Calendar of Events

TBA

https://www.facebook.com/events/2685290615028840/

Join us for a night of incredible food, music and dance. Costumes are optional but the best costume wins $100 cash!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/334789697281584/

Come wear your best costume and listen to the creepiest tunes we can muster for a super fun night, featuring the Stipe Bros, Dan Ruiz, and Joel Callahan. It’s like, a Hendersonville Halloween tradition! Maybe we’ll give prizes to our favorite costumes!

https://www.facebook.com/events/249198462417371/

Time to break out the costumes and celebrate this years Halloween at Sanctuary Brewing Company with Special Musical guest Sumsun and Mason Self!

Bio:
Sumsun is Judson Rogers from West Palm Beach, Florida. He has been making electronic music that is influenced by that humid locale for years. Images of the tropical vegetation and vibrant colors waft over the four-on-the-floor dance beats that Sumsun creates, placing the artist’s work in a kind of post-chillwave segment of modern electronic production. He currently resides in Hendersonville, NC!

Listen:
https://soundcloud.com/sumsun

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XdZEZOnFYlw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8LUcCr0KKrs

See:
https://instagram.com/masonself?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=lznxk7ub3goo

Along with his set, Sumsun will be spinning records during his set breaks! This is sure to be a unique musical experience at Sanctuary Brewing Company unlike anything else you will get in Hendersonville!

https://www.facebook.com/events/311530512764245/

Come help us celebrate the 10 year anniversary of White Zombie at our Zombie Halloween Party! We’ll have a DJ playing your favorite Halloween tunes and a costume contest for the best-dressed Zombie!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1126820907466344/

An evening with vocalist and songwriter Ashley Davis accompanied by the returning multi-instrumentalist Colin Farrell, (Lúnasa) and vocalist and guitarist Dave Curley presenting newly composed traditional Celtic and Roots music.

https://www.facebook.com/events/913730618822499/

We’re all garbage people right? It’s time we dressed like it!
No need to drop a bunch of money on costume pieces. Start collecting your bottle caps, cans and bubble wrap.
It’s a trashy, eco-friendly halloween bash!

•The ladies of Asheville Brue Ha Ha will be treating us to a special witchy dance to kick things off at 9!

•Performances by Gaping Maw Freakshow!

•Disco Goddess!
“From hip hop to dance beats and bass lines that stay true to the groove, Disco Goddess tears into her guitar with a raw display of talent. Played over a four track synthesizer/drum sequencer, it’s a performance that’s seriously fun. You ought not miss it.”

www.soundcloud.com/discogoddess

•Enter our Trashion Show!!

•Gilbot!
Gilbot continues his 25 year quest to encapsulate the entirety of electronic music history within the span of single sets, while serving witchy serenades of oscillating contrast: light and darkness, melody and discord, softness and glitch, elegance and brutality, beauty and horror, groove and narrative. Dancefloor alchemy for mortals and spiritworld, alike.

Soundcloud.com/gilbot

•Play Trash or Treasure!

$12

*No recycled costume required, but costumes in general are HIGHLY encouraged.
*Safe space for all people. Please respect each other, the space and bartenders.

https://www.facebook.com/events/461543990986781/

The Paper Crowns Electric Band will be rocking the funk out at One World Brewing West as part of the Blue Ridge Hemp Company CBD Cup! This special performance features a premier musical line-up including some of Asheville’s heaviest headiest funkiest music makers:

Spiro Nicolopoulos – Vocals, electric guitar
Nicole Nicolopoulos – Vocals, electric guitar
Lenny Pettinelli – Keyboards, vocals
Jake Wolf – Bass
Steve Kemble – Drumkit

The Paper Crowns’ Spiro and Nicole Nicolopoulos are among the premier musical duos in the Southeast music scene. They have returned to their rock and roll roots with The Paper Crowns Electric Band! Their critically acclaimed song writing, chemistry, dynamic performance, fearless risk taking and down to Earth charisma has won over music lovers, fans and critics alike. They blend tradition with ground breaking musical performance which has quickly garnered distinction among a saturated music scene and has helped them earn their reputation as the genuine article and as one of the rising stars in the Southeast music scene.

Spiro Nicolopoulos
LEAD GUITAR & VOCALS
Originally from Okinawa, Japan, Spiro lived in Los Angeles Ca before moving to the Asheville area in 2014. His critically acclaimed solo singer-songwriter work has been featured in TV advertising campaigns for Visa, the Olympic Games and more. His music was featured in a variety of films and television series including work for PBS, Court TV, documentary films and radio. Spiro was a Bonnaroo 2006 performer. Spiro recorded with Twiddle’s Mihali Savoulidis among many others, and has shared line ups with Phil Lesh & Friends, Bright Eyes, Buddy Guy and many of his favorite international artists. He taught music from 2001-2014 where he met his wife Nicole at work. His proudest achievements include producing fund raising music events providing malaria medication, mosquito nets and medical equipment for people in Tanzania, Tsunami disaster relief for Japan 2011, teaching a blind teenage girl how to play guitar into her career as a performing artist and teaching an 80 year old severely arthritic man how to play open tuning guitar – helping him to become a music team leader in his church.

Nicole Nicolopoulos
GUITAR & VOCALS
Nicole Nicolopoulos began her musical journey at the age of twelve when she picked up the guitar. She attended the University of La Verne in Southern California studying classical guitar, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2009 with a degree in music. During and after college Nicole taught private and group lessons and also lead classes for toddlers and children in the community. After fronting her own original electric trio the Vinyls, she helped form The Paper Crowns with her future husband Spiro Nicolopoulos. In 2014 the two relocated to the Asheville area where they have found a place in the thriving and dynamic musical community. Nicole finds joy in her never ending effort to grow as a musician and artist.

Lenny Pettinelli
KEYBOARDS
Originally from Los Angeles, CA but now happily relocated to Asheville, NC, Lenny Pettinelli has worked on all sides of the Music Industry from production to performance to promotion. As a pianist and keyboardist, Pettinelli has played on dozens of records since his early 20’s and has since moved into singing, production, harmonic arrangement and education. He is the driving force behind the Asheville-based co-op independent record label Vibration of Versatility (VOV) which has pledged to donate 30% of all net profits from it’s volume series to various music education charities and foundations on the regional, national, and international level. Pettinelli is well versed in Jazz, Rock, Funk, Reggae, Folk, Electronic, and R&B music but is always willing to play pretty much anything. Working with an impressive 100 + artists from different scenes including Empire Strikes Brass, Pettinelli aims to write, perform, and produce new and original music of all genres.

Jake Wolf
BASS
Originally from the Boston area, Jake Wolf has been playing electric bass for almost 30 years, and still finds new things to love about it every day. Jake studied audio engineering and music production at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA before moving to San Francisco where he studied electric bass with virtuoso bassists Michael Manring and Kai Eckhardt, and was a student at the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music in San Rafael CA. Since 2004, Jake has been living in Asheville, NC, working with some of the areas finest musicians as a sideman, and performing with original acts such as the Juan Benavides Group, The Billy Sea, Billy Jonas, the Eric Congdon Trio and the Chuck Lichtenberger Collective. He also is the organizer of the Asheville Bass Hang, a semi-annual event designed to bring together bassists from all over the Southeast for performances, education and building community.

Steve Kemble
PERCUSSION, VOCALS
Steve has elevated the Asheville music scene vibe with his stellar drum work in Chikomo Marimba, the Grateful Dead tribute scene, the Very Jerry concert series, the Paper Crowns and more. Always a crowd favorite, Steve is known for radiating great grooves and infectious positivity from behind the drum kit – which is a big part of the transcendence and musical chemistry that he brings to the Paper Crowns Electric Band. Steve is a veteran drummer who’s musical influence is well known from coast to coast. He’s a drum maker, a teacher, a leader and builds green homes with his business Mud Straw Love.

THE PAPER CROWNS DUO & ELECTRIC BAND
The Paper Crowns have played such events as: LEAF (2018), Warren Haynes Christmas Jam by Day, LEAF Downtown, Echo Sessions featured on PBS, Mountain Sports Festival, Soulshine Farm Music Festival, South By South East, Sawdust Festival, Hangar 24 Airfest, Pappy & Harriet’s and more. Their music has found placement in major network TV campaigns and online ad campaigns. The Paper Crowns have been featured on Local Color Live WNCW, WDVX Blue Plate Special, Dead Show of the Month, KUCR Vinyl Hours Radio, PE Live with Vanessa Franko, 880 The Revolution with Jeff Messer, Asheville FM, WPVM 103.7fm, WBTV Charlotte and 98.1 The River. For more info check out www.ThePaperCrowns.com

$5 entry for music on the indoor stage
$15 All day pass for Blue Ridge Hemp Co’s CBD Cup outside

https://www.facebook.com/events/541568346291548/

Join us for our Annual Halloween bash with Karaoke from GET VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT’s Billy Masters!! No cover charge – Spooky Drink specials – CASH COSTUME CONTEST!! Don’t miss the fun!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/112141896362151/

The Retrocade’s second annual Halloween Party and Costume Contest! Enjoy 2 stories of classic arcade and video games, a costume contest and our spooky photobooth. We will be serving Asheville Brewing Company’s Halloween release, Beetlejuice on tap!

We will ROCK a Halloween show at Mack Kells! Come out and enter the Halloween Costume Contest and win CASH! #MackKells

https://www.facebook.com/events/442151406274993/

Deafheaven + DIIV + Ioanna Gika at The Grey Eagle

https://www.facebook.com/events/1157400397734785/

Very popular local band that draws a big crowd! They love when you make requests and if they can’t do the exact song, they more than likely can play something from the band you requested! Hits from the 80’s and more! 30 rotating taps (many local), Full ABC permits, scratch kitchen food and drink specials!

https://www.facebook.com/events/287046281898275/

Halloween costume party!

https://www.facebook.com/events/236306110423960/

Freaky Dance Party! Dress up if you want, get spooky y’all!!!

This Dance Party benefits Southside Community Gardens. Southside Community gardens is a thriving space that cultivates healing, restoring and reclaiming community through various forms of black culture, creativity, arts, and agriculture. They offer opportuntues to Southside residents of every age to experience the healing benefits of digging in the dirt, planting seeds and eating food that is grown by the community. This is healing work that impacts people positively personally.
Check out their facebook here!!! >>>https://www.facebook.com/southsidegarden/

DJs:
Mallinali
Ganymede
Lex

https://www.facebook.com/events/536652910120921/

The Paper Crowns Electric Band will be rocking the funk out at One World Brewing West as part of the Blue Ridge Hemp Company CBD Cup! This special performance features a premier musical line-up including some of Asheville’s heaviest headiest funkiest music makers:

Spiro Nicolopoulos – Vocals, electric guitar
Nicole Nicolopoulos – Vocals, electric guitar
Lenny Pettinelli – Keyboards, vocals
Jake Wolf – Bass
Steve Kemble – Drumkit

The Paper Crowns’ Spiro and Nicole Nicolopoulos are among the premier musical duos in the Southeast music scene. They have returned to their rock and roll roots with The Paper Crowns Electric Band! Their critically acclaimed song writing, chemistry, dynamic performance, fearless risk taking and down to Earth charisma has won over music lovers, fans and critics alike. They blend tradition with ground breaking musical performance which has quickly garnered distinction among a saturated music scene and has helped them earn their reputation as the genuine article and as one of the rising stars in the Southeast music scene.

Spiro Nicolopoulos
LEAD GUITAR & VOCALS
Originally from Okinawa, Japan, Spiro lived in Los Angeles Ca before moving to the Asheville area in 2014. His critically acclaimed solo singer-songwriter work has been featured in TV advertising campaigns for Visa, the Olympic Games and more. His music was featured in a variety of films and television series including work for PBS, Court TV, documentary films and radio. Spiro was a Bonnaroo 2006 performer. Spiro recorded with Twiddle’s Mihali Savoulidis among many others, and has shared line ups with Phil Lesh & Friends, Bright Eyes, Buddy Guy and many of his favorite international artists. He taught music from 2001-2014 where he met his wife Nicole at work. His proudest achievements include producing fund raising music events providing malaria medication, mosquito nets and medical equipment for people in Tanzania, Tsunami disaster relief for Japan 2011, teaching a blind teenage girl how to play guitar into her career as a performing artist and teaching an 80 year old severely arthritic man how to play open tuning guitar – helping him to become a music team leader in his church.

Nicole Nicolopoulos
GUITAR & VOCALS
Nicole Nicolopoulos began her musical journey at the age of twelve when she picked up the guitar. She attended the University of La Verne in Southern California studying classical guitar, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2009 with a degree in music. During and after college Nicole taught private and group lessons and also lead classes for toddlers and children in the community. After fronting her own original electric trio the Vinyls, she helped form The Paper Crowns with her future husband Spiro Nicolopoulos. In 2014 the two relocated to the Asheville area where they have found a place in the thriving and dynamic musical community. Nicole finds joy in her never ending effort to grow as a musician and artist.

Lenny Pettinelli
KEYBOARDS
Originally from Los Angeles, CA but now happily relocated to Asheville, NC, Lenny Pettinelli has worked on all sides of the Music Industry from production to performance to promotion. As a pianist and keyboardist, Pettinelli has played on dozens of records since his early 20’s and has since moved into singing, production, harmonic arrangement and education. He is the driving force behind the Asheville-based co-op independent record label Vibration of Versatility (VOV) which has pledged to donate 30% of all net profits from it’s volume series to various music education charities and foundations on the regional, national, and international level. Pettinelli is well versed in Jazz, Rock, Funk, Reggae, Folk, Electronic, and R&B music but is always willing to play pretty much anything. Working with an impressive 100 + artists from different scenes including Empire Strikes Brass, Pettinelli aims to write, perform, and produce new and original music of all genres.

Jake Wolf
BASS
Originally from the Boston area, Jake Wolf has been playing electric bass for almost 30 years, and still finds new things to love about it every day. Jake studied audio engineering and music production at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA before moving to San Francisco where he studied electric bass with virtuoso bassists Michael Manring and Kai Eckhardt, and was a student at the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music in San Rafael CA. Since 2004, Jake has been living in Asheville, NC, working with some of the areas finest musicians as a sideman, and performing with original acts such as the Juan Benavides Group, The Billy Sea, Billy Jonas, the Eric Congdon Trio and the Chuck Lichtenberger Collective. He also is the organizer of the Asheville Bass Hang, a semi-annual event designed to bring together bassists from all over the Southeast for performances, education and building community.

Steve Kemble
PERCUSSION, VOCALS
Steve has elevated the Asheville music scene vibe with his stellar drum work in Chikomo Marimba, the Grateful Dead tribute scene, the Very Jerry concert series, the Paper Crowns and more. Always a crowd favorite, Steve is known for radiating great grooves and infectious positivity from behind the drum kit – which is a big part of the transcendence and musical chemistry that he brings to the Paper Crowns Electric Band. Steve is a veteran drummer who’s musical influence is well known from coast to coast. He’s a drum maker, a teacher, a leader and builds green homes with his business Mud Straw Love.

THE PAPER CROWNS DUO & ELECTRIC BAND
The Paper Crowns have played such events as: LEAF (2018), Warren Haynes Christmas Jam by Day, LEAF Downtown, Echo Sessions featured on PBS, Mountain Sports Festival, Soulshine Farm Music Festival, South By South East, Sawdust Festival, Hangar 24 Airfest, Pappy & Harriet’s and more. Their music has found placement in major network TV campaigns and online ad campaigns. The Paper Crowns have been featured on Local Color Live WNCW, WDVX Blue Plate Special, Dead Show of the Month, KUCR Vinyl Hours Radio, PE Live with Vanessa Franko, 880 The Revolution with Jeff Messer, Asheville FM, WPVM 103.7fm, WBTV Charlotte and 98.1 The River. For more info check out www.ThePaperCrowns.com

$5 entry for music on the indoor stage
$15 All day pass for Blue Ridge Hemp Co’s CBD Cup outside

https://www.facebook.com/events/2225894377671420/

Brevard’s favorite party band is back at 185 for Prince O Ween… We will be giving away $50 bar tab for best dressed, so come dressed for success and bring your dancing shoes!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/335735520510030/

The Polish Ambassador
Support: Mikey Pauker
Opening: Futexture

After a cornucopia of albums and countless gigs around the world, The Polish Ambassador has docked the mothership outside the embassy: A fitting stop for a Diplomatic Scandal to unfold. An amalgamation of funky beats, retro synths, and live instrumentation make up the bulk of this controversial saga. David Sugalski aka The Polish Ambassador first happened across special agent Ryan Herr (guitar, percussion) in 2015 while traveling the high terrain of Colorado. After a few years of scheming, planning and interstellar travels the 2 comrades chanced upon special agents Tyson Leonard (Violin) and Jesse James (Sax & Flute). Before long, the 4 intergalactic men of mystery had synthesized their scandalous affairs into musical form. Pulling from over a decade of musical styles and nuances explored by TPA, combined with the lush instrumentation of 3 seasoned instrumentalists, Polish & The Diplomatic Scandal are closing the gaps between live and electronic music.

https://www.facebook.com/events/865091450347939/

The Record Company
plus Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear
Show : 9pm
Doors : 8pm
$20.50 – $22.50
Ages 18+

Tickets & Info: www.theorangepeel.net/event/the-record-company/

“After that first album, everything just got amplified,” says Chris Vos singer/guitarist for The Record Company. “Our lives got crazier and bigger and more complicated in the best possible ways, and our sound and our songwriting just naturally grew alongside that. We’re the same people we always were, but The Record Company isn’t just three guys in a living room anymore.”

One listen to the band’s exhilarating new album, All Of This Life, and it’s clear that things have changed. The gritty slide guitar, fuzzed-out bass, and driving drums are all still front and center, but the songs are bolder and more ambitious, deeper and more reflective, brimming with adventurous vitality while still remaining firmly tethered to the roots of American rock and roll that have always grounded and nourished the group. The stakes were higher this time around to be sure, but the music more than delivers, bolstered by the kind of growth that can only come from the trial-by-fire the band experienced on their meteoric rise.

By now, The Record Company’s story is a well-known one: a trio of musicians grit it out on their own for years in bars and clubs, join forces in LA, set up some microphones in a living room, and cut an album that turns their world upside down. Released in 2016, Give It Back To Youspawned three Top Ten hits at Triple-A radio (including the #1 smash “Off The Ground”), earned the band a slew of festival appearances and sold-out headline dates around the world, and garnered a GRAMMY nomination. The group made the rounds on late night TV, shared bills with John Mayer, Zac Brown Band, My Morning Jacket and Nathaniel Rateliff among others, and racked up more than ten million streams on Spotify. The critical response was just as ecstatic, with Rolling Stone raving that the band “kick[s] up a raw, rootsy racket” and Entertainment Weekly calling the album a “soul scorcher.”

Far from altering The Record Company’s DNA, success only served to enhance it, strengthening the band’s bonds and elevating the intangible chemistry that ignited their breakout. At its core, the group is a pure democracy: all the work, all the rewards, all the happiness and heartache and joy and pain are split evenly. Each member brings their own unique strengths to the table, and the three fit together seamlessly, filling in each other’s gaps like pieces of a puzzle.

“We’re a true band in that we all elevate each other,” explains Vos. “Our individual strengths cover each other’s individual weaknesses, so there’s no way to replace any one of us. We’d all played in bands before, but none of us found what we were looking for until we got together.”

Even at their first jam session, it was clear that the trio was on to something special. With a sound that blended the biting blues of John Lee Hooker with the charismatic swagger of the Rolling Stones, the band went from releasing their home-recorded debut to taking the stage at Madison Square Garden in the span of just 18 months. As the group’s audience grew, so did their artistry, and when it came time to record All Of This Life, it was clear that their approach in the studio would have to take a big step up to reflect the maturation they’d undergone on the road.

“What we did making that first record by ourselves in my living room, we wore that like a badge of pride,” says bassist Alex Stiff. “But we evolved so much as a band after that and our
songwriting grew so much that we knew we had to take it out of the living room this time around.”

While the group still worked up the core of most songs at home and produced themselves like the old days, they headed to nearby Boulevard Recording in Hollywood on a quest to break new sonic ground. The eclectic array of analog gear in the studio, which had previously hosted everyone from Pink Floyd to Fleetwood Mac to The War on Drugs, enabled the band to push the limits of their productions and arrangements while still capturing all the scintillating power and spontaneity of their live show.

“We want to be known as the best live band on Earth,” says drummer Marc Cazorla, “and the only way to do that is to believe it. We were an opening band for five years, and we made it our goal every night when we took the stage to be remembered.”

The same unshakable faith that sustained the group through their long, arduous climb now courses through the album’s veins. Belief is the record’s lifeblood, a defiant optimism that stands tall in the face of doubt and division. The songs reflect our troubled times, but they focus inwards rather than outwards, musing on personal empowerment, self-improvement, and the supremacy of love. Album opener “Life To Fix” is a driving ode to forward motion and getting through hard times by continually putting one foot in front of the other, while the utterly infectious “Make It Happen” finds Vos proclaiming, “If you want something / You got to go out and get it.”

“This record to me is about self-reflection and making yourself better,” he explains. “It’s about taking responsibility for your own spot in the world. If you’re not on the right path, the only person who can take that next step to fix it is you, and at the end of the day, after all the highs and lows, all you’re left with is yourself.”

“We learned from the first album that our audience really connected to songs with a little more inner depth and reflection,” adds Stiff. “Sometimes people would find deeper meaning in the music than we ever thought possible. Folks would come up after shows and tell us that our songs got them through a divorce or a grieving process, which was really powerful and inspiring.”

In addition to digging deep lyrically, the band pushed themselves beyond their traditional musical boundaries on the album. “Goodbye To The Hard Life” is a slow-burning 6/8 ballad that calls to mind the simmering potency of Led Zeppelin, while the acoustic twang of “I’m Changing” taps into the rural southern intensity of Johnny Cash, and the rollicking “I’m Getting Better” captures the essence of Bob Dylan’s rambunctious Highway 61 Revisited period as if played by some punk rock kids stepping into the garage for the first time. “We wanted to take risks we couldn’t have the first time around,” explains Stiff.

“We wanted to create moments that our audience hasn’t seen or heard from us before.”

In the end, that’s what makes the record so special. It’s that rare sophomore album that retains the magic of the debut while simultaneously pressing forward into uncharted territory, expanding the band’s emotional and sonic palette to reflect the wild journey they’ve shared these past few years. The muscle and beauty and longing and brotherhood of those original home recordings is
still present, but it’s been turned up a notch here, pushed to a new level of command and sophistication. The Record Company has moved out of the living room with All Of This Life, and they’re ready to share it with the world.

www.therecordcompany.net

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8aNK3XMP5w

https://www.facebook.com/events/1716382148409896/

This year, Eliada will maintain some beloved attractions including the tractor ride, which now drives all the way around the Corn Maze, jumping pillow, corn kernel sand box, spider web climber, tube slides, and corn cannons.

Genre: Hip-Hop / Electronic
Cover: Donations @ Door
Show: 10PM – 2PM
Ages: 21+

Featuring:

Xero God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txj-hMvTRto

Oak City Slums
https://soundcloud.com/oakcityslums

Lavier
https://soundcloud.com/laviermusic

Sk, the Novelist
https://soundcloud.com/skthenovelist

& P.T.P
https://soundcloud.com/p-t-p

https://www.facebook.com/events/246876066011263/

Genre: downtempo hip hop
Tickets: adv. $12 // dos. $15 *on sale Friday, July 6th – 12PM
Show: 10PM (Doors: 9PM)
Ages: 21+

The Real Blockhead

Tony Simon, a/k/a Blockhead, has been making and releasing utterly distinctive, funky and emotive music for the last two decades. Blockhead grew up in downtownNew York City. As the son of an artist, surrounded by visual culture, he early on found that his passion was for music, for the sonic. A fan of a whole range of sounds, especially hip-hop, Blockhead steadily built a tremendous collection of tapes and later CDs from innumerable artists, a quiet accumulation of knowledge and know-how. After a brief stint as a rapper, he realized his calling was behind the boards and not on the mic – and from there he began to produce beats. Since making that decision, he’s kept pretty busy: carving a niche as a sought-after underground beatmaker that people call when they want something special. Blockhead produced nine tracks on Aesop Rock’s critically acclaimed album “Labor Days.” Additionally he produced half the tracks on Aesop’s follow up EP, “Daylight.” He has also worked with other indie giants Atmosphere, Murs, Mike Ladd and Illogic. In between, he found time to complete a break beat album entitled “Blockhead’s Broke Beats,” with ten hard-hitting instrumental tracks, which was released on Mush Records, the US home of cLOUDDEAD.

To understand Blockhead’s Stateside presence and gravitas – look no further than the fact that he has also contributed three tracks (including the first single) for Cage’s “Hell’s Winter” on Def Jux. The other producers on the project are DJ Shadow, El-P and RJD2. All this occurred simultaneously to his debut album on Ninja Tune, “Music By Cavelight,” described as “one of the most fantastically good albums you’re going to hear this year” (Sunday Telegraph) and “a beautiful record” (Metro), with Blockhead himself tipped as “definitely one to watch” (Touch.) Blockhead returned in 2005 with “Downtime Science,” another set of deep, emotional instrumental hip hop tracks, this time dedicated to the downtown area of Manhattan where he grew up and has lived his entire life, encompassing all the attitude, anger and edginess of the neighborhood. This expansive album also features some melancholy reflections upon failed relationships and the promise of future loves.

“The Music Scene,” was released in 2009 to both critical acclaim and commercial success – launching Blockhead on a global string of headlining dates ranging from Pittsburgh to Poland – where he participated in the world famous Zubroffka festival, providing a live score for some of Charlie Chaplin’s earliest films. Blockhead followed this album with “Interludes After Midnight,” further showcasing his development as a solo artist with a unique voice.

This brings us to 2014 and the release of “Bells and Whistles,” his last release and a bold artistic statement unlike his previous work. According to Blockhead – the naming of the album speaks to emerging trends in music he is seeking to address: “The whole idea behind the album is that music has gotten so far away from just being music. I think that whole way of thinking, relating to music and art in general, is bullshit. I don’t want to use those tactics to distract people or create a buzz that’s separate from my album. I want to be judged purely on the music itself – just well constructed songs with no frills…thus ‘Bells and Whistles.’”

2017 has been as busy as ever for Blockhead, with a trio of new projects. Behind the boards, he handled production duties on Billy Woods acclaimed new album, Known Unknowns. In addition, Simon teamed with with UK music publisher DeWolf Music to create The Art of Sampling. Capitalizing on Blockheads ability to twist unexpected material into new, modern music, DeWolf opened their vaults to Simon and let him go to town.

Finally, 2017 brought Blockhead’s latest solo album, Funeral Balloons. Filled with 12 new cuts of layered goodness, his new album brings the people what they have grown to expect from the seasoned beat maker in his prime!

web: https://phatfriend.com
music: https://soundcloud.com/blockheadnyc

Yppah

Landscape and memory have always played a central part in the music of Joe Corrales Jr. aka Yppah (pronounced “yippah”). It’s what gives his tunes their sense of place, their physicality, and their ethereal – almost nostalgic – sweetness. Drawing on a cultural heritage that took in My Bloody Valentine alongside hip hop and heavily influenced by various forms of electronic music, psychedelic soul and rock, his music often mixes guitars shoved through massive reverbs/delays, keyboards/synthesizers, live drums, and other techniques. Alluring, uplifting and imbued with natural, unaffected warmth that cuts through the most biting cold, Yppah’s music gives listeners an experience that is both rooted and revitalizing.

Yppah currently has three albums available on Ninja Tune; You Are Beautiful All The Time (2006), They Know What Ghost Know (2009), and Eighty One (2012).

His third album reflects a change in the landscape around him. Midway through the process of recording the demos for what became Eighty One, Corrales started making regular trips to Galveston, on the Texas Gulf coast, to surf. So energized was he by his experiences, he left his home in Texas and moved to Long Beach, California. Unsurprisingly then, he says that the images he had in his head as he made his new music were of the sea and the beach. “I wanted a lot of the songs to feel like a warm wash,” he explains. The record takes its title from the year Corrales was born and, perhaps the very act of moving away from childhood locales stirred up “memories from random times in my life. Like I was trying to recreate certain feelings I had at different points in my life with melodies, if that makes any sense.” And he goes on to ask, “You know how when you’re a child you feel your life has a certain melodic theme that you can’t really put your finger on and you can almost hear it, but it’s not anything you’ve ever heard before?” Eighty One is his attempt to capture those melodies.

Yppah is now performing material from Eighty One with a live band with rotating members sometimes featuring singer, producer and classically trained violinist, Anomie Belle.

music: http://yppah.bandcamp.com

arms and sleepers

The American electronic music duo Mirza Ramic and Max Lewis have compiled an impressive discography of 26 releases in their 11 year history as ARMS AND SLEEPERS. They have collaborated with dozens of prominent artists (Tom Brosseau of Fat Cat Records, Serengeti of Anticon, Philip Jamieson of Caspian, and Victor Ferreira of Sun Glitters, among others) and worked on numerous remixes (Caspian, Helios, Ef, From Indian Lakes, and many others). Their music has also been widely used in various TV, radio, and online media programming, including VICE and NPR.

While Lewis lives in the US, Ramic is currently based in Europe, from where he has taken ARMS AND SLEEPERS to stages across North & Central America, Europe and Asia mainly as a one-man show in recent years.

ARMS AND SLEEPERS originated in the post-rock scene over a decade ago, and while they still occasionally perform at post-rock festivals like Dunk!, their music on recent releases has been transcending the narrow confines of that scene, oscillating more between “chilled hip-hop beats, glitching electronics and ambient progressions” (The Huffington Post) than the typical wailing delay guitars and drum crescendos. They have always been an act difficult to categorize.

music: http://wearearmsandsleepers.bandcamp.com

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MG ROAD PRESENTS
A NIGHT OF SPOOKY DRAG
FEATURING
••PRISCILLA CHAMBERS••
••NATASHA NIGHTLY••
••CHANNING TAINT••
••MISTRESS RIVERS••
& DJ ABU DISARRAY (OF TOTAL GOLD)
DRAG SHOW AT MIDNIGHT!
COSTUME CONTEST!
HAUNTED DRINK SPECIALS!
MORE DETAILS TBA!

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It’s HalloWING!

Party Starts at 10pm
Live DJ Dance Party
$1,000 in Cash and Prizes Costume Contest at midnight!
$4 White Zombie Pints
$3 Miller Lite Pints
$4 Spooky Juice

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Come out Saturday, October 27 to shake your booty and get spooky with DJ Kutzu!

Dance Party kicks off at 10pm and we’ll be extending our hours till 1am!

Costumes are not required but DEFINITELY ENCOURAGED! Free Admission! Let’s party Asheville!!

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