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Here's a New Music Monday recommendation-opening for Daughter on this tour for previous dates, Wilsen really impressed me so I bought their record, Sirens, and really love it-gorgeous without any kind of pretense with such lovely vocals.

www.youtube.com/wilsenmusic

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The Smith Westerns are one of my very favorite local bands in Chicago and they announced today they would be going on tour:

www.smithwesternsmusic.com/#

But that isn't what I wanted to tell you about today. I wanted to tell you about the reasons why cameras exist.

There's a space in every moment that can be stretched like a rubber band. It can be a playful thing. We like to make it snap against our fingers, not for the pain but for the reason that we can then control it.

There is a definite part of me that has always loved music and photographing music made sense to me for many reasons but I'm not ever trying to photograph a person up there. Instead of showing you a body, I'd rather show you energy. Instead of showing you a face, I'd rather skip ahead to the sadness or the joy within it (most of the time happening both at once). And that's how I am with my camera, snapping my camera strap like that rubber band and trying to control time. Because, when you take a shot, the time becomes a room you walk into and never have to leave. You feel your chest expand with your breathing and there's a stillness that takes over and reigns everything in. There is a place you can never get old and that makes all the pain you must endure worth it. I like to go there again and again. If I couldn't go there, I think I might die.

I saw Daughter last night and was quite impressed with both Daughter and openers Wilsen. Elena Tonra of Daughter was quite marvelous in many ways. I really enjoyed hearing them play many songs off of If You Leave.

More photos and a rewview here:

gapersblock.com/transmission/2013/05/10/reviewphotos_daug...

Many thanks to Jason Williamson who posted photos that encouraged me to see Daughter live. This shot is particularly marvelous of Elena so go take a look! :

www.flickr.com/photos/acejace/8412958818/

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I went to see Purity Ring again at the late Cabaret Metro show..didn't start until midnight and there wasn't a photopit that could be entered...lots of fans cramming against me but I managed to get a few shots I liked.

Band's website here:

purityringsongs.com/

More photos and a review here:

gapersblock.com/transmission/2013/05/05/reviewphotos_puri...

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Some people are strange and delicate masterpieces and every time they open their mouths, you can just sense a rare brilliance in the air around you.

www.theveils.com/timestayswego/c/

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