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Ten Million Years and Eight Minutes

Caltrop: John Crouch, Sam Taylor, Murat Dirlik and Adam Nolton

Incredibly loud and incredibly intense blues-prog are two apt descriptors used  describe the music of Caltrop in this week’s Independent Weekly. It’s true that I pounded on the front door of their practice space for some time before [...]

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Bon Iver

On two occasions, in two very different seasons, I traveled to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to make some pictures with Justin Vernon, Bon Iver. Jagjaguwar has commissioned the shoots for use in promotion of his second album, Bon Iver. There’s a lot I could say about the wonderfully encouraging [...]

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Megafaun | Five Years On

Think of all a child learns between birth and the age of 5 — interpreting a new world, becoming aware of its body and its senses, crawling, walking, developing language to relate to others.  Now imagine that same small child with a pair of thick glasses, some wondrous guitar licks, a mammoth beard [...]

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Feel It

Have Tuba, Will Travel, Blount St., Raleigh, NC, Hopscotch, Sept. 10, 2011

It’s over. Well, it’s been done for nearly a week, but I finally feel like I’ve recovered from Hopscotch. Going into this year’s festival I made what preparations I could based off last year’s experiences. Good running shoes, [...]

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HOG

HOG, Cleveland-Holloway, Durham, May 2011

These dudes are metal maniacs. All of them. They had been practicing for three hours straight before I showed up. It was hailing and thundering something terrible, enough that I stayed in my car until it was finally over. They had no idea what I was [...]

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Play On

Mr. Cook and Rothko, Chaz’s, Durham, May 2011

So a few weeks ago Phil says, “I’ve got seven shows this week, two on Thursday.” The man is back from touring with megadudes, Megafaun, and ready to settle into a nice [...]

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