Happy Halloween from Empty Bottle Evenings! I hope that you enjoy your day carving pumpkins, dressing as a slutty cat or a flesh-eating Ben Carson, and trying but failing to pass out free candy because parents today are sadly afraid that every neighbor is either a pedophile or a serial killer and won’t let…
I know most photographers don’t instinctively reach for something like an Android powered phone or tablet when they want to fine tune one of their photos shot in RAW format. I get it. But I have to say it is a pretty nice option to have if you only need to make minor adjustments on…
Bake: A couple years ago Kurt Vile was getting a ton of buzz and I was certain that he was going to break the fuck out. Then I listened to one song that was supposedly a single that was 10 minutes long and thought this asshole is a goner. Still, Wakin’ On a Pretty Daze…
Thursday the 29th: Ecstatic Vision / JJL / St. James & The Apostles @ Underground Arts This one is a Halloween benefit party for documentary “The Resurrection of Uncle Eddie” and holy shit is this bill stacked. This one is going to get weird… be there. Thursday the 29th: Roof Doctor / Crown Larks / Honey…
Many people are not yet aware that Ryan Adams can write his own songs since his fame has exploded recently only after covering Taylor Swift’s 1989, and most of those fans are probably not aware of anything but instagram, quinoa, and a combination of the two. But Adams has wrote literally hundreds of songs, and…
Thursday the 22nd: Air is Human @ Ortlieb’s Air is Human is an experimental, instrumental, duo from Philly and they do some pretty wild shit… check it out. Friday the 23rd: Jukebox Zeros / Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders / The Sparklers @ Bourbon & Branch Hard, fast rock n roll and lots of it….
For some reason when I saw the cover of Josh Ritter’s new album Sermon on the Rocks I thought it was going to be an album covering different versions of Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” and I was not only going to boycott listening but was going to kill myself in (understandable) protest. Thankfully his greaser…
Recently I discovered this band and wrote a little something before I had a chance to dig into to the full album that dropped in August. And at first listen I was hesitant to write another post about it because I was afraid that it’s sort of gimmicky nostalagia sound would wear off on me…
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Cam: Overall it’s better than I expected. Bake: Yeah it’s pretty decent. Has the feel of some of the Stones more bluesy tracks but it doesn’t sound like it was recorded 40 years ago or anything. It makes me wonder what the people would think of them if they spent the last 2 decades releasing…
Friday the 9th: Kurt Vile & The Violators Union Transfer Kurt Vile’s just put out a new record called b’lieve i’m goin down ands it’s pretty damn good. I’d suggest checking this one out. Saturday the 10th: The Late Greats EP release @ The Grape Room Philly alt rockers The Late Greats are releasing their first…
