Blue Horns at Backspace
This is a show I filmed from a while back at Backspace – a night with 4 awesome bands: Patterns, Inside Voices, Blue Horns and Church. I’ll be putting out more videos as time passes I spun the wheel and today you get to enjoy a song by Blue Horns.
If you’re digging this one, there [...]
Read MoreMattress Rolls Holocene
Instead of attempting to navigate the haze of genre-identification in the realm of music I’ll drop Portland duo Mattress into the sub-genre of Gnarly. The tunes, full of atmosphere and off-the-rails confidence, can’t adequately be lumped into a one-line description. And this is a principal reason why I’m so smitten.
Case in point: this video, recorded [...]
The Ascetic Junkies performing “French Girls,” 2 Cameras and a Projector
Another concert video from the January 2nd show at Mt. Tabor Legacy. The folk-frenzy of the Ascetic Junkies is in full force with their song “French Girls.” If you like this video, check out “Kansas Road Trip,” which I posted at an earlier date. This was filmed by Sean Whiteman and myself, the re-projected [...]
Read MoreKing Khan and the Shrines Wreck Dante’s
Sean’s been telling me sporadically about the King Khan and BBQ show for a while, since he used some of their music in his feature length film “The Disgusting Little Shiver” – I just recently started listening to their music after our friend Jeff purchased a 2-vinyl album and left it in my collection. [...]
Read More“Trying” by Grey Anne
Here is another cut from the a January 2nd show that I blogged about earlier. This was a show we organized at Mt. Tabor Legacy to experiment with some live projection techniques. Aside from some janky wooden ladder climbing, it was a pretty successful evening. Grey Anne’s performances are always interesting to [...]
Read MoreDead Confederate covers Sonic Youth
Flashback: It’s March 20th and I’m in Austin Texas for South By Southwest 2009. I just got done filming a set by Dead Confederate (a hard-working band from Athens, GA) at some venue over on Red River and after dropping off the camera at the Hotel, Dave and I head over to the Compound, [...]
Read MoreThe Ascetic Junkies at Mt Tabor Legacy
This was filmed during a show we organized on January 2nd of this year. The show also featured Derrek Wayne and Grey Anne. Sean and I filmed, each plugged into our own projector, although the second one is out of frame, unfortunately.
When we filmed the Ascetic Junkies for their Penny Jam [...]
Read MoreUme at the Mohawk, Austin Texas
I filmed this on my first day in Texas, an Austin band called Ume letting loose in the Mohawk. I was hanging out with Dave of pampelmoose.com and filming some stuff with him for his music blog. I ended up seeing Ume play a few more shows during the week of South by [...]
Read MoreThe Tallest Man on Earth returns to Rontoms
Swedish folk rambler The Tallest Man on Earth played two consecutive free shows at Rontoms last night, with a strong contigent of second set fans who yelping at the mention of the first set. The Tallest Man is Kristian Matsson, who is on an international tour that will lead him from the American west [...]
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