and i don’t know whose baby you are The Roadside Graves, a fantastic Jersey band who released my favorite track of the year — the stunning 7+ minute “Liv Tyler” — on their EP You Won’t Be Happy With Me earlier this spring, are one of three or four bands that are lynchpins of a…
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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…
american aquarium cd release party @ the pour house
american aquarium cd release party @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. It wouldn’t be springtime if there wasn’t an American Aquarium CD release party at the Pour House. Some year there won’t be one, and I’ll be confused and weirded out all year by the absence. But this year there is one, and…
two sentence reviews of albums i listened to in february
glossary @ aquarius music hall, originally uploaded by minervacat. Two-sentence reviews of reasonably new albums I listened to in February: Surfer Blood — Astro Coast: I love this album and find all press about it to be vaguely irritating for no reason I could explain. But damn, this is a great rock and roll album….
worth getting up for: february
mandolin orange @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in February: Drive-By Truckers two-night stands at the Lincoln; the Lincoln’s light rig, when they use it; Glossary’s Feral Fire, Jason & the Scorchers’ Halcyon Times, the Preservation Hall benefit album and, surprisingly to me, Butch Walker’s I Liked It Better When…
american aquarium @ local 506
How do you shoot a band you’ve shot a dozen times before, without feeling like everything’s flat and already been done? Look for new angles, I guess. And hope somebody needs a haircut.
floating action @ the pour house
floating action @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. I get obsessed with songs and listen to them again and again and again. I could eat music. — Florence Welch
lucero @ cat’s cradle
lucero @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Most of the time I don’t bother with detailed concert reviews because when I go to a show, my reaction is mostly that was awesome/awful/someone shoot the opening band/those lights sucked. It’s not insightful commentary; it’s either, I had a good time or I didn’t. But I…
american aquarium @ tir na nog
american aquarium @ tir na nog, originally uploaded by minervacat. There were things I was going to post about — how Whit (hands seen here) hates my camera and always peers at it suspiciously like it’s about to steal his soul but how it often makes for the best photos I take of American Aquarium,…
weesefest 2009: american aquarium @ the pour house
weesefest 2009: american aquarium @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. Happy 4th of July, y’all. I recommend celebrating the independence of this country with country music, bourbon, and pies with bourbon in them, but you do what you gotta do; my word’s sure not law, or even strong suggestion.
brand new kind of photography 