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…
Tag: lead singers
boulder acoustic society @ deep south
I had the pleasure of going out to Raleigh to see my favorite klezmerpunkamericana band, Denver’s Boulder Acoustic Society, last night. With a huge sound, a practically punk rhythm section, and an accordian, BAS really, really don’t sound like anyone but themselves. Their set in Raleigh swung from gorgeous bluegrass waltzes to raving klezmerpunk fusions…
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,…
centro-matic @ local 506
Most of the time when I love a band, you know it; I can’t shut up about them. I mean, if you have missed my capital-F Feelings about Frank Turner, you are just not paying attention. (Spoiler alert: I love Frank Turner.) But I’m genuinely unsure if there’s anyone out there, honestly anyone, who knows…
the elected @ local 506
Shot the Elected and Tristen at the 506 for Speakers in Code last night. Full set here.
bowerbirds @ motorco
A beautiful night full of unearthly music. I hadn’t seen Bowerbirds in a year, and it was thrilling to hear the new stuff they’re writing, bigger and scarier and more lovely than before. Mount Moriah opened in support of their recent debut LP, and were absolutely phenomenal. It’s funny to think that that band name…
holy ghost tent revival through the years
I was supposed to shoot Holy Ghost Tent Revival, Dirty Bourbon River Show & the Woes at Kings last night, but as I was getting to Raleigh, my battery light came on and then as I was driving home, my car died on the side of I-40 so … I didn’t. Instead, behind the jump,…
brand new kind of photography 