I’m not quite sure how Holly Golightly & the Broke-offs ended up in my iTunes library1. Like Ryan Bingham, it took me a few albums to warm to her very particular brand of bluesy, gothic Americana, but by the time this year’s No Help Coming came out, I was ready to give in. It’s a gorgeous, weird,…
worth getting up for: april
Worth getting up for in April: finally spring; sweeping Clemson at home and beating ECU in Greenville in the 9th; C & M’s wedding; gorgeous travel books; Ha Ha Tonka’s Death of a Decade and Slingshot Cash’s From Aftermath to Exile; sole possession of first in the AL East for the Orioles, even if only…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in april
Two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums I listened to in April. Short this month, because I had a ton of shows and very little new music input, plus I wrote a bunch of longer reviews, but you get what you pay for, so: Hammer No More The Fingers — Black Shark: among the best,…
dave hause @ the pinhook
I don’t always go out for the headliner of a show, or the last band, whatever you want to call them — if I hadn’t been completely wiped out from a weekend in Charleston, I likely would have stuck around Durham for some of Mikey Erg’s set, but straight up I was at the Pinhook…
book review: graphic usa
I’m headed out of town for the weekend, down to Isle of Palms & Charleston, SC, for the wedding of the lovely C&M, but before I go — while I go, actually; thanks to the scheduling feature on WordPress, when this posts, I am probably somewhere between Wilson and Florence on I-95 — I wanted…
happy anniversary to me
Hey, this blog is two years old today! I’ve been writing, in some format, on the web since 1996, and this is neither the most complete or the most personal format it’s ever taken, but over the last two years, it’s the happiest and most comfortable I’ve been doing all of that. So here’s to…
best albums of 2011, so far: april edition
I meant to do this at the end of March, and then it slipped away from me, and now April has slipped away from me, as well, leaving me at the end of the first … third of the year instead of the slightly more standard first quarter. But it’s all the passing of time…
cameron mcgill & what army @ local 506
The only good thing about the otherwise wretched emptiness of the 506 last night was the space itself; the 506 is basically a big concrete and cinderblock box, and the quiet but appreciative crowd distributed along the benches up against the walls let Cameron’s voice and his band’s sheer enormous sound echo and vibrate off…
you knew the poetry
Three of Cups (Marty McConnell) at some point it becomes true that all stories are love stories. all making, love making. I didn’t make this rule. but it binds me all the same. I wish there were a law against condescending against love. against the economy of fear that says your joy means less joy…
baseball: tides @ bulls, april ’11
Eight. The Tides are 1-8, because everyone useful who was in our farm system is now with the big club, who are also useless. Sigh.
brand new kind of photography 