Everybody knows that I’m stupidly fond of all the Trekky Records kids, and it’s a damn shame that in the years I’ve been going to see their bands and their excellent shows, festivals, and holiday extravaganzas, I’d never actually seen Trekky super-group/whoever’s not on tour/house band, Auxiliary House, before last night. Aux House seems to…
Tag: lead singers
with a folksinger’s heart
The reason you would create anything is because you love it enough to see it exist. — Robert Fritz, “The Path of Least Resistance”
hurray for the riff raff @ the pinhook
The light at the Pinhook is seventeen kinds of suck, but Hurray for the Riff Raff were absolutely excellent; Alynda Lee Segarra has a startling voice, really reminiscent of Jolie Holland, almost too big for the small venue when she really let it go, and live the songs from Young Blood Blues are still conscious…
two cow garage @ kings
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…
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…
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.
what to do this weekend: october 1-4
Sure, there are weekends that shep. and I sit around the apartment and drink beer and moan that there’s nothing to do; but that’s usually untrue, there’s just nothing we want to do. October, though — October is a month of riches here in the Triangle, and I’m going to try and remind you of…
brand new kind of photography 