I’ve been working with Seth Martin and his bandmates in Sinful Savage Tigers, Seth Barden and Andrew Marlin, since April, putting together the concepts for a promo shoot for SST’s upcoming release, The Last Night Of The Revels. It’s totally changed the way I think of promo shoots, because it was such a good time;…
Tag: local music
magnolia collective @ the station
The second half of my Thursday double-header was Magnolia Collective’s regular residency at the Station, complete with new banjo player and an opening set by Matt Douglas, who fronts the Proclivities and plays in the Small Ponds with Caitlin Cary. Matt’s solo stuff is strange and huge and noisy, and startled me a it. MagCo,…
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,…
mason’s apron @ nightlight
Everyone in the Triangle has a side project, or six. My buddy Dave plays in what seems to be about 14 bands, for example. Thursday’s Locally Grown after-party was lead by one of the side projects of Mandolin Orange’s Andrew Marlin, the pure bluegrass band Mason’s Apron; it’s Andrew, two of the Big Fat Gap…
locally grown: mandolin orange
A gorgeous night of bluegrass and Andrew & Emily’s lovely voices. A cool breeze, New Belgium’s summer beer, and great conversation with people I am fond of. Happy, happy, happy. Full photo set here.
pinche gringo @ cat’s cradle
This was actually a release party for the split 7″ released by the Moaners and recently reconstituted Jennyanykind, but I skipped out after the first set for personal reasons. I was bummed to miss it, because the Carrboro Ninja In Charge says the new Jennyanykind song is amazing, but I wasn’t in the headspace to…
the great outdoors: five places to see live music outside
One of my favorite things about summer in the NC is the glut of (mostly) free or cheap outdoor concerts. Even when it’s painfully hot and humid, there’s nothing better than listening to a band I love sing up to the sky at twilight, especially when it’s free. Below are some of the places you…
the biters & the booze @ local 506
Atlanta’s ’70s garage rockers the Biters and Stones-esque label mates the Booze have a couple of things in common, besides their home on Underrated Records; the first and foremost being that both bands do what they do — rock, hard, and unironically — in ways that a whole lot of people don’t these days. Sure,…
the love language @ haw river ballroom
The community out in Saxapahaw — an old cotton mill town on the Haw River, about 20 miles west of the Thrill — is doing some incredible things. Last night was the grand opening of the Haw River Ballroom, a massive live music venue in one of the old cotton mill buildings, all high ceilings…
two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums i listened to in may, local edition
Short but sweet: three not-entirely-recent local releases I dug on in the last few weeks. All highly recommended. Mount Moriah — self-titled: staggeringly lovely, painfully intimate, gorgeously detailed, and absolutely heartbreaking. The most straight-up beautiful album released in North Carolina so far this year. Mandolin Orange — Quiet Little Room: I’ve seen Mandolin Orange a…
brand new kind of photography 