Magnolia Collective — Ghost Stories. I owe a debt of gratitude to MagCo — I’d been shooting local music for a few years, but I really got a introduction to the center of the Chapel Hill scene thanks to their regular Thursday residency at the Station this year. I met people I’d never have met…
Tag: set lists
effingham @ local 506
In 2012, I resolve to shoot a lot of festivals and steal every red gel and light bulb from every venue in the Triangle. Yesterday Pam and I were talking about how there are good bands, bad bands, and your friends’ bands. It’s nice when your friends’ bands are also good bands.
manic creativity
Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you’re just really miserable. — Florence Welch
shakori hills grassroots festival fall 2011
I’ll write more about the festival this week, but for now, a selection from my two days; all 150+ images are here.
onward soldiers @ festifall
I have this theory that the reason the Triangle music scene continues to proliferate as it does, with both tons of bands and tons of good bands, is because for 30 years parents have taken their small children to see excellent local bands play at free street festivals, so 30 years of small children have…
slingshot cash & sinful savage tigers @ motorco garage
The light and the weather were both beautiful.
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,…
boulder acoustic society @ deep south
I had the pleasure of going out to Raleigh to see my favorite klezmerpunkamericana band, Denver’s Boulder Acoustic Society, last night. With a huge sound, a practically punk rhythm section, and an accordian, BAS really, really don’t sound like anyone but themselves. Their set in Raleigh swung from gorgeous bluegrass waltzes to raving klezmerpunk fusions…
skylar gudasz & the ugly girls @ local 506
I am holding good to my goal to see more new-to-me local bands this year, and I love it when I can do that in my own backyard; Skylar Gydasz and the Ugly Girls (who are all, in fact, adorable dudes) threw a kickass CD release party at the 506 last Friday, and I hung…
wintersleep @ kings barcade
Like every good Canadian band I go see, Pam turned me on to Nova Scotians Wintersleep earlier this year with their 2007 album Welcome to the Night Sky; y’all know me and you know that every attempt I every make to describe a band descends into incomprehensible comparisons to trees, but if somebody, in a…
brand new kind of photography 