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2013: A Year in Pictures

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A full year of rock ‘n’ roll pictures, January to December, New York to Boston to Philadelphia to Brooklyn. They might not be the best pictures ever, but they are mine.


Magic Trick, Webster Hall, New York, NY, January 14, 2013
 

Father John Misty, Webster Hall, New York, NY, January 14, 2013
 

Wildstreet, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

William Control, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Andy Biersack, Black Veil Brides, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Andy Biersack, Black Veil Brides, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Ashley Purdy, Black Veil Brides, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Jake Pitts and Jinxx, Black Veil Brides, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Jinxx, Black Veil Brides, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Pete Wentz book signing, New York, NY, February 21, 2013
 

The Naturals, The Bowery Electric, New York, NY, April 6, 2013
 

Wise Girl, The Bowery Electric, New York, NY, April 6, 2013
 

Mud, Blood and Beer, The Bitter End, New York, NY, April 13, 2013
 

El Sportivo and the Dirty Palms, Mercury Lounge, New York, NY, April 24, 2013
 

Roadside Graves, The Bowery Electric, New York, NY, May 4, 2013
 

Brian Barthelmes and Scott Thompson, Tallahassee, The Bowery Electric, New York, NY, May 4, 2013
 

Shawn Carney, Tallahassee, The Bowery Electric, New York, NY, May 4, 2013
 

Scott Thompson, Tallahassee, The Bowery Electric, New York, NY, May 4, 2013
 

Wayne Coyne, The Flaming Lips, The Great Googa Mooga, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, May 17, 2013
 

Father John Misty, The Great Googa Mooga, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, May 18, 2013
 

Ryan Hunter, Billy Rymer, and Isaac Bolivar, NK, House of Blues Boston, May 26, 2013
 

Billy Rymer and Isaac Bolivar, NK and Joe Trohman, Fall Out Boy, House of Blues Boston. May 26, 2013
 

Patrick Stump, Fall Out Boy, House of Blues Boston, May 26, 2013
 

Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy, House of Blues, Boston, May 26, 2013
 

Fall Out Boy, House of Blues, Boston, May 26, 2013
 

Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy, Electric Factory, Philadelphia, May 30, 2013
 

Andy Biersack, Black Veil Brides, Warped Tour, Uniondale, NY, July 13, 2013
 

William Beckett, Warped Tour, Uniondale, NY, July 13, 2013
 

Beebs and her Moneymakers, Warped Tour, Uniondale, NY, July 13, 2013
 

Crashlive, Warped Tour, Uniondale, NY, July 13, 2013
 

Kevin Preston, Prima Donna, Irving Plaza, August 17, 2013
 

Adam Ant, Irving Plaza, August 17, 2013
 

Josh Dun, 21 Pilots, Barclay Center, Brooklyn, NY, September 7, 2013
 

Tyler Joseph, 21 Pilots, Barclay Center, Brooklyn, NY, September 7, 2013
 

Panic! at the Disco, Barclay Center, Brooklyn, NY, September 7, 2013
 

Kenneth A. Harris, Panic! at the Disco and LOLO, Barclay Center, Brooklyn, NY, September 7, 2013
 

Joe Trohman and Patrick Stump, Fall Out Boy, Barclay Center, Brooklyn, NY, September 7, 2013
 

Marky Ramone, Barclay Center, Brooklyn, NY, September 7, 2013
 

Brendon Urie, Panic! at the Disco, singing with Fall Out Boy, Barclay Center, Brooklyn, NY, September 7, 2013
 

Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy, Barclay Center, September 7, 2013
 

Tyler Joseph, 21 Pilots, Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, PA, September 8, 2013
 

Brendon Urie, Panic! at the Disco, Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, PA, September 8, 2013
 

Joe Trohman, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy, Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, PA, September 8, 2013
 

Beachballs in the air, Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, PA, September 8, 2013
 

Patrick Stump, Fall Out Boy and Brendon Urie, Panic! at the Disco, Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, PA, September 8, 2013
 

Brendon Urie, Panic! at the Disco, McKittrick Hotel Cabaret, New York, NY, October 8, 2013
 

Brendon Urie, Panic! at the Disco, McKittrick Hotel record release show, New York, NY, October 8, 2013
 

Cassandra Jenkins, Rockwood Music Hall, New York, NY, November 10, 2013
 

Jus Post Bellum, Rockwood Music Hall, New York, NY, November 10, 2013
 

Sean Patrick Carney, The Scandals, Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY, November 19, 2013
 

Jared Hart, The Scandals, Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY, November 19, 2013
 

Frank Iero, DeathSpells, Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY, November 19, 2013
 

Brandon Phillips, The Architects, Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY, November 19, 2013
 

Casey Neill, 11th St. Bar, New York, NY, November 24, 2013
 

Tyburn Saints, Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY, December 4, 2013
 

Indigo Street, Shy Hunters, Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY, December 4, 2013′
 

Luke Bentham, The Dirty Nil, Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY, December 4, 2013
 

ALX, Love Crushed Velvet, Bowery Electric, New York, NY, December 10, 2013
 

Ellen Kempner, Palehound, Brooklyn Night Bazaar, Brooklyn, NY, December 21, 2013
 

Lemmy Gurtowsky, California X, Brooklyn Night Bazaar, Brooklyn, NY, December 21, 2013
 

Alex Levine, So So Glos, Brooklyn Night Bazaaar, Brooklyn, NY, December 21, 2013

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Video: Brett Detar, Tried to Hate the Angels

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Tried to Hate the Angels is from Brett Detar’s shiny new record To Free To Live which he is giving away in return for email addresses at his website.

Too Free to Live is Detar’s second solo effort, and I think the best summary I can give you is: he sounds like he’s relaxed into his groove.

And oh, what a delightful groove it is, too. There are beautiful mournful ballads like the one below (Losers Baby, Broken Hymn); barroom stompers/clap-alongs (Satan’s Foot on My Neck, Please Don’t Go Away Like That); tunes to accompany the last run for the state line before the law closes in (Too Free To Live, I Can See The Darkness); and even a brief excursion into the blues (Damaged Girl).

Another thing I can tell you: once you have watched this video and then surfed on over and acquired the record, make some time to listen to it straight through from start to finish with no interruptions or distractions, and relax into the groove yourself.

 

Brett Detar - "Tried To Hate The Angels" Official Music Video

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Rural Savage, I Fell In The Bog And Saw God

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I put I Fell in the Bog and Saw God (2012) by Rural Savage on after a very long day and it was exactly what I needed to clean my circuits.

It’s punk rock that is kind of fuzzy, a little bit rude, leads me to suspect that being in their pit may include mandatory participation in drunken shout-sing-alongs, and ends on a unexpectedly solemn note. There is also a companion EP called I Fell in the Ditch & Saw the Divil.

The first two songs, College Drop Out and Alcohol, show off their punkabilly chops. But it is the third song, Donegal Acid, that cemented their place in my affections.
 

 
I don’t know for sure but I think Dada Taranta might be a meditation about finding God in the pub in a very literal sense. Or else it’s about the little old men you always find propped up at the end of the bar (any bar) everywhere in the world. Perhaps both? In any case you can mosh to it:
 

 
And the startlingly solemn finale, Irish Childhood Hex:
 

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Video: Gentleman Jake, Man to Avoid

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There’s a story here. About the places where the wall between worlds is thin. Where doors come and go and change their locks and looks and when you leave you might not be back in the alley you walked down to find the place. Where the whiskey and smoke swirl together while minor demons play backgammon, and crippled angels still stand guard against the night because no matter how far you fall from Heaven, old habits die hard.
 

Gentleman Jake - "Man to Avoid" from the album "Shambolic Nation"

 
Gentleman Jake official website

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Video: SWiiiM, I Am God

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Hey look, it’s a SWiiiM video that (mostly) doesn’t freak me out! (Maybe just a touch of vertigo on some of the shots!)

No but really, it’s pretty. A love letter, even, to Californian sun and sweeping vistas, chickens and urban decay. It’s also something of a meditation on the subject of What Would Jesus Do (If He Were a Stoner Bro?)
 

SWIIIM "I AM GOD" - OFFICIAL VIDEO

 
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ICYMI: A NaBloPoMo Round-Up

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“NaBloPoMo” stands for National Blog Posting Month. The idea is to post every day, which – TAH-DAH – I (Jennifer) did. Below is a final list, in case you missed any of them as they went by.

Pt. 1: Nov. 1-9

A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink: ALX, Love Crushed Velvet
SWF, Let It Be Told
Le Trouble, Reality Strikes
Zero Zero, DannyTheStreet (Gerard Way)
Poeticat, Centre of the Concrete Square (video)
Colornoise, Polychronic
Fé,Time (video)
A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink: Chris Jones, Ghost Twins
Name That Face: Happy Flowers vs Happy Mondays

Pt. 2: Nov. 10-16

Natti Vogel, Cannibal (video)
Villebillies, Love is Kind of Crazy (video)
Gary Numan, Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind)
Jus Post Bellum, Oh July
The Architects, Border Wars, Vol. 1
A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink: John Moen, Perhapst
Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, Long Time Gone

Pt. 3: Nov. 17 – 23

Greenhouse, The Last Shred of Night
MGMT, MGMT
Shelf-reading at bandcamp: Co. Armagh edition
Introducing: Blitz//Berlin
The HARTEBEEST, Death. (video)
A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink: Ms. Charm Taylor, The Honorable South
Postcards from the Pit: The Architects / Death Spells / The Scandals, at the Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, 11/19/13

Pt. 4: Nov. 24-30

Mumblr, White Jesus/Black God
Three Songs From: Wax Fang
Mike Doughty, Super Bon Bon (2013) (video)
Introducing: Grounds For Invasion
Fall Out Boy, Alone Together (video)
Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør, Running to the Sea (video)
Milan Jay, How Well Do You Remember Dying

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Milan Jay, How Well Do You Remember Dying

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Milan Jay (John Millane and Joseph Kenny) have spent the better part of the last year and a half (or so) holed up in a small town in the west of Ireland working on a new record. How Well Do You Remember Dying is the first single; the full record is expected in 2014.

Despite the name, the song is not about literal death or actual resurrection; rather, it is a hard-edged meditation on burning your life down and starting over. It might not be the life you expected, or the life you had planned. It is the life you chose.