The NHL All-Star Game is in Raleigh at the RBC Center this weekend. I don’t really care about hockey, frankly; I like to watch it live because it moves fast and it’s totally different to shoot than baseball and sometimes huge dudes punch each other in the face, which is always a good time. But…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in january (mostly non-locals edition)
Modern Skirts — Gramahawk: my favorite electro-indie-pop band from Athens; probably my favorite electro-indie-pop band in general. Starts slow but grows on you; the slink of “American Gothic” and the pop of “Happy 81” make this one an early best of contender and a serious keeper. One of Athens’ most underrated indie rock bands, and Athens…
the big picture @ local 506
When I leave a show too long without posting about it, I’m never sure what to say, but the Big Picture and Soft Company were the second half of my Thursday night double header; they both make dreamy-driving indie rock that’s just on this side of weird, but in a good way — I really…
megafaun @ kings (night two)
I’ve got to bullet point this, y’all, I’m so shredded from the last few days that I can hardly think. Cloudlines opened. Cloudlines is a band full of my photographer buddies, and they were really excellent. Tight musically, catchy songs, and Abby can sing like nobody’s business. A+, will see again. (And get shots of…
holy ghost tent revival @ local 506
my heart is yours, honey what’s mine is yours, honey but only for a little while So almost exactly two years ago, on a Thursday night, when I was just getting to know Glenn, I leaned across the bar at the 506 between a Holy Ghost Tent Revival set and a New Familiars set, and…
death to false hope anniversary fest pre-party
I pulled a double-header last night, which is something I may be getting too old to do unless I take the next day off, but it was pretty well worth it. I started the evening in Durham at Motorco with Ash, for the pre-party for this weekend’s two day 60 band Death To False Hope…
as wild as egypt
Slamdancing to the Blues (David Lerner) there’s a sadness that’s better than love it fell in the air the other night little girl face with a mind as wild as Egypt she reads all the high-class sex literature the pornography of Miller even the later novels of Rechy now into the novelization of Liquid Sky…
onward soldiers @ nightlight
I have, at various points in time, spent a lot of time entertaining myself by thinking up interesting/hilarious/very specifically themed tour pairings. It’s something to think about when I don’t have anything else to think about, and occasionally I entertained myself not just casually with these ideas, but wildly with them, although most of those…
play colors
Painters stand between the junkies and the psychos. They don’t move, they don’t jump or whisper or dance; they listen ferociously. I admire this. — Kristin Hersh I’m reading Kristin Hersh’s Rat Girl right now; it is fierce and gorgeous and utterly heart-breaking. Highly, highly recommended. (I reading it among other things, I should say, as…
jesse malin & the st mark’s social @ kings barcade
I went to see Jesse Malin last night with Ash, basically on the strength of how much I love his ridiculous self-indulgent covers album, and I walked out a convert to everything else he does. The St. Mark’s Social, his current backing band, are incredibly tight musicians, and Jesse is a captivating frontman — can’t…
brand new kind of photography 