Chris Bathgate — Salt Year. This album absolutely blew me away. It’s delicate and carefully put together, gothic and traditional, noisy and dischordant and heartbreakingly light and lovely, sometimes all of those things in the same song. Based in delicate piano and acoustic guitar lines, the strength of it is in melody and Bathgate’s shuddery,…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
roy g biv
Last week, in a fit of what can only be described as “depression fueled Amazon.com retail therapy”, I bought a set of 48 Prismacolor colored pencils. I had a set at one point, left over from my theater days, and it disappeared in my move from Chicago to the NC; I’d just never gotten around…
centro-matic — candidate waltz
Centro-matic — Candidate Waltz. Out today. Will Johnson, the prolific songwriter and artist behind Centro-matic, South San Gabriel, and a gorgeous set of recordings under his own name, does not seem to be scared of anything. Each of his bands has a distinct sound, and every Centro-matic album never quite sounds like the one before…
gourmet hot dogs: jack’s cosmic dogs
Where: Jack’s Cosmic Dogs, Folly Beach, SC. What: a Galactic Dog (blue cheese slaw, chili, cheese, and sweet potato mustard — a Jack’s original — instead of the usual spicy mustard, because I wanted to try it) With whom: shep., Ash, and various members of Ash’s family Why: Ever since I saw Alton Brown talk…
pinche gringo @ cat’s cradle
This was actually a release party for the split 7″ released by the Moaners and recently reconstituted Jennyanykind, but I skipped out after the first set for personal reasons. I was bummed to miss it, because the Carrboro Ninja In Charge says the new Jennyanykind song is amazing, but I wasn’t in the headspace to…
the great outdoors: five places to see live music outside
One of my favorite things about summer in the NC is the glut of (mostly) free or cheap outdoor concerts. Even when it’s painfully hot and humid, there’s nothing better than listening to a band I love sing up to the sky at twilight, especially when it’s free. Below are some of the places you…
sometimes
I felt like being someone else for a while tonight, so I watched several episodes of the Wire Season 4 whilst wearing my pink wig.
spirit family reunion & curtis eller @ the pinhook
An evening of banjos and footstomping, and, as Curtis Eller would say, many things both beautiful and ugly. Full set here.
30 in 30
I’ve written about my friend Michelle a lot before; she gave me my first SLR out of the goodness of her heart, she runs an amazing photography grant, she’s funny and brilliant and wicked, she’s the best mom I know after my own, she’s been one of my biggest cheerleaders and best friends as I…
ncaa super regional: stanford vs unc
Sixteen and seventeen. Who needs three games to win two if two and an epic rain delay and frozen pickle pops will do it for you? Five trips to Omaha in the last six years. And frankly, I’m really grateful that we don’t have to sit in the Bosh and the boiling sun for game…
brand new kind of photography 