Crazy Bag at N.C. Stage: There was laughter, there were tears, there was a standing ovation. It was clear that the material itself and its presentation resonated very strongly with everyone. Well, almost everyone.
Be our guest at Thursday night’s Transfigurations show ***update: tickets won***
Answer a question and win a pair of guest-list spots for Thursday night’s show at the Grey Eagle, featuring Floating Action, the Coathangers and Kurt Vile and the Violators.
Edgy Mama: How much screen time is too much?
The amount of designated screen time is an ongoing kid vs. adult battle in my household. During the school year, my kids are allowed one hour per day, though they rarely have time even for that when school’s in session.
Neon signs
The Chucks, the leopard print, the neon accents… if it weren’t for the late-model vehicles, I’d swear this was the 80s.
Watch for next week’s Harvest Records giveaways!
Early next week, keep your browser windows open to mountainx.com cause we’re gonna be giving away tickets to each Transfigurations show. Yay!
Appalachian history buffs and music lovers, don’t miss this one
Catch the last weekend of the world premiere musical documentary Esley: The Life and Musical Legacy of Leslie Riddle. Riddle was an African-American Burnsville native who traveled with A.P. Carter of the Carter Family, searching out traditional mountain music and digging the roots of country music.
This weekend on a shoestring
This seems to be the weekend for small, homegrown festivals. The sort where you take the kids and a cooler (check on the rules first; some of these festivals don’t allow cervezas) and ease into a lawn chair along Main Street somewhere.
Exotic Appalachia
Even these days, when electric guitars and keyboards rule and mountain music is the stuff of Smithsonian recordings and PBS specials, a banjo player is easy enough to find. Asheville writer Gene Senyak recently published Banjo Camp!, Tyler Ramsey picked his way through a Band of Horses song, and Shindig on the Green — now […]
Still out doing what they do
Listen to the interview here! Twenty years (!) after the release of its debut, the clever and eclectic 3 Feet High and Rising, hip-hop trio De La Soul prove they're still relevant with a new release on iTunes and an album planned for later this year. Xpress talked to band member Posdnuos about the forefathers […]
Spork
So this week the section is pretty man-heavy. We always try for a balance of genres and venues, but this week's A&E dudeness was striking — one of those things you don't necessarily notice until you're turning your photos in to the designer, and they're all dudes, standing, sitting, rocking, whatever. Oh yeah, and one […]
Everyone should rock a mullet for a day or two
Bands tour with other bands. Some follow a festival circuit. And there are fans (often in vintage VW microbuses) who tail certain bands. But, as actor/screenwriter Andy Stuckey puts it, "No bands that I know of have ever been on the road with a movie they did the soundtrack for. And no movies that I […]
Get thee to the Hazel Robinson amphitheatre
Never been to a Montford Park Players production? Here’s a primer, plus a review of the excellent Taming of the Shrew.
Edgy Mama: Life lessons learned from pets
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about pets and death. Perhaps because I’ve had a number of friends who’ve recently lost long-time family pets. Perhaps because Biscuit (our dorkie-poo mutt) recently used our canoe as a springboard to jump the fence and follow us down to Asheville Pizza & Brewing.
Video-a-Go-Go: The local video roundup
Lotsa Bele Chere videos last week, including epic attempts to get there, videos from those who couldn’t, and some anti-Bele Chere activity.
The flat iron
Review of the Autumn Players’ Playboy of the Western World
The Autumn Players presents The Playboy of the Western World, a charming comedy set in a pub on the northwest coast of Ireland in the early 1900s.
Celebrate WNCW, WildSouth and Shannon Whitworth
Come out Friday night for a show from bluegrass/Americana artist Shannon Whitworth at the Grey Eagle, and you’ll be helping celebrate WNCW 88.7’s birthday and raise money for conservation organization WildSouth.
Green docs + polka dots
Book Report: Emily’s Ghost
Author Denise Giardina, often considered an Appalachian writer, crosses the Atlantic to recreate the life of 19th century Wuthering Heights novelist Emily Brontë. (Worth noting: today, July 30, is Emily’s birthday.)
Leopard print heels
This weekend on a shoestring
Bele Chere is behind us now, but the weekend unfolds ahead comes jam-packed with enough musical, outdoor, art, literary and general good summery fun to seem like we’re right back in festival mode.