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Daily Video: Travie McCoy feat. Brendon Urie, Keep On Keeping On

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And here, for anyone who might need it, is a little music video pep-talk: Keep On Keeping On, by Travie McCoy (Gym Class Heroes) featuring Brendon Urie (Panic! at the Disco). I am thoroughly biased by generalized affection for them both, but the video is sweet and beautifully lit and so charming I didn’t even really care that the wings bb!Travis sprouts at the end don’t really look like swan wings.

In fact the only quibble I have is that the backflip(s) that happened behind the scenes didn’t make it into the final product.

Travie McCoy: Keep On Keeping On ft. Brendon Urie [OFFICIAL VIDEO]Travie McCoy: Keep On Keeping On ft. Brendon Urie [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
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2013: A Year in Pictures

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A full year of rock ‘n’ roll pictures, January to December, New York to Boston to Philadelphia to Brooklyn. They might not be the best pictures ever, but they are mine.

Magic Trick, Webster Hall, New York, NY, January 14, 2013
 

Father John Misty, Webster Hall, New York, NY, January 14, 2013
 

Wildstreet, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

William Control, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Andy Biersack, Black Veil Brides, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Andy Biersack, Black Veil Brides, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Ashley Purdy, Black Veil Brides, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Jake Pitts and Jinxx, Black Veil Brides, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Jinxx, Black Veil Brides, Best Buy Theater, New York, NY, January 24, 2013
 

Pete Wentz book signing, New York, NY, February 21, … Continue reading

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Photog: A.A. Bondy, Brendon Urie/Pete Wentz

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Now here’s DJ Jen to take you into the all-request hour…

Total Request (Not Quite Live)

For April, from Ohio: A.A. Bondy

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I took this one last winter, during soundcheck at the Bowery Ballroom. (Also on the bill: Willy Mason, The Duke & The King.) It is probably the best picture I took all night, of anyone. It is certainly the best lit picture of Bondy that I have, because he seems to like to sing in the dark, or at least in extremely low light, and I don’t use a flash.

I had (slightly) better luck when I saw him again earlier this year at Union Hall, in Brooklyn. He still confined himself to four red stage lights, but I was closer to him, which made it easier to work with the low light. The shot below, a variation on the “tuning my guitar” pose, is my favorite from the evening. It is, again, a moment of stillness amid a flurry of activity. And there’s the totally incongruous picture of the colonial lady above his head, as if he’s in someone’s … Continue reading