 yards for the first time in six months; fall weather and sweaters and boots and vintage dresses; losing five pounds; J.; Shakori Hills;…
brand new kind of photography 