Blog: nyctaper

[Photos courtesy of Dino Perrucci Photography ] As someone who spent their college years in North Carolina at the turn of last century, Ben Folds Five has always been special to me. A native North Carolinian introduced me to Ben Folds' music, and the themes in the music - romantic frustration, fear of consequences, and straight-up rage at lovers who jilt you - found natural purchase in my young self. I saw the band a bunch of times between 1997 and 2000 in my then-home state, outdoors and on the quad, at the Cat's Cradle [...]