I was looking forward to Brooklyn indie-folkers Chimneys’ set at Nightlight last night anyway, because their debut EP The Antarctic is my favorite release with that word in the title since Modest Mouse’s The Moon & Antarctica, but I was not expecting to be as blown away as I was — and I was absolutely…
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two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in july
Brother of Pearl — Draggin’ Around: kind of like if a pop punk band listened to a lot of George Strait when they were growing up in Texas; this is a technically strong album, but the songwriting never blew me away. If you like your country a little more mainstream, this would be right up…
the devil makes three @ cat’s cradle
Haven’t seen a great roots show at the Cradle since last fall’s Punch Brothers set, and it was a delight to see the Devil Makes Three play to an almost full house last night. Before their set, I assumed that the crowd was primarily there to see beloved local open Mandolin Orange, and while they…
money (that’s what i want)
That’s not really true; I want to be happy. But not being broke is nice, too. The point of this post is: I need a business plan.
promo shoot: sinful savage tigers
I’ve been working with Seth Martin and his bandmates in Sinful Savage Tigers, Seth Barden and Andrew Marlin, since April, putting together the concepts for a promo shoot for SST’s upcoming release, The Last Night Of The Revels. It’s totally changed the way I think of promo shoots, because it was such a good time;…
magnolia collective @ the station
The second half of my Thursday double-header was Magnolia Collective’s regular residency at the Station, complete with new banjo player and an opening set by Matt Douglas, who fronts the Proclivities and plays in the Small Ponds with Caitlin Cary. Matt’s solo stuff is strange and huge and noisy, and startled me a it. MagCo,…
boulder acoustic society @ deep south
I had the pleasure of going out to Raleigh to see my favorite klezmerpunkamericana band, Denver’s Boulder Acoustic Society, last night. With a huge sound, a practically punk rhythm section, and an accordian, BAS really, really don’t sound like anyone but themselves. Their set in Raleigh swung from gorgeous bluegrass waltzes to raving klezmerpunk fusions…
sinful savage tigers @ local 506
The first half of last night’s double header was Chapel Hill’s own fierce folk and string band skuffle ensemble, Sinful Savage Tigers; they’re getting ready to release their second album of Seth Martin’s excellent songwriting, and they were in fine form last night. Seth, Seth and Andrew play and harmonize together so, so well, and…
women rock
Pam made a list of awesome books about music written by women; I wrote some blurbs for it. GO READ IT.
weekend in west virginia
I drove up to West Fuckin’ Virginia on Friday to spend the weekend with the lovely lady H and Dr. N. The company was excellent, West Virginia is gorgeous, and we ate ourselves stupid and drank red wine and talked about music, and books, and photography, and making art. The kind of recharging weekend with…
brand new kind of photography 