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…
album review: frank turner – tape deck heart
Out now. Frank Turner, man. Frank Turner, like Josh Ritter, wrote a break-up album. It can’t not be a breakup album, when it starts off with the upbeat and playful “Recovery”, a song whose sound is disingenuous, or maybe I mean totally true, to its content. It’s about, well, about recovering — from a broken…
a guide to concert photography: the ugly bits
There are lots of tutorials out there about how to take great concert photographs, thorough posts that cover pit etiquette and all the technical specs and hints you’ll ever need to know, but none of them ever seem to cover what I could have used most when I was starting out: how to get into…
why i bag on matt harvey
Matt Harvey was a non-entity to me his freshman year. He started on the weekends, but I was much more concerned with the bullpen, with Alex White and Adam Warren, than I was with the Harv. To the point where I have more photos of Buster Posey (two), who didn’t even play for Carolina, than…
college baseball: duke @ carolina
2, 3, & 4. Spent the weekend with the Paternal Unit, who flew down for the UNC series at the Bosh, against Duke. Beautiful weather on Saturday and Sunday, and Friday’s foul weather meant we got to catch a true day-night doubleheader yesterday. Carolina swept Duke, outscoring them 21-3 over three games, and moves to…
brand new kind of photography 