Former Photographer & Journalist
I don’t listen to much new music nowadays — due mostly to being lazy and cheap. This year I have been especially out of touch with discovering new artists or checking out recent releases. But between listening to Cheap Trick, The Lemonheads and Garnet Mimms records this year, I managed to listen to these five great albums from 2015.
Royal Headache – High
Steel Nation – Harder They Fall
Charlie Parr – Stumpjumper
Pope – Fiction
G.L.O.S.S. – Demo
Inspired by the likes of Jim Marshall and Glen E. Friedman, I began photographing my friends’ bands around 1995 when I was 14. For nearly 15 years I took photos at shows on a regular basis until I became pretty cynical about the over-saturation of cameras at shows. Shooting punk or hardcore shows was always the most fun, though. My aim was to be close and intimate with the band performing and the crowd. That is why I most enjoyed small, stage-less shows like this one of Steel Nation playing at The Brickhouse in St. Albans, West Virginia.
