Britt Daniel + PDX POP NOW + Fundraiser

i need someone to take care of me tonight.

Jeffrey Jerusalem + PPN 2009

dance powers.

Make it Pop

james mercer's cowboy boots.

Tender Loving Empire Showcase + MFNW + East End

first date.

love at first sight. the beginning of an addictive relationship.

Blue Horns + At Old Standard Studio

weekend warriors.

stopped in at Old Standard last weekend. An amazing house rigged for two stories of digital - analog lust fire recordings. the Blue Horns are recording for an up-coming EP they should be releasing in the next few weeks.

Wampire + Halloween

wamp wamp - what it do what it do.

Starfucker + Halloween

starfucked for the last time.

Strength + Someday Lounge + 10.10.2009

i wanna rub you down with brandy.

Sugar + Gold

strength pastiche.

Nurses+ Holocene +8.06.2009

nurse colors.

Inside Voices + PPN + 7.25.09

a few pictures.

Inside Voices + Holocene + 7.22.09

we had the perfect summer together.

Inside Voices + Holocene + 8.06.09

nurses record release party.

Old Believers on the Roof

deluxe folk.

Deelay Ceelay + Halloween

beating off.

don't cry when you're all out of fog juice.

Blue Horns + Holocene + 7.22.09

me + you things

this is the show that got me into shooting bands. without these dudes i'd be a weird voyeur or something.

Blue Horns at the Sunset Tavern

with paintings behind them they play as loud as they can.

A Dreamy Week

over christmas a few years ago i went home singing these lyrics about being stoned on a desert to my sister, Leah - who is 35 now and has a bit of history with bands in the Northwest. she fronted DOW JONES in the 90s - which besides chamber music and my step dad's YANNI records was the only music i had heard at the time. i remember a show they played under the burnside bridge when i was about 8 - there were lesbians everywhere - they fawned over my sister - there was also a lanky naked man dancing eruptive behind the band. i was totally sold.

anyway.

she started singing along with me in the living room. i was like, "ohh man, built to spill," and she was like, "yeah, they're the greatest - they always have been." and i was like, "always...” - i thought they were some sort of modest mouse friend project or something. she just about struck me down to the ground telling me stories about the 90s - of meth and heroin and how sparkle guitar developed from Dough Martsche’s genius and how he was humble enough to share the aesthetic.

so.

after that, Built to Spill became my favorite band pretty much. i’ve fell in love on long drives across the desert and pulled all nighters while listening to BTS – and last week I got the radical opportunity to travel with their supporting band, Finn Riggins to document a slice of their last national tour.

it’s wild when things line up sometimes.

Disco Doom

doom.

Finn Riggins: 20 November 2009

showbox deuce.

Finn Riggins: 19 November 2009

showbox night 1.

Finn Riggins: 18 November 2009

vancouver.

Finn Riggins: 17 November 2009

russian dumplings.

Finn RIggins: 14 November 2009

please move to portland.

Finn RIggins: 13 November 2009

move to portland.

BTS: 13 November 2009

hand claps.

BTS: 14 November 2009

in america every puddle - a gasoline rainbow.

BTS: 18 November 2009

commodore ballroom filled to the gills.

BTS: 19 November 2009

seattle might be their second home if it rained less.

BTS: 20 November 2009

doug gets down too