asheville Archive
06 Nov 2014
New Crest on an Old Wave: The Dave Mason Interview (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: This current tour [coming to Asheville’s Orange Peel on Nov. 8] is billed as Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam. From what I’ve read, it seems […]
05 Nov 2014
New Crest on an Old Wave: The Dave Mason Interview (Part One)
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Dave Mason was born in Worcester England, halfway between London and Liverpool. A few years younger even than The Beatles‘ George Harrison, Mason came up in […]
22 Oct 2014
Concert Preview: Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath
Shine a light into some of rock history’s less well-lit corners, and you’ll discover some strange yet intriguing detours. Among the most remarkable of these is the conceptual mash-up: combining […]
03 Oct 2014
Honeymoon Hundred-word Reviews, Part 5
I’m on my honeymoon this week, so I thought it would be a good time to offer up some backlog-clearing entries in my occasional series of Hundred Word Reviews. And […]
27 Sep 2014
Bonus Weekend Feature: 101 Runners
I’m getting married today! And I’m so happy about it that I have a gift for my readers: an extra, weekend piece. This is an edited version of a feature […]
23 Sep 2014
Festival Review: Transfigurations II, Part 2
Continued from Part One… I’ve long been a fan of what is sometimes labeled “kiwi pop,” the jangly guitar-based music – mostly made by a very interconnected community of musicians […]
22 Sep 2014
Festival Review: Transfigurations II, Part 1
It’s not easy putting together the lineup for a music festival. All sorts of competing forces work against each other in the planning process. You want a lineup that’s cutting-edge, […]
31 Jul 2014
Concert Review: The Musical Box, 22 July 2014, The Orange Peel, Asheville NC
When most modern-day listeners think of Genesis, their thoughts turn to the Phil Collins-fronted trio that released a string of pop albums and singles in the late 1970s and early […]
23 Jun 2014
Review: Moogfest 2014 (Part One)
Moogfest 2014 was indeed quite a different creature than its immediate predecessors. In both its focus and attitude, the five-day music/arts/technology event in Asheville NC was closer to the spirit […]
04 Jun 2014
Concert Review: World Party, Asheville NC 3 June 2014
One of the many joys of taking in a live show in Asheville is intimacy: arrive early, and it’s as likely as not that the artist you’ve paid to see […]