For the third year running, Heather Cook orchestrated a gorgeous benefit show for the arts programs at Durham’s Central Park Charter School, and it was a perfect kind of local music evening. Good bands, good company, good food (learned: cannot shoot and eat Only Burger at the same time; alas), in a gorgeous new venue…
the moondoggies @ local 506
The Moondoggies surprised the hell out of me last night: I assumed that they made their huge tidal-wave sound with two or three guitar players in addition to their keyboard player, but they don’t; it’s just four of them, wringing sweeping sounds out of guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, and it’s as slow-burn,…
hockey: leafs @ canes
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…
brand new kind of photography 