“[Y]ou should lie to people to get what you want; you can make things happen for yourself just by acting confident.” — Kathleen Hanna in Girls To The Front, on the start of her writing career “There was a point when I realized that you could get away with just about anything so long as…
Tag: guitarists
the corin tucker band @ local 506
Corin Tucker can flat-out rock. That’s what I took away from last night’s show; it was an aural assault of highly danceable tunes from her airtight band off Kill My Blues, her latest solo release on Kill Rock Stars. It’s excellent, her show was excellent, and I’m kind of ashamed that I didn’t tell her…
delicate cutters @ motorco garage
I still believe in the record label; that is, I believe in finding the small labels curating a select roster of bands and, if you like the bands they have, trusting them to find you new ones. One of those labels, for me, is Skybucket Records out of Birmingham, who used to release the Dexateens’…
tift merritt @ carrboro town commons
No way to make my heart swell with love for where I live than a free show outside on a perfect fall evening, featuring three of North Carolina’s most beloved. Tift Merritt made me cry (for some reason, “Mix Tape” just destroys me) and made me laugh, Megafaun blew the crowd away by swinging between…
will johnson & anders parker @ haw river ballroom
If you have a chance to catch Will Johnson and Anders Parker on their current (mostly) living room tour, you need to do it — it was one of the most intimate, reverent, and fun evenings I’ve had in a long time. The third balcony of the Haw River Ballroom sounds just as good as…
bristol rhythm and roots 2012, day one
Started the Bristol evening with Lydia Loveless, finished with the Deep Dark Woods. That’ll do for a Bristol first night.
phil cook & his feat – the weather station @ the FARM
Another beautiful show at the FARM, thanks to Elyse and Colie and Leland, Ampersand Booking, Phil Cook, Tamara from the Weather Station, and Ryan Gustafson & Josh Moore, who I heard put on an amazing set during a killer lightning storm (though we’d bailed for home before then). Rapidly becoming one of my favorite places…
bombadil & you won’t @ the cradle
Bombadil, like Josh Ritter, is a band that performs with such a sense of sheer joy at what they do — it radiates from the stage and infects the audience, who gives it back to him. Last night at the Cradle, there was a moment where I was standing in the crow’s nest, shooting the…
spider bags @ all day records
Spider Bags’ new record, Shake My Head, is fucking kickass, and they sounded great at All Day yesterday. One of my hands down favorite local bands these days. Full set is here. The shutter on Six, my beloved workhorse D60, gave up the ghost yesterday mid-set, so I have a D80 winging her way to…
chris mcfarland @ the cave
This wasn’t the show I set out to shoot last night, but circumstances kept me from shooting the Reigning Sound, and I’m glad that I caught this one instead. McFarland, from Brooklyn via Austin, TX, plays the same kind of high energy punk-folk that Dave Hause does, and he was a delightful surprise when I…
brand new kind of photography 