Just four months after announcing its split from Moogfest booker/promoter AC Entertainment, Moog Music released the news that the festival not only has a new date (April 25-27, 2014) but a new partner: Detroit-based Paxahau. "We've worked with them for three years on their festival, Movement in Detroit," says Emmy Parker, Moog's senior brand manager. […]

“To be in the middle of a novel that’s going somewhere is the best feeling,” says North Carolina-born author Jill McCorkle. That’s definitely the case for readers, but McCorkle is talking about writing. Specifically, about writing Life After Life, her first novel in 17 years. Not that McCorkle (who attended the University of North Carolina, […]

The opening to “Thin Blue” hinges on a perfectly executed bait and switch. Smooth guitar, soft cymbal splashes, and far-off coos back Juan Holladay, leader and singer for Asheville’s Secret B-Sides, who deploys his delicately piercing pipes in service of what initially seems like the kind of politely probing refrain common in modern soul: “Blue […]

That Cut, the third solo effort from Chris Corsano, draws much of its inspiration from the Minutemen is a little hard to believe. Though undeniably eclectic and powerful, the seminal ‘80s punk band never approached anything like the bizarre and often quite beautiful vignettes that dominate the latest effort from the acclaimed percussionist and improviser. […]

This is second of a two-part series about Asheville’s art market. The first article appeared March 26 and discussed Asheville artists taking their work elsewhere to find new exhibition outlets, audiences and collectors. Art collectors don’t necessarily set out to become art collectors. That’s to say, most started at one piece, only to wind up […]

Even though the music industry has changed drastically in the last decade or so, there’s still a certain career trajectory expectation: Make a great album, attract some label interest, tour in support of a big-name act, land a choice commercial spot/movie soundtrack/late show appearance, work up to headliner status, sell out a stadium, etc. Josh […]

“To be a craftsperson is to be inherently an inventor at heart,” says Kathryn Gremley, curator of Breaking Ground: Innovative Craft, on display at HandMade in America’s downtown Asheville exhibition space. The WNC region has a deep history of traditional craft artists making and selling their wares. Along with that, there’s a growing trend of […]

Don’t call it a comeback: Brooklyn-based indie rock outfit VietNam quietly dissolved after the success of its self-titled debut in 2007, but principle songwriter Michael Gerner is back with a new lineup and drony, atmospheric take on the group’s dark blues rock. Vietnam plays Double Crown on Saturday, April 20 with Curtains and Wyla. Love […]