I was lucky enough to have my photo of SUNN O))) at Hopscotch Music Festival selected as #5 on SPIN’s Top Music Photos of 2012. Pretty cool.
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Ice Age in SPIN Magazine.
My photo of Ice Age at the Golden West in Baltimore, in the November issue of SPIN (the Das Racist cover). On newsstands now. Pretty stoked to have a photo from a punk show at my friend’s restaurant in there… and to be featured in such a great magazine for music photography!
Animal Collective @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Way late on posting these pictures! In July, Animal Collective finally played Merriweather Post Pavilion, the venue for which they named their breakthrough album. I covered it for the Baltimore Sun and SPIN. It was a great show, with some amazing stage decoration and lighting. They played mostly new material, but the crowd seemed mostly into it.
Arctic Monkeys & The Vaccines @ 9:30 Club
The other week, I shot the Arctic Monkeys and the Vaccines for SPIN… I am not super knowledgeable about either band, but fun show, good lighting, good sound… the Arctic Monkeys were lively, more so than I had been led to believe, and the Vaccines were fun and energetic. I hear they are a band to watch… Read the review, linked below for more details!
the Vaselines @ 9:30 Club
Last weekend Michael Byrne and I covered the Vaselines US tour kickoff at the 9:30 Club in DC. Pretty fun show, I had never seen them before, and honestly didn’t know much about them besides that they were Kurt Cobain’s muse… well, pleasant suprise, an engaging poppy band with really foul mouthed (but in an adorable way) stage banter.
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros @ 9:30 Club
Last week, i shot Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros’ packed 9:30 Club for the Virgin Fest pre-party. You can check out more photos on SPIN.com, or my photo set here.
Knoxville’s Big Ears Music Festival.
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!
my top ten live photos on spin.
Deacon, Dan Higgs & Jason Urick @ the Ottobar.
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.
the cranberries @ spin.com
read the story by michael byrne and see more photos at spin.com
UPDATE: this also made the “30 Biggest Concerts of 2009”
