I love when I get to watch people I love be awesome. I mean, of course, it happens all the time here, because so many musicians I love, but somehow it’s even better and more magical when it’s out-of-town friends being awesome. Adam WarRock and Tribe One, plus Mikal Khill and Jesse Dangerously, rocked the…
Category: opinions about concerts
hopscotch music festival wrap-up; or, a love letter to the triangle scene
I thought all day yesterday about what I wanted to say in my personal (rather than the official SiC) Hopscotch wrap-up, and I flashed through plenty of things. It was a great weekend; it will be a great weekend as long as Grayson and Greg choose to keep it going. But ultimately, what I came…
phil cook & his feat – the weather station @ the FARM
Another beautiful show at the FARM, thanks to Elyse and Colie and Leland, Ampersand Booking, Phil Cook, Tamara from the Weather Station, and Ryan Gustafson & Josh Moore, who I heard put on an amazing set during a killer lightning storm (though we’d bailed for home before then). Rapidly becoming one of my favorite places…
bombadil & you won’t @ the cradle
Bombadil, like Josh Ritter, is a band that performs with such a sense of sheer joy at what they do — it radiates from the stage and infects the audience, who gives it back to him. Last night at the Cradle, there was a moment where I was standing in the crow’s nest, shooting the…
spider bags @ all day records
Spider Bags’ new record, Shake My Head, is fucking kickass, and they sounded great at All Day yesterday. One of my hands down favorite local bands these days. Full set is here. The shutter on Six, my beloved workhorse D60, gave up the ghost yesterday mid-set, so I have a D80 winging her way to…
chris mcfarland @ the cave
This wasn’t the show I set out to shoot last night, but circumstances kept me from shooting the Reigning Sound, and I’m glad that I caught this one instead. McFarland, from Brooklyn via Austin, TX, plays the same kind of high energy punk-folk that Dave Hause does, and he was a delightful surprise when I…
brian jonestown massacre @ cat’s cradle
Brian Jonestown Massacre’s new record, Aufheben, is a swirling mess of synthesizers and experimental guitar noise, and their live show was no different, except just a hair more captivating — and the record is pretty trance inducing as it is — watching Anton Newcombe and company spin all those parts into something whole and spider-webbed…
two cow garage @ local 506
Setlist: Lucy & the Butcher Knife / Sally I’ve Been Shot / Glass City / Should’ve California / Gerri / Folksinger’s Heart / Soundtrack To My Summer / Humble Narrator / [new song – “rich girl”] / Come Back To Shelby / No Shame / Mediocre / Swingset Assassin / [new song – growing up…
the gaslight anthem @ the cat’s cradle
Great Expectations / 45 / Old White Lincoln / Even Cowgirls Get The Blues / Howl / Casanova, Baby! / The Diamond Street Church Choir / Here Comes My Man / I’da Called You Woody, Joe / Angry Johnny And The Radio / Blue Jeans & White T Shirts / Film Noir / American Slang…
photo preview: the gaslight anthem @ cat’s cradle
I’ll have photos up tomorrow and a full write-up on SIC on Monday, but this photo really says it all: my heart is aching and singing in a way that transcends words, and if you have never loved a band that much, so much that it makes you ache with longing and want and joy…
brand new kind of photography 