Tangents Stories

Concert Review: Yesterday’s Tomorrow at The RimKat

Did I witness this? Did I really see and hear a show where every Winston-Salem band I ever wanted to see reunite, did so in a 3-hour span? Every band that Mitch Easter played with during those halcyon days. The Impertubable Teutonic Griffin, Rittenhouse Square and Sacred Irony playing their first shows in 48 years. Chris Stamey, who’s recent book brought about this show, reunited Sneakers with Mitch Easter. Little Diesel, which featured Peter Holsapple, Will Rigby and Bob Northcott, nearly stole

Remembering Stewart Lupton and Jonathan Fire*Eater

When I started photographing musicians in 1996, one of the first up-and-coming acts that I photographed was Jonathan Fire*Eater. They were garage rock, woozy and cool before many tried to do the same a few years later. I photographed them twice at Tremont Music Hall in 1996 and 1997. Yes, I still have those photos. Scott Weaver interviewed singer Stewart Lupton for this magazine before it imploded for the first time. (Yes, Scott, I still have that interview. I somehow ended up with it.) Like

Matthew Fisher Interview, part 2

Also featured in the spring 2018 edition of The Big Takeover Magazine. MATTHEW FISHER INTERVIEW, PART 1 In part one of our interview with legendary Procol Harum keyboardist Matthew Fisher, Daniel Coston covered the band’s formation in late 1966, and their first single, “A Whiter Shade Of Pale.” The song would soon become the anthem of Swinging London during the heavy summer of 1967, and Fisher and Procol Harum became instant stars. Soon after, the band let go guitarist Bobby Harrison and