Category: rock and roll it

enough

Rock ‘n’ roll did not need a museum. The fact that it existed was enough. — Dave Thompson writing on Patti Smith in Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story

studio session: effingham

Last night I got to Durham too late to see the Save Our Arts show with the Beast, Mount Moriah, and Megafaun (sold out! Good on them) so I trundled back to the Thrill and spent the evening hanging out with Jeremy Blair and Effingham, who are recording their first full-length in the Cowboy’s studio….

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promo photos: wylie hunter & the cazadores

Spent an hour Monday horsing around with Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores, rifling stock in CD Alley and being noisy in empty parking lots and trying to think up hilarious four letter words besides YMCA. Behind the jump, a couple of shots. NSFW if your employer is opposed to 20-something men spelling Four Letter Words…

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new track from lost in the trees

Yesterday NPR debuted the first track from Chapel Hill’s own Lost in the Trees, off their upcoming second album for Anti- Records, A Church That Fits Our Needs, due out 3/20. (Happy birthday to me.) The track is “Red”, and you can hear it here. LITT has been gaining buzz and admirers since Anti- re-released…

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kinda brilliant. kinda dumb.

I lived in Minnesota for four years and never saw the Replacements. This, of course, is because I lived in Minnesota a good ten years after they split up, but still. That’s really sad, for me, and that’s part of why I’m so psyched to see Color Me Obsessed, because it’s that little bit of…

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ten more tracks from 2011 that i loved

Tracks that didn’t make the Christmas mix, for whatever reason, but got a lot of play from me, in no particular order and little to no commentary, but with a zip file [here]. More music I loved! Cee-lo Green, “(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care”: from the Buddy Holly tribute album, we all know…

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christmas mix 2011: something as simple as rock and roll

I’ve been making what I call a Christmas mix — that is, not holiday songs but a mix made at the holidays — since 1997; first they were tapes, then for a few years cds, and finally, in the digital age, the last six years have been downloadable zip files, and this year is no…

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bottom string sessions: gross ghost

Saturday Grant and I went out and taped a Bottom String session with Gross Ghost at Mike Dillon’s cabin in the woods. Seriously in the middle of the woods. Gorgeous gorgeous setting and lovely guys. Full set is here.

bottom string sessions: mandolin orange & sinful savage tigers

I had the pleasure yesterday of getting to spend a couple of hours shooting the members of Mandolin Orange and Sinful Savage Tigers, plus out-of-towner Josh Oliver (formerly of the Everybodyfields) and last minute surprise Josh Moore, while they futzed around filming official video sessions for the Bottom String, but also just goofing off with…

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