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…
Tag: suburban home records
glossary — feral fire
glossary @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Glossary — Feral Fire. Out 2/2, Liberty & Lament. One of my favorite things about Glossary’s sound is the combination of the fuzzed out, grinding guitars with Todd Beene’s sleek, wailing pedal steel and Joey Kneiser’s voice, which might have a whiskey edge but not quite a…
tim barry — 28th & stonewall
tim barry @ the local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Tim Barry — 28th & Stonewall. Out 1/26, Suburban Home Records. This has been one of my hotly anticipated albums, since Suburban Home started posting press and information about it in the fall; shep. turned me on to Tim Barry last year, for which I…
dim sum
dim sum, originally uploaded by minervacat. I sort of miss taking pictures of my food, in a masochistic self-flagellating habit-forming way, so I made my mama and my aunt suffer while I took pictures of our dim sum lunch on Saturday. I left the camera at home Sunday night when we were eating tapas or…
top 25 albums of 2009
lucero @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. THIS IS A VERY LONG POST ABOUT MUSIC. It’s almost 2010, and so: top 25 albums of 2009, in rough reverse order (#1 is at the bottom!) based on a combination of objective quality and subjective belovedness, according to me:
two cow garage @ local 506
two cow garage @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. and we’re all living for that one sweet fleeting feeling
micah schnabel @ tir na nog
micah schnabel @ tir na nog, originally uploaded by minervacat. Micah plays solo shows with an acoustic guitar with just as much energy and emotion as he plays Two Cow shows with his electric. It was well worth the late night and I can’t wait to see him again on Sunday.
micah schnabel — when the stage lights go dim
two cow garage @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Micah Schnabel — When the Stage Lights Go Dim. Out now, limited pressing; self-released/Surbuban Home Records. Most of the time, Micah Schnabel is the frontman for the Columbus, Ohio, cowpunk band Two Cow Garage; this is his first solo record, and in a lot of…
molina & johnson — self-titled
trekky records christmas at the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Molina & Johnson — self-titled. Out today on Secretly Canadian. One of my favorite things in the world is when musicians I enjoy enjoy the company of other musicians I enjoy. For example, it delights me immensely whenever Mike Doughty and Rhett Miller twitter at each…
worth getting up for: october
two cow garage @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in October: the North Carolina State Fair; a proliferation of excellent national touring acts coming through the CH in specific and the NC at large; the word proliferation; dreaming of road trips; federal holidays1; the new Big Star box set, Keep…
brand new kind of photography 