live shows Archive
25 Oct 2013
Preview: Mountain Oasis Electronic Summit
The history of the new Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit is a bit knotty. Quick capsule back-story: synthesizer pioneer R.A. Moog passed away in August 2005. As a way to […]
17 Oct 2013
Cody ChesnuTT: Everybody’s Brother
by Special Guest Blogger Annelise Kopp Though hailed in some quarters, Cody ChestnuTT‘s debut album, Headphone Masterpiece, received mixed reviews, some unforgiving. While critics seemed to agree that the R&B/neo-soul […]
16 Oct 2013
Shuggie Otis at The Orange Peel, Asheville NC 9 October 2013 (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Once the doors opened, we entered and secured our barstools, settling in to wait for the show. Minutes earlier, the Orange Peel’s Facebook event update status […]
15 Oct 2013
Shuggie Otis at The Orange Peel, Asheville NC 9 October 2013 (Part One)
One evening early in September 2013, I was on the phone with a good friend. “Shuggie Otis is playing next month at The Orange Peel,” I announced. “What?! No…” Clearly […]
10 Oct 2013
Feature Preview: Cody ChesnuTT
Last week I enjoyed the rare pleasure of seeing Cody ChesnuTT in concert, at Asheville’s Grey Eagle. A few weeks ago, when the opportunity to interview him in advance of […]
09 Oct 2013
Album Review: Alex Chilton – Electricity by Candlelight
Bootlegs or ROIOs* or fan recordings: however one wishes to label them, they play an often important and unappreciated part in documenting musical history. As Clinton Heylin explains in his […]
04 Oct 2013
X Marks the Spot: The 2013 Richard X Heyman Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One Bill Kopp: You’ve long been one of those artists who can handle everything in the studio; other than Nancy engineering, most of your albums have featured […]
23 Sep 2013
Concert Review: Superhumanoids at Asheville’s Orange Peel, 20 Sept 2013
Doubtless you’ve heard the old saying, “If you remember the 60s, you weren’t there.” Well, for whatever reason – perhaps because it didn’t host the ascendancy of the baby boom […]
18 Sep 2013
Album Review: Estrangers — Season of 1000 Colors
If there was a common musical thread connecting most of the several dozen acts at Hopscotch 2013, it was edginess: an approach to songwriting and performance that leaned in an […]
17 Sep 2013
Concert Preview: Superhumanoids and Mayer Hawthorne
Coming this Friday (September 20, 2013) to Asheville NC’s Orange Peel: Los Angeles-based band Superhumanoids, opening for Mayer Hawthorne. The trio’s sound owes a stylistic debt to 80s synth-centric pop, […]