Asheville-based exotic music duo AfterMyth plays two shows this weekend.
Sound Check: Turchi
Reed Turchi just moved back to Asheville. His band, Turchi, plays a homecoming and album launch show at The Lab on Saturday, July 6. In advance, Reed talked to Xpress about kudzu, the slide guitar, and local inspiration. Click through for the video by Jesse Hamm.
This weekend on a shoestring
This weekend brings a host of outdoor celebrations, fireworks, local music and more. As always, Xpress brings you the best in low-cost weekend entertainment.
Practically impractical: celebrating the scenic routes of artistry
From Friday, July 5 to Sunday, July 7, ILSSA (Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts) members will gather in Asheville to celebrate five years of artistic obscurity during the first-ever ILSSA Convergence, a weekend-long conference, studio tour and exhibition series.
Big bang theory: Where to spend your Fourth of July
From fireworks to festivals, from water sports to watermelon, from road races to hot rods, we’ve got a Fourth of July celebration for pretty much every kind of Independence Day reveler. All events are on Thursday, July 4, unless otherwise noted.
Pod people
Following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, a girl called Annejoule wakes with a terrible headache to find her home reduced to rubble, her mother and brother dead, and mysterious voices speaking to her. This is the beginning to She Walks On Water, a new novel by writer/editor/City Council member Cecil Bothwell; a book that […]
Dramatic rendition
Why hold just one fundraiser when you can hold seven? Seven times the funds raised, and seven times the fun. “The idea behind DramaRama is to offer many different events at many different price points,” said Susan Harper, managing director of Asheville Community Theatre, in a press release. “We wanted to create a fundraiser that […]
Smart Bets: Truth Beneath the Roses
“As a biracial young woman, there is an innate lack of belonging,” writes local artist Liana Murray, a rising senior at Asheville High. “The need to shift between the black and the white world, and still understand the meeting between the two dictates the meaning behind my work.” Murray will debut her powerful, soulful collection […]
Smart Bets: The Big Crafty
"Shop indie. Shop handmade. Shop fun," says the press release for The Big Crafty, which returns to the Asheville Art Museum and Pack Square on Sunday, July 7. The best thing about the summer arts and crafts fair is that instead of stocking up on Christmakwanzakah gifts for friends and family members (like you do […]
An uncommon sense of place
Each of the five collections of stark acoustic picking attributed to Glenn Jones bares a similar cover. The motif is that of a different cute cartoon creature strumming away. On the front of his 2004 debut, it’s an oversized chick playing a guitar. Subsequent entries feature a beetle in a top hat, a fish lounging […]
State of the Arts
The Media Arts Project is now accepting submissions for their Community Arts Grants. The grants will award up to $1,200 to two projects designed by WNC artists or groups of artists. Each of the works will premier at next year’s HAPPENING, an annual arts event and fundraiser produced by Black Mountain College Museum and Arts […]
Smart Bets: Turchi
Kudzu-boogie outfit Turchi (named for front man Reed Turchi) has been nonstop touring for the past year or so, and it's paying off. Like, with a feature in Oxford American (way harder to come by than a write up in, say, Rolling Stone), and a showcase for that Southern lit magazine. Though the band has […]
Smart Bets: A Ghost Like Me
February took a drummer/keyboardist from local instrumental/electronic collective A Ghost Like Me. But March brought a new drummer — Josh Newton (formerly of Dashvara) rounds out the band (with Brad Rogers on guitar, synths and loops; and Key Andrew on bass, flute, synths and loops) and has also helped to evolve the trio's sound. "A […]
Calendar highlights: Art in Waynesville, Asheville and Black Mountain
Clubland features: Shane Perlowin, Islands to Highlands Reggae Festival and Asheville FM
Dance + Aerial arts = Bromelia
The unique local dance troupe performs on the ground and in the air. Their show “Jump Sessions,” featuring live music by Hello Hugo, closes out tonight at The Orange Peel. 7 p.m., $14. Photo by Michael Oppenheim.
Invasion of the moe.rons
The jam band moe. enthralled its fans at Pisgah Brewery this weekend. Expect more big acts this summer on the outdoor stage there.
Buncombe County Public Libraries hold “Jazz Greats in Poetry” series
Each week in July, different jazz artists and poems will be discussed at pack Memorial Library as part of a month-long series.
Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy at Downtown After 5
Shonna Tucker, formerly of Drive-By Truckers, headlined last week’s Downtown After 5 with her new band, Eye Candy. Click through for the video where she performs “The Pie Song” from the band’s forthcoming album.
Smart Bets web extra: Hudson K
The Knoxville-based synth-rockers play Two For Tuesdays at One Stop on July 2.
Donavon Frankenreiter’s “Same Lullaby”
A better-late-than-never video shot at the superfer-singer-songwriter’s Orange Peel stop last November.