So you've been sick of reading about the best albums of 2010 for several weeks now: That means it's time for Pazz and Jop! The Village Voice's annual mega/meta-list of the year's best albums and singles is now online and, the winners are...well, you know who won. Albums: It's the guy who won every list. [...]
Morning, folks!
Does anybody other than me and Kent Brockman feel this way about the World Cup? Fortunately, Magnum photos of people playing futbol are far more engrossing than the TV broadcasts. Plus, no fucking horns.
A photo is worth a thousand tweets! You know Shit My Dad Says, the Twitter feed Justin Halpern parlayed into [...]
When that is the most common thing one hears said about a concert, it would seem to indicate that something was left to be desired. It was a stroke of PR genius to make this year's version of the Virgin Festival completely free, after it became clear that the lineup was not going to live [...]
I’ve come to be untroubled in my seeking
And I’ve come to say that nothing is for naught
I’ve come to reach out blind, to reach forward and behind
For the more I seek, the more I’m sought
These lyrics, from Joe Pug’s “Hymn 101,” might as well be the tagline for Pug’s current year-long tour, which has taken [...]
The National, in Richmond, is a decorous little theater with a semiformal air. But on Tuesday night, when Steve Earle played a set of mostly Townes Van Zandt covers from his new tribute album, peppered with anecdotes from his 25-year friendship with its eponymous hero, the venue assumed the close familiarity of a living room. [...]
Saturday
Dead Rock West. 8 X 10. $14–$17.
The Bakerton Group, The Wino Band, King Giant, Earthride. 9:30 Club. $15. All ages.
Sängerfest. The National Building Museum. $25.
The Ruins, Farmdoubt. Bangkok Blues. $7.
Bonnie Prince Billy, Ned Oldham. Birchmere. SOLD OUT!
Juan Maclean, The Field. Black Cat. $13. All ages.
Tommy Cecil (Bass). Blues Alley. $25.
Hank Williams, Jr. Calvert Marine [...]
Yes, I did drive all the way to Richmond for a nu-metal band. Each of the bands on last Friday's bill at The National—Mudvayne, Nonpoint and In This Moment—are a real blast to photograph, and so for the first time in my concertgoing life I went to a show more for the photography than the [...]
