Kurt Vile And Courtney Barnett Are Really, Really Cool

Photography by Zach Gross 
It was 2009 when Kurt Vile played Northside Festival in not one, but two shows—marking the end of his tenure in The War on Drugs and the start of his solo career. Several years later, in 2014, Courtney Barnett played Northside, too. Now, in 2017, the two have joined forces and left Brooklyn. I followed suit.  
On October 13, Vile and Barnett released the album Lotta Sea Lice, a generally lauded collection of mellow, twangy narratives, playing off of Vil