Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at Southgate House.

At Music Hall this time around, and I enjoyed it muchly. Favorite part was the closing number, Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks done super unplugged with the crowd singing along. Pretty dang awesome really.

Tim Hecker, performing at the sixth MusicNow Festival in Cincinnati. I’m sad I missed the first night, where Megafaun, Shara Worden, yMusic, Fight the Big Bull, and Justin Vernon apparently brought goosebumps to the audience. No matter, I did make it for night two and was not disappointed. Owen Pallett Little Scream

A trip to Chicago that lasted less than 24 hours. Tickets to see Arcade Fire & The National at the University of Illinois Pavilion. Admission: I’ve tried to grok Arcade Fire, and though I’ve liked their music, I never played their albums over and over. Heard they put on an excellent show, figured this would be [...]

Actually, these are pictures from a night with friends getting together and going to the symphony. It’s only our second time, but it has the mark of tradition. And I’m a horrible person for not getting everyone together for a photo since we were all spiffy.

Friends in Dayton issued The Album Challenge to each other at the end of 2010: It was simple: Make music. They have until the beginning to May to put an album together. April 1st (no joke) was check-in for everybody to get together and share progress of their songs. They asked me a few days [...]

Saturday was jam packed I tell ya. After the bending workshop we joined some friends for fancy hot dogs and gluttony downtown, headed to Kentucky to kill a slice of time before our friend Russ and his bandmates performed some Irish music at Arnolds. The Unlucky Charms were already in full swing when we walked [...]