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Last week, I shot Of Montreal and James Husband’s tour kick off in Baltimore. It was a fun show, though I was SO SICK. I apologize to anyone I spoke to at that show, I was totally delirious with fever and probably made no sense. This was one of the most grueling photo editing sessions ever, since I had to file the photos by 9am. Somehow I managed it between fever dreams and dry heaves.

Check out the full Of Montreal photo set here.

Read the review and see the photos on Spin.com.

This weekend I caught the Blogtimore Fest at the G-Spot (which is apparently closing after 10 years!) and the Aural States Fest at Sonar. To me, the highlights were Sick Weapons, Vincent Black Shadow, and Wye Oak. J Robbins’ new band the Office of Future Plans was also a pleasant discovery… I hadn’t heard of them before but they were good. Sadly the freak snowstorm hurt attendance, but both nights were a great time.

Check out more Aural States/Blogtimore Fests photos here.

Posting some never-before-seen photos from SXSW 2008. Pictured above are: 2 Live Crew, Amanda Blank, Spank Rock, and Santigold. Click here to see the whole set, and expect more blasts from the past over the next week or so.

Earlier this month I shot Deacon from Animal Collective’s first solo show, with Dan Higgs and Jason Urick. Click here to read the article on Spin.com. Click here to see the whole set.

Monday I shot some promos for Bmore Original, a local label. This is just a preview of the set. Booman, Jimmy Jones, DJ Excel, Benny Stixx.

A promo shot of death metal band Dying Fetus. Shot for Relapse Records. Talented photographer Rob Brulinski assisted me on this shoot.

I can’t accurately describe to you what this was like, but it was really fun. CLICK HERE to see the whole set. View it SLIDESHOWed.

Read Michael Byrne’s blog about it.

I did still photography for the first Mz Streamz video ("Tear It Up"). They shot this the summer of 2008 and I wasn’t supposed to post these until after the video debuted, but I forgot to go back and post them after the video debuted! So here they are…

Click here to check out the whole Mz Streamz video shoot set. And here is the video:

My photo of dubsteb artist Martyn in Rugged & K magazines.

This was one of the best shows I went to all year – I was nervous, I sort of generally expect reunions to be underwhelming, but this was way more than I could have expected. David Yow was frenetic, full of energy, jumping into the crowd constantly, whipping his dick out (see above), yelling at the lighting crew to turn the lights up all the way. The band was incredibly tight, the sound was great – all in all, a great show.

click here to see all the Jesus Lizard shots

Last week, i shot Nadastrom (Dave Nada & Matt Nordstrom) in my new “studio” (really just my living room, while I save up to buy a permanent space). Click here to view the Nadastrom selects from the shoot

Click here to see the rest of the shots from the show.

Last week (or was it, time is getting wonky in this holiday/blizzard/travel maelstrom) I checked out Raekwon w/ Cappadona and Capone @ the 9:30 Club in DC. Rae was good, as usual. I was slightly disappointed that the rumored Noreaga appearance didn’t happen but… still a good show.

Check out all the Raekwon shots here. And check out the write-up on BYT here.

Check out all the Halloween shots here.

read the story by michael byrne and see more photos at spin.com

UPDATE: this also made the “30 Biggest Concerts of 2009″

Click here to read about it, and look at the other 29

Monday night I stopped by a packed Metro Gallery and caught the Get Em Mamis, a local rap duo… they killed it, the crowd loved them. Check out the photos here.

I have the above two page spread on the Mad Decent Block Party in this month’s XLR8R. On newstands now. Or download it at xlr8r.com.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS. This show was fun – I loved No Bunny and thought Hunx & His Punx were pretty fun/ny. No Bunny were a total blast and you should check them out if they play around you, for sure. Just good showmanship and alot of energy and simple, catchy songs. And underwear and bunny masks.