2022: First Half Recap
2022 has been a strange year. Following a couple of years of isolation, I’ve returned to my longtime love of documenting live shows and writing about music. Excellent local website Asheville Stages has been kind enough to publish my work.
Contributions to Asheville Stages
- The Amazing Acro-Cats at Diana Wortham Theatre
- Interview: Chris Gethard
- Concert Review: The Antlers at The Grey Eagle
- Interview: Moon Tooth
- Interview: Linqua Franqa
- Concert review: Gogol Bordello at The Orange Peel (photos only)
- Concert review: Belle and Sebastian at The Orange Peel
- Interview: Circuit des Yeux
- Concert review: Leon Bridges at Rabbit Rabbit (photos only)
- Concert review: Fitz & The Tantrums + St. Paul & The Broken Bones + Seratones
- Interview: Danny Chavis
- Concert review: The War on Drugs at Rabbit Rabbit (photos only)
- Concert review: Aldous Harding at The Orange Peel (photos only)
- Concert review: Ty Segall & Freedom Band at The Orange Peel
- Concert review: Bon Iver at Rabbit Rabbit
15 Favorite Live Performances of 2022: The First Half
*listed chronologically
- Andy Shauf @ The Grey Eagle – 2/23/22
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis @ Thomas Wolfe Auditorium – 3/1/22
- Secret Shame @ The Grey Eagle – 3/3/22
- Iceage @ The Grey Eagle – 3/3/22
- Gogol Bordello @ The Orange Peel – 5/10/22
- Leon Bridges @ Rabbit Rabbit – 5/18/22
- Moon Tooth @ The Odditorium – 5/22/22
- Belle & Sebastian @ The Orange Peel – 5/24/22
- Circuit des Yeux @ The Grey Eagle – 6/5/22
- Cut Worms @ The Grey Eagle – 6/11/22
- Aldous Harding @ The Orange Peel – 6/14/22
- Ty Segall & The Freedom Band @ The Orange Peel – 6/22/22
- The Veldt @ Fleetwood’s – 6/23/22
- Bonnie Light Horseman @ Rabbit Rabbit – 6/26/22
- Bon Iver @ Rabbit Rabbit – 6/26/22
30 Favorite Albums of 2022: The First Half
*listed alphabetically
- Abdullah Miniawy x HVAD – Notice a Tiny Scratch for the Blue Behind
- Alabaster DePlume – GOLD
- Aldous Harding – Warm Chris
- Angel Olsen – Big Time
- Beach House – Once Twice Melody
- Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
- Billy Woods – Aethiopes
- Black Country New Road – Ants From Up Here
- Caroline – Caroline
- Cate Le Bon – Pompeii
- Dehd – Blue Skies
- Erica Eso – 192
- Erik Gundel – Level One Mage
- Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
- Horace Andy – Midnight Rocker
- Jenny Hval – Classic Objects
- Kae Tempest – The Line Is A Curve
- Kendrick Lamar – Mr Morale & The Big Steppers
- Linqua Franqa – Bellringer
- Obonjayar – Some Nights I Dream of Doors
- Pedro The Lion – Havasu
- Perfume Genius – Ugly Season
- Porridge Radio – Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
- Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
- Shilpa Ray – Portrait of a Lady
- The Smile – A New Light For Attracting Attention
- Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful
- Tomberlin – i don’t know who needs to hear this
- Trupa Trupa – B FLAT A
- Yasuaki Shimizu – Kiren
2022 in Photos
