PANCAKES AND WHISKEY'S BEST PHOTOS OF 2016

What. A. Year!

This has been a great year for the P&W staff – we covered shows all around the country including California, Tennessee, Boston and Virginia. We covered some of the biggest names in music like Radiohead, Twenty One Pilots, Pearl Jam, Maxwell, Temple Of The Dog, SIA, Sufjan Stevens and many more. We also attended more festivals than ever like Bonnaroo, Lockn, Outside lands, Newport and the newest kid in the NYC fest scene, The Meadows as well as the usual suspects like Gov Ball and Northside.

The following photos are our favorite images of the year. Each contributor was asked to send in their favorites, so enjoy!

Alx Bear – This was Alx’s first year with P&W and she didn’t mess around. Covering shows on both coasts, she showed tremendous skill in getting the shot when it mattered.

Bishop Briggs at Irving Plaza

Broods at Webster Hall

Chance the Rapper at Outside Lands

Christine and the Queens at T5

Dead Kennedys at Webster Hall

E-40 at Outside Lands

Foals at Outside Lands

HINDS at Warsaw

Janelle Monáe at Boston Calling

Oh Wonder at T5

Radiohead at Outside Lands

Sia

Sufjan Stevens at Outside Lands

The Kills at the Wiltern

Weathers portrait at Webster Hall

Bryan Lasky – Bryan spends most of his time upstate covering shows in Albany and the surrounding area, but often traveled to the city for major gigs and also hit a few major festivals like Roo, Newport and Lockn’. Bryan has a great eye, as shown in the pics below.

The Wombats

the last shadow puppets

Patty Smith – Newport

Lucius

LCD Soundsystem – ROO

Larkin Poe Portrait

Janelle Monae

Iggy Pop

Courtney Barnett

Christine and the Queens

Charles Bradley

Dean Keim – Dean has been with us a few years now and gets after all the nitty-gritty shit in the city. He’s a hard working warrior who covers many shows a week, often in crappy light and small dive bars late at night.

Belly at Bowery Ballroom

Garbage at Summerstage

Gary Numan at Gramercy Theater

Giraffes at Saint Vitus

Kathleen Hanna of Julie Ruin at Irving

Kathleen Hanna of Julie Ruin at Irving

Laura Stevenson – Asbury Park

Phantogram at Samsung 83

Sleigh Bells – LPR

The Darkness – Irving

Tokyo Police Club – Irving

Shannon Leigh – Shannon came to us mid-year and is based on the west coast. In a short amount of time she covered some cool stuff.

Band Of Horses – Ohana

Elvis Costello – Ohana

Brian Fallon

Mudhoney – Ohana fest

Bush – Wiltern

Brian Fallon – Wiltern

Ryan Bingham – Wiltern

Pearl Jam – Ride Fest

Bobby Lewis – When Bobby isn’t jamming out in his own fantastic band (Mustardmind) he shoots gigs occasionally.

Vulfpeck

Caveman

Vulfpeck

Caveman

Vulfpeck

Omar Kasrawi – Omar started shooting for us this year, and what a year he had. With a penchant for good rock music, he captured some incredible moments all over the city with his uncanny ability to get great action shots in any condition.

Moon Taxi – Brooklyn Bowl

Black Pistol Fire at St. Vitus

Mashrou’ Leila perform at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Russian Circles – Warsaw

Ghostland Observatory

Las Rosas

Mother Feather

Here Come The Mummies

Radkey

The Fame Riot

Merissa Blitz – Merissa has been covering shows for us for nearly as long as we’ve been an outlet and thank her for her hard work and dedication to the artists she covers.

Arthur Moon

Black Pistol Fire

Father John Misty

Glass Animals

Haim

High Waisted

High Waisted

LANY

The Killers

The Killers

Troye Sivan

Michael DiGiovanni – Mike has been with us since the beginning and always is in the right place at the right time to get the memorable shots.

Banks & Steelz

Anders Osborne

Blood Not Paint

Jam the Vote – Win Butler

Jam The Vote

Johnny Showcase

Johnnyswim

Johnnyswim

Lukas Nelson

Neil Young

Sheryl Crow

Willie Nelson

Lesley Keller – Lesley is our lead-photographer, so she hits many important gigs throughout the year and her work is gorgeous.

MUTEMATH – t5

Borns – T5

The Dig – Union Pool

Emily King – Bowery

Janelle Monae – Summerstage

D’Angelo

Francis And The Lights – Good Room

Adia Victoria – Baby’s

Maxwell – MSG

Bon Iver – Pioneer Works

Shayne Hanley – Shayne is the editor at P&W and finds it odd he’s writing in the third person here. He covers shows from Shea Stadium to MSG and he likes the weirder shit.