Sometimes it’s just nice to wander around your town on a sunny Sunday afternoon in September and watch bands play. Yep. Full set here.
photos: then and now (blitzen trapper and langhorne slim)
I was emailing with Adam last week — as I often am — and I realized, after pulling that 2009 photo of Hayes Carll for comparison to this year’s photo of Hayes Carll, that all of last week’s shows were bands that I shot very early on in my concert photography career. And, for the…
concert: langhorne slim @ haw river ballroom
My favorite live musicians are the ones who play with unbridled joy — I mean, come on, if you’re going to live the damn rough life of a musician, you might as well love it, despite the roughness. Josh Ritter, for example. Langhorne Slim, for another, who played a balls-to-the-wall joyous set at Haw River…
concert: blitzen trapper @ haw river ballroom
I wrote about this one for Speakers In Code. Phox, a super charming 6-piece indie pop group from Madison, Wisconsin, opened; their music is great, and they were all lovely. They’re about to start work on their new record, and I have to tell you that I’m pretty damn psyched about it. They were great….
worth getting up for in september
Worth getting up for in September: Hopscotch; the Breeders; San Fermin; RiotFest; seeing Pam, Adam, N., and Sid; Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, Exene Cervenka, the lady tuba player in DeVotchKa, and Laura Jane Grace; hanging out with Erica, whom I previously only knew as J’s DC photographer friend; Fall Out Boy in front off 20,000…
concert: hayes carll & corb lund @ southland ballroom
well, you’re probably a democrat why, what the hell is wrong with that? nothing if you’re taliban well, i bet you slept with half the south oh, don’t you ever shut your mouth? yeah, how much did you pay for that tan? The top photo here is one I took of Hayes Carll almost five years…
album review: ha ha tonka — lessons
i’m close to the age that i only do things that i know how to do i can make coffee and i can make small talk ’cause who wants to try something new? And so starts “Dead To The World” and Lessons, the astonishing 4th LP from Missouri quartet Ha Ha Tonka. I have spent…
concert: deerhunter & crystal stilts @ cat’s cradle
Deerhunter — one of Bradford Cox’s many monikers, and the one under which he and four compatriots released the stellar Monomania — is loud. They are very, very loud. They’re also challenging and fierce and strange and not, exactly, despite how much I liked that record, a band I would be drawn to. I don’t…
interview: brian roberts of ha ha tonka
Tomorrow Ha Ha Tonka drops Lessons, their spectacular 4th LP follow-up to three previous spectacular LPs (there’ll be a review tomorrow morning!), and I’ve got some answers from Brian Roberts, guitarist and lead singer, on a variety of subjects — Maurice Sendak, making art, Brett’s mandolin, and the Pirates’ resurgence. Read more below, and thanks…
fun with search strings, summer 2013 edition
More things that people Googled instead of, I don’t know, Wikipedia-ing them. Or having opinions of their own. north carolina triple a baseball: the Durham Bulls, and the Charlotte Knights, who technically belong to Charlotte and also technically play in South Carolina. 100 foods in 100 counties nc: I assume you’re looking for Our State…
brand new kind of photography 