Okkervil River was one of my last musical discoveries in Chicago — Lani and Linney and I saw them open for the Decemberists at the Metro, on the Picaresque tour, before Black Sheep Boy had even come out. I saw them four times in four months in 2005, four startlingly different venues — a sold-out…
worth getting up for: may
Worth getting up for in May: great publicist relationships and working with Big Hassle Media, who I’ve admired for a long time; my beloved Two Cow Garage, and Wintersleep, both live at Kings; that sweet cool late spring NC weather and the particular shade of green that the NC gets in May; the conclusion of…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in may
Two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums I listened to in May. Where by “two sentences” I mean “about five sentences, probably strung together into a single sentence with semi-colons”. Frank Turner — England Take My Bones Pre-Order EP: Dear Frank, I know you were probably sad that this leaked to the internets so early, but…
the biters & the booze @ local 506
Atlanta’s ’70s garage rockers the Biters and Stones-esque label mates the Booze have a couple of things in common, besides their home on Underrated Records; the first and foremost being that both bands do what they do — rock, hard, and unironically — in ways that a whole lot of people don’t these days. Sure,…
acc baseball tournament 2011
Fifteen. Virginia got one of their own back last night, but we’re still 3-1 against them this year, and Steven Proscia still only has one hit to his name against Carolina’s pitching staff. So there’s that.
the love language @ haw river ballroom
The community out in Saxapahaw — an old cotton mill town on the Haw River, about 20 miles west of the Thrill — is doing some incredible things. Last night was the grand opening of the Haw River Ballroom, a massive live music venue in one of the old cotton mill buildings, all high ceilings…
so much has changed in a year
I just finished off what was, hands down, the most exhausting and most rewarding stretch of the last three years to date, where I’ve worked and worked and made art and cried and thrown things and worked more and made more art, all in the name of being able to make it, eventually, as a…
get out of the house
I’m about to embark on another crazy run of shows, and there’s always a million things in the Triangle that I’m missing, but what follows are shows I think are too good to miss: The Love Language w/ the Old Ceremony, Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, NC, Friday May 27. The grand opening of Saxapahaw’s lovely new 700 person…
times in which i am decidedly not angry at google
You guys, the invention of referrer logs for search strings is one of the greatest things that has ever happened on the internet. Do you have any idea what kind of random stuff people search for? (If you have a website yourself, you are well-aware of this.) It’s amazing. And this is one thing that…
google, i’m mad at you.
I have a Samsung Intercept, a swanky Android phone, that aside from its predilection for freezing when I try to answer phone calls — whatever, I hate talking on the phone, I’d rather text; I just call people back — I almost completely adore. I had reached a point in my photography where I couldn’t…
brand new kind of photography 