the night kitchen launch party, originally uploaded by minervacat. Saturday evening, I took some shots of delicious cupcakes for my friends Heather & Kala, and their bakery the Night Kitchen. (I took headshots for them last month, as well.) After a year of shooting all my food, I enjoy taking photos of food so much…
Category: rock and roll it
the mantras @ the blind tiger
the mantras @ the blind tiger, originally uploaded by minervacat. We went out to see the Mantras last night because Keith, their frontman, and Brian, their bassist, are friends of the New Familiars, and we’ve seen Keith play with those guys in Greensboro at least a couple of time. It was — an interesting night….
tim barry @ local 506
Everybody knows that I think Tim Barry is a superb musician and also an excellent human being, but I also want to offer thanks to Virgil at Suburban Home and Vanessa at Fat Wreck, who hooked me up with a way in the door to this show, and who were both also nothing but fantastic…
lost in the trees @ cat’s cradle
lost in the trees @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. I don’t often cover straight-up “music news”, because there are plenty of bloggers out there who do that primarily and much, much better than I ever could, but I figured that I owed it to Ari Picker, the crew at Trekky, and the Lost…
worth getting up for: february
mandolin orange @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in February: Drive-By Truckers two-night stands at the Lincoln; the Lincoln’s light rig, when they use it; Glossary’s Feral Fire, Jason & the Scorchers’ Halcyon Times, the Preservation Hall benefit album and, surprisingly to me, Butch Walker’s I Liked It Better When…
birds & arrows @ local 506
Out last night to catch Birds & Arrows playing the middle set on a three band bill; Andrea was nice enough to put me on the list and the 506 was nice enough to (accidentally, I think) leave two tiny white lights on during the sets, mitigating the red-and-pink of the usual scheme and neutralizing…
lucero @ aquarius music hall, high point
If this had just been a Lucero set in High Point, I’d probably have skipped it — rolled my eyes at their booker and stayed home to drink beer and watch the Olympics. But Lucero and Glossary? Oh, hell, no, I wasn’t missing that. Glossary put out one of the finest albums of 2008 for…
american aquarium @ local 506
How do you shoot a band you’ve shot a dozen times before, without feeling like everything’s flat and already been done? Look for new angles, I guess. And hope somebody needs a haircut.
drive-by truckers two night stand, lincoln theatre, raleigh, nc
I see a lot of live music. Not as much as other people, but a pretty sizable amount of live music, and so I see a lot of consummate live bands. Bands who own the room when they get on the stage; watching the crowd howl out the last chorus to “I Hope He Breaks…
drive-by truckers @ the lincoln, night one
turn those speakers up full blast play it all night long Night one of two. Full review and set lists tomorrow. Or Monday. Probably Monday. More photos behind the jump. (Yeah, that’s an Epiphone electric mandolin that Patterson’s playing above. It was amazing.)
brand new kind of photography 