Another beautiful show at the FARM, thanks to Elyse and Colie and Leland, Ampersand Booking, Phil Cook, Tamara from the Weather Station, and Ryan Gustafson & Josh Moore, who I heard put on an amazing set during a killer lightning storm (though we’d bailed for home before then). Rapidly becoming one of my favorite places…
bombadil & you won’t @ the cradle
Bombadil, like Josh Ritter, is a band that performs with such a sense of sheer joy at what they do — it radiates from the stage and infects the audience, who gives it back to him. Last night at the Cradle, there was a moment where I was standing in the crow’s nest, shooting the…
worth getting up for, summer edition
Worth getting up for this summer: the Menzingers and Lucero at the Cradle, Langhorne Slim and Ha Ha Tonka at the Casbah; long conversations with musicians I like and respect; field trips with the tiny dinosaurs; Gaslight Anthem and Dave Hause together at the Cradle, Girl in a Coma at the 506; the new light…
two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums i listened to in august
Short on numbers, long on excellence! Rhett Miller — The Dreamer: Rhett always saves some of his strongest songwriting for his occasional solo records — “I Need To Know Where I Stand”, off the self-titled, would have made a killer 97s rock anthem, except that instead it’s a gorgeous acoustic plaint — and his June…
spider bags @ all day records
Spider Bags’ new record, Shake My Head, is fucking kickass, and they sounded great at All Day yesterday. One of my hands down favorite local bands these days. Full set is here. The shutter on Six, my beloved workhorse D60, gave up the ghost yesterday mid-set, so I have a D80 winging her way to…
chris mcfarland @ the cave
This wasn’t the show I set out to shoot last night, but circumstances kept me from shooting the Reigning Sound, and I’m glad that I caught this one instead. McFarland, from Brooklyn via Austin, TX, plays the same kind of high energy punk-folk that Dave Hause does, and he was a delightful surprise when I…
so i’m heading to new england or the paris of the south
Awwww, I missed my moved-to-North-Carolina anniversary! It was seven years ago this past Saturday. Cheers, Chapel Thrill. You kick ass.
brian jonestown massacre @ cat’s cradle
Brian Jonestown Massacre’s new record, Aufheben, is a swirling mess of synthesizers and experimental guitar noise, and their live show was no different, except just a hair more captivating — and the record is pretty trance inducing as it is — watching Anton Newcombe and company spin all those parts into something whole and spider-webbed…
promo photos: grant hart
Having access to a gorgeous converted mill studio to shoot Grant, for future Every Everything promo, was a joy. I want a studio. And also some studio lighting. And Gorman’s 85mm f2.8 lens. And a million dollars, and a pony. And for the Orioles to win the World Series, if I’m asking for things. But…
things i do when i’m not here, jam of the day edition
Not sure if I ever mentioned this in a post, but I’ve been writing one of Speakers In Code‘s Jam(s) of the Day since May. I pulled them all together in a page, and I’ll keep updating it as long as I write one. You can check out what I’ve picked to date here, but…
brand new kind of photography 