Here’s a hint, if there are currently, or there ever have been studs on your wristband, you need to be at the Orange Peel Sunday night. Coheed and Cambria are laying down some bitter-sweet, poppy punk-rock and they want you to yell along on the choruses. As a bonus, they’re joined by long-time emo favorites, Saves the […]
When Jekyll Met Hyde returns to The Magnetic Theatre this week! Written by The Magnetic’s Artistic Director Steven Samuels as an homage to Charles Ludlam and his Ridiculous Theatrical Company. The script draws on every written, dramatized, and filmed version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, and features an unusual feminist twist and a surprise ending. Even […]
Friday, Oct. 21, Marco Benevento and the Eric Krasno Band will perform at New Mountain Asheville! Prepare broadly influenced piano work from headliner Marco Benevento as he runs the gamut from psych-rock to gold-tones to jam to some downright-heavy rock. It’s that dance-and-sing-along good-time you want to cut loose with. Opening up the show, Eric Krasno and his band […]
Gather Wise Women, honor learning medicine- heal naturally. Southeast Wise Women’s Herbal Conference brings herbalists and teachers and seekers together at Lake Eden each October and this year Mountain Xpress is giving away two individual passes to the weekend conference. Participants can explore the many aspects of Wise Woman wisdom through over 70 workshops and intensives that […]
What could be better than sipping a cold one by the eddying current, watching your cares drift away to the distant north? Kicking back a bunch of tasty new beers over a whole weekend, camping by the river, enjoying awesome live music, with a friend! Yeah, now that’s a good time! The 6th annual French Broad Brew […]
Looking to get fit and learn to see your amazing body through a new lens? You can start building that confidence and changing the way you feel about your body at Vitality Fitness Asheville, voted Best Fitness Studio by our readers. Here’s an opportunity to get started the right way with one of WNC’s favorite physical trainers! Taija Ventrella was […]
Local progressive electro-fusion sensations Deja Fuze are dropping their new CD, “Some Sort of Green”, at a release show at Asheville Music Hall this Friday, September 2nd. You can be there, bring a friend and take the new album home for free. To help you get down and shake your tail, The Space Cowboys & the […]
Choo-choo! All aboard for the world premiere of Lucia Del Vecchio’s rollicking farce, Off the Rails at The Magnetic Theatre. Watch as a Hollywood action star and her tech-mogul fiancee embark on their prenuptial trip across Europe in a refurbished, antique train. Their happily-ever-after plans are quickly derailed by slamming doors, mistaken identities, sexual shenanigans, and a […]
Yum! Delight your stomach and wander through the three full floors of tasty morsels. Nearly 200 vendors are coming to show off their best work and you can eat it all for free. Guests will have the opportunity to sample the wares of local and regional restaurants, wineries, breweries and artisan food producers. There will […]
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” — Flannery O’Connor Anam Cara Theatre Company, known for pushing forward in honest and genuine avant garde theater are entering the closing weekend for their latest exploration of the human psyche through performance, Barbed Wire Suit. And you can see it before it’s […]
It’s time to go COCO-NUTS! The Color Run Tropicolor World Tour 2016 is coming to Asheville this Saturday, August 6! This year, the experience Color Runners already love is enhanced with an all-new Tropicolor Zone on course, a Rainbow Beach at the Finish Festival, and a limited edition participant kit! Don’t miss out! Comment on […]
The Blue Ridge Rollergirls are turning double-digits and want you to celebrate their triumphant 10 years with them! Don’t miss the action on Saturday July 16, 5-9 p.m. at the U.S. Cellular Center when Asheville’s own Blue Ridge French Broads goes head to head with Appalachian Rollergirls Boonshiners at 5 p.m. At 7 p.m., in a very special […]
Mobsters, McCarthyites, and Mayhem!!! Capital Liar, the new, noir comedy by local playwright Peter Lundblad, directed by Rodney Smith, brings the madcap, Hollywood comedic style of the classic silver screen to the Asheville stage. When you mix a notorious gangster, a mysterious actress, a misguided FBI agent, a tabloid kingpin, and a nosy reporter together, you sometimes have […]
Reggae Jam Rock up-and-comers Treehouse! is coming to Asheville Music Hall to make love to the backbeat. They have been touring music festivals up and down the east coast, but for one night only, they are in Asheville — and joined by Of Good Nature, an indie rock-reggae four piece from Charlotte and Reggae-Rock-Dub Nashville phenomenons, Roots of […]
Don’t miss the action on Saturday June 4, 5-9 p.m. at the U.S. Cellular Center when Asheville’s own Blue Ridge French Broads take on A2D2 Arbor Bruising Co and Blue Ridge All Stars face off with A2D2 Brawlstars! The first bout is at 5 p.m, followed by the main event at 7 p.m. Get ready for what could […]
Electronic music heavy hitter, AFK, is dropping some “grimy yugs and yoys” for lots of dance beat fun, May 27, at the Peel. Joining him for the bumping and thumping, entrancifying night is the sexy/sci fi sounding Charlotte, NC based Mindelixer, as well as local electro-beat masters Bengal, Liminal, DLX, and Disc-Oh! Get your beats on […]
Get ready for a weekend of virtuosic bluegrass, new grass and jam grass as Leftover Salmon takes over downtown Asheville from Friday, May 20 through Sunday May 22! Taking place at both New Mountain AVL and Asheville Music Hall , Leftover Salmon’s Blue Ridge Jam will also feature regional and national favorites Acoustic Syndicate, Grass Is Dead, Junto, Jason Carter […]
Thursday, May 5, Ott & The All Seeing I plays New Mountain AVL! With multifaceted British music producer and musician Ott on electronics, this gig will also feature The All Seeing Eye—a four piece band including vocals, bass, synths and various percussive delights! This special tour features all of the intricate glory of Ott’s electronic sets and augments them […]
Don’t miss the action on Saturday May 7th, 5-9 PM at the U.S. Cellular Center when Asheville’s own Blue Ridge French Broads take on Greensboro Counterstrike and Blue Ridge All Stars face off with Fayetteville Rogue Rollergirls! And come thirsty because it’s going to be $2 BEER NIGHT… Mountain Xpress has three pairs of tickets […]
It’s happening this weekend: The 19th Annual French Broad River Festival! This Friday, April 29 through Sunday, May 1, this beloved outdoor festival will light up Hot Springs Campground & Spa in Hot Springs, NC with a smorgasbord of musical acts including Snake Oil Medicine Show, Empire Strikes Brass, Sol Driven Train and so much more! Enjoy […]
This Thursday, April 14, Plainsong‘s Iain Matthews and Andy Roberts perform songs of the 1960’s folk singer and author Richard Fariña in Reinventing Richard: The Songs Of Richard Fariña at The Altamont Theatre. Want to go? Fariña fans and folk music enthusiasts: Mountain Xpress has a pair of tickets and they could be yours! For a chance to […]
