There are bands you love, and then there are bands you love and nights that sounds like the inside of your heart. And last night, the entire Pour House howling along with a blow-the-doors-off cover of “Thunder Road”, was the latter.
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big hair and plastic grass
Y’all, if you’re a baseball fan who lives in the Triangle, get yourself out to the Regulator Bookshop in Durham today at 2pm to catch Dan Epstein’s reading from Big Hair & Plastic Grass. Dan’s funny and brilliant and knows absolutely everything about baseball in the ’70s, so go even if it’s just to ask…
the butchies @ cat’s cradle
Sometimes you just need to go out and watch a bunch of badass women play pop punk. Sometimes that is, in fact, the answer on a Wednesday night. (I tagged along to the Butchies’ reunion show with Ash, and it was fantastic.)
trkfest 2010
More photos behind the jump. Kudos as usual to the Trekky kids, especially Will, Martin and Emma, who once again ran a fantastic festival.
roadside graves @ the nightlight, june 2010
and i don’t know whose baby you are The Roadside Graves, a fantastic Jersey band who released my favorite track of the year — the stunning 7+ minute “Liv Tyler” — on their EP You Won’t Be Happy With Me earlier this spring, are one of three or four bands that are lynchpins of a…
embarrassing fruits @ TRKfest 2009
embarrassing fruits @ TRKfest 2009, originally uploaded by minervacat. TRKFest was a highlight of 2009 for me; tomorrow, after the US soccer game, we’ll do it all over again in 2010. Read about the festival here and then get your butt out to Pittsboro tomorrow to catch the whole thing. I recommend bringing sunscreen, water,…
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.
frightened rabbit @ cat’s cradle
Straight up: I didn’t want to go to last night’s Frightened Rabbit show at the Cat’s Cradle. I was tired, I’m old, the weekend had already been busy and long, it was a late start on a Sunday night, there were two openers I’d never heard of, I knew it was close to sold out…
the never @ unc union cabaret
the never @ unc union cabaret, originally uploaded by minervacat. Sometimes it’s hard for me to go see people I count as friends play shows; most of the time not, because they all play in bands I objectively as well as subjectively love and so it’s good music and usually it’s easy, but sometimes it’s…
shearwater @ local 506
Shearwater is one of those bands that I feel like I should love, since they’re right up my alley sonically, but I just … don’t. Maybe in part because my brain has always classified Shearwater as an Okkervil River side project (though Will Sheff has been long gone from his involvement with Shearwater, and Meiburg…
brand new kind of photography 