It would be very funny if these investors just bought it to make an even bigger scrapyard. Imagine the beautiful views of Truckasaurus coming over the pedestrian bridge.

Always get a little thrill when I see a local band in Pitchfork. 🥲

lmao the cheapest Paul McCartney ticket at The Pinnacle are $1400 for a nosebleed bench seat, get outta here

Following local news on here is wild because you’ll scroll through 30 harrowing posts about the protests in LA and be met with a random story about Walmart cakes

I just stumbled across a Soundcloud page with most of beloved (to me, at least) Nashville screamo band Oliver's Army's discography and I'm so excited to revisit these songs soundcloud.com/user-5611743...

If my editors couldn’t bully me into using fewer em dashes, AI truthers don’t stand a chance

It’s still unclear what Henry Rollins is building in Nashville. Is it a museum? A venue? A community center? All of those things? Something else entirely? Sounds like it’ll be another year before we know for sure.

I dare you to find a headline that better sums up Nashville in 2025 than this

Ahead of a screening of indie-venue doc 'The Day the Music Stopped' at the @belcourttheatre.bsky.social, check out full-song performances from a stellar 2022 run of shows at Exit/In.

I have photos in this documentary! If you missed it at NaFF, catch it at the Belcourt on Monday.

A few shots from @recordstoreday.bsky.social last weekend at Vinyl Tap: - Nashville mayor @freddieoconnell.bsky.social (DJ Public Transit?) - The legendary @robynhitchcock.bsky.social - Instrumental soul band Mount Worcester - Delightfully snotty pop punks Winona Fighter

Is there anything better than the serendipity of going out of town and discovering that a really sick show is happening down the road from where you’re staying?

As much as PTA just isn’t one of my guys, I can’t wait to see this on the biggest screen possible.

We all hate Ticketmaster but AXS has some of the clumsiest implementation of anti-bot measures I've ever seen. If you don't disable every security measure to protect yourself (including easily identifiable things like Private Relay), you get met with this fun message.

The Altjacent crew have had me out to shoot a couple of their shows at The 5 Spot and I really admire what they’re doing—trying to cobble together disparate rock scenes into one free monthly party. Next one’s April 4th!

You know what band completely kicked ass and isn't streaming? Heartbeater. Great news though, their one record is on Bandcamp: meltfacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/heartb...

Elon’s next tactic will be walking up to every government employee and shouting “resignersayswhat” at them

For the past year, my wife has been working with IES on programs that fund innovative research and development for learners of all kinds—including workforce development and the military. The degree to which we’re shooting ourselves in the foot is staggering.

The red phone at whatever government agency that greases the light poles in Philly is ringing off the hook

I really hope that no one hates me so much that they write a song about it and perform it at the SuperBowl

Furiously texting “go birds” to everyone I know that has ever lived in Philadelphia to keep this up

I spent yesterday driving all over Nashville to catch as many 615 Indie Live shows as possible. I managed 14 artists across eight venues—all for $15. Here’s a few faves.

It's been a heavy couple of weeks, so I've been coping the way I know best: making playlists. Introducing The Nashville 100, celebrating the past, present, and future of the Nashville's independent music scenes. open.spotify.com/playlist/7Fk...

This is my zodiac. Welcome to the year of mom’s spaghetti

By my count, there are 80 books on my shelf that I’ve never read. This year, I’m making an effort to actually start reading them. Even Ulysses. (ok maybe not ulysses)

Easy highlight of the Christmas market in Quebec City: watching four French-Canadians cover "Funky President" while dressed in Krampus costumes.

Is it weird that I miss the weird announcements from country stars at the Nashville airport? How will I know I’m not supposed to vape in the airport if Reba isn’t telling me not to?

It’s after Thanksgiving, which means it’s socially acceptable to listen to Christmas music. Can’t wait for this comp, which assuredly will be all killer, no filler. (All Santa, no Krampus?)

Drop the Lock Screen (Mike Wiebe from Riverboat Gamblers standing on the bar at The Jackalope in Austin, 2019)

Gotta admit, I was not prepared for how rowdy the Hotline TNT show was gonna be at Drkmttr. (As evidenced by the fact that I didn't bother bringing my flash, resulting in these grainy as hell photos)

We’re in the era of local bands from my 20s are reuniting and I’m not mad at it. Photo of D. Watusi, one of the great garage punk bands from the Nashville’s Dead scene, playing an in store at Grimey’s.

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If you see this, post a concert photo you took Don’t have to ask me twice. Here’s an old one of JEFF the Brotherhood in 2018

Important notice: Hundreds of Beavers is streaming on Amazon and Tubi. Inoculate yourself against the darkness by immersing yourself in silliness

A crowdsurfer got dropped directly on my head at a Hoobastank concert by the river and I couldn’t move my neck for a week

BREAKING: Pope Howie won the wiener dog costume contest I wandered into in Denver. The dog dressed as the Bride of Frankenstein’s lawyers are filing lawsuits to challenge the vote in direct defiance of democratic ideals

I don’t have that many regrets in life, but one of them is not going into a career where I have walk-on music

Met a guy at the Jack White show tonight who flew in from Baltimore just for the gig. He literally bought a ticket at 1pm and got a ticket on the next flight to Nashville at 2:30. Truly impressive stuff.

So glad to have been able to catch this intimate Jenny Lewis show at one of my favorite rooms in town last night.

Thanks to Dashboard Confessional for having me out to shoot the Bonnaroo Emo Superjam. It was so surreal being surrounded by people whose music meant so much to me in high school.

Going to see Civil War in Switzerland, should I just go ahead and set up an “ask an american” booth outside the theater when it lets out

I’m at this Adobe event in Wedgewood Houston and I don’t think playing Jason Isbell’s If We Were Vampires is really doing much for the convivial vibe they’re going for here

Last night's Snooper/Skull Cult show in four crowdsurfs

There’s a kid loudly recommending the new Wim Wenders movie to a group of goth girls at the Snooper show, cinema is alive

Lights were nice at the gig last night.

Shout out to the endzone photographer who almost got taken out a minute ago

Was really nice of Mr. Freeze to let Usher and all his backup dancers off for the night to perform at the Super Bowl

oh shit oh no

This was going to be the year I launched my music photography newsletter on Substack, but clearly that ain’t happening anymore. Anybody have a preferred newsletter platform? Patreon feels like a big jump for someone with only a small established audience.

One singular joy of music journalism is getting PR emails with subjects like “INTRODUCING FAT DOG,” and then, five minutes later, earnestly telling your friends “I would die for fat dog”