Writing by bts on Saturday, 28 of November , 2009 at 7:29 pm
Life has been in a bit of an upheaval recently.. difficult to find time to sit down and think about anything at all.
As many know, my 5 year relationship recently disbanded, so recently we have been dealing with a whole lot of adjusting. The apartment is rented now, he’s moved out, and I will be moved out somewhere between the 15th and 20th. In the mean time, I have to go in and start throwing away almost everything I own because I happen to be quite the pack rat. I prefer to think of it as being sentimental, but whatever it is-I’ve got some purging to do.
Doing a lot of photos recently, big events like Voodoo Fest here in NOLA and Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, and smaller ones like the plethora of local shows around New Orleans.
I haven’t had much time to upload any of the galleries just yet though, in dealing with the packing/reorganizing, trying to do some work, and going out to far too many shows. It will happen, sometime this week I’m sure.
I recently rebuilt my portfolio site, AngelaGail.com. I will also be switching the format of this website. I might make it into something useful, or at least what I think of as somewhat useful. Stay tuned… ;p
I pimp a lot of music, but these guys are special. For those of you who don’t already know, meet Rebreather.
Writing by bts on Tuesday, 29 of September , 2009 at 4:49 am
Recently I’ve been just about as busy as I’ve ever been. I’ve been shooting an average of 6 or 7 shows a week, sometimes two in one night. It’s fun and I’ve been seeing a lot of great music but it gets tiring. Especially when struggling with the head cold I’ve been trying to kick since last Wednesday. I think it’s almost gone, but it still is lingering a bit and disorienting me.
Most of the photos I’ve been taking are in the photography section of the site, http://www.belowthesun.com/photography. I’ve also been writing reviews and sending some photos to NewOrleans.com, mostly focusing on metal and rock coverage.
The biggest recent event, however, was a trip my sister and I took out to LA. We decided to drive since she had not been through much of the west at all, and I had plenty of time on my hands.
The drive took us about 26 hours in total, we stopped for the night in Las Cruces, NM and continued on to LA arriving around 11pm or midnight. Once we got to the western side of Texas it was a beautiful drive. Being from Louisiana and almost amphibious, the desert and mountains are quite novel to us swamp land creatures.
We stayed in LA for about 4 days, shot the FYFFest for an online music magazine, checked out some hipster bars, went to the beach a couple times, went to a metal show at a dive bar in Long Beach, couch surfed for the most part between a couple of friends places and then decided to go north to Death Valley in order to make the most out of our desert road trip.
The drive out there in it self was exhausting, the sun was burning through our clothes even in the car. The desert air is hard enough to get used to when you are accustomed to the lush subtropical environment of the deep south, but the sun burning through the dryness felt like an oven on my skin. In my sisters little car we climbed the mountains, finally ending up in a place that had no electrical wires, and no cell phone access. We wound through valleys and in between boulders and sand dunes and gravel hills, on roads that barely existed. It was breathtakingly beautiful. It was almost as if we were transported to another world where we were the only people that existed. Everything was brown, orange, black, red, yellow, the warmth of the environment colored our vision with all shades of amber.
After a few hours we started to get hungry and run out of gas but the GPS kept sending us in circles, through the same boulders and sand dunes.
Finally we found our way out on the other end and were taken down a small highway into Nevada. We ate, I left my cellphone in the bathroom and remembered it only 5 minutes down the road luckily. We drove on away from the sunset until it was about midnight - an hour east of Las Vegas. We stayed in a hotel where I spent the last 2 hours before sleeping editing my photos from the FYFFest.
When we woke up the next day we did not expect to be driving the entirety of the next 25 hours in one stretch, but thats exactly what we ended up doing. My sister drove the first hour, I drove 3 hours, my sister drove 3 hours, I drove 5 hours, my sister drove 8 hours, and i drove the last 4.
The last 6 hours were the only unpleasant part of the entire trip. I ended up getting a speeding ticket somewhere between Lafayette and Baton Rouge.
Finally we arrived home on Wednesday, Sept. 9th sometime around 2pm. I can not explain how difficult it was to walk straight, let alone hold a conversation or do anything that involved any kind of motor skills. I don’t even know how I was driving still at that point.
After arriving home, unpacking, showering, and eating I decided to finish off the night by going to Preservation Hall where Andrew Bird was to make a surprise appearance. I couldn’t bring my self to sleep through the opportunity to see more good music :)
(Some images from the trip)
Sister and I at venice beach, by Mariana Oz
Manhattan Beach
Some where in arizona
After all these months of not having my car, the day after i got home I was able to get my car back from the body shop guy who had been fixing it on and off since the accident.
Aside from all of the live music photography, I also have just recently launched a website for a client and am in the process of redesigning my own site. I also had a shoot with a wonderful photographer named David Rodrigue.
Here is one of the images from that:
It has been a long month, and October is not looking any less epic than September was. I can only hope that its every bit as wonderful.
Here is a video of one of my current favorite bands, Russian Circles. Some crazy talented musicians.
Writing by bts on Thursday, 20 of August , 2009 at 4:06 pm
It’s been about a year now that I have been freelancing, and since the move from full time to freelance I have been focusing a lot more on creative outlets that I had ever been able to.
It is wonderful to be able to have so much time to delve into personal projects, but it’s been very difficult to keep from trying to do all of them at once.
At night I’m out taking photos of rock bands and then I wake up and edit photos, write a review, work on a website or two, design some sort of advertising collateral, go help Syndey, photograph an event, meet with clients… some combination of all of those things at any point in any given day. Not to mention the ongoing “therapy” that I still have to go to twice a week from my car accident.
I’ve also decided to submit two panels for consideration to SXSW Interactive.
My panels are both extremely relevant to my day to day life and I can only assume the day to day life of many other people in the same boat as myself.
One panel is focusing on Funding your Creative lifestyle, which will discuss the different ways we go about staying creative in todays world, whether it is picking a creative job, working a 9-5, cutting your lifestyle expenses, or crowd-sourcing your funding.
The other panel is actually a presentation between myself and another music photographer discussing Photoshop and other tricks for Concert Photography. This will discuss framing the photos, taking the photos in a low-light fast-moving atmosphere, adjusting colors and lighting, and how to get the best out of a set of photos you shoot at a show. Since you only really have a split second to take any photo at a live concert event, your camera settings and your positioning are extremely important to get the most out of your time in front at a show.
If these happen to be of interest to anyone I would really appreciate if you went and voted for them in the panel picker. Links available below:
Vote for Finding and Funding your Creative Lifestyle Career
Vote for Photoshop tips and other tricks for Concert Photography
On another note, aside from delving into my own personal project I also have spent a little bit more time in front of the lens. Some friends of mine called “The Local 504″ were putting together a film for the 48 hour film fest and asked me to be in it, so we spent all of last Saturday sweating and rushing through some lines and play fighting. It was fun, and though it did not make it in on time, will be screened at the Lupin Theater in the first screening batch this Sunday.
Here is a picture of me messing up a line :)
I also got my shots back from my shoot with photographer Tim Best and they are fantastic. Here is a crop from one of my favorites:
I can only hope that the rest of the summer pans out to be as productive as the first half has been. (Summer in Louisiana includes spring nd fall)
Writing by bts on Thursday, 30 of July , 2009 at 4:59 am
Life has been moving pretty quickly recently. I’ve only been posting about shows so I’ll step away from that for a minute.
I recently started working with photographer Syndey Byrd. I am going to be assisting her, scanning slides, editing photos, going on photoshoots, etc. This will help me to round out my own style to include documentary style photography. We all went out and did some portraits of each other the other day in city park and they came out fabulous.
Here is one that Syndey took of me.
and here is one that I took of her:
I also had a photo shoot with photographer Tim Best that I think went pretty well. His style is a kind of a dark mix of editorial and glamor. It’s always interesting to me to see how different photographers handle lighting and framing. Here is one of the headshots he just sent me from the shoot:
Aside from that I have just been spending a lot of time finishing up a couple of website builds and editing photos. I’ve had to deal with some crap involving the car insurance companies after the car accident, but I think that Friday I will finally have my car back.
In the mean time I’ve also been spending a little bit more time on my own music. I keep saying to myself that I am going to get serious with it but it seems there is never enough hours in the day.
I intentionally leave my gear sitting out so that I will walk by it and decide to play it, but then I just go to my laptop and start working on something.
I’m not a big collector or anything, but I’ve got a modest little collection of decent stuff that may be somewhat drool-worthy to some people.
While I am definitely a sucker for nice looking gear, I am also a sucker for straight forward and versatile tone options. I tend towards older stuff because it has some character to it and is difficult to replicate.
I don’t use it often but I do have to mention this 1949 Old Kraftsman archtop. It’s beat up and not in very good condition but it’s like an old Uncle. It doesn’t say much, it doesn’t do much, but it’s got a lot of character.
If it wasn’t so late right now I’d probably go play it, but the headphone jack on my practice amp isn’t working properly. Now to get back to editing photos and maybe sleep a little. ;)
Writing by bts on Monday, 20 of July , 2009 at 7:46 pm
Everybody has a certain couple of bands that they listen to on road trips more than others. Most often it’s something that can keep you awake and make time seem to pass faster than it actually does.
My sister and I used to drive all over, we had family in Kansas City, Milwaukee, and a music festival we used to go to in Youngstown, Ohio. Not to mention the countless weekend jaunts to anywhere within 450 miles of us like Atlanta, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Shreveport, Pensacola, Memphis, Nashville. We didn’t have very demanding jobs and I had a little Geo Prism that barely used any gas, so from the ages of 16-22 we never went more than a month without a road trip.
One of the bands we listened to a lot in the car was Dredg. Something about their music made it feel like we were floating wherever we went. It could have been the soaring melodies or the heavy reverb on the swelling guitars, could have been the creamy bass lines or tightness of the rhythm section all together. All of these elements put together kept them in constant rotation.
I’ve seen them 3 times in the last 10 years - the first of which was at the old Shim Sham Club, where One Eyed Jacks currently resides. It was very endearing at the time. It was very quaint - there were rows chairs set out so that the 20 or 30 people in attendance could sit and actually watch/listen to the music being made, almost like a story telling.
While its not as intimate any more, what their live show lacks in intimacy they make up for with the perfected fullness of their show. This past weekend they played at House of Blues to an all ages audience and while nobody was sitting in chairs listening to stories, everyone was singing along and swaying together. It wasn’t as close but it was every bit as captivating.
After playing together for so long they have perfected their sound and pull off their live performances with incredible grace. With the touching melodies of “Bug Eyes” and “Sanzen” being the highlight of the set for me, I think it was impossible for anyone to not be moved by this performance.
They always pull off a flawless presentation and this show was no exception. I am always amazed when I see this kind of progression in a band that truly deserves the success.
The RX Bandits were co-headlining the tour with them, this particular show they were headlining. When they took the stage it was obvious as to why. The anticipation in the audience was thick, there was chanting and cheering long before they finished setting up. When RX Bandits finally took the stage it was in the form of a massive four drum intro before finally tearing into the set.
The energy in the audience was immediately transformed from introspective and very cerebral to a care free high energy dance party. The RX Bandits bounced around (especially barefooted Mark Embree) with a strange sort of salsa meets reggae swagger and pounded out a full set of what appeared to be everyone’s favorite songs. What really brought it home for me was when they played “Overcome” and the audience alone sang the entire first half of the song. At that point a kinship was felt between every single person in the room no matter how strange we were to each other.
Since this is a band that I had never seen live before, the energy of the band mixed with the energy from the audience was almost overwhelming. There were kids trying to break away from the rest of the audience so that they could go into the corner and skank. Those that were not in the back skanking were pushing up against the front and throwing their hands in the air.
There were people there who just started listening to the RX Bandits as well as those who have been listening to them since they were the Pharmaceutical Bandits. All were smiling just as big as their neighbor by the time the show was over.
I go to hundreds of shows in a year, and in my experience very few bands can draw in every single person who watches them. Any band that can have that effect on so many people at once definitely has some kind of magic to them.
July 20 Orlando, FL @ Club Firestone #
July 22 Ft Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room #
July 23 Jacksonville, FL @ Freebird Live #
July 24 St Petersburgh, FL @ Jannus Landing #
July 25 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade #
July 26 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle #
July 28 Towson, MD @ Recher Theater #
July 29 Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of Living Arts #
July 30 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
July 31 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom #
Aug 01 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
Aug 02 Montreal, QC @ Foufounes Electriques
Aug 04 Toronto, ON @ Opera House
Aug 05 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
Aug 06 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
Aug 07 Sauqet, IL @ Pop’s
Aug 08 Des Moines, IA @ People’s Court
Aug 09 Saint Paul, MN @ Station 4
Aug 11 Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater
Aug 12 Murray, UT @ Murray Theater
Aug 14 Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s
Aug 15 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
Aug 17 Sacramento, CA @ Empire Events Center
Aug 26 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore
Aug 29 Santa Barbara, CA @ Velvet Jones
Aug 30 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater
Aug 31 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater
Writing by bts on Saturday, 18 of July , 2009 at 5:02 pm
I am not putting the full interviews that I conduct onto this website unless they are for press purposes because most of them are going into a book I am writing, but I wanted to post one of my favorite parts from my interview with Michael Bell of The Lymbyc System. (When I asked him how he would like to be remembered in death)
“I would hope to be remembered for my creative output. Thats the only thing I’ve truely given to the outside world.
With my friends I hope I’ve been able to spread knowledge or help people with things, giving insight. But music is the only thing I’ve been involved in enough.
I have no fear of death.. don’t get me wrong- I dont want to die, I love life and I love being alive, but I feel like I’ve been able for the most part to do all of the things I’ve really wanted to do with life. I’m doing it right now. I’m broke as hell but im doing it, im making a living.
Music has enabled me to travel around the world and experience places that I would never have other wise been able to experience.
I still have greater goals but thinking back to when I was younger thinking about having a career in music and all the things I wanted to do, I feel like I’ve done most of those things.
I dont have dream of being rich, but I truely love drumming enough that I could be perpetually broke but sustaining for the rest of my life. I would rather do that than work a job I don’t enjoy to get rich.” - Michael Bell
I just thought I would share an inspirational perspective on life from the point of view of an artist.
I’ve always had the personal philosophy of, “Live like you’re rich and riches will follow,” which also carries over in my mind to spiritual wealth. If you free yourself of material goals you can achieve greater happiness in life by growing in directions that make you a better person rather than growing towards what will pay higher wages.
Ultimately, the paths I’ve ended up choosing have ended up paying decent wages and making me feel a greater sense of fulfillment which is the absolute best case scenario in my mind. I am by no means done growing as a whole but its nice to be on an upward progression and to be reaffirmed of that by the people that enjoy what I have to share.
It’s nice to see other artists with the same point of view living the life they want to live and refreshing to feel the positive energy they generate.
Speaking of inspirational artists, I got to shoot the George Porter Jr. session that Earl is recording for the Electronola project I had previously mentioned. His P-bass that was originally blonde (back in the 70’s) is now streaked dark brown with sweat and years of playing embedded in the grain of the wood. It’s probably got more stories than I ever will.
Writing by bts on Sunday, 12 of July , 2009 at 6:52 am
Just about anyone that knows me knows how obsessive I am with music. I would even go so far as to say 90% of my social life is centered on music, with the rest being divided 10% professional/artistic similarities.
That last 10% didn’t even begin to develop until probably about 4 years ago. Prior to that I did not know a non-familial relationship that did not revolve around music.
It is a strange way to go through life but ultimately it is very rewarding to have a passion for something that so many other people can relate to. It never mattered the kind of music, I can talk for hours about any type of music from blues to reggae to metal to shoegazer. That’s never been the point. The point is that I have never met a person that did not like some kind of music.
I’ve met plenty of people who “don’t get” visual art, don’t care for television, don’t like to read… I’ve never met a person that did not like some kind of music. That to me is just amazing that one single form of art/self-expression can spread it self so vastly and connect so many different types of people with so many contrasting viewpoints everywhere else in life.
When a person shares the same passion for music and musical lifestyle, I can usually sense it immediately. There is a sort of kinship between the people that place the same importance on music in their life. When a musician meets another musician that both play from the heart, he/she knows instantly just by listening to their melodies, the way they talk, the way they light up when a conversation is started about favorite guitar players, etc. There is a spark that is impossible to describe unless you are in the same frame of mind.
I make it a point to see some form of music live at least once or twice a week, preferably more. When I’m not watching music I play music (along side my hundreds of other creative endeavors ;p ).
It’s semi rare, however, that I really get excited about a band anymore. It’s not that I’m jaded, it’s just that there are plenty of bands that I enjoy listening to and watching that I can’t necessarily relate to. I like to hear it but I don’t often leave the show saying, “I wish I was in that band.” Maybe I am a teeny bit jaded because obviously I am not walking into every show like a newborn child hearing music for the first time. There are a few bands that actually make me excited and amazed that I am actually feeling what they were feeling when they wrote the songs and the enthusiasm that they convey when they are playing it.
The band that most recently gave me that feeling is a band called The Lymbyc Systym. I caught their show in Baton Rouge after only ever hearing a hand full of recordings.
Their sound is sort of an airy synthesizer based post rock. It wells up and crescendos into soaring melodies that feel like they may bring your head into the clouds but then diminishes delicately leaving a listener satisfied and peaceful, grinning from ear to ear like a child with a red balloon.
It would be an understatement to say that I was blown away. Between the two brothers in the band there is more talent and more soul than a lot of bands that fill the stage with musicians. On the recordings it sounds like drummer, Michael Bell, playing with extra sequenced drums, but in all actuality he really is playing (and able to play live) everything in those tracks - the whole time looking like he is enjoying the shit out of every second of it. Brother and keyboard player Jared Bell is kneeling on a bench in front of two keyboards and a loop/delay pedal and appears to be playing 3 or 4 melodies at a time (however impossible that may be) completely effortlessly. The only pre-recorded music they brought with them looked to be very minimal background swells and maybe some bass.
When I spoke with Michael before the show he was brimming with this enthusiasm that is completely intoxicating and incredibly contagious, and being able to watch the two of them play together, seeing the chemistry between them, knowing how they feel about their music (and music in general) really was very compelling and endearing. I left the show feeling satisfied with all of my expectations having been exceeded and wishing they would move to New Orleans.
Here are a couple of shots before/during the show:
Writing by bts on Thursday, 9 of July , 2009 at 11:12 pm
I’d like to introduce my friend Earl, which I should have done a lot earlier had I not been neglecting my own website.
He had a project up on a website called Kickstarter, founded by Perry Chen. Kickstarter is a new way to crowd-source funding for creative projects by setting a goal and allowing users/friends/fans to contribute until your goal is reached. In return you may offer gifts, a part of the project, credit on the final product, hugs, etc to the contributors.
Earl’s project is called Electronola and is a record he is producing involving a lot of very high caliber New Orleans musicians and bringing them together to form a boogy-woogy drum n bass record.
Yesterday I had the privilege of sitting in and photographing a session with Shannon Powell laying down a couple of drum tracks.
I can say that from what I’ve seen so far, this promises to be a very interesting record. There is an atmosphere about it that is very genuinely New Orleans and bubbling over with all the flavor and complexity of the streets from which it came.
Writing by bts on Monday, 29 of June , 2009 at 4:23 am
I love that it’s been raining so much recently. Along with the rain seemed to come a flood of inspiration and I have been extremely productive. It’s nice to be creating things. If I am not making something I tend to feel pent up and unbalanced.
The summer, while hot, has been a good one so far. Many days sleeping in, sitting in the sun, staying out late. Many more days making art and day dreaming.
New Orleans at is probably the best place in the world to go for a twilight bike ride and clear your head. This is definitely where most of my ideas come from.
It is said that Daydreaming is actually your most creative state of mind. When daydreaming we are using the most complex regions of our brain that are otherwise left out of our more focused thoughts. We have the ability to see potential events and hypothetical situations, play them out, and practice for them. The mind is uncensored and free to explore a variety of options, and we are able to associate random connections that can sometimes lead to innovative and creative solutions.
More artists daydream than the less creative types, and this is attributed to the fact that artists seem to have thin interpersonal boundaries- a trait that is shared between both artists and psychotics.
Those with thin boundaries also tend to form more intimate relationships with people, appear unorganized and spontaneous, and have difficulties distinguishing dreams from memories. They are prone to acknowledge dualities in themselves such as viewing themselves as both a child and an adult or recognizing behavior that is both feminine and masculine. They may also experience a lot of deja vu and feelings of clairvoyance or premonition.
Being someone with fairly thin interpersonal boundaries who is also prone to day dreaming and creativity, its somewhat difficult to balance real life sometimes with this compulsion to create things, interact with people on a meaningful level, and imagine things to bring to life.
I’m not any good at scheduling, and scheduling seems counterintuitive to the creative lifestyle, but I have found that I can trick myself into scheduling.
If I plan my day as follows - wake up, eat breakfast, run errands/do chores (and other such brainless activity), as the sun sets go for my twilight bike ride, shower, eat dinner, then I can get on to my more creative stuff after I’ve had the time to brainstorm and then reflect on my brainstorming.
I am very much a night person, so I wake up late and go to bed in the early morning hours. Most of my creative work is done between the hours of 8pm and 2am. By this time I am completely awake and alert, I’m ready to start working and I’ve got my ideas in line and my priorities set. Obviously this kind of system does not work for everyone but it works for me.
1) Spend the first few hours of the day getting up and out, running errands, doing chores, taking care of all of the more menial tasks at hand.
2) Take an hour or so to unwind and detach and let your brain run free for a little while.
3) Put together some of the thoughts that may have arose during that time
4) Reflect and prioritize the thoughts into tasks and projects
5) Now turn off the tv, put on some music and work :)
Oh, by the way… I finally opened an etsy store. Some of my crafty things like jewelry and accessories can be found there. The URL is: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6497561
Writing by bts on Wednesday, 17 of June , 2009 at 2:37 am
Summer is here in New Orleans and I am definitely feeling it. The daily bike ride has become more of a chore carefully placed between the setting of the sun and the awakening of the roaches and mosquitoes. It’s especially difficult to escape both simultaneously.
In May, my sister and I spent a couple of weeks overseas. We started (on a 10 hour layover) jetlagged in Amsterdam after which we promptly moved on to the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, followed with a spa day in Bath, England, a hop over to Paris and then finally to London where we spent our remaining 4 days.
Since then I have been focusing most of my time on trying to pull together all of the photos I took, arrange an updated version of a portfolio, and getting distracted by my multitude of hobbies and creative endeavors; the newest of which is building jewelry and accessories.
I guess I could also mention that I spent a week or two in April as a vampire in a movie that was being filmed here in New Orleans as well.
So far the end of 2008/first half of 2009 has been incredibly kind to me.
On a bad note, I was involved in a hit and run. My car is totaled. I was not terribly injured luckily, and that is what matters. I was on my way to the movie set on May 5th when some asshole ran a stop sign not even 2 blocks away from my apartment and t-boned my car. The frame is bent and the door wont close, so the battery died too. It’s sitting lifeless in my driveway. The NOPD, however, actually came through. I am impressed with how quickly they found the guy that hit me. I called 911 immediately after the accident and described the car, they said they would send police to the scene. 20 minutes later I got a call from a police man asking me to describe the car.
“Yep, we got him!” he said, describing how the driver of the car was running other stop signs and red lights trying to get home quickly.
Unfortunately, this was not enough.. the insurance company of the car owner is claiming that the car was stolen, even though the driver of the car was the nephew of the car’s owner. I had just recently taken my insurance down to Liability Only, no longer carrying comprehensive/collision, so there is still a chance that my car may not get fixed.
I got an attorney, and luckily I am self employed. I imagine I’d be pretty angry if I had to go somewhere to get to work every day while waiting out a lawsuit.
Even that is just a minor inconvenience. Over all I am lucky to be in a situation where I don’t rely on my car for my income, and I am lucky that I was able to still leave for europe the day after the accident. A lot of other people might not have been as well off as I was in a similar situation, so I keep that in mind. Instead of being frustrated at the inconvenience I prefer to consider myself lucky that it is ONLY an inconvenience.
I am probably going to start posting pictures of all of the amazing shows I’ve been to in the last couple months as well as bits and pieces of the jewelry I’ve been making.
In the mean time- here is a band called A Storm of Light whose members come from bands like Neurosis, Red Sparowes, Unsane, Tombs, etc.
I had the pleasure of catching them in Atlanta in February and then again in New Orleans in May. If heavy isn’t your thing, don’t bother with this one.
If light and fluffy is more your thing, check out the ever soulful and dreamy melodies of Bon Iver. Bon-Iver_-_Blood-Bank
