Kicked off a long weekend of tons of shooting with two shows last night; Slingshot Cash at the Cave, and Josh Oliver & Andrew Marlin at the Station. Both great sets, low key, low light, warm and honest. I’m going to swamp you guys with shots the next few days; be ready. This afternoon I…
Category: rock and roll it
show preview: the fling @ local 506
I spent twenty hilarious, enlightening minutes on the phone with Graham Lovelis, bassist and sometimes singer of Long Beach’s the Fling, on Sunday night; we talked about writing songs on the road, who his mom loves best (Graham or older brother and guitarist Dustin), their East Coast tour (currently heading south with NC’s Floating Action),…
slingshot cash — “too big to fail”
Last Friday, I was sitting at work sort of daydreaming and sort of staring at Occupy Herbstreit, and a song that the Cowboy had played for me over the summer slithered into my head. It was called “Too Big To Fail”, and it was something he’d written about the bank bailouts a couple of years…
race wars: touring out of my comfort zone
I met Euge, better known in the nerdcore hip hop scene as Adam WarRock, through shep., who got to know Euge through … comics? Baseball? I don’t actually know! But last year, Euge was touring comic book stores behind his (spectacular) debut LP The War For Infinity, and his first booking was Chapel Hill Comics…
rock and roll matters
“Rock ‘n’ roll matters because it is the story of growing up. Arguably, rock ‘n’ roll is the reason American culture contains the myth of adolescence. In the fifties this allegory was acted out almost literally as rock’s emergence crucially split adolescents from their parents. Loving something your parents couldn’t understand was the first way…
hopscotch music fest: empress hotel
I had the pleasure of hanging out with 4 members of New Orleans’ Empress Hotel for 45 minutes or so on Thursday evening, chatting with them about their upcoming debut full-length album — out in early 2012 — their tour plans, which of the Rogers brothers their mom loves best, and their thoughts on Treme….
a love letter to bloodshot records
(Bloodshot Records, my beloved outlaw country indie record label out of Chicago, is celebrating their 17th anniversary of releasing consistently spectacular records this upcoming weekend, and though I’ll be otherwise occupied down here in the Triangle, the next couple of days on the blog will be devoted to Bloodshot and how much they kick ass….
just leather jackets and noise
I will sell this photo to the highest cowpunk band bidder for the cover of their next album. Because it needs to be on the front of somebody’s noisy, twangy record, doesn’t it?
rock me like a hurricane
I like to think that in 30 years, some 20-something woman will love my photos of the Cowboy the way that I love Elliot Landy’s photos of Rick Danko.
women rock
Pam made a list of awesome books about music written by women; I wrote some blurbs for it. GO READ IT.
brand new kind of photography 