american aquarium @ local 506, june ’10, originally uploaded by minervacat. Chapel Hill shouldn’t count as out of town for Raleigh bands, but sometimes it does, and sometimes that means you get mellow sets full of old songs you don’t hear much, and long stories. Sometimes I’m happy to be out of town for Raleigh.
Tag: lead singers
blair @ the cave
blair @ the cave, originally uploaded by minervacat. Blair was excellent. The light at the Cave was, well, cave-like. Crappy light + 1600ISO + 1/10 shutter speed + f1.8 + post-processing = grain in your images like you’re shooting film. Except it’s digital, so you don’t even get the satisfaction of knowing you wrung something…
another one from a musician that hipsters roll their eyes at
local 506 rockin’ eve: hammer no more the fingers, originally uploaded by minervacat. “If for one minute you think you’re better than a sixteen year old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and…
futurebirds @ local 506
94% of the time, if you say to me, “Hey, I’ve got an extra (free) ticket to this show, do you want to go with me?”, I will say yes, even if I have never previously heard of the band. I like live music and I like discovering new bands, and most of the people…
the national — high violet
the national @ the lincoln, originally uploaded by minervacat. The National — High Violet. Out 5/11, 4AD. I have a big vocabulary; I know a lot of multi-syllabic words and generally can string together a sentence pretty well. But I’ve been trying for two weeks, and I can’t write about the National’s new album. I…
the love language @ local 506
the love language @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. My reactions to local-to-me bands blowing up nationally is usually mixed; depends on the band, depends on the tenor and type of press. In some cases, like with Lost in the Trees, it’s intense pride with a tiny dollop of not wanting to share them…
american aquarium cd release party for ‘small town hymns’
I’ve shot American Aquarium more than any other band — I’ve seen American Aquarium more than any other band — and they never fail to be utterly wonderful. They released a new CD last night, and it’s really, really great.
frightened rabbit @ cat’s cradle
Straight up: I didn’t want to go to last night’s Frightened Rabbit show at the Cat’s Cradle. I was tired, I’m old, the weekend had already been busy and long, it was a late start on a Sunday night, there were two openers I’d never heard of, I knew it was close to sold out…
the moment before the moment
“Henri Cartier-Bresson was known for photographing what he called the ‘decisive moment,’ that moment when everything falls into place. But I was more interested in the moments before or after the decisive moment.” — Alfred Wertheimer
josh ritter — so runs the world away
josh ritter @ the cat’s cradle, carrboro, nc, originally uploaded by minervacat. Josh Ritter — So Runs The World Away. Out 4/17 on limited release vinyl for Record Store Day 2010; out wide release on 5/4, V2 Records. Thank god for Record Store Day vinyl releases, is all I’m saying. There’s not much that Josh…
brand new kind of photography 