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…
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local beer local bands: wylie hunter & the cazadores
Last LB/LB of the year! I don’t get to Tir Na Nog nearly often enough for them, because Raleigh on Thursdays, but Wylie and the guys were great and it was a good way to end the year.
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…
jon lindsay @ slim’s
Jon Lindsay writes the kind of indie guitar pop songs that stick in your head because of a catchy chorus or a well-picked guitar line, and it’s not until you listen to them later that you realize they’ve wormed their way into your head because they’re sly and subtle and impeccably clever; he is a…
interview: wylie hunter
The second of two interviews today! Wylie Hunter and the Cazadores will be opening for Jon Lindsay (my interview with Lindsay is here) at Slim’s on Thursday, 12/1, and Wylie was also nice enough to answer some questions for me in advance of the show. Behind the jump, Wylie on the writing process, how the band takes…
dex romweber duo @ nightlight
Last night Dex started his set by telling the crowd that, when he was 15, he used to see shows in this room. It’s true — the Nightlight’s space was the original Cradle space, before Frank bought it and moved it to Carrboro. I never saw a show there (too young!) but the sincere sentimentality…
the static minds’ final show @ kings
I was going to be all sentimental, and write about how much the Static Minds have meant to me the last year, how much I’ve always loved shooting them, how much I adore their 2010 album Electricity, how much I adore all four of the guys and value Erik’s friendship … but it was really…
local beer local bands: gross ghost & lilac shadows
A lovely pre-Thanksgiving Wednesday night LBLB with two of my recent local favorites: the dreamy indie-post-pop of Sam Logan’s Lilac Shadows (Sam was the brains behind the excellent Huguenots; Lilac Shadows is his latest project) and the über-catchy garage punk of Gross Ghost. Wild psych screamo punk outfit Exquisite Corpse opened. I hadn’t been to Raleigh…
josh ritter @ mcglohon theatre
The only word for last night’s solo acoustic Josh Ritter show is “magical”. It was sheer magic, like he always is, and it was perfect. Setlist: Come And Find Me/Rumours/Me & Jiggs/Wolves/Southern Pacifica/You Don’t Make It Easy Babe/Folk Bloodbath/Rattlin’ Locks/Harrisburg/Sweet Water (? new song)/Girl In The War/What Happened To The Girl I Knew*/In The Dark/Galahad/New…
rock it local
From top to bottom, Hammer No More the Fingers, Free Electric State, Lonnie Walker, the Brand New Life, and Murphy’s End. Five local bands at two venues last night, and I’d really wanted to catch Gross Ghost’s set at the Cave after Hammer, but ill-advised application of a final whiskey and ginger forced shep. and…
brand new kind of photography 