Angela Moore could be your sister, your next-door-neighbor, your mom. And in as matter-of-fact a way as if she were giving you a recipe for butternut-squash casserole, the Marion resident will tell you that a very large, light-infused spirit is perched just behind your body as you sit in a restaurant at the Asheville Mall. … Read more
Fisher Meehan must have wondered what would have happened if Jeff Lynne had set out to make early ’90s Seattle sound like mid-’60s Liverpool. MTN CTY JNK, the big-indie-label debut from Fisher and crackerjack band DrugMoney, takes 1990s West Coast alt-rock and gooses it with heavy orchestral pop a la Lynne’s Fab Four-fixated ELO. What … Read more
On the other end of the phone, Leslie Aldredge is bragging about being the first person to “discover” Fisher Meehan and his band DrugMoney. And it’s really pissing me off. Aldredge is DrugMoney’s manager, and the architect of the group’s contract with Hybrid Recordings, as well as being the driving force behind the national mass-media … Read more
David DelGrosso, actor/stage manager with Aquila Theatre Company, knows that some audiences will be drawn to The Man Who Would be King because of the popular movie version of Rudyard Kipling’s short story. The film, which starred Michael Caine and Sean Connery in what were arguably the best performances of their careers to date, inspired … Read more
With its signature four-part harmonies and fervent message of Christian salvation, Southern gospel has a long, vibrant tradition in Western North Carolina — and it’s still going strong (see “Hidden Angels,” published in the Dec. 10 issue of Xpress, at www.mountainx.com). But unless you’ve got access to a private collection, it’s not all that easy … Read more
Front-row reviews Who: Sugar & The Plums w/My Fifty-Five Where: Vincent’s Ear When: Saturday, Dec. 20 In that weird mood that follows a good show, I approached Sugar & The Plums bassist Eamon Martin and demanded to know the score. “Have you been picking your bass with a credit card?” I inquired. “No,” revealed Eamon, … Read more
As a new year emerges from the melted puddle of the old, it can be instructive to glance backward, surveying the landscape we’ve just traversed, and make some course adjustments ere we roll on. In this year’s edition of our annual tradition, Xpress has gathered fruit and pits from our 51 weekly editions in 2003 … Read more
A chip off the old tree Over the holidays, I heard about a community that recycles its Christmas trees by hauling them to the local zoo and letting the resident elephants chow down on them. Henderson County is a bit short on elephants, but it does boast an annual Christmas-tree recycling project coordinated by the … Read more
Hey, you public servants: What next? Now that 2003 has drawn to an end, it’s time to take stock of what our mayor and City Council have done for us. They have provided thousands of dollars to purchase a controversial piece of art (?). They have destroyed the woods on Brotherton Street, and wasted a … Read more
