Beautifully sad songwriting by Joshua Glenn

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Music on Friday 5 April 2013

Joshua Glenn is probably one of my favorite songwriters ever. Based somewhere on the Southeast Coast, Glenn travels in search of the loneliest, saddest songs and captures them in little jars for us. This is the music I crave when I just want to sit alone, wrapped in a quilt and cry my heart out. His music feels like [...]

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Asheville Blog: an east coast, online version of Portlandia

Drunken Prayer Reader Find

By Drunken Prayer in Cool Websites on Wednesday 27 March 2013

Asheville is a ridiculous little Appalachian Mountain town in Western North Carolina. This website is a hilarious on-going compilation of gifs specific to life there. This site reminds me of the show Portlandia; you don’t have to live there to be in on the joke. Anyone who’s ever spent time in a hip oasis town [...]

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Andy Herod: colourful illustrations with a punk twist

Two Fresh Reader Find

By Two Fresh in New Illustration on Thursday 14 February 2013

We recently found out about this guy during our last visit to Asheville. Andy Herod uses “children’s book” type images with a lot more detail and geometric patterns. His pieces have very colourful pencil details.

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Galen Frost Bernard

Gerry Mak Reader Find

By Gerry Mak in New Art on Thursday 13 January 2011

When I was on tour with the Baltimore Annex Theater, we played in a hip little wine bar in Asheville, NC. There were some really amazing paintings of abstracted city/landscapes on the wall that I couldn’t stop staring at. Turns out they were by artist Galen Frost Bernard.

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