[Editor’s Note: Chapel Hill band Lost in the Trees headed north last week for a short tour that took them to the annual college music festival, CMJ, in New York and to a backyard photo studio in Freehold, N.J. While on the road, the band chronicled its adventures and misadventures for this five-part tour journey. […]
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Lost in the Trees Tour Diary: Charlottesville, CMJ and broken vans
[Editor’s Note: Chapel Hill band Lost in the Trees headed north last week for a short tour that took them to the annual college music festival, CMJ, in New York and to a backyard photo studio in Freehold, N.J. While on the road, the band chronicled its adventures and misadventures for this five-part tour journey. […]
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HNMTF Tour Diary #12: Detroit, MI
Tuesday, March 24 Detroit, Mich. We’re driving to Chicago right now. We’ve just finished listening to Stephen Colbert’s audiobook I Am America & So Can You for the second time. It’s 5 a.m. in our world, but we just crossed into the Central time zone, so technically it’s 4 a.m.. We decided to leave Detroit […]
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HNMTF Tour Diary #11: Pittsburgh, PA
Monday, March 23 Pittsburgh, Penn. We woke up around noon on Monday morning, still in Johnstown. We had only an hour and a half drive to Pittsburgh, our shortest drive yet. We left our equipment set up the night before at 709 Railroad, so we had a little band practice before packing everything into our […]
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HNMTF Tour Diary #10: Johnstown, PA
Sunday, March 22 Johnstown, Penn. Tonight is our ninth show of the tour. So begins what we consider the “second leg” of our 15-date quest. We’re leaving the east coast and heading to part of the country where none of us has spent much time, let alone played music. We started our Sunday trying to […]
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HNMTF Tour Diary #9: Manhattan, N.Y.
Saturday, March 21 Manhattan, N.Y. I (Joe Hall, guitarist) woke up at my cousin’s apartment at a less than respectable 1 p.m. He lives right in the heart of the Lower East Side on Houston at Avenue A. I only had to walk out of his building to get right where I wanted to be […]
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HNMTF Tour Diary #8: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Friday March 20 Brooklyn, N.Y. As we approached New York City, we decided to drive through Staten Island instead of fighting Friday evening Manhattan traffic. We crossed the Verazzano-Narrows Bridge, which offers the most radical view of the entire city of New York as you head into Brooklyn. You forget how dense and crazy this […]
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HNMTF Tour Diary #7: Wilmington, Del.
Thursday, March 19 Wilmington, DE The next morning we finally said goodbye to our Caverns brethren, then drove to our friend Brad’s apartment in Philadelphia. Thursday night we played in Wilmington, Del., just outside of Philly. Brad’s apartment is two blocks from the Pat’s/Geno’s cheesesteak corner in South Philly. We immediately crushed a few steaks […]
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HNMTF Tour Diary #6: Baltimore, Md.
Wednesday, March 18 Baltimore, MD Next we made the short drive from D.C. to Baltimore. It was the first time we have been back to Baltimore since we recorded our album here almost a year ago with our longtime hero, J. Robbins. That was the best week of our lives: We spent our days in […]
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HNMTF Tour Diary #5: Washington, D.C. [day off]
Tuesday, March 17 Washington, D.C. The trip from the Black Cat to the House of Caverns is one for which we no longer need directions. At the house we kicked back, drank some more Coors (the “silver bullet” this time), watched more Eastbound and Down and generally chilled out. Two of Patrick’s friends stopped by […]