After being nudged by Matt from Harvest, I finally came up with my top album from 2008:
I could link to the albums and get money back from Amazon, but I’d prefer if you went out and bought them locally.
Did you know you can listen to WPVM on your iPhone? Download SHOUTcast Radio from the iTunes Music Store and then search for “wpvm”. Listen to the 128k stream by enabling hi-bit streams in the Settings app.
You can also listen to WNCW using the Public Radio Tuner. Both the apps are free and work on your iPod Touch too.
Haven’t we been through enough? The layoffs, the gas crisis, crooked cops, Tiger Woods.
And now this: The Hollywood Theatre will start showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show every month complete with actors from the Montford Park Players. I thought it was a misprint in the Mountain Express, but Fandango confirms it.
The memories of those countless high school cast party showings had just started to fade…
However, if you want to get your cherry popped, read up on your first time because it can be scary.
Does anyone know of a good local lingerie shop where I can get fitted for an extra-large bustier and fishnets?
Of Montreal is going to be at The Grey Eagle tonight, but it’s sold out. I should have told you earlier… My bad.
Sandlin is the amazing photographer/bartender at the Eagle and he took some photos of them last time they were here.
Asheville’s S.S. Drawing Club is debuting their new handbound book, Newsworthy, tonight at BoBo Gallery. The limited-edition book collects illustrations loosely based on real current events from 2008. The driving forces behind the book were illustrator Julie Armbruster and dressmaker R. Brooke Priddy, who you may know better as Ship to Shore. The opening is from 7:30 - 10pm, but the show will be on display through January.
King Tut will be the special musical guest, which we are very excited about since we haven’t been able to catch them yet. They will also be playing next Wednesday, January 7 at The New French Bar with DC’s Deleted Scenes and Chapel Hill’s Hammer No More the Fingers.
Still don’t have plans for New Year’s Eve? Here are some ideas:
What’s worse than being stuck on a booze cruise in the freezing cold? Being stuck on a train. The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad is having a gala full of dining, dancing, live entertainment, and nauseating motion.
If you haven’t been paying attention there is a new venue in the area called White Horse Black Mountain. You can rock it americana style tonight with Barrel House Mamas and Dehlia Low. BHM are one of those bands that plays around a lot and we always say we’ll catch them next time. Well, we’ll catch them next time.
If you don’t feel like driving all the way to Black Mountain to see some roots music, Donna the Buffalo hits The Orange Peel for a second night with The Believers. Or you could join the Mountain Music Family Circus at The Grey Eagle with Larry Keel, Steve “Big Daddy” McMurry, Mad Tea Party and David Via.
The Asheville Chamber of Commerce has some other suggestions including lindy hopping and sophisticatedness. Mountain Express has some shoestring suggestions if you are a recently unemployed ACT staffer.
Our pick? If we had a magical transporter device, we’d be in Philly to see Gogol Bordello at The Electric Factory. Alas, we’ll be walking to The Admiral for a 4 course prix fixe dinner and drinking until they run out of liquor. There are two seatings and reservations are suggested.
We’ll see you on the flip side.
Break out your boombox tonight for this year’s rendition of Unsilent Night. The outdoor “sound sculpture” was conceived in 1992 by Bang on a Can All-Star Phil Kline and has become an annual Christmas tradition for cities across the world.
Locally, it’s being organized by Jim Julien and Jim would like you show up tonight (Friday, December 19) at Pack Square’s Vance Monument at 7pm with your boombox or other electronic music devices with speakers. They’ll have CDs and cassettes.
The processional will walk down to Lexington, up Hiawassee to Flint, to Haywood, around Pritchard Park and back up Patton to Pack Square.
Afterwards, don’t let the music end, head to Harvest Records to see Jack Rose and Body Of John The Baptist.
