Yep Roc’s Jesca Hoop played a quietly delicate set to a small crowd at the West End Wine Bar; an off-night from touring with the Punch Brothers, she writes intricate and shimmering songs in the vein of Sharon Van Etten and plays them with an electric kick like Carrie Brownstein. She had her voice reigned…
Category: opinions about concerts
the lumineers @ local 506
I wrote about this show for Speakers in Code, so you can read about my feelings there and look at more photos of the Lumineers and excellent openers Kopecky Family Band here. (Or here, where the full set is.)
across tundras @ the cave
Continued my metal education by dragging Louis to see Nashville’s self-described psych rockers Across Tundras and local sludge rockers Bitter Resolve. I really dug on Bitter Resolve’s set, and can no longer say as a whole that I dislike metal. I still find metal fairly inexplicable, because I would never say, hey, I want to…
shakori hills grassroots festival spring 2012
Muchas gracias to Grant and the Bottom String (although to be fair, Grant pretty much is the Bottom String) for once again allowing me to scoot into the hippie zydeco-jam-band-roots-rock paradise that is Shakori Hills without paying for my ticket; I was out Thursday and Saturday (Sunday’s monsoon precluded my desire to stand in a…
hoots & hellmouth @ the casbah
Delighted by the chance to see my beloved Hoots & Hellmouth twice in a month, and hope it heralds their touring more through North Carolina in places I can see them. Lovely humans, stellar musicians, and Sean Hoots’ songwriting on the just released Salt is staggering in both its breadth and its intimate detail. Salt…
margot & the nuclear so-and-so’s @ local 506
It’s been about a year since I’ve seen Margot & the Nuclear So-And-So’s, and they’re just sounding even better every time I see them — last year’s Buzzard hadn’t grabbed me at the time, and this year’s lovely, slow-burning Rot Gut, Domestic was still growing on me when Margot took the stage last night. After…
shaggy @ old duke 2012
Shot Duke Union’s Old Duke 2012 event last night — Shaggy can still really kick it. And I still know every single word of “It Wasn’t Me”. Full set here. (Working with the DUU has been one of the great vision-expanding joys of my spring. Muchas gracias to J at my day job for the…
plants & animals @ local 506
Small crowd, animated band at the 506 last night with Plants & Animals. Full set here.
alabama shakes @ cat’s cradle
When the Alabama Shakes slid on to the national scene last summer, with a slight EP and a handful of YouTube videos, pretty much everyone who heard them knew they were about to blow up — and they have. And you know what? Everything I’ve heard says that they’re amazing live, better than their staggering…
red hot chili peppers @ pnc arena
Today I think the photo speaks for itself; shooting the Chili Peppers is the coolest thing I’ve gotten to do to date. Muchas gracias to Speakers in Code for the opportunity. Love y’all. (Full set here.)
brand new kind of photography 