What's a nice girl like Lyndsay Wojcik doing in a place like this?
Textile conference brings new life to an old industry
| 01/07/09
Lost folk-soul artist Rodriguez emerges from working-class Detroit life to find he's a cult hero
Whitney Shroyer | 01/07/09 |
What's on our radar
Local CD roundup
Where does the feisty come from?
S.S. Drawing Club illustrates bizarre events of past year
Ursula Gullow | 01/14/09 |
What to know about our town's preeminent indie music festival
POPAsheville workshops offer practical ideas
New exhibit of Southern folk art looks at race and civil rights
What's on our radar
Hey mister DJ
Wash your freakin' hands, please
Owner Steve Wilmans and friends renovating two downtown buildings into brewery, recording studios and hostel
Anne Fitten Glenn | 01/21/09 |
Debut novel from the owner of The Handlebar
Asheville Fringe Festival offers abstract, experimental and original art
Lots of publicists call Xpress hawking shows. Which is good, cause how
Old Horsey Slideshow: Pretty, funny, variety
Liz Allen | 01/28/09
High School Musical forever
Young writers' classes are held in Thomas Wolfe's boyhood home
The Drive-By Truckers keep on keeping on
Jason Bugg | 01/28/09 |
Legendary installation artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude visit Asheville
What's on our radar?
Woody Pines: Ragtime redux
Dear President Obama: Our kids are watching
Annuals tend the future of indie pop
Does Asheville love (indie) rock 'n roll?
Buncombe Turnpike tells it like it was (except for the eyeball popping out)
What's on our radar?
The Enemy Lovers make a whole lot of friends
Make own your Valentine cards and decorations
What to do with the one you love (or even if you don't have a date)
Lambchop writes love songs about the grey areas
John Schacht | 02/11/09
Folk artist's show finds spiritual home in Marshall
Natasha Shealy | 02/11/09
Why Dr. Dog boasts an old soul
What's on our radar?
Silas Durocher: If Igor Stravinsky met Anthony Kiedis
Jake Frankel | 02/18/09
25 random things
Brooklyn's The Mumbles come to Bobo Gallery
What's on our radar?
Ron Rash's darkly riveting Serena
Asheville celebrates in the New Orleans tradition
Angi West's very special CD release
Lydia See | 02/25/09
Boobs are for food, and I'm not talking chicken breasts here
Tips and tricks for planning a wedding on a budget
Organic beer and local music at Pisgah Brewery (and video games, pool, a fire pit and lawn sports)
Michael Franti on playing in Asheville, recording in Jamaica and holding on to hope
Jar-e drops an expressive new pop album
David Connor Jones | 02/25/09 |
What's on our radar
Morrissey proves, after two decades, that sad suits him just fine
The Supreme Genius of their psychedelic soul: Bringing the rock 'n'roll spirit to town
Bill Kopp | 03/04/09
Julian Koster manifests The Music Tapes in real world again.
Dave Cole | 03/04/09
Graffiti in the River District
What's on our radar
Debut novel tackles race, social change, and housekeeping
The imaginative wits of artist Lisa Nance
Ursula Gullow | 03/11/09
Electric Owls' frontman flees New York, finds Asheville, rediscovers music
Jake Frankel | 03/11/09
What's on our radar
Regional eclecticism prevails with this collection of new discs.
Haw Creek Church shows the work of Candler artist Penny Carscaddon
Connie Bostic | 03/18/09 |
Vetiver bandleader stays easygoing but pays attention to the details
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 03/18/09
Former String Cheese Incident members plunge full-on into dance music
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 03/18/09
Following Asheville's street style
What's on our radar
At home with Johnson's Crossroad
Oral-history juggernaut makes a long-awaited local stop
Fashion show encourages local business
UNCA brings Hedwig director to town
Dixie's Tupperware Party sets up shop at Diana Wortham Theatre
What's on our radar
The mystic crystal revelations of Crystal Kind
Free concert from jazz virtuoso to honor life of former UNCA student
Blue Ridge Rollergirls start their '09 season
The Afromotive's new sound, new lineup, new vision
This week's column has an Orange theme to it -- but we swear we're not infomercialling.
Ambient folk group Great Lake Swimmers plumbs the watery depths
Dave Cole | 04/08/09
Tron-A-Thon delivers two nights of electronica supreme
Josh Dorfman's budget guide to eco-living.
April is woodworking month, and Western North Carolina has a lot to show for it
Harriette Grissom | 04/08/09 |
mentor exhibition showcases the power of steel
Katey Schultz | 04/15/09
Dave Cole | 04/15/09 |
L.A.'s Dengue Fever makes the world a little smaller
Baltimore's Arbouretum embodies an overlooked tradition
Justin Farrar | 04/15/09
Asheville artist debuts his narrative works at Flood Gallery
Ursula Gullow | 04/15/09
Miriam Allen's one-woman caravan
Hunter Pope | 04/22/09
The lowdown on the downhome music festival
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center creates an immersive event at the skate park
Lovable folksies Now You See Them tell a truth-is-weirder-than-fiction story
The education of singer/songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield
Asheville's under-the-radar love affair with vinyl
Liz Allen | 04/22/09
A few of Asheville's most beloved bands celebrate new CDs
"If you believe in magic, it believes in you"
Ursula Gullow | 04/22/09 |
Bailemos! It's Cinco de Mayo
If Malcolm Holcombe isn't a legend yet, here's why he should be
Second annual Wordfest brings poets together; this year with a focus on poetry as citizen journalism
Asheville's avant-garde: Mind vs. Target scores a direct hit
David Connor Jones | 05/06/09
Golden Blade III goes to Hollywood
Junk is the ideal product: Xpress' brand-new column on the second-hand world
Whitney Shroyer | 05/06/09 |
Risk and Reward:Tramp Life and On the Verge
Ursula Gullow | 05/06/09 |
Japanese psychedelic collective Ghost graces the States with a tour
Dave Cole | 05/06/09
Eco folk-pop trio Bowerbirds grow their music career and their garden
Whitney Shroyer | 05/13/09 |
The Montford Music & Arts Festival enters its 6th year
Rock opera Tommy rocks musical theater
Moogfest moves to Asheville, a Moogseum's in the works and Bob Moog's archives are revealing plenty of surprises
Where Buffalo roams
Lydia See | 05/20/09 |
Bargains to Smokies to squirrels
From Rooftops to river Banks: Something for everyone
Ursula Gullow | 05/20/09 |
Filmmakers use URTV skills to document handcrafted beer culture
Bonnie Prince Billy plays a rare Asheville show
Wayne Robbins | 05/20/09 |
Benefit reunites four prominent area rock bands
Tonight in this Motel: Zach Blew jumpstarts his music career
Swingin’ the hard bat with Josh Phillips
The Enemy Lovers make up for their rock-free teen years
Seth Kauffman’s Floating Action takes D.I.Y. all the way
Jake Frankel | 05/27/09 |
You need to put some junk in your trunk
Whitney Shroyer | 05/27/09 |
Asheville finally catches the big one
Jake Frankel | 06/03/09 |
Crafting a tradition
Ursula Gullow | 06/03/09
Xpress launches new online review project
Resident outsider music legend Don Howland likes obscurity but loves music more
Whitney Shroyer | 06/03/09 |
GFE guitarist Josh Blake’s artistically profitable side projects, from folk-rock to heavy metal to reality TV
Indie phenoms Band of Horses on punking Wal-Mart, a dynamic new sound and playing to the home crowd
A multifarious conglomeration bustles within these walls
A day at my Phil Mechanic studio
Ursula Gullow | 06/10/09
Metal work to lingerie: the DIY spirit and community energy of the River Arts District's Phil Mechanic Studios
by Alli Marshall, with Rebecca Sulock | 06/10/09 |
The toothsome folk-rock of Fox-Teeth
Lydia See | 06/17/09
from Junker’s Union Local No. 3313
Whitney Shroyer | 06/17/09 |
Fear not, the summertime ball still rolls
Asheville Prison Books program celebrates 10 years of action
Ursula Gullow | 06/17/09 |
The ultimate cinematic pressure cooker returns to town
Floating Action: Must start loving them now
The natural and the supernatural
Ursula Gullow | 06/24/09
Bitch in A Beautiful View
Terpsicorps' Recession Blues, its lone production this season
Open Letter music series brings avant-garde jazz to Asheville
David Sedaris returns to Asheville on paperback book tour, wherein he likely won't crack open a book
Erika Wennerstrom gives voice to indie-rockers Heartless Bastards
All that glitters is not glove: Jackson's death leaves eBay in a state of shock
Whitney Shroyer | 07/01/09 |
A bevy of Fourth of July options in WNC
Saving POPAsheville
Winston-Salem natives and former dB's Holsapple and Stamey get back to it
Bill Kopp | 07/08/09 |
Cary Fridley gets lo-fi on her latest release, Fare You Well
Jake Frankel | 07/08/09
The Big Crafty festival gets even bigger
Lexington murals grow bigger and brighter
Asheville Area Arts Council grants give a lift to local visionaries
Ursula Gullow | 07/15/09 |
Reading, writing, art
Ursula Gullow | 07/15/09
Downtown After Five gets down and dirty
The (little white elephant lies) junkers tell
Whitney Shroyer | 07/15/09
Songwriter Todd Snider on hippies, Bob Dylan and meeting the bespectacled despiser of short people
Whitney Shroyer | 07/15/09
Asheville's burgeoning comedy scene's got the recession covered, from the stand-up Laugh Your Asheville Off festival to sketch comedy from local troupes
Jake Frankel | 07/15/09
Gaffer? Designer? Animator? Now there's a new place to help you get more work
Unavoidable hype: Cobra Horse and Ume at Emerald Lounge
Lydia See | 07/22/09
Black Moth Super Rainbow mix the sweet with the sinister
Dave Cole | 07/22/09
Decline of Western North Carolina still punk enough to give a sh-t
Hunter Pope | 07/22/09 |
Your rocker roots are showing: Wooden Toothe and The Steves at Stella Blue
A shopping cart, a banjo and a dream: Local playwright gets into the New York International Fringe Festival
Detachment, despondency and dystopia reflected in three local art shows
Ursula Gullow | 07/29/09
The parable of the box and the plumber, or what would you do in Rabuck's place?
Whitney Shroyer | 07/29/09 |
Armenian vocalist Mariam Matossian performs with Free Planet Radio
Latin-funk act Grupo Fantasma comes to the Grey Eagle
Catch a Southern-fried comedy film and a concert from soundtrack artist Langhorne Slim, both in one night
De La Soul: The 20 Years High and Rising tour
Patrick Conant | 08/05/09
Greg Cartwright continues to Reign; Woody Pines rolls it on over
Akira Satake's cross-cultural banjo picking
Swedish psych-jazz rockers Dungen (that's DOON-yen) return to Asheville
Bill Kopp | 08/12/09
Record label owners committed to hunting down hidden sounds will share stories and show films at Saturday panel
Eric Dawson | 08/12/09 |
How a little record shop flouted a turbulent industry to become a community stronghold
Justin F. Farrar | 08/12/09 |
Learn about the lineup that's got national outlets from Pitchfork to Tiny Mix Tapes abuzz
Justin Farrar | 08/12/09
Chuck Lichtenberger Collective: Challenging within the happy bubble
The myth of the starving artist?
Ursula Gullow | 08/19/09 |
Former Asheville band's evolution from Scrappy Hamilton to (Chris Robinson-produced!) Truth & Salvage Co.
Asheville's first-ever DIG (Downtown Independent Groove) Festival shows its roots
Looking back at the venues Xpress covered in its first issues (some have gone, some remain)
Alli Marshall and Rebecca Sulock | 08/19/09 |
Marshall: The South of France of the South
Ursula Gullow | 08/26/09 |
Morgan Geer of The Merle and Unholy Trio returns to Asheville with his new sound
Inner Visions brings reggae from the Virgin Islands to Goombay
As the Great Smoky Mountains National Park turns 75, new documentaries tell tales of the Japanese immigrant who helped save the land he photographed and loved
Kent Priestley | 08/26/09 |
Saint Solitude: Between a rock and a pop place
Lydia See | 09/02/09
Searching into smaller worlds
Ursula Gullow | 09/02/09
Slimmin' at Pickens – the Flea Market Work out
Whitney Shroyer | 09/02/09
New CDs dropping and more on the way
Boogie kings bring back their special brand of rag 'n' roll
Jake Frankel | 09/02/09
New calendar chronicles some of Asheville's wild personalities
Beloved Lexington festival celebrates eight years
Our newest community media project gets going
The Steep Canyon Rangers host some big names in bluegrass, from Dave Grisman to the Seldom Scene to Steve Martin
Margaret Cho on carbonated beverages, Drop Dead Diva and, er, other things
Marissa Williams | 09/09/09
Frequent flyers Groundation brings its Europe-approved reggae to Asheville
Trinumeral returns to Deerfields
Mountain State Fair returns with all the quirky wholesomeness you've come to expect
Is summer really over? Does it matter? News on Downtown after Five, Gram Parsons and Gonerfest
Crippled by kipple: Do junker's dream of uncluttered digs?
Whitney Shroyer | 09/16/09 |
The Kingsbury Manx isn't going anywhere
Dane Smith | 09/16/09
Planet Caravan festival lineup celebrates metal's roots, and its new directions
Bryan Reed | 09/16/09
Whether you're going to Brewgrass or not, there's plenty of beer to be had around town — and another festival planned for Spring
The unpredictable German band Faust return for a rare U.S. tour
Eric Dawson | 09/23/09
Asheville's Town Mountain spreads the good bluegrass word
Dane Smith | 09/23/09
Children's book author Tomie dePaola draws beloved character and her garden
Fifth annual BookOpolis celebrates the original interactive medium — with myriad modern flourishes
Ursula Gullow | 09/23/09
Shod My Feet is complicated, in a good way
Lydia See | 09/23/09 |
Local CD reviews
Another man's trash?
Whitney Shroyer | 09/30/09
Art in the Park; work from Suzie Millions; Karen Havens at Flood
Malcolm Holcombe returns with his seventh full-length album
Dane Smith | 09/30/09 |
The Black Crowes' self-proclaimed "most linear" member on touring, maturing, and the art of compromise
Taiyo la Paix's fluffy, shiny paintings reveal deeper meanings
Gonerfest to Oktoberfest to Fiesta Latina
Lyric Jones: An up-and-coming performer living up to her name
Asheville Lyric Opera opens its 11th season with The Marriage of Figaro
Viktorija Krulikas | 10/07/09
Alums, scholars, artists descend on Asheville for Black Mountain College conference
Ursula Gullow | 10/07/09 |
Some of LEAF's most eclectic acts come from just down the road
The Americana roundup
The art of the haggle, or don't dicker and tell
Whitney Shroyer | 10/14/09 |
The Southern Highland Craft Guild's biannual fair returns to roost this weekend
Harriette Grissom | 10/14/09
Punk ambassadors Just Die! attack venues from Asheville to New Brunswick
Dane Smith | 10/14/09 |
International violin soloist Noah Bendix-Balgley comes home to the Asheville Symphony
How to get involved at URTV
The all-free, all-day Just Because You're Asheville concert returns
Lydia See | 10/21/09
Wherein Brian McGee quotes Billy Joel, the Honeycutters reveal their emotional needs and Andy Friedman denies he's a cynic
Dane Smith | 10/21/09
Xpress' Best of WNC Bash celebrates reader-picked winners
Music to score junk by
Whitney Shroyer | 10/28/09 |
The undefinable Ahleuchatistas release a fifth album to raves
Dane Smith | 10/28/09
Novelist Barbara Kingsolver sets The Lacuna partly in Asheville
Stuff to keep you in the spirit after Halloween's done gone
Halloween costumes from downtown Asheville
by Alli Marshall, photos by Jonathan Welch | 10/28/09
Haunted happenings for all ages
Lots to celebrate in Black Mountain
Photographer Rob Amberg records how I-26 changed Madison County
Debut kids' film fest breaks out of the commercial pack
Locally-made films span a bevy of unusual topics — and others tackle subjects of local intrigue
Staff | 11/04/09
Free educational sessions, coffee talks and workshops are open to the public
Xpress staff | 11/04/09 |
Festival's opening and closing features have earned great reviews
Staff | 11/04/09
Strolling or riding, the River Arts District studios are open this weekend
Ursula Gullow | 11/11/09 |
Open Windows opens doors
Lydia See | 11/11/09 |
Woody Pines' album pairs new songs with retro sounds
Hasidic reggae singer Matisyahu inspires change
Jake Frankel | 11/11/09
Reigning Sound and Floating Action play Prom, Asheville style
Asheville's Modo, from craiglist origins to Echo Mountain-recorded debut
Lydia See | 11/18/09
Super nova: Asheville's The Nova Echo
Local CD roundup
The If You Wannas release Island Diplomacy
Dane Smith | 11/18/09
Asheville Idiotarod pits shopping carts, costumes and trickery, all in the name of fun
Your guide to what's happening in music, theater and the arts in Asheville and Western North Carolina
Xpress staff | 11/25/09
What are we thankful for? Fred's Speakeasy, Russ Wilson's Art Deco Revue and the Decline of Western North Carolina
Goodwill Disgruntling
Whitney Shroyer | 11/25/09 |
The power of the unconscious, on display in mixed-media
Ursula Gullow | 11/25/09
The intensity of Joe Buck comes to Stella Blue
Dane Smith | 11/25/09 |
Longtime Gillian Welch/Old Crow Medicine Show/Conor Oberst collaborator cranks up a new album
Brian McGee | 11/25/09
Fun's not reserved for the weekends — WNC boasts a full lineup of dances, jam sessions, open mics and boogie nights
