Asheville producer, engineer and musican releases a new album and splits town.
Listening Party: Caroline Pond, Opus Grey and Silver
Here’s the idea: Each week, we pick three local musical acts, link to a site where you can listen to their songs for free, then ask you to spend a few moments of your time to tell us what you think about them. Some may be great, others may be middling or awful — that’s for you to decide — all we ask is that you listen with an open mind.
Book Report: Badlands
Warren Wilson alum wrestles beauty from the grip of death in her debut novel.
The Teen Beat Interview with Molly Kummerle
The following questions were culled from vintage Teen Beat interviews, circa mid-1980s. Xpress poses them to local music stars.
The Teen Beat Interview with Dehlia Low
The following questions were culled from vintage Teen Beat interviews, circa mid-1980s. Xpress poses them to local music stars.
Have yourself a passable little Christmas
Every year around this time, Mountain Xpress receives many bags of mail from readers who don’t know what to buy their loved ones for the holidays.* This is understandable, as each person has his or her own wants and desires, interests and peculiarities, and it is hard to satisfy all of these with just one […]
The librarian and her guitar
Like most local musicians, Angela Faye Martin has a day job. In her case, it’s at a library—which, upon listening to Martin’s music, seems an obvious fit. Authors and literary allusions pop in and out of her songs, which are often played and sung with a certain hush that simultaneously suggests an uncommon intimacy and […]
Collecting art on a budget
The holiday season is an interesting one for art galleries. Many of the commercial spaces in the area see it as a last chance to make enough cash to get them through the winter, when there are few visitors and fewer buyers. This can lead to an exhibition of a conglomeration of items that are […]
Hat trick
“There was not any one point where I had an epiphany and decided to [form] a jazz swing band,” insists Christa DeCicco, the voice of Knoxville, Tenn.-based Christabel and the Jons. Instead, she says, the group’s sound evolved over the two years the band has been together. Vintage vantage: Christabel and the Jons blend retro […]
Return to MTN CTY
Once upon a time, Fisher Meehan was Asheville’s great hope: a barefoot, scraggly-faced rocker with a gravelly voice on the verge of nationalizing a local community of musicians centered around the tiny basement dive off Lexington Avenue known as Vincent’s Ear. Holiday homecoming: Fisher Meehan returns to Asheville to perform at the Twin 22 Christmas […]
Top drawer: fashion news and views
Remember the hideous reindeer sweater foisted on Colin Firth’s character in Bridget Jones’s Diary? The ultimate badge of dorkiness, these layering pieces boasting appliquéd holiday themes (snowmen, Christmas trees, Santa Claus) are now regularly ridiculed with “Seasonal Sweater Soirees” (look it up on YouTube). But maybe the ire is misplaced and, with a sense of […]
Music review: Warren Haynes Christmas Jam
There’s a moment within every guitar solo where the song can either be taken to another place musically and become something both epic and heart wrenching, or it can fall into the self-parody ghetto. At this year’s Christmas Jam, Warren Haynes and friends knew this, and for the most part stayed away from the latter.
Music review: Warren Haynes Christmas Pre-Jam
The Warren Haynes Pre-Jam, held at the Orange Peel was everything you’d expect, and more. It was also a love letter to the great soul music of yesteryear.
The Teen Beat Interview with Christian Imes
The following questions were culled from vintage Teen Beat interviews, circa mid-1980s. Xpress poses them to local music stars.
Review: Asheville Symphony Holiday Pops
The Symphony’s annual pops concerts allows the listener to feel both cultured and like donning a seasonal sweater.
Edgy Mama: Kids giveth and kids taketh away
My book club, along with every other book club in America, recently read Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir, Eat, Pray, Love. When we discussed the story, one of my book-club buddies noted Gilbert’s courage in venturing off on a yearlong spiritual search for self. But, she added, for those of us with kids, that amount of time and space for self is fricking impossible (OK, she didn’t say “fricking” — I did).
The Teen Beat Interview with Jon Morrow
The following questions were culled from vintage Teen Beat interviews, circa mid-1980s. Xpress poses them to local music stars.
The Teen Beat Interview with Will Saylor
The following questions were culled from vintage Teen Beat interviews, circa mid-1980s. Xpress poses them to local music stars.
The Teen Beat Interview with EFX
The following questions were culled from vintage Teen Beat interviews, circa mid-1980s. Xpress poses them to local music stars.
Return to Oz
I’m old enough to remember seeing The Wizard of Oz on a black and white TV. I only had my parents’ word for it that Oz was in color. Now, of course, you can pop in all manner of DVD incarnations. But, for the real deal, nothing beats seeing Oz on the big screen.
An extended interview with G. Love of G. Love & Special Sauce
Blue/hip-hop artist talks about his career, his new album, and why he’s playing the Warren Haynes Christmas Jam.