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Last month Michael Byrne and myself covered this festival for SPIN. You can see the coverage here. We saw, among other things: Andrew WK performing classical music with Calder Quartet, the Ex, Terry Riley and Bang the Can performing In C, Saint Vincent, Vampire Weekend, Ben Frost, DJ/Rupture (several times), the xx, Joanna Newsom, Adrian Belew… and many more.

Knoxville is also a great town! So many great and beautiful music venues and every seems to be really nice. One thing that I thought was really great is all the people working at the various venues that were hosting the festival seemed VERY knowledgable about both the history of their venue and music in general. And they were super polite and friendly. Also don’t miss King Tut’s Egyptian Diner if you ever are in Knoxville… its a treat!

See all my photos from Big Ears here.

This saturday in Baltimore we are having a little book preview party to show off the preview version of one of the books I am working on: UNDER THE STROBE LIGHT: Club Photos 2005-2010. It’s a selection of photos I have taken over the last 5 years in clubs and at parties. The emphasis is on dancing, clubgoers, DJs and it’s mostly Baltimore oriented, with a decent amount of Philly and other stuff sneaking in.

The emphasis of the collection isn’t on artists, it’s more about clubgoers… but artists featured in the include Baltimore natives Scottie B, Rye Rye, Blaqstarr, and Rod Lee (among others) to other east coasters like Diplo and DJ Sega.

The shots in the book were taken at Baltimore clubs like Paradox and Sonar, and underground venues like the Hexagon or the Mausoleum in Philly.

The party is this saturday 4/24 at Bijon (226 W Monument St), at the corner of Monument & Howard Streets in Baltimore. 8:30-11:30pm with free champagne, music by Jay Rags, and photos and copies of the limited preview version of the book on display (and for sale). Stop by if you can!

Here are a few pages from the book (and the cover) to give you a taste:

I’ll have more details about the book on here after the show. Thanks!