Everybody knows that I’m stupidly fond of all the Trekky Records kids, and it’s a damn shame that in the years I’ve been going to see their bands and their excellent shows, festivals, and holiday extravaganzas, I’d never actually seen Trekky super-group/whoever’s not on tour/house band, Auxiliary House, before last night. Aux House seems to…
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bristol rhythm & roots reunion 2010
Cost effective and bitchin’, as one of my coworkers would say. Happy 10th birthday, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion! You don’t look a day over seven. You were a highlight of 2009, and you brought it again in 2010. Can’t wait for 2011. “Was that your brother?” One of the best parts of the festival…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in august
Two sentence reviews of new albums I listened to in August. Behind the jump: Lost in the Trees, Arcade Fire, The Goodnight Loving, Frontier Ruckus, Dax Riggs, the Dead Brothers. Griffin House — The Learner: House’s follow-up to 2008’s stellar Flying Upside Down is a bit of a let-down; he starts and finishes strong, but…
bowerbirds @ duke gardens
bowerbirds @ duke gardens, originally uploaded by minervacat. Second verse, same as the first — I took this two years ago with my Coolpix, the first time I ever saw Bowerbirds play. One of the few concert shots I took with that camera that I’m still proud of. It rained buckets that night, and they…
lost in the trees @ cat’s cradle
lost in the trees @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. I don’t often cover straight-up “music news”, because there are plenty of bloggers out there who do that primarily and much, much better than I ever could, but I figured that I owed it to Ari Picker, the crew at Trekky, and the Lost…
jones street station — in verses
good old war @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Jones Street Station — In Verses Out 8/18, Smith Street Records. Jones Street Station’s In Verses was one of my most anticipated releases of this year (that nobody else cared about). Their 2007 debut Overcome (as the Jones Street Boys) was a note-perfect Dixieland-infused Americana…
megafaun @ the nightlight
megafaun @ the nightlight, originally uploaded by minervacat. I genuinely don’t understand the obsession with red lightbulbs that seems so prevalent in Chapel Hill venues. But Megafaun is still and always awesome.
our songs are sing-along songs
Two-fer today. I couldn’t pick a shot of just one of Saturday night’s bands; you get ’em both. Top: Bowerbirds; bottom: Megafaun. About 18 months or so ago, after a killer Weakerthans show at the Cradle, Perry Wright of the Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers told t. that Megafaun was about to be…
bowerbirds @ duke gardens
bowerbirds @ duke gardens, originally uploaded by minervacat. Proof that you don’t need an SLR to take solid concert shots, just decent lighting. From the Duke Gardens concert series last summer, taken with my Coolpix L3. Off to Duke Gardens again tonight for a set by Megafaun, free tickets courtesy of Triangle Music; the Gardens…
brand new kind of photography 