Students at Vance Elementary (with soloist Mars Mignon) perform Alabama’s “Angels Among Us.”
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Students at Vance Elementary (with soloist Mars Mignon) perform Alabama’s “Angels Among Us.”
A&E reporter Alli Marshall names her top eight favorite local releases of the year.
Just when you thought you’d have to wait until next year for more Warren Haynes Christmas Jam, Jesse Hamm’s got three more Jam videos shot for Xpress.
View The Mad Tea Party’s just released video for “Oh Sh*t It’s Christmastime.” (Warning: As the song title suggests, there is some strong language, as well as a bird-flipping Santa and a naughty elf. Not for the easily offended.)
As promised, here’s footage from deft videographer Jesse Hamm. The first is the Stones’ classic “Wild Horses.” Then there’s Govt’ Mule’s “Brokedown on the Brazos.”
Check out Xpress photo gallery from the Christmas Jam (and Pre-Jam) over the weekend.
Looking for a way to warm up this weekend? Get on the party bus Saturday and ride out to Black Mountain for an Afromotive show.
Jason Sandford caught up with Asheville-based singer/songwriter/guitarist Tyler Ramsey before his Saturday show at the Grey Eagle. Ramsey’s just finished a tour with indie phenoms Band of Horses. Video by Jesse Hamm.
We couldn’t publish the full interview with Americana guitarist/producer/songwriter/singer Dave Rawlings—it would’ve consumed the entire A&E section. Thank goodness for the Internet. Here’s the whole thing, which author Brian McGee promises is “chock full of nerdy Dave Rawlings info.”
Brian McGee of local country-punk outfit Brian McGee and the Hollow Speed interviews Fat Possum artist A.A. Bondy before his show at the Grey Eagle. Bondy opened for Elvis Perkins in Dearland on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Videographer Jesse Hamm filmed the exchange and Bondy’s performance.
Correspondent Jake Frankel and photographer Jonathan Welch bring you a terrific video and photos from this fall’s LEAF.
Counting Crows and Ani DiFranco top the just-released roster.
N.C.‘s Avett Brothers just announced that their only N.C. date on their 2010 tour will be at Merle Fest in Wilkesboro. Pre-sale for tickets starts today!
Asheville dance-music fans, get ready to get down tomorrow: Bassnectar is at the Orange Peel, and Bonobo plays the official after-party at Club 828.
If it seems like Asheville music has evolved into a heady brew of world beat, experimental, indie rock and quirky pop, these four discs — all recently released by well-respected Asheville-based songwriters and musicians — prove that roots music (namely Americana) is alive and well. • Long Days Above Ground by Pierce Edens and The […]
A couple of eco-friendly music events are going on in town Thursday and Friday: The Duhks (with Solas) at the Orange Peel and Kung Fu Dynamite and Fifth House at the Emerald Lounge on Friday. What makes these shows green? Read on to find out.
Though downtown Asheville's streets are full of buskers — especially on a warm weekend night when the tourists and dinner crowds swarm Battery Park and the Grove Arcade — a stand-out act still does just that: Stands out. That's the story with Leeda Jones, aka Lyric. Nothing's going to break her stride: Lyric Jones performs […]
Rising stars The Avett Brothers announce the band will play the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on New Year’s.
Dynamic indie duo Laura Balance and Mac McCaughan tell the 20-year story of the “label that got big and stayed small”
An evening with one of indie-pop’s most operatic collectives yields drama and goofy fun, both.
Check out the Mountain Xpress story on the two-day, all-heavy Planet Caravan festival, answer two questions and win a pair of weekend passes.