The Many Faces of HoZac Records: Blackout 2012 edition

Gentleman Jesse & His Men (Atlanta, GA) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/13 sec, f8, ISO 500

The mere thought of sifting through the thousand-plus underexposed / overexposed / blurry / out-of-focus shots I snapped at the HoZac Blackout two weekends ago was so overwhelming that I decided to ease myself into the abyss with the band portraits I took that weekend. Unfortunately, due to varying degrees of senility, tardiness, hunger, and/or exhaustion, I failed to capture all the bands that played. (Steven/Redd Kross, if you’re reading this, sorry I had to bail! Will you take a raincheck?)

In any case, here are the portraits I managed to wrangle over the course of those four days, starting with the opening-night art show and concluding with the legendary Roky Erickson (a wholly unexpected development, I might add). Incidentally, I displayed a bunch of prints at the art show but forgot to take a self-portrait that night. I also forgot about taking portraits by the time Cemetery and Mentally Ill played. I suppose if this mental lapse had to happen anywhere, what better place than at the Blackout.

In the next few weeks I’ll be posting photos of the actual performances as well as a revealing interview with the latest teen-pop sensation out of Minneapolis, Cozy. Stay tuned!

Marieke McClendon, artist | Canon 5D, 40mm, 1/320 sec, f4, ISO 200

Luke Chappelle, artist | Canon 5D, 40mm, 1/320 sec, f8, ISO 200

Darius Hurley, artist/Criminal IQ Records mastermind | Canon 5D, 40mm, 1/320 sec, f8, ISO 200

Colin Smith, photographer | Canon 5D, 40mm, 1/320 sec, f8, ISO 200

Christopher Ilth, artist | Canon 5D, 40mm, 1/40 sec, f4, ISO 1250

Joey Potts, artist | Canon 5D, 40mm, 1/40 sec, f4, ISO 1250

Tiger Lily photo exhibit | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/50 sec, f4, ISO 1250

Tiger Lily photo exhibit | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/50 sec, f4, ISO 1250

HoZac trifecta (Canderson, Todd, Brett) | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/50 sec, f4, ISO 400

Cozy (Minneapolis, MN) | Canon 5D, 17mm, 1/13 sec, f8, ISO 640

The Plateaus (San Diego, CA) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/8 sec, f8, ISO 640

Video (Denton, TX) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/8 sec, f8, ISO 500

Spider Fever (San Diego, CA) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/5 sec, f8, ISO 400

Davila 666 (Puerto Rico) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/4 sec, f8, ISO 640

White Mystery (Chicago, IL) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/13 sec, f6.3, ISO 400

The Barreracudas (Atlanta, GA) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/13 sec, f8, ISO 800

The Ketamines (Alberta, Canada) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/6 sec, f8, ISO 500

Pleasure Leftists (Cleveland, OH) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/8 sec, f6.3, ISO 800

Teledrome (Calgary, Canada) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/8 sec, f8, ISO 500

Fungi Girls (Cleburne, TX) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/6 sec, f6.3, ISO 500

Gentleman Jesse & His Men (Atlanta, GA) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/13 sec, f8, ISO 500

Medication (New Milford, CT)  | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/4 sec, f6.3, ISO 640

Bare Mutants (Chicago, IL) | Canon 5D, 15mm, .3 sec, f8, ISO 800

Estrogen Highs (New Haven, CT) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/4 sec, f8, ISO 800

Human Eye (Detroit, MI) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/4 sec, f8, ISO 500

Roky Erickson’s band (Austin, TX) | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/4 sec, f8, ISO 500

Roky Erickson meets Human Eye | Canon 5D, 15mm, 1/4 sec, f8, ISO 500

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