two cow garage — sweet saint me

Two Cow Garage — Sweet Saint Me. Out October 26, Suburban Home Records. Two Cow Garage is the best rock band you’ve never heard of. I’ve been waiting for Sweet Saint Me since last December, before Two Cow even started recording it, when I stood in Tir Na Nog and drank Maker’s Mark and talked…

sorry, built to spill fans

I didn’t go to last night’s show at the Cradle, so you’re not going to get a review of it, no matter your searching. Just my write-up of last year’s show. But here, have a picture of Doug Martsch’s beard from 2009. It probably hasn’t changed that much in a year, right?

without

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange 

interview: cameron mcgill

An unexpected emergency room trip and road closures prevented me from actually sitting down with Chicago singer-songwriter Cameron McGill last Sunday before his show at the 506, but he was kind enough to answer some questions from Florida via email this week. Behind the jump, Cameron talks about Chicago, touring with Margot & the Nuclear So-and-So’s and…

preview: the dig & henry clay people @ local 506

Let me tell you what: take two bands, one whose name is a common verb, and the other whose name is two proper names and the word “people”, and you have two bands that are not the easiest to Google. Try to find information on Brooklyn’s power-techno-pop quartet the Dig, and what you get is…

the national @ memorial auditorium

The National have utterly ruined their new album for me. I can’t think of a higher compliment for a live show; the National were so great last night, so powerful and overwhelming, that the superb High Violet now sounds like a pale imitation of itself. It was, of course, a set heavy on songs from…

cameron mcgill @ local 506

Margot & the Nuclear So-and-So’s and Cameron McGill & What Army had a rough Sunday; a trip to the emergency room is never fun, especially in Asheville, NC, and then they were stymied by closures on I-40 trying to get down to the CH. The show got started late, and I had to bail on Margot’s…

what to do this weekend: october 1-4

Sure, there are weekends that shep. and I sit around the apartment and drink beer and moan that there’s nothing to do; but that’s usually untrue, there’s just nothing we want to do. October, though — October is a month of riches here in the Triangle, and I’m going to try and remind you of…