It’s been a while since I’ve seen any local bands that I didn’t already know … or at least local bands who weren’t composed of people I knew from other bands with new projects. So last night’s Oktoberfest in Saxapahaw was a lovely change, because I got to see a couple of well-respected country acts…
Category: opinions about concerts
jonny rodgers @ the cave
Jonny Rodgers plays wine glasses. He does more than that, of course — he loops his own ethereal voice over itself, electric guitar, keyboards, and programmed drum-and-basslines, combined with exquisitely simple and heart-rendingly personal songwriting about love, loss, and loneliness — but if that isn’t new, it isn’t old, either. What is new is the…
erin rae & courtney marie andrews @ steel string brewery
Speakers In Code favorite Erin Rae rolled into town on Friday night with Seattle songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews in tow, and it was the loveliest night, of women with big voices singing smart, thoughtful songs. Courtney sounds like a young Joni Mitchell, and Erin Rae impressed me even more this time around than she did…
concert: surfer blood @ cat’s cradle
Over on Speakers In Code. Team Spirit was the second open, and their furious brand of crashing poppy garage punk was just absolutely compelling. Hook-filled, and noisy, and they just looked like they were having so much fun playing. Their bassist was a dervish of the Frank Iero variety, their lead singer looked like Weird…
carrboro music festival 2013
Sometimes it’s just nice to wander around your town on a sunny Sunday afternoon in September and watch bands play. Yep. Full set here.
concert: langhorne slim @ haw river ballroom
My favorite live musicians are the ones who play with unbridled joy — I mean, come on, if you’re going to live the damn rough life of a musician, you might as well love it, despite the roughness. Josh Ritter, for example. Langhorne Slim, for another, who played a balls-to-the-wall joyous set at Haw River…
concert: hayes carll & corb lund @ southland ballroom
well, you’re probably a democrat why, what the hell is wrong with that? nothing if you’re taliban well, i bet you slept with half the south oh, don’t you ever shut your mouth? yeah, how much did you pay for that tan? The top photo here is one I took of Hayes Carll almost five years…
concert: deerhunter & crystal stilts @ cat’s cradle
Deerhunter — one of Bradford Cox’s many monikers, and the one under which he and four compatriots released the stellar Monomania — is loud. They are very, very loud. They’re also challenging and fierce and strange and not, exactly, despite how much I liked that record, a band I would be drawn to. I don’t…
concert: lucinda williams @ haw river ballroom
When Lucinda Williams announced a show at Haw River Ballroom about a month ago — she’s on her way to Tennevirginia to headline Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion this upcoming weekend — it sold out so fast that Lucinda (and the Cat’s Cradle, who sponsored the show) added a second show, tonight’s set. So I…
riotfest chicago 2013
I wrote a little about RiotFest for SiC; the only other things I can say are that the women at this festival — a festival that is, by nature of punk and ska, very male-dominated — were incredibly badass. Joan Jett, Exene, Debbie Harry, Laura Jane Grace — I was incredibly proud to be a…
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