pink flag @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. If I’d saved Gold Motel for this month, I could have made this the all-new-albums-by-people-who-used-to-record-on-Fueled-By-Ramen-now-playing-with-other-bands edition. And Steel Train toured with the Hush Sound once. Alas! Instead it’s just albums I listened to in July: The Young Veins — Take A Vacation!: do you ever feel…
be brand new
the royal nites @ slim’s, originally uploaded by minervacat. “See what everybody else has seen, think what nobody else has thought.” — Albert Szent-Gyoergi
big hair and plastic grass
Y’all, if you’re a baseball fan who lives in the Triangle, get yourself out to the Regulator Bookshop in Durham today at 2pm to catch Dan Epstein’s reading from Big Hair & Plastic Grass. Dan’s funny and brilliant and knows absolutely everything about baseball in the ’70s, so go even if it’s just to ask…
interview: dan epstein, ‘big hair & plastic grass: baseball & american in the swingin’ ’70s’
I’m pleased today to be able to share an interview with Dan Epstein, who’s written for Rolling Stone, MOJO and the LA Times, to name a few, and who’s currently touring the country to promote his newest book: Big Hair & Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s, which…
the butchies @ cat’s cradle
Sometimes you just need to go out and watch a bunch of badass women play pop punk. Sometimes that is, in fact, the answer on a Wednesday night. (I tagged along to the Butchies’ reunion show with Ash, and it was fantastic.)
baseball: columbus clippers @ durham bulls, july ’10
baseball: columbus clippers @ durham bulls, july ’10, originally uploaded by minervacat. Thirty five. I am baffled by the Columbus Clippers. They are very, very good — they’re dominating their division in the International League by a fair margin — and yet their parent club, the Cleveland Indians, are very, very not good. (The Bulls…
baseball: usa national collegiate team vs. south korea
baseball: usa national collegiate team vs. south korea, originally uploaded by minervacat. Thirty four. Our Bulls mini-plan has turned out to be full of delightful surprises; trading the tickets on nights we don’t want to use them — I say, “Could you get us something near the visitor’s bullpen, on an aisle?” and the nice…
counting crows traveling circus & medicine show
Koka Booth is such a weird little venue; I’m not sure what possessed Cary to put a gorgeous, beautifully acoustic-ed 5,000 seat outdoor amphitheatre somewhere that it would attract big rock groups — only to have the town tell the bands that they couldn’t play louder than a certain decibel level. (Adam Duritz was Not…
counting crows traveling circus and medicine show
counting crows travelling circus and medicine show, originally uploaded by minervacat. curiosity, kitten, doesn’t have to mean you’re on your own Full review and photos tomorrow.
twin tigers @ local 506
Athens’ Twin Tigers fall somewhere on the musical spectrum between drone and shoegaze and electro-pop — depending on the song, and depending on the spot in the song. There’s a lyricism to frontman Matthew Rain’s raspy, repeated lyrics that moves them out of the drone category, but enough fondness for noise, for shambling diversions into…
brand new kind of photography 