Over on Speakers In Code. Team Spirit was the second open, and their furious brand of crashing poppy garage punk was just absolutely compelling. Hook-filled, and noisy, and they just looked like they were having so much fun playing. Their bassist was a dervish of the Frank Iero variety, their lead singer looked like Weird…
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carrboro music festival 2013
Sometimes it’s just nice to wander around your town on a sunny Sunday afternoon in September and watch bands play. Yep. Full set here.
video share: the julie ruin – ‘oh come on’
Kathleen Hanna has been one of my idols since I was a teenager, and this video for the first real single off the Julie Ruin’s upcoming full length debut just makes my heart glow with happiness. A glorious new one from the original queen of brat punk. Look for an interview with Julie Ruin guitarist…
southern culture on the skids @ berkeley cafe
This show had been booked for ages, long before it was announced that the Berkeley was shutting down its big music room and outstanding roots music booker Marianne Taylor was moving over to Southland Ballroom (making that venue a place to watch, for the first time, outside of the Vaudevillain Revue) — but it would…
fall out boy @ 9:30 club ; save rock and roll club tour
I wrote about what Fall Out Boy means to me, and what it meant to me to shoot them on Friday night, for Speakers In Code. Some other things: They played everything I could have hoped to hear, except the acoustic version of “Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner” from the My Heart EP, which…
drive-by truckers @ haw river ballroom
I hadn’t seen the Truckers in almost 18 months — Hopscotch 2011 — and when Patterson launched into “The Living Bubba” last night, even as I was deeply exhausted and irritated at the crowd, it felt like a physical relief to see the band. They have meant so much to me for many years, and while…
bombadil & the tender fruit @ cat’s cradle
Another magical Bombadil show at the Cradle; a full, sweet, lengthy set, and the new songs sound so fantastic. I can’t wait for their new record in July, and it is always a pleasure and never a chore to shoot their shows. They’re always warm, lovely affairs, full of good people and friends. Had a…
luck, timing, and a quick trigger finger
Augustana plays an acoustic show at the 506 tonight; it’s sold out, so you’re probably out of luck in getting to see them, alas, just like me, but I can share this photo, which remains one of the best shots I’ve ever taken. The summer of 2010, the Counting Crows summer tour, my beloved now-dead…
the devil makes three @ cat’s cradle
I didn’t know that a bluegrass band from Santa Cruz, California — a pretty traditional three piece bluegrass band, albeit a really great one — could inspire such punk show mosh pit heights, but the Devil Makes Three did it last night. It’s a tribute to them, on most hands; their rocking, uptempo, hook-filled songs…
chatham county line electric holiday show @ haw river ballroom
So lovely — warm and fun and full of singalongs, this was the first of CCL’s annual Electric Holiday Show that I have been to, but I will not miss another one. Full set is here.
brand new kind of photography 