A beautiful night full of unearthly music. I hadn’t seen Bowerbirds in a year, and it was thrilling to hear the new stuff they’re writing, bigger and scarier and more lovely than before. Mount Moriah opened in support of their recent debut LP, and were absolutely phenomenal. It’s funny to think that that band name…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
slingshot cash @ jessee’s
True story: I’m awfully fond of this man and his music (among an epic list of other things about him, of course). [Slingshot Cash — “We’ve Come Undone”]
koffin kats @ cat’s cradle
In the case of last night’s show, a photo is worth more than a thousand words. The Koffin Kats are fierce and wild, and an absolute joy to watch and shoot. They play psychobilly, noisy and tightly contained songs that roll and thump behind a single guitar, a shredded upright bass, and some of the…
holy ghost tent revival through the years
I was supposed to shoot Holy Ghost Tent Revival, Dirty Bourbon River Show & the Woes at Kings last night, but as I was getting to Raleigh, my battery light came on and then as I was driving home, my car died on the side of I-40 so … I didn’t. Instead, behind the jump,…
okkervil river @ cat’s cradle
Okkervil River was one of my last musical discoveries in Chicago — Lani and Linney and I saw them open for the Decemberists at the Metro, on the Picaresque tour, before Black Sheep Boy had even come out. I saw them four times in four months in 2005, four startlingly different venues — a sold-out…
worth getting up for: may
Worth getting up for in May: great publicist relationships and working with Big Hassle Media, who I’ve admired for a long time; my beloved Two Cow Garage, and Wintersleep, both live at Kings; that sweet cool late spring NC weather and the particular shade of green that the NC gets in May; the conclusion of…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in may
Two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums I listened to in May. Where by “two sentences” I mean “about five sentences, probably strung together into a single sentence with semi-colons”. Frank Turner — England Take My Bones Pre-Order EP: Dear Frank, I know you were probably sad that this leaked to the internets so early, but…
the biters & the booze @ local 506
Atlanta’s ’70s garage rockers the Biters and Stones-esque label mates the Booze have a couple of things in common, besides their home on Underrated Records; the first and foremost being that both bands do what they do — rock, hard, and unironically — in ways that a whole lot of people don’t these days. Sure,…
acc baseball tournament 2011
Fifteen. Virginia got one of their own back last night, but we’re still 3-1 against them this year, and Steven Proscia still only has one hit to his name against Carolina’s pitching staff. So there’s that.
the love language @ haw river ballroom
The community out in Saxapahaw — an old cotton mill town on the Haw River, about 20 miles west of the Thrill — is doing some incredible things. Last night was the grand opening of the Haw River Ballroom, a massive live music venue in one of the old cotton mill buildings, all high ceilings…
brand new kind of photography 