Two-fer today. I couldn’t pick a shot of just one of Saturday night’s bands; you get ’em both. Top: Bowerbirds; bottom: Megafaun. About 18 months or so ago, after a killer Weakerthans show at the Cradle, Perry Wright of the Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers told t. that Megafaun was about to be…
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lost in the trees @ wallace plaza
lost in the trees @ wallace plaza, originally uploaded by minervacat. we’ll find a church that suits both of our needs we’ll forgive ourselves, we’ll forgive our enemies The trouble with local bands is that you hear all their new stuff long before they ever commit it to record.
ian thomas @ the cave
ian thomas @ the cave, originally uploaded by minervacat. The organ version of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” segued into the Stones while a whole bunch of characters bury dead never-seen Kevin Costner in The Big Chill is the definitive greatest use of a Stones song in pop media canon ever. Maybe one…
john howie jr @ local 506
john howie jr @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. all round the world kids want to dance they’re falling in love, they’re joining bands they’re making records that won’t make the charts and rock and roll will break their hearts — John Paul Keith & the One Four Fives, “Rock & Roll Will Break…
the low anthem @ local 506
the low anthem @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. please take along all the best of my luck and come back unchanged your demons all tamed, your flowers uncut J. was nice enough to drag me along to see the Low Anthem with him last night, and they didn’t disappoint. In fact I was…
two cow garage @ local 506
two cow garage @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Out last night to see solidly enjoyable sets from Austin Lucas and Two Cow Garage; I’ve wanted to catch 2CG since I picked up their 2008 release Speaking in Cursive and it just blew me away, and they didn’t disappoint — crazy energy, good songwriting,…
holy ghost tent revival @ trekky records studio
holy ghost tent revival @ trekky records studio, originally uploaded by minervacat. Two photos not by me that I can’t get enough of lately: This one of ex-Panic at the Disco members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker in the studio working on their new project, by Jeremy and Claire Weiss. That photo is exactly why…
superchunk @ the cradle
superchunk @ the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. I am, obviously, not at XXMerge this weekend — this shot is from Superchunk’s Coachella warm-up show at the Cradle this past April. (My weekend plans go baseball, show, baseball, baseball, baseball, show, but neither show is Merge-related.) Am I bummed that I’m not there? Yeah, a…
holy ghost tent revival @ the pour house
holy ghost tent revival @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. One of the things I’m always trying to capture when I shoot shows is pure, unadulterated joy.
lost in the trees @ open eye cafe
lost in the trees @ open eye cafe, originally uploaded by minervacat. There’s things I struggle with in concert photography that aren’t related to photography specifically, per se, or venue lighting, or any of those things — and sometimes the non-photography-related struggles I have bug me more than the actual photography related ones. Like the…
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