When Lucinda Williams announced a show at Haw River Ballroom about a month ago — she’s on her way to Tennevirginia to headline Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion this upcoming weekend — it sold out so fast that Lucinda (and the Cat’s Cradle, who sponsored the show) added a second show, tonight’s set. So I…
riotfest chicago 2013
I wrote a little about RiotFest for SiC; the only other things I can say are that the women at this festival — a festival that is, by nature of punk and ska, very male-dominated — were incredibly badass. Joan Jett, Exene, Debbie Harry, Laura Jane Grace — I was incredibly proud to be a…
concert: j. roddy walston & the business @ double door
Started my Chicago weekend off onThursday evening with pizza with Adam, and finished it by shooting in a venue I hadn’t set foot in in years, Chicago’s venerable dive the Double Door. The pizza was great, Adam is awesome, and the new J. Roddy record rocks harder live than it does in the recording, but…
dear chicago you’ll never guess
my life’s gotten simple since and it fluctuates so much happy and sad and back again i’m not crying out too much
album review: two cow garage – the death of the self preservation society
The new Two Cow Garage starts off with a blast of static and feedback, before it gallops into opening track “The Little Prince and Johnny Toxic”, and what may very well be their finest album to date. Over the last few albums, Two Cow has polished their recording sound up, and one of my favorite…
festival: hopscotch music festival 2013
This is the third year in a row that I’ve photographed Raleigh’s weird, charming, brilliant Hopscotch Music Festival, and while it might have been the year I saw the fewest number of bands (… 30 or so over the weekend), it might be the year I had the most fun. Hopscotch is, always, a festival…
preview: hopscotch night three
Utter soul-bursting joy is listening to the Deal sisters cover ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun’ because, you know, they’d finished playing Last Splash, and they had some more time on stage, and, as Kelley said, “We know a Beatles song.” As always, Hopscotch, as a whole you were beautiful, and you had a single moment…
preview: hopscotch day two
Who’s got blisters?
preview: hopscotch night one
Three from night one. More to come. I have been awake for 45 minutes; I have written my Jam of the Day, I have answered a day job question over the phone, I have pared down last night’s photos, I have scarfed a bowl of instant Thai peanut noodles, I am ready to go.
hopscotch 2013 here we come
Let’s hit it.