Photo by Halima Flynt
The Enemy Lovers at the LAB
Last night indie-rockers The Enemy Lovers played a private party in the back room of the LAB, hosted by Music Allies.
Elitist Bastards: The Genius of Inception and the Dullardry of Cyrus
In this week’s podcast, Xpress film critics Hanke and Souther: Praise Inception, lambast Cyrus and react noncommittally to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; get gleefully evil about The Invisible Man; consider the impact of the original Imitation of Life; and weigh the prospects of upcoming releases Salt, Ramona and Beezus and I Am Love.
Review of The Producers
“Funny is money,” Mel Brooks has always liked to say, and with the musical The Producers, he proved it.
Review of Chicago
HART’s production has all that musical theatre requires for a good time: sassy sexiness, big dance numbers and a plot that engages and remains relevant 35 years after its debut.
SoundTrack Web Extra: dep
Asheville-based recording artist Danny Peck (a.k.a. dep) releases his fourth album, Start Loving the Robots, a collection of electronica soundscapes and esoteric explorations.
Sunglasses & strapless dresses
Photo by Halima Flynt
Dirtfoot cancels Bele Chere show, Swayback Sisters perform instead
An emergency appendectomy forced the cancellation. Local trio The Swayback Sisters will play the Saturday slot.
This weekend on a shoestring
The big free show this week is, of course, Bele Chere. So pick up your Xpress pocket guide or check out mountainx.com for extensive coverage. But, if you’re not heading to downtown Asheville’s biggest festival of the year, here’s what else is going on.
Tupelo Honey Volunteers in Garden at YWCA
The crew from Tupelo Honey Cafe volunteers in the garden at the YWCA, caring, weeding and planting. They are working to help encourage and educate kids on how to grow, prepare and eat healthy. Photo by Halima Flynt.
A better live band
After capturing the world’s attention with The Trinity Sessions in 1988, Cowboy Junkies have continued to reinvent the music they love. Their new, independently-released album, Renmin Park, is the first in a series of four coming over the next 18 months, and includes Chinese rock star and album art from a prominent painter/physicist. (The second […]
Junker’s Blues
Our Story So Far: Exhausted from a late Friday night but unable to sleep, the semi-delirious junker has been wandering around Smiley’s Flea Market early Saturday morning in a state of heightened anxiety, turning small decisions into huge dramas fraught with apparent significance no sane individual would give them. While the junker is checking out […]
Three (more) events this week
You though you were going to pace yourself for Bele Chere, but there are plenty of interesting music events between now and Friday (like r&b artist JaQuise, pictured here). Consider it a warmup.
Fashion and fun: Scenes from PUSH Asheville
PUSH Asheville Fashion runway show photos
Images by Micah Mackenzie Watch a video of the PUSH Asheville Fashion runway show here.
Busk Break: Isaac Alexander Johnson and Jim Barton perform “The Highway Song”
There was something approaching a reunion of the gone-but-not-forgotten 90’s epoch Asheville band The Spoonbenders on the streets of downtown over the weekend, as Isaac Alexander Johnson and Jim Barton busked in front of the BB&T Building. Although significant cajoling couldn’t convince them to perform one of their older tunes, Barton (on acoustic bass guitar) joined in on an unrehearsed version of Johnson’s tune “The Highway Song.” Let’s have a listen.
Reaper + sunflowers
Photo by Halima Flynt
Bele Chere bands CD giveaway packs
Every day this week, Xpress is going to give away a pack of Bele Chere bands CDs. Starting today.
Roots + Wings School of Art offers an Asheville Art Retreat Package
It’s a preschool, it offers custom art studio session and, now, Roots + Wings is also working on a tourist-oriented retreat package.
Josh Phillips and Soulgrass Rebellion at DTA5
A slight drizzle didn’t deter the crowds at Friday’s Downtown After 5.
Busk Break: Taylor Martin and Lyndsay Pruitt perform “Devil’s in the Barroom”
Every so often, a downtown busking group really sink their teeth into what they’re playing and give a truly memorable performance. And that’s exactly what happened here, when Asheville-based singer/songwriter Taylor Martin and fiddle-player Lyndsay Pruitt performed Martin’s original tune “Devil’s in the Barroom” on Pack Square on Friday evening.