superchunk @ the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. “Rock and roll doesn’t necessarily mean a band. It doesn’t mean a singer, and it doesn’t mean a lyric, really. It’s that question of trying to be immortal.” — Malcolm McLaren
Tag: bassists
american aquarium cd release party for ‘small town hymns’
I’ve shot American Aquarium more than any other band — I’ve seen American Aquarium more than any other band — and they never fail to be utterly wonderful. They released a new CD last night, and it’s really, really great.
tim barry @ local 506
Everybody knows that I think Tim Barry is a superb musician and also an excellent human being, but I also want to offer thanks to Virgil at Suburban Home and Vanessa at Fat Wreck, who hooked me up with a way in the door to this show, and who were both also nothing but fantastic…
lucero @ aquarius music hall, high point
If this had just been a Lucero set in High Point, I’d probably have skipped it — rolled my eyes at their booker and stayed home to drink beer and watch the Olympics. But Lucero and Glossary? Oh, hell, no, I wasn’t missing that. Glossary put out one of the finest albums of 2008 for…
american aquarium @ local 506
How do you shoot a band you’ve shot a dozen times before, without feeling like everything’s flat and already been done? Look for new angles, I guess. And hope somebody needs a haircut.
drive-by truckers two night stand, lincoln theatre, raleigh, nc
I see a lot of live music. Not as much as other people, but a pretty sizable amount of live music, and so I see a lot of consummate live bands. Bands who own the room when they get on the stage; watching the crowd howl out the last chorus to “I Hope He Breaks…
drive-by truckers @ the lincoln, night one
turn those speakers up full blast play it all night long Night one of two. Full review and set lists tomorrow. Or Monday. Probably Monday. More photos behind the jump. (Yeah, that’s an Epiphone electric mandolin that Patterson’s playing above. It was amazing.)
holy ghost tent revival @ the pour house
holy ghost tent revival @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. You guys are probably one of the only cities that understands what that’s like. ‘Cause you — the city of DC, from what I’ve read, in certain books, you nurture your own bands, you go see your own bands. If they’re local, you…
…soihadto… @ local 506
…soihadto… @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. I had a brief (we got derailed by other things) but interesting conversation over IM, about the definition of the term “side project”, with Ash over the weekend1, which is appropriate today, because of the band I saw last night. Technically, if you are into getting technical,…
what you own
Today the history of photography podcast that I listen to harped a lot on shooting what you love, what inspires you, so behind the jump, a handful of concert shots from 2009 that I haven’t posted yet. No commentary — just six shots, including the one of Micah above, that make me happy.
brand new kind of photography 