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  • Aftershock 2014: Atreyu

    This was only Atreyu’s second gig since reuniting, but you’d never know it. They played a tight set. For more on this year’s Aftershock festival, check out my coverage on Loudwire.

  • WIM Meets Loudwire (Sort Of)

    I am thrilled (and that’s no exaggeration–thrilled) to announce my first work for Loudwire, the #1 hard rock and metal site on the intergooglewebtubes. Loudwire sent me to this year’s Aftershock Festival with a notebook, camera, and a dab of sunscreen, and I came back with this two-parter. Here’s looking forward to more work for…

  • From The Stacks: Sonny West–Rockabilly Man Collection Vol.1

    This is as close as I’m ever going to get to Elvis or Buddy Holly.

  • Throw Beck Thursday: A Case Of Misplaced Charity

    We have a real family pizzeria in our neighborhood, so locally owned that drunken college kids knock on the owner’s door at 2 a.m. and beg him to go make them a pie. The place is a real gift in this overly-franchised world, so we throw it as much business as our arteries allow. We’re…

  • Aftershock 2014: Dead Sara

    Great live band, great studio band. Work them into your playlist. For more on Aftershock, check out my review of day 1 on Loudwire.

  • Aftershock 2014: Chevelle

    Chevelle was another band where I had a shooting conflict with another stage. Aftershock was running four stages, so making time for everyone was impossible. Still, I managed to get a few pictures of Chevelle, so I can’t complain.  

  • Aftershock 2014: Butcher Babies

    Butcher Babies had the unfortunate luck of going on during Bad Religion’s set. I cut out of Bad Religion a little early and ran across the huge park in time to catch some of the ladies’ set, but I had to shoot from the back of the crowd with a long lens. I ran into…

  • Aftershock 2014: Black Label Society

    Another one of my favorite sets from day one. Zakk Wylde is one of those rare beasts who is so comfortable with a guitar he doesn’t really appear to be holding it. It’s just there, like another body part.  For more on Aftershock, check out my review of day 1 on Loudwire.

  • Aftershock 2014: Bad Religion

    This was the set I had to see, writer/photographer duties be damned. I was a happy boy. For more on Aftershock, check out my review of day 1 on Loudwire.

  • Aftershock 2014: Awolnation

    The poppiest band on the day one bill, but Awolnation got it done just fine. For more on Aftershock, check out my review of day 1 on Loudwire.