This was actually a release party for the split 7″ released by the Moaners and recently reconstituted Jennyanykind, but I skipped out after the first set for personal reasons. I was bummed to miss it, because the Carrboro Ninja In Charge says the new Jennyanykind song is amazing, but I wasn’t in the headspace to…
the great outdoors: five places to see live music outside
One of my favorite things about summer in the NC is the glut of (mostly) free or cheap outdoor concerts. Even when it’s painfully hot and humid, there’s nothing better than listening to a band I love sing up to the sky at twilight, especially when it’s free. Below are some of the places you…
sometimes
I felt like being someone else for a while tonight, so I watched several episodes of the Wire Season 4 whilst wearing my pink wig.
spirit family reunion & curtis eller @ the pinhook
An evening of banjos and footstomping, and, as Curtis Eller would say, many things both beautiful and ugly. Full set here.
30 in 30
I’ve written about my friend Michelle a lot before; she gave me my first SLR out of the goodness of her heart, she runs an amazing photography grant, she’s funny and brilliant and wicked, she’s the best mom I know after my own, she’s been one of my biggest cheerleaders and best friends as I…
ncaa super regional: stanford vs unc
Sixteen and seventeen. Who needs three games to win two if two and an epic rain delay and frozen pickle pops will do it for you? Five trips to Omaha in the last six years. And frankly, I’m really grateful that we don’t have to sit in the Bosh and the boiling sun for game…
mobile
Like most people with a smartphone these days, I’ve been mucking around with mobile photography — specifically with the Android app RetroCamera (because unlike Vignette, it was free). It’s enjoyable enough; I have to think about shooting with my cell phone differently than with my camera, but what it mostly makes me crave is film….
i keep having dreams
Frank Turner — England Take My Bones. Out today, Epitaph Records. I have a ridiculous number of feelings about the new Frank Turner album, England Keep My Bones, which came out today. I have a ridiculous number of feelings about Frank Turner, frankly, which if you are Pam or Megan you know, and if you…
bowerbirds @ motorco
A beautiful night full of unearthly music. I hadn’t seen Bowerbirds in a year, and it was thrilling to hear the new stuff they’re writing, bigger and scarier and more lovely than before. Mount Moriah opened in support of their recent debut LP, and were absolutely phenomenal. It’s funny to think that that band name…
slingshot cash @ jessee’s
True story: I’m awfully fond of this man and his music (among an epic list of other things about him, of course). [Slingshot Cash — “We’ve Come Undone”]
brand new kind of photography 