Two Cow Garage draws terribly in the Triangle, and that makes me absolutely batty with frustration. I mean, I guess I get it: yesterday was a Sunday, it was a late-ish billed start that became an even later actual start, there’s always plenty of other shows to hit any given night in Chapel Hill, Durham…
Tag: guitarists
the old ceremony @ kings
Passable shooting evening at a new-to-me venue; excellent evening of rock and/or roll courtesy Hammer No More The Fingers, who I haven’t seen in ages and always love live, and the Old Ceremony, who are secretly one of those local bands I’ve seen a million times without realizing how many times I’ve seen them, about…
henry clay people & the dig @ local 506
There’s something intangibly engaging about enthusiasm, as a photographer; ask someone to make a great heavy metal face and when they do it without thinking twice, there’s more energy in a photo than there would have been before. Likewise, the boys behind Los Angeles pop rockers the Henry Clay People take to the stage with…
two cow garage — sweet saint me
Two Cow Garage — Sweet Saint Me. Out October 26, Suburban Home Records. Two Cow Garage is the best rock band you’ve never heard of. I’ve been waiting for Sweet Saint Me since last December, before Two Cow even started recording it, when I stood in Tir Na Nog and drank Maker’s Mark and talked…
sorry, built to spill fans
I didn’t go to last night’s show at the Cradle, so you’re not going to get a review of it, no matter your searching. Just my write-up of last year’s show. But here, have a picture of Doug Martsch’s beard from 2009. It probably hasn’t changed that much in a year, right?
the national @ memorial auditorium
The National have utterly ruined their new album for me. I can’t think of a higher compliment for a live show; the National were so great last night, so powerful and overwhelming, that the superb High Violet now sounds like a pale imitation of itself. It was, of course, a set heavy on songs from…
cameron mcgill @ local 506
Margot & the Nuclear So-and-So’s and Cameron McGill & What Army had a rough Sunday; a trip to the emergency room is never fun, especially in Asheville, NC, and then they were stymied by closures on I-40 trying to get down to the CH. The show got started late, and I had to bail on Margot’s…
holy ghost tent revival @ festifall, chapel hill
Beautiful weather, beautiful light, and some of my favorite people in the world.
film school @ local 506
Back in May — or June, or July; I don’t know, I can’t remember what I ate for dinner five days ago, much less when I had a revelation — I decided that what I was going to do in the back half of the year was expand my musical horizons. I was going to…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in september
Two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums I listened to in September: Various Artists — Wisco: A Wisconsin Tribute to Wilco’s Summerteeth: I love this. I mean it — I love this. Masterminded by Muzzle of Bees’ Ryan Matteson, this is a track-by-track covering of Wilco’s Summerteeth (aka my favorite Wilco album) by local Wisconsin…
brand new kind of photography 