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2015: A Year in Pictures

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Hello, darlings. I hope you are having excellent holidays, or at least excellent days.

Normally this feature is just a year’s worth of shows – or a year and a bit – but I’m doing something a little different this time around. 2015 has been amazing, at times, and brutal, at others, and as I uploaded my images, it occurred to me that some of the silences had as much of an impact as the instances of joyful noise.

So, here it is: a year of pictures of rockstars, and some other things, too.

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Book of Love, Terminal 5, New York, NY, Dec. 31, 2014

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Andy Bell, Erasure, Terminal 5, New York, NY, Dec. 31, 2014

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Kennedy (tuxedo) and Nikita (fluffball), dozing, New York, NY, Jan. 17, 2015

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Nikita, 2001-Feb. 16, 2015

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Kennedy, Feb. 28, 2015

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Alina in the snow, March 1, 2015

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Snow, birds, intrepid traveler, Brighton Beach, March 20, 2015

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Fort Tryon Park/George Washington Bridge, Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015

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Nick Morrison, Mumblr, Emerson House, Brooklyn, NY, April 24, 2015

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Emerson House, Brooklyn, NY, April 24, 2015

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Bonfire at the Mumblr show, Emerson House, Brooklyn, NY April 24, 2015

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Flowering tree, Brooklyn, April 24, 2015

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Kennedy, 1998-May 21, 2015

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The beach at Corpus Christi, TX, June 27, 2015

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Karma Killers, Warped Tour, Jones Beach, July 11, 2015

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The Dirty Nil, Warped Tour, Jones Beach, July 11, 2015

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Metro Station, Warped Tour, Jones Beach, July 11, 2015

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Family Force 5, Warped Tour, Jones Beach, July 11, 2015

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Black Veil Brides, Warped Tour, Jones Beach, July 11, 2015

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Rivers Monroe, Warped Tour, Jones Beach, July 11, 2015

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The beach at Jones Beach, July 11, 2015

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Z Berg, the Studio at Webster Hall, New York, NY, July 21, 2015

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Alex Greenwald, PHASES, the Studio at Webster Hall, New York, NY, July 21, 2015

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Z Berg and Michael Runion, PHASES, the Studio at Webster Hall, New York, NY, July 21, 2015

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Father John Misty, Central Park, New York, NY, August 5, 2015

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Austin Plaine, Rockwood Music Hall, August 12, 2015

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Plastic Cannons, Rockwood Music Hall, August 12, 2015

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH, Aug. 20, 2015

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House band at the Dixie Stampede, Pigeon Forge, TN, Sept. 23, 2015

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Patriotic finale, Dixie Stampede, Pigeon Forge, TN, Sept. 23, 2015

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Elvis Presley at the pancake house, Pigeon Forge, TN, Sept. 24, 2015

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Elvis Presley (impersonator) at the State Fair, Jackson, MS, Oct. 10, 2015

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The Famous Maroon Band comes marching in, Starkville, MS, Nov. 14, 2015

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Tombigbee River, Columbus, MS, Dec. 13, 2015

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Miss Gay Oklahoma 2014, Rick’s Cafe, Starkville, MS, Dec. 15, 2015

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Video: Family Force 5, Sweep the Leg

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Family Force 5 are something of a chameleon, by which I mean every time I catch up with them they’ve changed their look. This year’s style appears to be a complex fusion of “video games” and “’80s nerd.” This time around there’s also been some line-up changes: their lead singer (Solomon Olds) retired, and their drummer, his brother Jacob, has assumed frontman duties.

The infectious jams are the same, though. I saw them earlier this year at Warped Tour, at the end of a long, hot day, in front of an impatient crowd awaiting headliners. Family Force 5 started with Sweep The Leg and never took their feet off the pedal. The thing that really stood out: despite the heat, and the impatience, they had ’em dancing all the way to the back.

Family Force 5 - Sweep The Leg (Official Music Video)

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Christmas Grab Bag 2011 1.0

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Some seasonal selections!

From Jon Walker, the season’s (probably) hardest rocking cover of “Do You See What I See?” I’m not quite sure who’s singing with him but at least one of them sounds suspiciously like Tom Conrad, from Empires. Jon Walker’s summary of this song: “Recorded a christmas cover in my basement last winter but never got around to releasing it. Here it is now. I don’t remember if alcohol was involved.” (Mr. Walker is currently on sabbatical in Costa Rica.)

 

Do You See What I See by JON WALKER MUSIC

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Next it is time to get funky, y’all, and get down with Sugar Rump Fairies, from HOLIDELIC by Everett Bradley. Mr. Bradley is taking his epic show on the road starting at the end of this week; it will be stopping in Hudson and New York, NY; Northampton, MA; and Philadelphia, PA.

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Yes, it’s The Killers, singing a quasi-country (more like “country”) song, and yes, it is totally ridiculous. But a) I will listen to Brandon Flowers sing whatever he wants and b) completely ridiculous is one of the things they do best (I will always, always love a band that wears their sequins unironically), and most importantly c) the proceeds from the sales of this song go to (RED), an AIDS charity. Special note: the reason why this is among my favorite holiday videos appears at 1:07.

The Killers - The Cowboy's Christmas Ball

 

From the department of Amazing Things I Did Not Know I Needed Until They Appeared, I present Scott Weiland singing Winter Wonderland, from his Christmas album The Most Wonderful Time of the Year:

Scott Weiland - Winter Wonderland (Official Video)

 

And from the same department, two from Bob Dylan’s Christmas album, Christmas In The Heart. First up is Little Drummer Boy, because it’s sweet and the video is pretty, and second, I give you Adeste Fidelis because all y’all need to experience Dylan singing in Latin. (I love this song no matter the season and totally subjected April and Cam to it a) in July and b) on the way to Graceland.)

Bob Dylan - Little Drummer Boy

 

I’m pretty sure I also made them listen to this one, which is Angels We Have Heard on High, by Family Force 5. There are two videos because one is a live recording, just so you can really feel the bass when it comes in, and the other one is three ladies in Texas redefining “kick it” when it comes to this song:

http://youtu.be/7R9eZIrPbt0

http://youtu.be/O9wjucHHJ9w