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Radio Active Kids November 26! Interview with Strawbitty Yops!

November 25, 2022 by Sagan

This week on Radio Active Kids, I’m so excited to interview the awesome new kindie band Strawbitty Yops! Also, new tunes by Music with Michal, Joanie Leeds & Fyütch, Will’s Jams & Seeka Sings, Billy Kelly, Captain Festus McBoyle, Stacey Peasley, Steve Elci & #JillLamoureux on a comp by One Little Finger, The Relative Minors, Little Miss Ann & No Parking Studio, Levity Beet Music, fleaBITE, Key Wilde & Mr Clarke, Shawny, #JamesandtheMaraudersMap on a comp by Wizrocklopedia Compilation Club, Jump for Joy Music, Cee Bee Teatime, & Whoopie Chicken! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at mixcloud.com/Radio_Active_Kids!

Special screening: King Crimson at 50 documentary

November 25, 2022 by JD & Ted

Join us for an evening of music and film at The Grail Moviehouse, on December 12, 2022 at 4 and 7 PM. Sponsored by Asheville FM and featuring Asheville-based author and music journalist Bill Kopp, who will be introducing the film and leading a moderated, interactive discussion following the movie.

“In the Court of the Crimson King is really about as good as rock documentaries get.” – VARIETY

“This elegant, intimate, funny and surprisingly moving film covers every aspect of the group – from is thorny interpersonal history to the almost religious loyalty it inspires in fans – and lays out exactly what makes Crimson such a singular and enduring musical force.” – ROLLING STONE

The Grail Moviehouse is located at 17 Foundy Street, off of Lyman Street, behind Riverview Station in the River Arts District. For more information, and to watch Trailer, click here: Grail Moviehouse

Soul of the Blues

November 23, 2022 by Ray Brown

Like extra gravy on your turkey? You’ll get plenty of gravy sopping blues when you tune in the Blueshound and Soul of the Blues this Thursday from 12-2pm on AshevilleFM! Listen live at 103.3fm or stream it live and anytime you want for 2 weeks after it airs at ashevillefm.org! Got some new releases for you from West Coast meets Chicago blues duo Martin Lang & Rusty Zinn, Boston’s GA-20, UK’s Malaya Blue, UK’s Joanne Shaw Taylor and the amazing new album from the 86 y/o greatest living bluesman, Buddy Guy! Also, got some live tracks for ya from West Coast harmonica ace Matt Kashmar and Texas troubadour Delbert McClinton! The Notcho’ Blues Artist this week is outlaw country star David Allan Coe! Share your turkey with the Blueshound on Soul of the Blues this Thursday for 2 hours of mind toasting, butt roasting blues!

Positive Vibes – Where the best in Reggae and Local meet – only on AshevilleFM 103.3FM – www.ashevillefm.org – Tuesdays 8-10am

November 21, 2022 by DJ Smittymon

Join me – DJSmittymon this week Tuesday Nov 22nd from 8-10am

New music from local bands State Park Ranger “Never Stopped” feat. Sophia Corinne & Dish / Leisureville “Islands feat Christian Ahmed” / plus Khalia “Easy” / Mista Savona “Positive in Dub” / Jada Kingdom “Realize and more.. even a chance for tickets to see Acoustic Syndicate / The Grey Eagle / Saturday, November 26th) Tune in and turn it up! – smittymon

Tuesday 8-10am – November 22nd

www.ashevillefm.org – 103.3 Asheville FM

@stateparkranger @leisurevillemusic @thegreyeagle @103.3ashevillefm

Author and podcaster, Christy Alexander Hallberg, on her book, Searching for Jimmy Page, her writing process, rock novels, and the definition of “rock” music.

November 21, 2022 by Patricia Furnish

Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the award-winning novel ‘Searching For Jimmy Page’, from Livingston Press.

She is also the host of Rock is Lit: A Podcast About Rock Novels, from Pantheon Podcast Network.

Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as ‘North Carolina Literary Review’, ‘storySouth’, ‘Still: The Journal’, ‘Main Street Rag’, ‘Fiction Southeast’, ‘Riggwelter’, ‘Deep South Magazine’, ‘Eclectica’, ‘Litro’, ‘STORGY Magazine’, ‘Entropy’, and ‘Concho River Review’.

Her creative nonfiction essay “The Ballad of Evermore” was a finalist for the ‘Sequestrum’ 2020 Editor’s Reprint Award. Her flash story “Aperture” was chosen Story of the Month by ‘Fiction Southeast’ for October 2020, and selected by the editors of the Best Small Fictions anthology series for inclusion in the 2021 edition.

She teaches literature and writing online at East Carolina University, where she earned her BS and MA in English. She received her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Goddard College. In addition to teaching, Christy serves as Senior Associate Editor of ‘North Carolina Literary Review’. She is a former editor of #FridayFlash USA at ‘Litro’ magazine.

A native of eastern North Carolina, she now lives in the western part of the state on the outskirts of Asheville, near the Great Smoky Mountains.

Host of Rock is Lit podcast

Author of novel ‘Searching for Jimmy Page’

Senior Associate Editor of ‘North Carolina Literary Review’

Website: www.christyalexanderhallberg.com

Thanksgiving special!

November 20, 2022 by JD & Ted

Hear Supper’s Ready by Genesis and a Thanksgiving theme, on Thursday from 2-4 PM. JD will be live in studio, spinning new and epic Prog tracks, to go along with your Holiday festivities. Feast on songs like Supper’s Ready, Rose of Jericho, Belladonna, Stardust We Are, Cat Food, Floating Plates and The Feast! PLUS, the brand new Single by Roger Waters, a drastically reworked, Comfortably Numb that will comfortably get you to the table for two hours of beautiful, complex and intelligent music, only on 103.3 Asheville FM and our new APP! Check out ALL our wonderful shows, live or archived, this Holiday Season!