wye oak @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Loud Music (Stephen Dobyns) My stepdaughter and I circle round and round. You see, I like the music loud, the speakers throbbing, jam-packing the room with sound whether Bach or rock and roll, the volume cranked up so each bass notes is like a hand smacking…
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shearwater @ local 506
Shearwater is one of those bands that I feel like I should love, since they’re right up my alley sonically, but I just … don’t. Maybe in part because my brain has always classified Shearwater as an Okkervil River side project (though Will Sheff has been long gone from his involvement with Shearwater, and Meiburg…
drive-by truckers — the big to-do
drive-by truckers @ the lincoln, night one, originally uploaded by minervacat. Drive-By Truckers, The Big To-Do. Out 3/16, ATO Records. Okay, true confession time: when I think of Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, I think of it as an album I don’t like very much. This is a bizarre fallacy of logic, because I love every…
the morning benders @ local 506
I always want to pat out-of-town bands soothingly on the shoulder after their repeated exhortations to a concert crowd on the subject of dancing fall completely flat. We should issue a public service announcement to bands who’ve never played in the CH or Carrboro before: “It isn’t anything personal, it’s just that the hipsters here…
the mantras @ the blind tiger
the mantras @ the blind tiger, originally uploaded by minervacat. We went out to see the Mantras last night because Keith, their frontman, and Brian, their bassist, are friends of the New Familiars, and we’ve seen Keith play with those guys in Greensboro at least a couple of time. It was — an interesting night….
tim barry @ local 506
Everybody knows that I think Tim Barry is a superb musician and also an excellent human being, but I also want to offer thanks to Virgil at Suburban Home and Vanessa at Fat Wreck, who hooked me up with a way in the door to this show, and who were both also nothing but fantastic…
lost in the trees @ cat’s cradle
lost in the trees @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. I don’t often cover straight-up “music news”, because there are plenty of bloggers out there who do that primarily and much, much better than I ever could, but I figured that I owed it to Ari Picker, the crew at Trekky, and the Lost…
lucero @ aquarius music hall, high point
If this had just been a Lucero set in High Point, I’d probably have skipped it — rolled my eyes at their booker and stayed home to drink beer and watch the Olympics. But Lucero and Glossary? Oh, hell, no, I wasn’t missing that. Glossary put out one of the finest albums of 2008 for…
drive-by truckers two night stand, lincoln theatre, raleigh, nc
I see a lot of live music. Not as much as other people, but a pretty sizable amount of live music, and so I see a lot of consummate live bands. Bands who own the room when they get on the stage; watching the crowd howl out the last chorus to “I Hope He Breaks…
drive-by truckers @ the lincoln, night one
turn those speakers up full blast play it all night long Night one of two. Full review and set lists tomorrow. Or Monday. Probably Monday. More photos behind the jump. (Yeah, that’s an Epiphone electric mandolin that Patterson’s playing above. It was amazing.)
brand new kind of photography 