A Kiss Before Dying - Memphis, Tennessee-based metalcore/hardcore band

A Kiss Before Dying / Heaven Sent / No Sign of Life / Dull Appearance

Static Age Records

One Wheel Fireworks Show

Pivot

One Wheel Fireworks Show - Nashville - Jason, eternal is One Wheel Fireworks Show's first foray into louder, darker material, exploring the fickle flow of time, mortality and what it means to get up in the morning and face another day. The record was assembled "hog dash" style at Colin Miller's Haw Creek home, with Cole and Miller embracing chaos and textures inspired by the drawings of the late visual artist, Jason Polan. 

Pivot - (AVL) Melodic Slowcore from Tombstone Poetry guitarist, Sofia Pace

One Wheel Fireworks Show / Pivot / Narcan Racecar

Goetia

Cemetery Filth

Feral Wretch

 - Ripping Death Metal from the Southeast US.
Filth-ridden and progressing beyond thought.

Goetia / Cemetery Filth / Feral Wretch

Bill's Garage

Frances Eliza

Bill's Garage (Album Release show!) - lo-fi grunge folk / bedroom rock from Boone, NC.

Bill's Garage (Album Release) / Frances Eliza

Jaguardini

Jaguardini treats music like a science project, combining the sounds of old video games and synthesizers to create a live blend of lofi synthpop and energetic dark wave. Christo manipulates a gameboy, a vocoder, synths, and an electric guitar with a CRT TV set on his head. Influenced by Crystal Castles, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Ghostland Observatory, Beethoven, Ladytron, MGMT, and Disasterpeace.

plus ADMP (Analog Dance Music Project) - Sophie Hull + Nic Jenkins

Jaguardini / Teardux / ADMP

Camel Cash + Kudzu (Greenville, SC) + Rest Home

Camel Cash / Kudzu / Rest Home

Bellows

Sophia Corrine

Slow Packer

 (BK, NY) - Bellows is the bedroom recording project of songwriter and producer Oliver Kalb.

 (Nashville, TN) - Nashville-based indie electro-pop project known as "the world's sweatiest band!"

 is a collaborative music project between two brothers, Jack Victor and Mike Henry Johnson. The two of them started playing music together as young kids, and performed and recorded with various bands over the years. This project is a return to their roots, working side-by-side to create original songs that reflect their musical background and multitude of shared experiences.

 - "Sophia Corinne harvests poetry for the lines of each song from her life, one lived paying attention. Her songs are witness to the raw difficulties and layered radiant joys that every heart bears. In both writing and voice, Sophia’s songs offer the companionship of something beautiful for us to hold close in any season. She is currently based in Asheville NC." ~Malena Sweers

Bellows / Terror Pigeon / Slow Packer / Sophia Corinne

The Bug Club

Golomb

Finger Foods

 are a tight-knit, collaborative effort focussed on telling tales of the everyday that we often take for granted, shot through with humour and riffs-a-plenty.

 - Molded in the fertile rock crescent of Columbus, Ohio, three-piece Golomb channels Midwest friction into an album that seeks to find a genuine connection. The band boasts not one, but two bonded dynamics, something of an aberration among most trios. Siblings Xenia (bass) and Hawken (drums) tie down the rhythm section with songwriter/guitarist Mickey Shuman and Xenia turning their tags to spouse after years of dating. The close bonds between the members have fed into the band’s process — family and friends first and band second, leveraging years of trust to turn The Beat Goes On into an album that never wavers in its sincerity.

 is a four-piece indie rock band from Nashville, TN made up of members Levi Carter (guitar/vox), Carmen Kovich (guitar / vox), Mason Haigis (bass) and Meredith Moody (drums). They released their debut LP, 

The Bug Club / Golomb / Finger Foods

Return to Glory / Dark Hand / All Will Suffer / Sydney's Fatal Scream

Agonesiac / Serrate / Falling Behind / Tracheal Shave

Layne Garrett + Nate Scheible

Manas

Scribblers

Layne Garrett (guitar) and Nate Scheible (drums). Based in Washington DC, NS and LG have played together in many configurations including the art-rock band DRAWN and various ad hoc ensembles. As a duo, their music is rooted largely in free improvisation, exploring timbre, repetition, intuition, physicality, abstraction. Nate has released music on Outside Time and Warm Winters Ltd; former affiliations include Mock Identity, Scarcity of Tanks, and Self Destruct Button. Layne plays in Weed Tree and other projects, and is program director of the community arts space Rhizome DC. 

 was formed in 2012 in Asheville, NC by guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer Thom Nguyen. The intensity of their live shows, characterized by Dorji’s angular guitar preparations and Nguyen’s multi-limbed maelstroms exploding outwards in parallel, immediately caught the ear of the sub-underground. Originally from Bhutan, where he absorbed American and UK hard rock and heavy metal via bootleg cassettes while surrounded by a family full of folk musicians, Dorji arrived stateside for college and immersed himself in Asheville’s DIY punk scene and formative listening sessions with records by Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and Derek Bailey. It was there that he met Nguyen, a Vietnamese-Mississippian transplant who had been playing in local free rock outfits Nest Egg and Mendocino. The two hit the ground running, funneling their love of grindcore, black metal, free jazz, noise and other extreme sonics, and burgeoning anarchist/mutual-aid politics into their newfound freedom in improvisation.

Scribblers combine prog rock excess with 1970s power pop ear Candy. Like other Texas luminaries Doug Sahm and Billy Joe Shaver, Aubrey's lyricism combine heart felt sincerity with self reflective humor. Modular synth Wizard Jared Hooker gives the music a sophisticated, harmonic language, creating the perfect backdrop for Andy Burns' incendiary lead guitar. Drummer Joe Exposito and bassist Steve Streit dutifully serve the song providing a firm back bone to these rock 'n' roll gems.

CANCELLED: Manas / Scribblers / Layne Garrett + Nate Scheible

Annalise Jaffe

Annalise Jaffe - acoustic/indie singer songwriter out of Avl, NC

Madeleine Miller - acoustic/folk singer songwriter

Annalise Jaffe / Madeleine Miller / BPA Canteen

Grocer

Deady

Grocer - Philly, PA - Grocer is a band from Philadelphia. Lead by three distinct vocalists, each with a unique voice both on and off their respective instruments, they flicker between moments of brash chromaticism, saccharine pop sensibility, and rhythmic acrobatics. Their compositions are both meticulous and volatile, while their live performances are lauded for explosive chemistry with cheeky curiosity.

Deady - Louisville, KY - Deady is a 5 piece punk band from Louisville, KY. Pavement is an indie group formed in Stockton, CA. Pavement fucking sucks. Deady fucking rules.

Grocer / Deady / Rhodohell

Club Obscura: TRUTH CLUB / Seven and A Half Giraffe / w DJs after: Sword, Amani, Cel.cs

Landon George

Landon George (b. 1995) is a multi-instrumentalist and musical interloper living in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. His music ranges from experimental electronic endeavors to traditional Appalachian ballad singing to intimate original folk songs. An explorer at heart, George may be found drumming in a free improvised unit, playing tuba in an early jazz second line ensemble, or slapping the upright bass in a country blues band.

International appearances by George include a month long tour in China with Yiannese traditional band, Manhu, and festivals in Indonesia and the Netherlands. His current projects include multiple releases on several US labels including COPYRIGHT420, Pink Lady Apple House, and George’s own label, SORSE. In addition to releasing music under his own name, Landon George has released music under the aliases Dosha, Lil’ Nothing Man and The JavaScript Family Band.

Aunt Arctica - Birmingham AL alt-indie pop

Landon George / Aunt Arctica / Lorelei Taylor

Good Trauma

Little Gold

 should be an easy tale to tell, right? Kid’s been in the business about 15-16 years now... that’s not much, even if you’re a crazy-busy All-American psycho like our Cory. Easy to run down the deets on that. And he’s been noted by no less than guitar hero John Frusciante as an engrossing, inspired guitarist. Okay, pigeonholed as guitarist. Plus, he’s been in a band steadily for the last twelve years! So...a careerist! Easy peasy. Alas, it’s complicated beyond such simple formulations — for this is a tale of two Corys — at the very least.

Let’s get the roots uncovered quick: Cory’s a California Boy, come up in the 90s and aughts, an art school vet (CalArts, yo), and a musician since back in his youth. It runs in the family. He debuted back in the late aughts under the solo alias White Horses In Technicolor Everywhere. After that, he played a bit with Chad and the Meatbodies and Together Pangea before founding Wand in 2013. He’s written and lead-sung with them, rocking up six LPs with them to date. But here — on the last one, he played keyboards in all the tracks! So… not just a guitarist/singer, then. He does a bit of producing on the side too. And visual art. And of course, the reason you’re reading this right now is not because of no Wand, but rather, Cory Hanson! In addition to his steady-rolling discography with Wand, he’s been putting out solo LPs too since 2016. And those aren’t really like the Wand records at all. They have totally non-rock things like string orchestration and electronics as well as rock things like heavy guitar jams and they may be the best things he’s ever done. It’s not really up to us to say, though. Following 2021’s sophomore Cory album Pale Horse Rider and 2023’s “Cory-III” release, actually called Western Cum, he and Wand got one in — the insane Vertigo — and now Cory’s ready to release his latest solo effort, I Love People.

Cory has toured the country with himself as well as Wand, and made videos and jokes and stirred the pot on social media, which may be some form of modern art (again, not for us to say). In fact, who’s to say that he won’t be writing poetry or comic books in the years to come? It’s hard to see all that he does (false equivalence: the forest) behind his dazzling musical efforts (lame comparison: the trees) but not as hard as it is to see the future. Otherwise, a lot more of us would be billionaires or America’s next top Models, etc. Unfortunately these things take real doing. Fortunately for the (at least) two Corys, the doing of it all just comes natural. As for us, we look forward to seeing and hearing etc what they come up with next.

Cory Hanson / Little Gold / Good Trauma

Tanner York

Walkhome

Colin Miller

Walkhome - Asheville based songwriter rock, from the head to the heart.

Colin Miller - If the name Colin Miller sounds familiar, you have probably spent a not-negligible amount of time looking at the credits for other Asheville luminaries like MJ Lenderman (Miller helped engineer and produce last year’s Boat Songs), Wednesday (same for I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone), and Indigo De Souza (2018’s I Love My Mom). Miller also makes music on his own, and he’s racked up a decent amount of material over the past few years, mostly one-offs and shorter home-recorded affairs.

Tanner York / Seven and a Half Giraffe / Walkhome / Colin Miller

Khandroma

Wounded Hollow

MAPS

- a blend of experimental/improvisational psych rock,     ambient noise, and avant-garde instrumentation

- live-looping techniques build rich soundscapes of dark jazz, ambient, and post rock

-  ambient textures, atmospheric soundscapes, and spontaneous, jam-like structures

Khandroma/ Wounded Hollow/ MAPS

Lavender Blue

Blithe

Official Claire

 combines laid-back indie rock with whispery folk, and her incisive, often witty lyrics sometimes make listening to her feel like pricking your finger on a hidden thorn on the stem of a beautiful flower. The five songs on the hilariously titled 2024 EP 

 reveal an artist who’s just as comfortable recounting run-ins with the prying eyes of mediocre men under the fluorescent lights of a big-box retailer as she is confessing her hope for true love and connection. (She recorded the EP with drummer Quin Kirchner and multi-instrumentalist LeRoy Bach, crediting herself as simply “Claire.”) 

The sparse, confessional “This Monthly Affirmation” celebrates avoiding unwanted pregnancy while seeking a romance that will last. “Don’t Ever Let Anyone Tell You to Be Yourself,” awash in dreamy acoustic guitar and shimmering chimes, retells the demise of a relationship. But while the music sounds somber and forlorn, the lyrics put a wry twist on the breakup song—her insistence that her ex was the whole problem, that he failed to be the man she told him to be, suggests that she’s either winkingly indulging her resentment (before, one hopes, self-awareness and accountability take over) or caricaturing a narcissistic jerk. 

Official Claire’s combination of sensitivity and straight talk taps into a familiar Chicago spirit that makes it feel like just about anyone could be an unofficial Claire.

The vessel for the songwriting and guitar playing of Kayla Zuskin. Lavender Blue the band consists of Mike Henry Johnson on Pedal Steel and Synthesizers, Mary Steinbrecher on Electric Bass and Jack Victor on Drumkit and occasionally keys. They are in the process of recording and producing their second full length LP. Their music is best described as slowcore and alternative indie with a dash of Americana.

 - avl indie art rock with hauntingly girlish undertones full of ancient rage and love

Official Claire (ft. former-Wilco members) / Lavender Blue / Blithe

Two Planes

Smokey Mirror

Smokey Mirror - Spicy 4-piece psychedelic-blues Boogie from Texas.

Sam Hunt formed Two Planes in 2008 at UNC Asheville. They broke up in 2009, reformed in 2011, broke up in 2013, reformed in 2016, broke up in 2018 and reformed in 2022.

The current lineup is Sam on guitar, Kevin Stanford on guitar/keys, John Fornof on bass and Jonathan Bass on drums.

Smokey Mirror / Two Planes 

Okapi

Lady Kabela

Prairie Princess

is a duo which utilizes upright bass, cello, and voice through raw, intimate orchestrations driven by honesty and philosophical content. We advocate the conscious confrontation with reality, rather than the subconscious avoidance or distraction from it, and encourage individual awareness, freedom, and healthy growth. We hope to inspire consciousness in all those who are willing to listen.

 - BK - emerson borakove's acoustic guitar music

Glad I Didn't Get My Stupid Wish

 Glad I Didn't Get My Stupid Wish / Okapi / Lady Kabela / Prairie Princess

Kuh-Leeb

This Man May Die

Dodomeki

Kuh-Leeb / This Man May Die / Dodomeki

Headringer

major

 is a six-piece Atlanta-based indie-alt rock project led by musician/producer Holden Fincher (Marvelous 3), with members Tom Sinclair, Meg Jiles, Trent Bilodeau, Will Villeca, and Ethan Parks. The band formed shortly after the dissolution of Fincher and Bilodeau's longtime project Mansell (2014-2024), which carried them throughout their younger years as they homed in on their skills and cut their teeth playing in the local scene. 

In major, they have continued to expand on their musical foundation into a whole new sound which successfully marries 90s alt-rock influences with Southern gothic elements, resulting in a heavy-hitting, clear, and resolute sound tied together through outstanding songwriting.


After receiving overwhelmingly warm and loving reception in Atlanta and the region since their first live show in August 2024, the band has been building on its successes since releasing its debut EP Leanin; that same year. The band released its follow-up single & 7-Year Itch; in January 2025, and the dual single No Man, No Why / Homepark in June 2025. The band's newest single, CRV, is the lead single from their upcoming debut LP Silver Plastic.

 - loud n’ noisey pop music w twinkly hooks and a tendency for punishing sweetness

major / Blithe / Headringer

Just Penelope

Nathanael Jordan

Nawal

Just Penelope (Bloomington, IN)- heavy, fuzzed out guitar; indie rock; grunge

Nathanael Jordan (AVL)- indie; alternative folk; singer-songwriter

Nawal (AVL)- ethereal indie; intertwining rock; jazz/indie/pop influences

Just Penelope/Nathanael Jordan/Nawal

Johnny Dynamite & The Bloodsuckers

John Aaron Morisi better known by his stage name Johnny Dynamite is an American multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer-songwriter. Inspired by the illustrative work of his grandfather, Morisi took on the name of one of his most iconic characters, an anti hero detective from the underworld; "Johnny Dynamite".

Morisi blends many different genres and connects the dots between different pockets of subculture; equal parts glossy new wave and anthemic rock n’ roll. Morisi’s signature beat centric production style incorporates big stadium drum samples, dreamy alternate guitar tunings and ethereal retro synth patches. Morisi’s sound has been compared to legacy acts such as Pet Shop Boys, INXS, and The Cure as well as more modern acts such as MGMT and M83.

Johnny Dynamite / Falling Behind / TBA

Pictures of Vernon

calicuzns

Aunt Ant

Jude Corbin

: know for their DIY aesthetic, high-energy live performances, and Beauty Punk style

 is a high-energy, yelping, heavy, anthemic screamo-punk

 is known for their dynamic blend of alternative, slowcore, and post-rock

 band from Asheville, NC, is best described as the acclaimed noise pop, shoegaze, and alt-country group 

Pictures of Vernon, Calicuzns, Aunt Ant, Jude Corbin 

Laney Barnett

Caylan Hays

Caylan Hays - Caylan Hays was raised in Northern Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati—a brackish in-between place where two states and two cities exist apart yet together, where the South meets the Midwest and bluegrass collides with rock ’n’ roll.

After releasing a pair of EPs in 2024 (Dog Days and I Turn My Belly to You), Hays is set to release her full-length debut, Victory Lap, in 2026.

Lavender Blue - The vessel for the songwriting and guitar playing of Kayla Zuskin. Lavender Blue the band consists of Mike Henry Johnson on Pedal Steel and Synthesizers, Mary Steinbrecher on Electric Bass and Jack Victor on Drumkit and occasionally keys. They are in the process of recording and producing their second full length LP. Their music is best described as slowcore and alternative indie with a dash of Americana.

Laney Barnett - a native of Asheville, NC, Laney is a violinist and a music teacher. with influences of Appalachia, she remains true to her inner most voice. she is fond of shredding whitewater, her dog oliver brown, her incredible community of friends and family, and you. The LB band is made up of all-stars, Evan Veasey, Quinn Brodsky, Will Elliot, Alec Stanley and Jonny Wright.

Caylan Hays / Lavender Blue / Laney Barnett

Halogi

Old Dead Gods

Trollcraft

Halogi (AVL): a blend of melodic power metal, NWOBHM, and aggressive hardcore

Old Dead Gods (AVL): sludgy, blackened doom elements, fuzzy stoner-metal riffs, and raw hardcore vocals

Trollcraft (AVL): Dark, Epic, Heavy Metal

Halogi/ Old Dead Gods/ Trollcraft

Nascar Aloe

Jasiah

DIRTY BUTT

Next April

Nascar Aloe (LA): politically charged, experimental, punk rap hybrid; works closely with DEATHPROOF INC. an underground artists collective//Epitaph Records

Jasiah (Dayton, OH): high energy fusion of trap metal, screamo, and hip hop//New 11 Records

DIRTY BUTT (ATL):  aggressive, bass heavy, trap-metal/punk-rap

Next April: (Charlotte, NC): Next April plays a unique blend of indie pop, hyperpop, and alternative rock.

Nascar Aloe / Jasiah / DIRTY BUTT / Next April 

Cooper!

Killer Skillet

Codapen

Cooper! (Gainsville, FL)- catchy, twangy, country inspired punk

Killer Skillet (AVL)- high energy, raw, guitar-driven rock

Codapen (AVL)- DIY punk, "Nugazi", post-hardcore

Cooper!/Killer Skillet/Codapen

Abysmal Lord

Voidhämmer

Harsh Realm

ORCA

Abysmal Lord (NOLA)- unholy malignance doom/relentless war metal

Voidhämmer (CA)- raw, filthy, primal crust

Harsh Realm (AVL)- death metal tones against heavy horror sludge

Abysmal Lord / Voidhämmer /Harsh Realm/ Orca 

Powder Horns

Paprika

RIBS

RIBS (Raleigh) - experimental rock - southern mobility meets uptown dentistry

Powder Horns - Powder Horns is a band born from the mind of Brett J Kent in Asheville, NC. Based in the traditions of the almighty rock and roll, Powder Horns finds itself a culmination of influences and life experiences.

Paprika - Paprika is a rock band. Punched with swaying blues rhythms, desert rock stylings, and eerie cosmic flourishes, our music explores the pains of love, life, and desire through a dust-speckled lens. Our music is written, recorded, mixed, and cut to vinyl by ourselves here in Asheville, NC.

RIBS / Powder Horns / Paprika

Lo Wolf

Claire Whall

(Asheville, NC) Conduit songs from the blue beyond.

  - (Asheville, NC) Folk country artist Lo Wolf writes raw, radiant, and real music.Rooted in feeling, their voice moves like spring. Smoky songs that whisper and scream will stay with you. Like the coyotes on the
hillsides or the wolves roaming the lands, she brings stories and
places to life through sound. Whether solo or with a band, they bring
a unique, rebellious energy to their live sets and recordings alike

Lo Wolf / Claire Whall

Nina GI 

Nina GI - Asheville based hip-hop r&b songstress.

Nina GI

Squid Pisser

Squid Pisser (LA), Mean Habit (CARRBORO, NC), Mockery (AVL), Camel Cash (AVL), Louder Transition Collective (CLT)

Squid Pisser / Mean Habit / Mockery / Camel Cash / Louder Transition Collective (CLT)

fuse the urgency of punk with the grit and melody of Southern Calif rock, turning everyday struggle into cathartic, communal release. Raised in working class neighborhoods and proud of their roots, the band channels lived experience into songs that balance sharp social awareness with a sense of hope, crafting choruses meant to be shouted back from the pit. With every show and every song, Death Lens continue to build a world where outsiders belong and resilience feels electric.

 has been dominating the post-punk/garage scene for quite some time. Building an exciting repertoire through their highly captivating live shows, this raucous trio unleash a whirlwind of sound that commands their audience to move - whether they’re ready or not!

are a four piece rock and roll band based out of Indianapolis. From basements to marquees this outfit has gained the attention and admiration of the Indy music scene. Known for their energetic live performances, fast riffs, and heavy hits they are quickly becoming one of the Midwest’s most exciting young bands.

 - hc punk from Hattiesburg, MS -Taking the approach of sounding creepy and downright sinister, Skinman is taking a sharp turn from their shared bands of MSPAINT and Pleather.

Death Lens / Monsterwatch / Pat & the Pissers / Skinman

Formed in late 90s Seattle and currently based in Tulsa, Unwed Sailor craft a unique form of bass-led, instrumental pop with post-rock dynamics. For their eleventh album, High Remembrance, core members Johnathon Ford (bass, keys, guitar), Matt Putman (drums), and David Swatzell (guitar) embrace the bittersweet comforts of memory with shades of alt-rock grit, late 70s AM radio swagger, and rapturous New Wave abandon, among other touchstones that defy easy categorization.

On these songs, Ford finds some of his strongest inspiration by reflecting on where the project began, while perpetually pushing it forward with new ideas, arrangements, and genre infusions. “It’s become about holding onto the things you love the most,” he notes, “including yourself.”

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Unwed Sailor