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.
concert: tribe one and jesse dangerously
I never, ever get tired of watching people I love do really amazing things; and I never, ever get tired of shooting hip hop, because it’s something I don’t do often; so I really love when my nerdcore rapper friends come to town, because I get to watch people I love do amazing things they…
preview: tribe one and jesse dangerously
If you have an iPad and a wifi connection, you can preview your friends being kickass from the back of the venue. FYI.
album review: the julie ruin – run fast
From the first count off on “Oh Come On”, the Julie Ruin’s Run Fast is a hard-driving masterpiece of the bratty female-fronted punk that Kathleen Hanna pioneered with Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Her little girl vocals tail off into sighs and escalate into screams, and the guitar of Sara Landeau is heavy enough that the instrumental…
life list: 100 foods, 100 counties
Though my trip to Hickory was only partially successful — baseball-watching thwarted by a thunderstorm and a dead car battery — I did get to cross off three more counties on my Life List item of eating at all of Our State’s 100 Foods In 100 Counties. From top to bottom: Iredell County: Port-A-Pit BBQ,…
brand new kind of photography 