Blog | Rodney Boles https://rodneyboles.com Music and Street Photographer in North Carolina Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:10:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Hopscotch 2018 https://rodneyboles.com/hopscotch-2018/ Sat, 15 Sep 2018 17:11:16 +0000 http://rodneyboles.com/?p=2997 Another year, another great Hopscotch. I haven’t been too active shooting the last year, due a couple of surgeries and associated recoveries, but wouldn’t miss this great Raleigh event. Flaming Lips brought their incredible stage show back to City Plaza, some amazing funk bands got me dancing (Nile Rodgers and Chic, The Revolution (as in, […]

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]]> Sarah Shook Album Release https://rodneyboles.com/sarah-shook-album-release/ Sat, 07 Apr 2018 15:49:08 +0000 http://rodneyboles.com/?p=2984 Fantastic night in Carrboro, NC, last night at the Cat’s Cradle. Sarah Shook & The Disarmers held their album release show, performing songs off their new one, “Years”, as well as plenty of stuff off “Sidelong”. Years is available on Bloodshot Records: https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/years

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]]> My Favorite Photos (non-Music) of 2016 https://rodneyboles.com/my-favorite-photos-non-music-of-2016/ Sun, 08 Jan 2017 22:57:04 +0000 http://rodneyboles.com/?p=2968 I did one of these for my music photography images, but neglected to get one up for the rest until now (I posted to Facebook instead). Here are my 10 favorites that I posted to Facebook, plus one more favorite that I took just after that post on the last day of the year (the […]

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]]> About the Site Redesign https://rodneyboles.com/about-the-site-redesign/ Sun, 08 Jan 2017 22:41:26 +0000 http://rodneyboles.com/?p=2965 You may have noticed this site has been refreshed over the last few days. I’ve been really slow in updating the galleries over the last couple of years and many of them did not reflect my latest work. I knew it was time to at least get new photos up, but I also wanted to […]

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]]> My Best 2016 Music Photos https://rodneyboles.com/my-best-2016-music-photos/ Sat, 24 Dec 2016 16:45:51 +0000 http://rodneyboles.com/?p=2489 So many great shows and festivals this year. Moogfest, Hopscotch, Save the Pinhook, some great local album release shows (Hiss Golden Messenger and Mount Moriah). And I got to see The Cure again, finally (I’d seen them three times in the past, but the last one was in the mid-90s).

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]]> My 2016 Album List https://rodneyboles.com/my-2016-album-list/ Fri, 09 Dec 2016 22:14:51 +0000 http://rodneyboles.com/?p=2479 Favorites/Best Of/Whatever I haven’t even heard a lot of the albums showing up on some of the lists I see going around, but here is the stuff that I was listening to in 2016 that stood above the rest. 1(tie) A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here…. Thank You 4 Your Service […]

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]]> Anderson .Paak at Hopscotch https://rodneyboles.com/anderson-paak-at-hopscotch/ Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:49:53 +0000 http://rodneyboles.com/?p=2464 As I rushed to get out Hopscotch coverage last week after the event, I typically limited myself to one or two photos per set for the online coverage at the Triangle Downtowner‘s Facebook page. But there were a few sets that were a goldmine for photographers, featuring energetic and photogenic performances, where it was quite […]

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]]> Boulevards https://rodneyboles.com/boulevards/ Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:59:54 +0000 http://rodneyboles.com/?p=2446 Boulevards set at Hopscotch was a definite highlight of the weekend. It was the sort of charismatic performance, much like a T0W3RS or Future Islands set, where you can’t help but ending up with a ton of great photos. So even though I’ve already posted one Hopscotch blog entry, it warrants another. Side note: speaking […]

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]]> Hopscotch Music Festival 2016 https://rodneyboles.com/hopscotch-music-festival-2016/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 04:05:56 +0000 http://rodneyboles.com/?p=2420 2016 marked the 7th year of Raleigh, NC’s Hopscotch Music Festival, as well as 6 years of my photographing the event. Over the three days, I photographed 38 different acts perform across multiple genres, from hip hop to psych rock to metal to funk to punk to the blues. A long list of highlights from […]

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]]> Searching for the Holy Grail in Music Photography https://rodneyboles.com/searching-for-the-holy-grail-in-music-photography/ Sat, 13 Feb 2016 20:54:23 +0000 http://rodneyboles.com/?p=2394 When I started shooting live music, the first thing I figured out was that getting in tight to eliminate clutter was the easy, surefire thing to do when shooting a band to make sure that I got at least some good images. After awhile, though, my music portfolio started looking like a one-trick pony. How […]

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