AltWeeklies Wire
Tyler Ramsey on His New Album & Career Course
Band of Horses guitarist Tyler Ramsey releases his second solo album.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
01-31-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Wolfmother: Ahead of the Packnew
Andrew Sockdale, front man of Australian rockers Wolfmother, talks about how his band eschews 70s-era stadium-rock decadence in favor of high-profile anti-global-warming benefits.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
06-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ahead of the pack, Wolfmother
A Golden Girl Just Entering Her Primenew
In her tell-all memoir, McClanahan proves she's so much more than sex-pot Southern belle Blanche Devereaux from TV's The Golden Girls.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
06-07-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Laura Viers: No Rockstar Anticsnew
A refreshingly stable musician navigates her highs and lows.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
06-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: laura veirs
Rodney Atkins: Unapologetic Everymannew
By simply being himself, Atkins has won industry acclaim with his recent win for Best New Male Vocalist from the Academy of Country Music.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
06-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rodney Atkins
Ukulele Ace Wants Everyone to Start Strummingnew
Are you experienced? (You don't have to be.)
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
06-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jake Shimabukuro
Eccentric Like Me: Novelty Music Acts Become the Normnew
The common threads of weirdness and musical acumen that make novelty acts all the same in their differing ways.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
12-14-2005 |
Performance
On a Mission from Jahnew
Back in the U.S. for the first time in a few years, singer Luciano is doing what he does best -- spreading revelations, and with considerable charm.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
07-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Summertime and the Reading Is ... Sleazynew
A reviewer's four top picks from small presses are not for the faint of heart.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
06-22-2005 |
Fiction
Standing Up For the Almost Famousnew
Review of book about nearly successful authors from the southern mountains.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
10-27-2004 |
Nonfiction
Small Wonder: Bonsai Exhibit at North Carolina Arboretumnew
A million-dollar bonsai collection goes on display. This will become a major destination for fanciers of the garden art form.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
10-27-2004 |
Gardening
Give 'em the (Free) Birdnew
How Lynyrd Skynyrd saved the South -- or at least one Southern-rock writer. Memoir of a former Rolling Stone editor.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
10-27-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Progressive Hip-Hop Duo Rocks the Votenew
On its website, the quadruple-turntable-toting duo of Ming + FS promises that if you enroll to vote as a Democrat, you're entitled to a hug from the musicians, redeemable at any concert.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
08-19-2004 |
Performance
