Aussie band Philadelphia Grand Jury stopped off in NYC for a few dates on their way to the land down under for a tour in support of their album Hope Is For Hopers. The band hasn’t spent much time here in the states only about 6 shows total. Lately they’ve been splitting their time mainly between Australia and the UK which they’ve called home for the last few months. The band consists of two Aussies in MC Bad Genius and Berkfinger and one dynamite Detroit drummer simply known as Calvin. Their set is high energy fun and a shitload of fun.

The website North By Northwestern just recently ran a photo I took of The Cool Kids as part of their Weekender feature that let’s the people of Northwestern know about the events happening during the week.

I’ve made the trek to Austin for South By Southwest many times over the past decade. It’s an amazingly good time for anyone who makes the trip. Just yesterday I learned that one of my photos was used in the rotation masthead of a website dedicated to all the unofficial parties/events going on that week.

The photo is one that’s gotten a decent amount of mileage, and seems to be a favorite of people out there because it’s been used before. It was taken in 2008 and is of the tattoo sleeve of The Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon. They had played about 3 different shows in a 24 hour span of time, I caught 2 out of the 3 shows and they were amazing as always. I shot this set mostly in black and white and grabbed this pic specifically because I personally was interested in the details of Brian’s tats and wanted to see them. I don’t think it was a particularly well lit picture and felt better ones were taken that week but that’s often not the point of photography is it?

I’ve also realized that of all the pictures of bands I take, the ones of The Gaslight Anthem seem to be the most popular.

Well, it’s February and we’ve been beaten up by the winter weather quite a bit on the East Coast. The upside to all of this is the snow and winter weather offers up the chance to go out and make the gloomy world pretty.

I attended a fountain dedication ceremony on my old college campus, since it was a hot June day, the dedication soon turned into people daring others to run through it. Here are two of my friend’s taking a run through the water.

I was bowling with some friends at the Brooklyn Bowl and this kid was trying his best to knock ‘em down in the lane next to us.

Snapped this one of my friend CJ when he was in one of his moods while waiting for some other friends. He’s not a fan of light or anything dark so this beautiful summer day pretty much ruined his life.

This is of Kelson from Future Of The Left. When I took this one, something just stuck with me, it’s probably because he was in the middle of a full-on rock out on the bass when the band was playing.

It was so much fun shooting Gogol Bordello at All Points West this summer. Probably because frontman Eugene Hutz never seems to stop moving from the time he walks onto the stage until the time he walks off.

When I vacationed in Italy last spring, we traveled a lot between the cities by train, so this was a pretty familiar look the entire time, staring across the seat to my girlfriend…reading a tour guide book of Italy.

My niece is a character. On this particular day she was growling at me as she played around with her father.