I swear I listened to more than this, but apparently I didn’t write about them. I’ll do better in May. Anyway: boom, new albums, including two from my beloved This Is American Music. Carolina Chocolate Drops — Leaving Eden: Triangle GRAMMY winners follow up 2010’s spectacular Genuine Negro Jig with this one, which is a…
shakori hills grassroots festival spring 2012
Muchas gracias to Grant and the Bottom String (although to be fair, Grant pretty much is the Bottom String) for once again allowing me to scoot into the hippie zydeco-jam-band-roots-rock paradise that is Shakori Hills without paying for my ticket; I was out Thursday and Saturday (Sunday’s monsoon precluded my desire to stand in a…
college baseball: georgia tech @ unc
Three. Buck Farmer is as good as the draft hype says.
hoots & hellmouth @ the casbah
Delighted by the chance to see my beloved Hoots & Hellmouth twice in a month, and hope it heralds their touring more through North Carolina in places I can see them. Lovely humans, stellar musicians, and Sean Hoots’ songwriting on the just released Salt is staggering in both its breadth and its intimate detail. Salt…
the grand salami
I was digging through my handful of photos of Matt Wieters playing for Georgia Tech, in honor of last night’s 10th inning grand slam for the Orioles, and realized that it’s been almost five years since the first time shep. and I saw him play. It was May, and I was just finishing my Master’s…
margot & the nuclear so-and-so’s @ local 506
It’s been about a year since I’ve seen Margot & the Nuclear So-And-So’s, and they’re just sounding even better every time I see them — last year’s Buzzard hadn’t grabbed me at the time, and this year’s lovely, slow-burning Rot Gut, Domestic was still growing on me when Margot took the stage last night. After…
shaggy @ old duke 2012
Shot Duke Union’s Old Duke 2012 event last night — Shaggy can still really kick it. And I still know every single word of “It Wasn’t Me”. Full set here. (Working with the DUU has been one of the great vision-expanding joys of my spring. Muchas gracias to J at my day job for the…
plants & animals @ local 506
Small crowd, animated band at the 506 last night with Plants & Animals. Full set here.
alabama shakes @ cat’s cradle
When the Alabama Shakes slid on to the national scene last summer, with a slight EP and a handful of YouTube videos, pretty much everyone who heard them knew they were about to blow up — and they have. And you know what? Everything I’ve heard says that they’re amazing live, better than their staggering…
red hot chili peppers @ pnc arena
Today I think the photo speaks for itself; shooting the Chili Peppers is the coolest thing I’ve gotten to do to date. Muchas gracias to Speakers in Code for the opportunity. Love y’all. (Full set here.)
brand new kind of photography 