music business Archive
10 May 2024
A Profile of Harvest Records in Asheville NC
The Record Store: Neighborhood, Community, and Celebrations in the Blue Ridge Mountains This feature first appeared in SPIN In the early 2000s, Mark Capon and Matt Schnable were pals attending […]
28 Dec 2023
The Beatles, Bootlegs, Artificial Intelligence and ‘Rockin’ Roxburgh’
I’m a lifelong Beatles fan. I discovered Meet the Beatles in my parents’ otherwise kinda-square record collection and was knocked out. That would have been in the late ‘60s, right […]
06 Jul 2023
Anno X Festival Celebrates Burial Beer’s 10-year Anniversary
When Doug and Jess Reiser and Tim Gormley launched Burial Beer Co. in 2013, Asheville’s newest brewery featured just one location. Renovating an industrial space on 40 Collier Avenue, the […]
27 May 2023
White Horse Transitions to Nonprofit
Popular Western N.C. music venue White Horse Black Mountain is in the process of changing over from a for-profit enterprise to a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Typically, such a change would […]
26 May 2023
Book Review: The Monkees: Made in Hollywood
For those of us of a certain age, The Monkees are an important part of our world, woven into the pop culture fabric of our lives. Their TV show was […]
28 Apr 2023
The State of Touring: an Asheville Perspective, Part 2 of 2
Continued from Part One… Quality over quantity Before the pandemic, Bask toured incessantly. In 2015 alone, the heavy rock band based in Asheville played nearly 20 dates on its European […]
27 Apr 2023
The State of Touring: an Asheville Perspective, Part 1 of 2
Asheville serves as the base of operation for numerous touring music artists; when they’re not on the road, quite a few solo artists and band members call Western North Carolina […]
07 Apr 2023
Asheville Music Venues in a Post-pandemic World, Part 2
Continued from Part One… Guarded optimism While most indications suggest that the worst of the pandemic is now history, the teams that run local music venues don’t want to get […]
06 Apr 2023
Asheville Music Venues in a Post-pandemic World, Part 1
In March 2020, music and entertainment venues across the U.S. closed their doors; virtually overnight, concert halls and clubs went from having a full schedule to turning out the stage […]
23 Sep 2022
Real People, Great Radio (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Community perspective on community radio Volunteer-driven and nonprofit, AshevilleFM was launched to offer a non-commercial, community-focused listening option for Asheville radio listeners. The station’s mission statement […]