Margot & the Nuclear So-and-So’s and Cameron McGill & What Army had a rough Sunday; a trip to the emergency room is never fun, especially in Asheville, NC, and then they were stymied by closures on I-40 trying to get down to the CH. The show got started late, and I had to bail on Margot’s…
Category: opinions about concerts
holy ghost tent revival @ festifall, chapel hill
Beautiful weather, beautiful light, and some of my favorite people in the world.
what to do this weekend: october 1-4
Sure, there are weekends that shep. and I sit around the apartment and drink beer and moan that there’s nothing to do; but that’s usually untrue, there’s just nothing we want to do. October, though — October is a month of riches here in the Triangle, and I’m going to try and remind you of…
film school @ local 506
Back in May — or June, or July; I don’t know, I can’t remember what I ate for dinner five days ago, much less when I had a revelation — I decided that what I was going to do in the back half of the year was expand my musical horizons. I was going to…
bristol rhythm & roots reunion 2010
Cost effective and bitchin’, as one of my coworkers would say. Happy 10th birthday, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion! You don’t look a day over seven. You were a highlight of 2009, and you brought it again in 2010. Can’t wait for 2011. “Was that your brother?” One of the best parts of the festival…
superchunk @ the nasher museum of art
Unbelievable. Phenomenal. Amazing. Pick an adjective for “blew my mind” and it’s the right one. What a set. More photos behind the jump. Set list, courtesy Mr. McCaughan himself: So Convinced/Water Wings/Crossed Wires/My Gap Feels Weird/Song for Marion Brown/Watery Hands/Let It Go/Fractures in Plaster/Rosemarie/Shallow End/Punch Me Harder/Mower/Digging for Something (w/ John Darnielle)/Pink Clouds/Hyper Enough/Everything At…
those darlins @ local 506
Those Darlins, at the top of their game, are excellent: playing ironically earnest kitschy cowpunk — like “Wild One”, the unquestionable highlight from 2009’s self-titled debut, and their stellar cover of “Let’s Talk Dirty In Hawaiian” from this year’s Prine tribute album, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows — and harmonizing in a way that manages…
bristol rhythm & roots 2010 preview
The boys in Holy Ghost Tent Revival turned me on to Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion two springs ago, when I was hanging out in the studio with them. “It’s great,” they said. “You should go.” A couple of months later, Josh Daniel from the New Familiars told me the same thing. Last August, Ian…
trekky records day-dream day party
There are definitely things that I’m sorry to have missed about Hopscotch; anything that big happens, something is bound to happen that you’re sorry to miss. But I got my money’s worth — ie just the cost of drinks — and far far more, at Trekky’s Day-Dream day party. The Triangle has a host of…
this year’s models @ local 506
And then after the Lost in the Trees set on Thursday, and a pit stop at Linda’s for more beer, t., Jenni, Chiv, and I moseyed up to the 506 to see our friends Seamus and Alex front an Elvis Costello cover band, backed by the inimitable Robert Sledge and two of Alex’s bandmates from…
brand new kind of photography 