Just in time for this tough economy—and (less bleakly) for the first day of spring—Asheville’s Night’s Bright Colors releases its newest effort, Late Night by Lamplight. The online-only album (available on Friday, Mar. 20 at www.nightsbrightcolors.com) can be downloaded for free. The no-cost digital album is in keeping with the times. In late 2007, mega […]

In case you missed it, Asheville Street Style launched online earlier this year. The photo-based Web site—check it out at www.mountainx.com/streetstyle—documents Asheville’s colorful and creative fashion scene. Images, gathered by a team of photographers, run the gamut from the DIY and recycled styles spotted on Lexington Ave. and boutique-y looks seen on downtown workers on […]

By the time the String Cheese Incident broke up in 2007, the band had reached the upper echelons of jam-band fame, established a successful, self-sustaining business model and emerged as the victor in a legal battle with Ticketmaster. Still, the breakup of the band itself didn’t come as a surprise to percussionist Jason Hann, a […]

“Songwriting is a fun thing. I don’t put too much pressure on it because it doesn’t help anybody and it doesn’t help the song,” says Vetiver leader Andy Cabic.  Looking at the near-constant state of flux that has defined Vetiver’s existence over its five-year history, it’s clear that Cabic doesn’t put too much pressure on […]

When Penny Carscaddon took her first painting class in the late 1960s, painting the Stations of the Cross was the furthest thing from her mind. She was simply taking her young son to art classes hoping to improve his illegible hand-writing. “I just wanted to play with color again, and somehow do something worthwhile,” says […]