Chatham County Line sounded so fantastic last night; intense and joyous and fierce. They remain one of my favorite live acts to see, and it was a pleasure to get to shoot them so up close and personal. (Muchas gracias to Dave and to Dan Dan The Taping Man for the ticket.) Justin Robinson &…
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the lusitania @ motorco music hall
First up, an open letter: dear the Lusitania, I am really, really sorry that y’all had such a shitass time with the sound at your show last night, because playing at Motorco is usually way way way more fun than you guys had. If it helps, and it probably doesn’t, you sounded fantastic from where…
onward soldiers @ nightlight
On the face, this was a strange line-up: Wilmington’s sharp Americana-pop songwriters Onward, Soldiers, with the Triangle’s rockers Effingham and garage-psych trio the Pneurotics, but you know what? It did. Effingham’s Jeremy Blair writes songs with a hook and a pop sensibility if not necessarily a pop sound, and with the collaboration of Magnolia Collective…
josh ritter @ the cat’s cradle
if there’s a book of jubilations, we’ll have to write it for ourselves I believe in rock and roll as a religion. I believe that if you close your eyes and tilt your head back, the right live music is capable of transformation and transportation. I believe in the church of effects pedals and goosebumps…
chimneys @ nightlight
I was looking forward to Brooklyn indie-folkers Chimneys’ set at Nightlight last night anyway, because their debut EP The Antarctic is my favorite release with that word in the title since Modest Mouse’s The Moon & Antarctica, but I was not expecting to be as blown away as I was — and I was absolutely…
the devil makes three @ cat’s cradle
Haven’t seen a great roots show at the Cradle since last fall’s Punch Brothers set, and it was a delight to see the Devil Makes Three play to an almost full house last night. Before their set, I assumed that the crowd was primarily there to see beloved local open Mandolin Orange, and while they…
sinful savage tigers @ local 506
The first half of last night’s double header was Chapel Hill’s own fierce folk and string band skuffle ensemble, Sinful Savage Tigers; they’re getting ready to release their second album of Seth Martin’s excellent songwriting, and they were in fine form last night. Seth, Seth and Andrew play and harmonize together so, so well, and…
women rock
Pam made a list of awesome books about music written by women; I wrote some blurbs for it. GO READ IT.
hoots & hellmouth @ the pour house
The first time I saw Philadelphia’s hard-rocking, green-living, roots rockers Hoots & Hellmouth, they were touring without a drummer; just two stomp-boxes, four tambourines, and a mandolin that somehow manages to transcend stringed instruments and become percussion. (God, isn’t it wonderful, how the mandolin can do that? It’s one of those instruments that, when played…
rat jackson @ local 506
Some nights it seems like everyone in the Triangle has six bands, and they’re all so fantastic that 97% of the musicians I know should be famous. (Top to bottom, Rat Jackson, the Pneurotics, & Some Army, last night featuring people who also play in Spider Bags, the Magnolia Collective, Gambling the Muse, Red Collar,…
brand new kind of photography 