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Something for a rainy day: Questions for a Trinumeral ticket giveaway ***update: Tickets won!***
Win a pair of tix for the massive Trinumeral music and arts festival this weekend at Deerfields, featuring a huge lineup of world music, electronic artists and much more!
This weekend on a shoestring
Electronica and indie pop to country-punk and good ol’ soul. Stick to downtown Asheville or head for the Mountain State Fair — either way you can dance your booty off without coughing up more than five bucks.
Win a pair of guest-list spots for The New Deal **update: Tickets won***
Live electronica pioneers The New Deal hit the Orange Peel on Friday. Want to go? Xpress is giving away two guest-list spots for the show.
For the Orange Peel, an evolution
The Orange Peel Social Aid and Pleasure Club, Asheville’s premiere downtown music venue with a national reputation as a top music destination, is expanding.
Tuesday Spork: Two cool shows at BoBo, Craggie Brewing needs mural, Prefuse 73
Some Tuesday A&E news: Australian singer/songwriter Keppie Coutts and her Berklee bud Angi West at BoBo, EAR PWR back in town, Craggie Brewing needs a mural painter and tickets on sale for Prefuse 73.
Five reasons to go see the Fiery Furnaces Tuesday night
Hint: No. 2 is the White Rabbits. No. 5 is health-care reform.
Baseball and beers…well, sortof
So there’s not any baseball at the actual event, but there are four of Asheville’s most-entertaining bands and more than 30 craft brews to enjoy this Saturday.
Win tickets to DIG festival *** update: tickets gone ***
We’ve got three pairs of tickets to give away for the first-ever DIG (Downtown Independent Groove) festival! Come and get ‘em.
Relive Transfigurations
Check out these Xpress photo galleries and lots of photos from Lydia See.
The final giveaway! Akron/Family, War on Drugs ***Update: Tickets gone!***
Win two guest-list spots for the final Transfigurations show on Saturday night at the Grey Eagle. Featuring Akron/Family, War on Drugs, Circulatory System and Jonathan Kane. Wow wow wow!
Win guest-list spots for The Books, Mount Eerie and Villages! ***Update: Tickets won!***
Only two giveaways left, and here’s one of ‘em: Win guest-list for the Saturday evening Transfigurations show at Diana Wortham, featuring The Books, Mount Eerie and Villages.
Win guest-list spots for Budos Band and Ice Cream! ***Update: Tickets won!***
Just be the first to e-mail your answer and win a pair of spots for the afro-soulful Budos Band and Asheville’s very own Ice Cream.
Win guest-list spots for Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Brightblack Morning Light ***Update: Tickets won***
Today we’re giving away guest-list spots for the Friday night Harvest Records’ Transfigurations shows. First up: Friday’s evening show, featuring the incomparable Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Brightblack Morning Light and Steve Gunn.
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.
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!
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.
Soundtrack
From the opening notes, fuzzy and aggressive through Stella Blue's downstairs sound system, Wooden Toothe plants its feet firmly in the fuzzy-and-aggressive territory between country and punk. Yet this is no country-punk outfit. The quartet, fronted by sprightly bass player Pierce Harmon, nods to both Uncle Tupelo and the Sex Pistols with neither a twang […]
This weekend on a shoestring
Beyond the snarl of Bele Chere’s festival crowds and hawkers, what sort of free or low-cost happenings can be found?
POPAsheville won’t happen in 2010
The organizers of POPAsheville have announced that the festival won’t happen in 2010.
Free show! Blue Dragons at Pisgah Brewing Company tonight
You may have seen Mountain Xpress ad director James Fisher rocking faces off over the years with one of his many bands, including the legendary American Gothic. Catch him tonight with his new band the Blue Dragons.