I am holding good to my goal to see more new-to-me local bands this year, and I love it when I can do that in my own backyard; Skylar Gydasz and the Ugly Girls (who are all, in fact, adorable dudes) threw a kickass CD release party at the 506 last Friday, and I hung…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
college baseball: umd @ unc, game 2
Ten. Oh, 18 year olds playing baseball, you are the most ridiculous.
wintersleep @ kings barcade
Like every good Canadian band I go see, Pam turned me on to Nova Scotians Wintersleep earlier this year with their 2007 album Welcome to the Night Sky; y’all know me and you know that every attempt I every make to describe a band descends into incomprehensible comparisons to trees, but if somebody, in a…
college baseball: umd @ unc, game 1
Nine. Patrick Johnson, who Coach Fox once referred to as the kitchen sink, struck out a career-high 12 in seven scoreless innings last night; he was still touching the mid-90s at the end of his 129 pitch outing. It was masterful. Although to be fair, I would primarily classify the University of Maryland baseball team…
good vs great
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. — Ansel Adams
happiness is all you wanted
had to be hard to keep hating yourself when these people are so well behaved
holly golighty & the broke-offs @ local 506
I’m not quite sure how Holly Golightly & the Broke-offs ended up in my iTunes library1. Like Ryan Bingham, it took me a few albums to warm to her very particular brand of bluesy, gothic Americana, but by the time this year’s No Help Coming came out, I was ready to give in. It’s a gorgeous, weird,…
worth getting up for: april
Worth getting up for in April: finally spring; sweeping Clemson at home and beating ECU in Greenville in the 9th; C & M’s wedding; gorgeous travel books; Ha Ha Tonka’s Death of a Decade and Slingshot Cash’s From Aftermath to Exile; sole possession of first in the AL East for the Orioles, even if only…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in april
Two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums I listened to in April. Short this month, because I had a ton of shows and very little new music input, plus I wrote a bunch of longer reviews, but you get what you pay for, so: Hammer No More The Fingers — Black Shark: among the best,…
dave hause @ the pinhook
I don’t always go out for the headliner of a show, or the last band, whatever you want to call them — if I hadn’t been completely wiped out from a weekend in Charleston, I likely would have stuck around Durham for some of Mikey Erg’s set, but straight up I was at the Pinhook…
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