MATT KLEINSCHMIDT

The Arctic Monkeys set was the point in the day where the crowds started to show for the night. I hadn’t seen the band live in a long time and was looking forward to hearing some new songs since their new album is coming out soon. For some reason, the people in charge of the fog machines took their job extremely seriously. Because there were points of the band’s set where you literally could not see the band because there was so much smoke on the stage. Read the rest of this entry »

White Rabbits were one of the first bands on the main stage that day. I really like their album a lot but they weren’t the most kinetic band of the weekend. Mainly ’cause I’m sure its tough to rock out when sitting at a piano at 1 in the afternoon. I particularly liked the picture above, because I was kinda impressed with myself for catching the lead singer’s actual spit on camera from about 20 feet away. Definitely wasn’t a planned part of the picture, but it works. Read the rest of this entry »

These pics were taken at Liberty State Park at the All Points West Festival. Since 2/3 of the festival days had rain, Saturday proved to be the be best day to shoot since the weather was great. Just before their set, the band had a bit of a scare, their keyboardist took a fall off the stage while fiddling with some wires setting up his gear. He was okay, but it could have been hairy since the stage was about 8ft tall and there was only about 3ft in between the stage and speaker stacks where he landed. He was okay and the band put on a perfectly awesome set. Read the rest of this entry »

Red Collar played the L.E.S. the other night. I’ve never seen them live and was pretty eager to check ‘em out, especially since their record Pilgrim has kept a pretty steady spot in the rotation since its release. So after checking out the new digs over at Brooklyn Bowl I rolled down to Piano’s for a set of blue collar rock played by a bunch of North Carolina punks. Read the rest of this entry »

I was looking forward to this show for a while. Future Of The Left is the new project from Andy Falco and Jack Egglestone, 2/3 of the defunct band Mclusky, who if you ask anyone are pretty much one of the most awesome bands of the last 10 years and their album Do Dallas still pretty much shreds anything that’s been released since. Read the rest of this entry »