Never, ever a bad show from these guys, and sometimes a tremendous one, like last night. A few more shots behind the jump, and the rest of the set is here. I’ve been frustrated with my shooting lately — the last month or so — and am finding that I’m harder on myself than I…
Category: rock and roll it
the love language @ local 506
the love language @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. My reactions to local-to-me bands blowing up nationally is usually mixed; depends on the band, depends on the tenor and type of press. In some cases, like with Lost in the Trees, it’s intense pride with a tiny dollop of not wanting to share them…
american aquarium cd release party @ the pour house
american aquarium cd release party @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. It wouldn’t be springtime if there wasn’t an American Aquarium CD release party at the Pour House. Some year there won’t be one, and I’ll be confused and weirded out all year by the absence. But this year there is one, and…
frightened rabbit @ cat’s cradle
Straight up: I didn’t want to go to last night’s Frightened Rabbit show at the Cat’s Cradle. I was tired, I’m old, the weekend had already been busy and long, it was a late start on a Sunday night, there were two openers I’d never heard of, I knew it was close to sold out…
the old ceremony @ cat’s cradle
And then the moments after the moment. It’s hard to write about bands you see over and over again after a while; there’s nothing I haven’t already said about the Old Ceremony’s live performance before now. Great guys, great band, spectacular live performers. A phenomenal set, and I am very much looking forward to their…
delicious delicious desserts
delicious delicious desserts, originally uploaded by minervacat. I genuinely don’t mean this as a knock on Knoxville (har har har, oh bad puns), but I’m genuinely curious: how the hell is Knoxville, Tennessee supporting not one but two really well-booked good-sized music festivals this spring? The first is the recently passed Big Ears Festival, a…
happy national poetry month!
wye oak @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Loud Music (Stephen Dobyns) My stepdaughter and I circle round and round. You see, I like the music loud, the speakers throbbing, jam-packing the room with sound whether Bach or rock and roll, the volume cranked up so each bass notes is like a hand smacking…
baseball: fsu @ unc, game three
baseball: fsu @ unc, game three, originally uploaded by minervacat. Eleven. Baseball-related music content: the Baseball Project, an Athens, GA supergroup made up of members of R.E.M. and the Minus 5 among others, released one of my favorite albums of 2008, Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails. Georgia indie rock songs about obscure baseball…
keep an eye on the sky
the morning benders @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. I had originally planned to post my most-Fridays list of inspiration today, but with Alex Chilton’s passing on Wednesday evening, I think the day is better devoted to rounding up some of the best writing about Chilton out there. Alex Chilton had a hit at…
a glass of wine and a good book
a glass of wine and a good book, originally uploaded by minervacat. An incomplete and totally subjective list of books about music that I have enjoyed: Dixie Lullaby, Mark Kemp. I’m not sure this is actually, objectively, a good book — it’s a little sloppy and a little biased in the author’s own musical tastes,…
brand new kind of photography 