While my car was having her brakes tuned up, and before the rumbling grey skies rolled in, I puttered about the farmer’s market with my camera.
josh ritter @ cat’s cradle, may 2013
(People searching for the setlist, I hope you come here and find it!) I am not exactly shy about my feeling regarding Josh Ritter; it is one of my least complicated listener-artist relationships, in that flat out I love his weird ass unconditionally. I believe that rock and roll is a religion, and I believe…
video: frank turner – ‘the way i tend to be’
Frank Turner is never going to play in North Carolina and I am going to die of wanting to see him live. Then I will revive myself and do something outrageous, like finally getting a passport and then buying a plane ticket to Glasgow so I can see him for the first time with Lis…
movies: the great gatsby
I really hate The Great Gatsby. Not for any reason other than the fact that I love F. Scott Fitzgerald, and I feel like Gatsby is over-taught, boring, and, well — I mean, honestly, I read Tender Is The Night in a bathtub in a hotel in Paris in 2000. How can Gatsby ever compare…
video: radiation city – ‘foreign bodies’
Who’s excited about the new Radiation City album? I think that would be me. Seriously, dreamy Phil Spektor wall of sound girl group indie synth garage pop, please, hit all my buttons at once, Radiation City. It is probably possible for me to love you just a tiny bit more than I already do. And…
video: shakey graves, wild child, marmalakes – “dead end street” (kinks cover)
Remember how I used to say needs more Kinks covers*? I still believe that, and this collaboration from Austin, Texas artists Shakey Graves, Wild Child, and Marmalakes meets my needs. Exceeds my needs. I still need more Kinks covers. Those three Austin rockers are all on tour together in June. No North Carolina date, to…
worth getting up for in april
Worth getting up for in April: Opening Day; the Orioles’ Opening Day win; this photo of Matt Wieters; the Orioles still being over .500; spring; Phuzz Phest; Wintersleep and Frightened Rabbit on tour together; Fitz and the Tantrums at Haw River Ballroom; the way North Carolina looks like someone turned up the saturation on Photoshop;…
five minute portraits: basia bulat
After the show last night, the lovely and talented Basia Bulat was gracious enough to let me snap a few five-minute portraits of her outside the 506. I love the light there at night, and the texture of the bricks and the stickers, and most of all her face. Truly a gorgeous woman inside and…
pickwick & basia bulat @ local 506
I wrote about the Pickwick set for Speakers In Code. Basia Bulat opened, and as Adam told me I would, I fell promptly in love with her immediately. She’s got an incredible voice, a knack for out of the box songwriting that just wrang my heart, and she played some of the greatest, oddest instruments…
two sentence reviews of albums i listened to in march and april
I didn’t listen to much new in March; my vacation threw me off my podcast schedule, and I felt like I spent a month just getting that up to speed. But I did listen to a few in March, and way more new music in April. BANG. The Speechless Radio — Care EP: horn-laden, vaguely twee…
brand new kind of photography 