This week – join DJSmittymon  as he welcomes  “Chess Club” to the Positive Vibes’ Early Morning Music Sessions..  tune in this Tuesday starting around 9am for live performance and interview with the band..    

MUSICAL GUEST:  Chess Club     

Chess Club, sometimes referred to as “The Fab Two”, were just a couple of music-loving teens from America before becoming cultural and musical icons. The song writing duo of Champagne (Adam Chase,drums) and Paris (Danny Darress, keys/vocals) formed in 2023 destined to put music on the map.   

The band’s ability to blend serious pop music with humorous social commentary has earned the band the admiration of everyone that admires them. Early collaborators include GaTa (DAVE, Anyone But You), Cory Wong (Vulfpeck), John Waugh (The 1975, Holly Humberstone) and many others.

Early reviews have compared Chess Club’s Champagne and Paris to

Lennon and McCartney in prowess and Bret and Jermaine in wit. With an irreverent sense of humor and a knack for infectious hooks,  Champagne and Paris have crafted a songbook that will go down in history as one of the best catalogues ever recorded.   Rolling Stone and New York Times were left so speechless they decided not to comment.

Positive Vibes

Early Morning Music Sessions

103.3 AshevilleFM

8-10AM

 @djsmittymon

This week we’re sharing a conversation with Clare Follman, a writer, activist and gardener with a masters in environmental science about her 2026 AK Press book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong. The conversation covers questions of ecological balance, belonging, linguistic clarity and the stories we tell about our relationship to the rest of nature.

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Featured Track:

• TFSR by The Willows Whisper
• I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash from The Harder They Come ( Reggae Hit The Town : Crucial Reggae 1968-1972), Island Records

Appalachians Against Uranium + the Case of the Ulm 5

This week, we’re sharing two segments.

Appalachians Against Uranium

First up is a conversation with two activists of Appalachians Against Uranium in eastern Tennessee about the expansion of a nuclear weapons development in Jonesborough in the Tri-Cities near the border with North Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains. For the interview we speak about the legacy of the nuclear industry in the region, health impacts on locals, some of the companies (like BWXT) involved, concerns of pollution and building off the work of past and ongoing civic activism in the region. Find our guests online at their website or find them on bluesky for further information.

If you missed our prior interview talking about other and related elements of the nuclear industries in the US, check out the chat with M.V. Ramana from our July 19^th episode, found at our website.

Eastern TN Nuclear Links

• Scott Perez article on “economic hostages” available thanks to Dine CARE
• Dr. Michael Ketterer’s filings on behalf of ECAN (Erwin Citizens Awareness Network) with National Regulatory Commission related to, among other things, levels of radioactivity in the Nolichucky River: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2231/ML22319A251.pdf
• Eastern TN Community Coalition: ETNCC.org
• wise-uranium.org

The Ulm 5 Case in Germany

After this, you’ll hear a recording from May 14^th, 2026 of journalist Roser Garí Pérez speaking in Freiberg, Germany, about the the case of the Ulm 5: five activists from various countries held in pre-trial detention since September of 2025 in Germany on charges of taking action against an Elbit Systems Deutschland factory in that country. Elbit Systems is an Israeli arms manufacturer whose products bring death to people in Palestine. The defendants have experienced long term isolation, extraordinarily long pre-trial detention without the option of bail. This segment appears in episode 104 of B(A)D News from the A-Radio Network, and was submitted and recorded by Radio Ausbruch from Freiberg

As a note for US listeners, the use of the term protocol in this segment can be translated to mean taken notes. You can keep up on the case, find how to write letters or send support, at https://ulm5.info/ and find updated writings on the case by Roser Garí Pérez on their instagram or their author page at The Left Berlin

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Featured Track:

• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

This week – join DJSmittymon  as he welcomes “Orb Weavers”  to the Positive Vibes’ Early Morning Music Sessions.. this local folk and bluegrass duo will be performing live in studio and will be discussing there latest community project – Notes for Education – a fundraiser for the North Buncombe Middle School taking place on Saturday, August 8th at the middle school..   

                                                                              MUSICAL GUEST:  Orb Weavers 

Positive Vibes

Early Morning Music Sessions

103.3 AshevilleFM

8-10AM

 @djsmittymon

The line up for the Notes for Education event is as follows

Innocent Mischief  / 12-1p             

The Radix Show  / 1-2p   

The Orb Weavers  / 2-3p

The Rough In-betweeners  / 3-4p

Notes for Education Vendors (Sat., Aug 8, 2026)

“Notes for Education” is a music and craft fair show to raise money for North Buncombe Middle School. Local musical artists will perform live throughout the event. The community will be invited to shop the vendors as well as participate in raffles and purchase lunch. All money raised from this form will go directly to classrooms to support the needs of the students. Vendors handle their own sales and keep all their own money. The festival is outdoor at the school: NBMS, 51 N. Buncombe School Rd, Weaverville, NC 28787. Questions: Please call/text Dr. Suzette Takei, 828-775-2311