Reasons why I will go see a band live: I like them. Someone whose taste I trust told me I would like this band. A publicist I like asks me to shoot the show. A publicist in whose good graces I wish to stay asks me to shoot the show. A publicist I don’t know…
Tag: bassists
the devil makes three @ cat’s cradle
After two shows, the Devil Makes Three are rapidly becoming one of my favorite bands to see live; I like their studio stuff, but their stage presence — unassuming until WHAM! they start really rocking — is a huge part of why they’re so great live. The harmonies, the thumping bass, the way they all…
caveman @ local 506
Caveman’s debut album, CoCo Beware, took at least the segment of the music blogging world that I read by storm at the end of 2011; their pounding, dreamy indie rock was the kind that you can dance to while still taking off on fairly amazing flights of fancy and guitar work. I wasn’t certain, however,…
americana revue at the station: sst and steph stewart
I’d missed the last two Americana Revues at the Station, their second Thursday of the month residencies for bands — Sinful Savage Tigers took over for the Magnolia Collective last November, and in both December and January I had elsewhere jobs that kept me from being there. Last night’s Cradle show, however, started early and…
studio session: effingham
Last night I got to Durham too late to see the Save Our Arts show with the Beast, Mount Moriah, and Megafaun (sold out! Good on them) so I trundled back to the Thrill and spent the evening hanging out with Jeremy Blair and Effingham, who are recording their first full-length in the Cowboy’s studio….
onward soldiers cd release party for ‘monsters’
There’s nothing more fun than an amped up crowd that’s at least as excited for a release as a band is; or maybe it’s the other way around. Either way, both Wilmington’s Onward, Soldiers and the crowd at the Pour House on Thursday were in fine form for the band’s release party for their sophomore…
girl in a coma @ local 506
The mark of a great band is this: not how they perform as a headliner, but how they perform as an opener. Last night Girl in a Coma, touring as an opener for the Features, completely owned the crowd in the 506. Not a huge crowd, but one that whooped and hollered and even danced…
red collar @ local 506
My face was suitably rocked by three of the most talented (and occasionally delightfully offensive) rock bands in the Triangle. Sometimes you just need a lot of electric guitars. Full set is here.
sitting on the porch singing townes van zandt
The second annual tribute to Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt at the Nightlight was excellent, as I expected it to be. Everyone was good but my unquestionable highlights were EFfingham doing “My Mother the Mountain” (creepiest EVER) and Anna Rose Beck absolutely slaying “If I Needed You” (my favorite Townes song, and one I’ve…
american aquarium @ the pour house
It depends on what you ask me, and when, about American Aquarium, whether I’ll be sentimental, or cheerfully cranky, or a million other things — but one thing I will always, always be is fond, is deeply affectionate for those five guys and all 28 ex-band members. There’s no other band where I can tell…
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