Out last night to catch Birds & Arrows playing the middle set on a three band bill; Andrea was nice enough to put me on the list and the 506 was nice enough to (accidentally, I think) leave two tiny white lights on during the sets, mitigating the red-and-pink of the usual scheme and neutralizing…
jason and the scorchers — halcyon times
the mighty ohio @ aquarius music hall, originally uploaded by minervacat. Jason & the Scorchers — Halcyon Times. Out 2/23, self-released. The genre descriptor “cowpunk” doesn’t get used as much now as it used to, I don’t think, which it is a shame only because it’s a great descriptor for a very specific sound that…
road trip to new orleans
road trip to new orleans, originally uploaded by minervacat. In February 2004 — just about this time exactly, in fact — my BFF from college, Sid, and I drove all the way down I-55 from its start in Chicago to its end near New Orleans, for five days of wandering and photo taking and partying…
baseball: gwu @ unc, game three
baseball: gwu @ unc, game three, originally uploaded by minervacat. Two.
baseball: gwu @ unc
baseball: gwu @ unc, originally uploaded by minervacat. One.
lucero @ aquarius music hall, high point
If this had just been a Lucero set in High Point, I’d probably have skipped it — rolled my eyes at their booker and stayed home to drink beer and watch the Olympics. But Lucero and Glossary? Oh, hell, no, I wasn’t missing that. Glossary put out one of the finest albums of 2008 for…
college baseball opening day, 2010
acc baseball tournament: duke vs. unc, originally uploaded by minervacat. I love this shot. I love the stillness of Colin Bates — hands on his hat — amongst the motion of his teammates and the fans in the stands around him. I think it’s probably tacky to love your own photos as much as I…
american aquarium @ local 506
How do you shoot a band you’ve shot a dozen times before, without feeling like everything’s flat and already been done? Look for new angles, I guess. And hope somebody needs a haircut.
los campesinos! — romance is boring
drive-by truckers @ the lincoln, night one, originally uploaded by minervacat. Los Campesinos!, Romance Is Boring. Out 2/1, Arts & Crafts. Ooooh, such a pretentious hipster band, and yet I adore them — the hand claps, the fuzzy distorted guitar and thumping basslines, the charmingly twee vocals. They remind me a little of the aesthetic…
drive-by truckers two night stand, lincoln theatre, raleigh, nc
I see a lot of live music. Not as much as other people, but a pretty sizable amount of live music, and so I see a lot of consummate live bands. Bands who own the room when they get on the stage; watching the crowd howl out the last chorus to “I Hope He Breaks…
brand new kind of photography 