My life was genuinely missing more rap shows in comic book stores. True story. Euge is a super excellent human being and his new album is absolutely fantastic. You should go look at his website.
Category: opinions about concerts
the static minds @ kings
About halfway through the Static Minds’ set last night, I turned to t. and said, “All frontmen should come with hips and hair like Erik’s. It should be a requirement.” I know a lot of really great lead singers, lead guitarists, and Erik Sugg is among the best I’ve seen in the Triangle in forever….
punch brothers @ cat’s cradle
I saw Nickel Creek just once, at the Vic in Chicago, almost — God — 8 years ago. I genuinely have no idea why I decided I wanted to see them back then, because while I always enjoyed them, I was never what you would call a huge fan; I suspect it was because it…
the felice brothers @ kings
I’m rarely left speechless by a show. Gibbering like an idiot, occasionally, but rarely speechless. I can almost always find some twist of words to explain why something was tremendous, or at least an adjective or six, but this morning, I am still stuttering over last night’s Felice Brothers set at Kings. We saw them…
auxiliary house @ nightlight
Everybody knows that I’m stupidly fond of all the Trekky Records kids, and it’s a damn shame that in the years I’ve been going to see their bands and their excellent shows, festivals, and holiday extravaganzas, I’d never actually seen Trekky super-group/whoever’s not on tour/house band, Auxiliary House, before last night. Aux House seems to…
hurray for the riff raff @ the pinhook
The light at the Pinhook is seventeen kinds of suck, but Hurray for the Riff Raff were absolutely excellent; Alynda Lee Segarra has a startling voice, really reminiscent of Jolie Holland, almost too big for the small venue when she really let it go, and live the songs from Young Blood Blues are still conscious…
two cow garage @ kings
Two Cow Garage draws terribly in the Triangle, and that makes me absolutely batty with frustration. I mean, I guess I get it: yesterday was a Sunday, it was a late-ish billed start that became an even later actual start, there’s always plenty of other shows to hit any given night in Chapel Hill, Durham…
futurebirds @ local 506
Futurebirds have such a lush sound; with three guitars (and/or banjo) plus a pedal steel, perfect harmonies, good drumming and solid bass lines, they just sound textured all the time, shivery and terrifically Southern — the accents, the steel? I don’t know — I’d love to see them tour with Band of Horses, I think…
henry clay people & the dig @ local 506
There’s something intangibly engaging about enthusiasm, as a photographer; ask someone to make a great heavy metal face and when they do it without thinking twice, there’s more energy in a photo than there would have been before. Likewise, the boys behind Los Angeles pop rockers the Henry Clay People take to the stage with…
the national @ memorial auditorium
The National have utterly ruined their new album for me. I can’t think of a higher compliment for a live show; the National were so great last night, so powerful and overwhelming, that the superb High Violet now sounds like a pale imitation of itself. It was, of course, a set heavy on songs from…
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