30 Mar 2023
Avant Garde in WNC: Okapi
Okapi is the duo of Lindsey Miller (cello) and Scott Gorski (upright bass). Originally based in Chicago, they launched Okapi in 2012. While the couple describes their project as a […]
29 Mar 2023
Avant Garde in WNC: Tashi Dorji
Experimental guitarist-composer Tashi Dorji is initially nonplussed when asked how receptive Asheville audiences have been to his brand of avant garde music. “I don’t consider what I do ‘entertainment’ music,” […]
28 Mar 2023
Avant Garde in WNC: Min Xiao-Fen
Min Xiao-Fen relocated to Asheville from New York City in 2020. By that point she was already an in-demand, world-class musician. Min’s primary instrument is the pipa, an ancient lute-like […]
27 Mar 2023
Avant Garde in WNC: It Might Get Weird
Asheville and all of Western North Carolina is home to a wide array of musical styles. Though Asheville is rightly seen as a hotbed of bluegrass and a magnet for […]
26 Mar 2023
Take Five: Phil Collins
Phil Collins is best known as the lead singer and drummer in Genesis, and as a solo artist. His peerless drumming is a key component of what makes those recordings […]
25 Mar 2023
Album Review: Peggy Lee — Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown North Dakota
If you were a rock fan in 1972, chances are good that you had no use for so-called “easy listening” music. That was the stuff your parents and their uncool […]
24 Mar 2023
Album Review: Rick Wakeman — A Gallery of the Imagination
Rick Wakeman is staggeringly prolific. I defy anyone to absorb his entire body of work; hell, even coming up with an accurate count on the number of album’s he’s released […]
23 Mar 2023
Take Five: Andy Summers
Andy Summers is best known as guitarist in The Police, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1980s. That band’s reggae-influenced take on new wave […]
22 Mar 2023
“Do Your Parents Know You’re Ramones?!”
“Riff Randell, rock ‘n’ roller.” That’s how P.J. Soles introduces her character in Rock N Roll High School, the cult film that built upon a foundation of B-movies and served […]
21 Mar 2023
The Shiny, Timeless Pop of Tchotchke
There’s a strong classic pop sensibility running through the songs on Tchotchke, the self-titled debut album by the New York City trio. The three musicians admit as much. “I grew […]