ARTS + MUSIC

Ready For a Big Break, Asheville's River Rats Head to LA
Andrew Scotchie's passion for music is the driving force for this young Asheville band.

IamAVL Partners with LEAF to Live Stream Their Main Stage!!!
Can't make it to LEAF next weekend? Or maybe just going for a day or two? Well, don't you worry. IamAVL will be brining you all the acts from the main stage LIVE October 17th-19th!!!

Holiday Childress of The Goodies Continues Kickstarter For Solo Album
A lot of people may be familiar with local musician, actor, and all around dapper dude Holiday Childress from when he was the lead singer for The Goodies...

Summer Ends With a Musical Bang
Diverse global music is all over the place in Asheville this season. Here's a run-down of cultural music events that closed out the summer, and some upcoming events.

Asheville Celebrates Big Booty With Two Rump-Tastic Shows
This week, Asheville will celebrate rump shaking like never before with two booty-rific concert events.

Johnny Lewis Brings Dream Folk to Jack of the Wood Sep 28
Emerging artist Johnny Lewis started out as an electronic producer, but this city boy has gone country. He brings dream folk doused in lap steel to Jack of the Wood Sunday, September 28. Dig it.

The Grey Eagle + Jeff Whitworth Bring the Noise to Asheville This Fall
The Eagle has long been a staple of the Asheville music scene, with one of the kindest, most passionate dudes in the business running it all: Jeff Whitworth.

Three New Orleans Acts Come To Asheville
From Dumpstafunk to Trombone Shorty to 101 Runners, New Orleans has been representing hard in Asheville as of late and there's even more from the area coming up this month.

Support Local Music - An Interview With Brown Bag's Jenny Greer-Fares
The Brown Bag Song Writing Competition kicked off its 8th season earlier this month with a revamped format, a new location, and an appetite for music.

10 Reasons Crafter Heather Mithoefer Loves Asheville
Get to know local crafter Heather Mithoefer, her hand-printed, organic fabrics company, Patch Design Studio, and her favorite things about Asheville.

Get Outside for Asheville's Last Summer Concerts
So for all you music fans out there, we’ve consolidated a list of free (and nearly free) outdoor shows and street festivals. That’s your cue to get off your couch and go have some fun!

5 Notable AVL Jukeboxes, From Worst to Best
Just as different bars attract different people, a jukebox’s music selection either reinforces the desired clientele or drives it away. Where are the best jukeboxes on the Asheville scene? Where are the worst?

Un-Peeled: 5 Burning Questions to Liz Whalen Tallent of The Orange Peel
Asheville's music scene and culture is a huge draw to our economy and The Orange Peel has been a big part of that.

Q&A with Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Get to know more about Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars...

Salvage Station To Host Official Zombie Float After-Party
Asheville’s newest riverfront concert and event space, the Salvage Station, will host a free all-day celebration...

Tuesday Night Funk Jam LIVE Every Tuesday > iamavl.com
Asheville's hottest weekly concert, The Tuesday Night Funk Jam at The Asheville Music Hall, is live on iamavl.com every Tuesday Night around 11pm.

Q&A with Mark + Matt of Harvest Records
A late-summer music festival in Asheville. Big-name talent over three days and three venues. All put together by two guys with a cool West Asheville record store.

5 Ways To Make Moogfest Profitable
There's a lot of talk around town about the future of Moogfest. After taking a financial hit for the 2014 edition, Moogfest organizers are going back to the drawing board. I think that I can help, in five easy steps...

Asheville Sessions: Soldier's Heart
We did something a little different for this session– we took a small road trip out of Asheville and went to Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville, North Carolina. Out on the back porch in the sunshine by the river, we recorded a band called Soldier’s Heart.

Moon Hooch Brings Their "Cave Music" to New Mountain
Moon Hooch brought their saxes and their sustainable organic brand of EDM to New Mountain. And they blew everyone away.

Roosevelt Collier Super Jam @ The Grey Eagle
Here's a little blast from the past. IamAVL filmed Roosevelt Collier's Super Jam at the Grey Eagle last year.

Echo Sessions 05: The Nth Power - "Love What You're Doing To Me"
Part studio session, part live performance...the Echo Sessions are intended to capture the magic of the live performance from the comfort of the studio setting.

Two Nights To Get Funky With Lettuce + Earphunk
This weekend Asheville embraces The Funk with shows from Earphunk and Lettuce with back to back shows at New Mountain in downtown Asheville.

Lucius and Her Marigold @ The Mothlight
Lucius, of Brooklyn, and Her Marigold, from Asheville, played a sold out show this past Saturday at The Mothlight. (Photos + Video)

Asheville Sessions: Jaime Lauren Webb
Singer/Songwriter Jaime Lauren Webb lends us her voice and her harp in this installment of Asheville Sessions.

Seth Walker Soothes The Grey Eagle
North Carolina native Seth Walker, who now calls NOLA his home, returned to the Tar Heel State in June, treating the crowd at Asheville's Grey Eagle...

The Felice Brothers Trying to Find Themselves
It can be tough enough drawing a big crowd on any Monday, and this proved to be the case on July 7th as the Felice Brothers played to an Orange Peel floor that was, maybe, only a third full.

Support Your Asheville DJs
Just a few years ago Asheville’s nightlife and dance scene was little more than a few clubs and a feeling of desperation. But lately, the seemingly-endless number of incipient bars and clubs have launched the platform for a thriving DJ arena.

The Black Jacket Symphony Play Pink Floyd
The Black Jacket Symphony, a group that recreates classic albums live, showed up at The Orange Peel to play Pink Floyd's seminal album, Dark Side of the Moon. How'd they do?

Painter Mark Bettis's Modern Abstraction Wins WNCAP Top Honor
Modern artist Mark Bettis brushes out other top local artists to win top spot for this year's WNCAP Auction with his abstract painting "Radiance".

Xavier Rudd & Ash Grunwald Energize The Orange Peel
The arrival of summer brought with it the arrival of two of Australia's finest musicians to the Orange Peel for an evening of high energy, immense talent, and infectious spiritual consciousness.

International Musicians Gather at Asheville Percussion Festival
When I hear people in Asheville say things like "yeah, Asheville's cool and all, but where is the culture?" I bring up events like the Asheville Percussion Festival that happened June 20-22.

Asheville Sessions: Ben Miller Band
We caught up with them during their first time in Asheville when they were performing at The Grey Eagle in the River Arts District.

Festival Dream Team: Three Asheville Powerhouses Team Up to Plan New Event
Three Asheville women with extensive community connections and experience planning and executing festvials are teaming up to create what they hope will be a new signature event for Asheville.

Windsong 2014: A Celebration of Woodwinds & Celtic Music
"Where else, for example, will you hear a Cantiga from the 13th century court of Alfonso X of Spain followed by a pop song written in 1983 by a teenager in Bretagne, France?"

Asheville Sessions with PigPen Theatre Company at The Millroom
In this next installment of Asheville Sessions, we bring to you a unique collective of young men that are from New York.

Harvest Records Celebrates 10-year Anniversary
A three-day music festival in August will help mark the record West Asheville record store mark its milestone.

Solo African Dance Piece "Without A Shadow" To Make Asheville Premier
On June 5 at The Orange Peel, Barakissa Coulibaly will be premiering her solo dance piece "Without A Shadow".

The 2014 RiverMUSIC Festival Opens
Orgone and The Horse You Rode In On opened this year's RiverLink RiverMUSIC festival, to a record turnout...

Discover 'Asheville Sessions'
Want to step out of your music comfort zone? Explore the wide range of talent that Asheville has to offer...

Blending With Zansa
Zansa is led by 33rd generation West African musician Adama Dembele, a native of Ivory Coast, whose family lineage is recognized internationally as “Djembeso” or House of the Djembe.

Harvest Records Celebrates 10-year Anniversary
A three-day music festival in August will help mark the record West Asheville record store mark its milestone.

Machines + Forests. Wires + Waters. Moogfest Meets Asheville's Wilds.
Yeah, let's have a little fun...Spring has sprung, the earth is warming and it's time to get outside, you lazy bones! Here in Asheville, we are surrounded by a million and a half acres of National Forest, wild waterfalls and streams, furry, feathery, scaly and slimy wildlife- including homo sapiens - and some of the greatest places and people you'll ever see.