I’m learning to shoot video with a DSLR. Making the transition from still photography to video is not easy but I’m loving what the new DSLRs are capable of and hoping to learn enough to emulate some of my favorites in this space.
Citizen Cope aka Clarence Greenwood performing to a sold-out 9:30 Club on Saturday night. Let the drummer kick!
A few months back, a good friend in DC turned me on to City and Colour from Canadian singer Dallas Green. I’ve been shooting a lot of shows lately and thought maybe I was losing interest. A few words into Green’s first song at the 9:30 Club and I realized that the other shows just haven’t been that good.
Green stands out as an incredible talent (though his CDs don’t do his voice justice) and has a calm, funny stage presence that I appreciated after seeing plenty of fidgety hipsters awkwardly chitchat their way through the rare moments between songs.
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If you want to get acquainted, click the link above, have a listen to Bring Me Your Love, and see if he’s playing near you soon.
Review and all pics over at BYT (click it).
The Whigs headlined the Black Cat on Thursday night. After touring with Kings of Leon earlier this year, they’re now finishing up their own North American tour. Despite the heavy tour schedule, they’re getting set to release a new album. The DCist interviewed them before the show and I enjoyed reading about how they’re determining the track listing for the new album:
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I think we have somewhere around 15 or 16 songs that were actually recorded and that is taken from the 20 or so that were demoed. And now we’re trying to whittle down to a more manageable number. We like the idea of a 10 or 11 song record for our personal tastes, we enjoy a record that length.
So how do you do that? iTunes playlists?
More or less. We’re basically just shuffling our songs around on our iPods and computers. Putting them in order and sitting and listening to it from start to finish. It can be kind of exhausting. [Laughs] Each one of us has four or five different track listings and you want everyone else to listen to yours and they want you to listen to theirs and you want to give them the respect that you hope to get. So you have to take your time and give it a chance. But we’re almost there, I think we’ve almost got it. We’re stoked to be at this final phase.
Nashville’s The Features came through DC’s Black Cat last night and put on a great show. Keep an eye on them — they signed with Kings of Leon’s label this summer and I’m betting that they’ll go big.
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