I haven’t celebrated baseball or National Poetry Month enough. Baseball (Gail Mazur) the question of what makes a man slump when his form, his eye, his power aren’t to blame, this isn’t like the bad luck that hounds us, and his frustration in the games not like our deep rage for disappointing ourselves the ball…
fitz & the tantrums @ haw river ballroom
I have been to two shows lately that have surprised me; I am sometimes a little snotty about the fact that Triangle concert crowds can be a bit … stodgy. Appreciative, sure. But non-reactive, often. And I don’t what’s been different at these two shows: call it a change in audience demographic, call it drunkenness,…
the new kacey musgraves record is great
you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t so you might as well just do whatever you want so make lots of noise, kiss lots of boys or kiss lots of girls if that’s something you’re into
weary engine blues: the songs of jason molina
The news of Jason Molina’s death broke on my 33rd birthday; this is not new for me, a beloved musician dying as I age a year, since Alex Chilton passed away the night before my 30th birthday. Both left me grief-stricken, restless, unsure of myself and my life. For Chilton, I resolved it with the…
hot dogs everywhere: skippy’s, winston-salem
Where: Skippy’s, 624 W 4th St, Winston Salem, NC. What: the chili cheese dog With whom: Allison Why: I love chili cheese dogs. Grade: A-. The dog and the chili were straightforward; loved that they use shredded cheddar for cheese, leaving it to melt on the warm chili, instead of standard orange nacho stuff. The…
giveaway: mike tyler – money grows on your knees 7″
One of the reasons that I find New York noise-pop artist Mike Tyler so terrifically charming is that he talks about music like I write about it: not quite on center, maybe with some strange comparisons, some unique sentence structure, words that are as oddly off-center and delightful as his music. On the subject of…
that was then, this is now
I shot Frightened Rabbit in 2010. The above is one of the shots from that show; I was very proud of it at the time. I still am, in its own way, in my own way. It marks a time. I wrote about that show here. What I didn’t write about was that show was…
brothers in arms: scott and grant hutchison (frightened rabbit)
This year, I decided to revive an old project that I’d conceived back in 2009, when I was first starting to get serious about the pursuit side of photography, rather than the taking photos side. I compiled a list of bands in which siblings, or siblings and relatives, played together, and decided to shoot casual…
frightened rabbit & wintersleep @ cat’s cradle
Frightened Rabbit absolutely destroyed the Cradle last night; a sold out crowd hung on every word that frontman Scott Hutchison — in a particularly cheerful, gregarious mood — said, and those moments when the crowd’s collective voice rose up over the band in chorus, those are the moments that give me shivers. I was in…
phuzz phest, day three
Day three. Full wrap-up on Speakers In Code soon.
brand new kind of photography 