worth getting up for: january

Worth getting up for in January: oh my god, a million shows; two great covers shows, one of Townes and Hank covers, one of Neil and Bruce covers; watching the video of the crowd at the Avetts’ show starting Paranoia in B-flat Major without Seth and Scotty; Part 5 of Frank Turner’s US Social D/Lucero…

worth getting up for: december

Worth getting up for in December: Trekky’s Christmas at the Cradle and the annual first-weekend-in-December American Aquarium Pour House show; $5 double tall Long Island night at the Pour House and pink shots at Motorco; hockey; Justin Townes Earle live; good bootleg recordings and my buddy Dan; dinners out with my folks; scripting tour diaries;…

worth getting up for: november

Worth getting up for in November: a variety of bands with Brothers in their names, particularly the Felices; seeing old friends after many months; connecting with an awesome pub company in Austin; new Frank Turner singles; mysteries with photographers as the protagonists; the Belleville Outfit live; digital photos that look like film; Mason Jennings’ The…

worth getting up for: october

Worth getting up for in October: the National at Memorial Auditorium, and well-won photo passes; Two Cow Garage and Dave Hause (rhymes with pause) at Kings; Ha Ha Tonka at the 506, finally and worth the wait; Cameron McGill & What Army; 47,000 other shows; the North Carolina State Fair; fall baseball; the unstoppable Oregon…

worth getting up for: september

Worth getting up for in September: football; Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion; the sandwich I ate at Macado’s in Bristol; Justin Townes Earle’s Harlem River Blues & Two Cow Garage’s Sweet Saint Me; free Hopscotch day parties; fall weather and cool mornings, the summer heat finally breaking; red wine weather; long sleeved shirts; knock-off Topsiders;…

worth getting up for: august

Worth getting up for in August: the Physics of Meaning opening for Lost In The Trees, for free; Frontier Ruckus’ Deadmalls & Nightfalls, I Can Lick Every Sonofabitch In The House’s Sounds of Dying, the Honored Guests’ Into Nostalgia EP, Simone Felice’s Live From A Lonely Place & Ryan Bingham’s Junky Star; Buck Showalter, the…

worth getting up for: july

carrboro farmer’s market, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in July: rookie league baseball, and free tickets to see Team USA; fireworks at the DBAP; photos from the Cape Cod League; Chatham County Line at the Cradle; shooting on a press pass;this photo of Omaha’s Rosenblatt Stadium; Counting Crows live; Our State magazine’s…

worth getting up for: june

trkfest 2010: midtown dickens, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in June: American Aquarium at the 506; TRKFest; Langhorne Slim at the Cradle; Tift Merritt’s See You On The Moon, Blitzen Trapper’s Destroyer of the Void, and the Gaslight Anthem’s American Slang; NCAA tournament baseball; the College World Series, even (and especially) when…

worth getting up for: may

carrboro farmer’s market, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in May: Carolina baseball’s Senior Day; sweeping a series to end the season; Superchunk at the Cradle; Dustin Ackley playing Double-A baseball in the NC; the Hold Steady’s Heaven Is Whenever and American Aquarium’s Small Town Hymns; live Old Ceremony shows; Iron Man 2…

worth getting up for: april

southport, nc, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in April: Dr. Dog’s Shame, Shame, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings’ I Learned The Hard Way, and Josh Ritter’s So Runs The World Away; the beach; SEC and Southern Conference baseball, and the MLB; forgetting that Chad Holbrook is on the SC staff now,…