“Before the Music Dies,” an award-winning documentary film about local musicians’ struggles against corporate media, will be screened at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8 at the Fine Arts Theater in downtown Asheville.
The screening is a fundraiser for the nonprofit Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN) and its radio station, WPVM-LP, 103.5 FM.
The film features artists ranging from Elvis Costello and Bonnie Raitt to Seattle street performers and Mississippi gospel singers. Interviews also include Eric Clapton, Erykah Badu, and Dave Matthews.
“Our film is about breaking down walls that mega-corporations have built between musical artists and their rightful audiences,” says filmmaker Andrew Shapter, who co-wrote and produced the film with Joel Rasmussen.
The film describes how the recording industry, corporate radio and music stores collude to market a narrow range of “blockbuster” recording artists, while below the corporate radar an explosion of musicians and genres struggle to find an audience.
“MAIN and WPVM are part of the growing nonprofit media movement, which enables voices that don’t fit the corporate cookie-cutter to be heard and to find an audience,” said Wally Bowen, founder and executive director of MAIN, which launched WPVM in 2003.
“Many volunteers are drawn to WPVM, because it’s the only radio station in this region where they can speak their poetry and play their music,” he said.
“Before the Music Dies” has been screened at numerous film festivals, including South by Southwest and London’s Declaration of Independence Film Festival in June.
Admission to the MAIN/WPVM fundraiser is $10 for adults and $5 for students. VIEW THE TRAILER
Loosen up with interviews, groovy music, commentaries, and lots of audio mash ups. (Mash ups are two or more songs mixed together to create a special new song.) This week, Easy Mark hosts lots of straight up hip hop, and hip hop mash ups too. Enjoy!
The Crossover Segment is anAfternoon Slacken inclusive feature which highlights another WPVM show-host. This week, get to know Molly and Michelle, of Drop Beats Not Bombs (a positive, consciousness, hip hop show which airs on Saturdays from 8 until 10PM).
Word! The last word, a remixed commentary from Mumia Abu Jamal -“Fascism Anyone?”
Be sure to check out the programming guide for information on all of the WPVM programs. Music shows are onlyarchivedfor one week after broadcast. So get ‘em before they’re gone!
Well Before taking our listeners into our bi-weekly refreshing voyage in the creative mind, i think we should thanks again and again our listeners to have succeed in raising more than 15.000 dollars last week for our station to continue to be a unique voice for the community
This week in the
PARIS OF THE SOUTH RADIO HOUR
We will meet French Journalist Delphine MINOUI and talk about her book “les pintades a Terehan” (translated ; chicks of tehran) . In it , she writes about the fun-loving , sexy and educated women of Tehran.
Then we will go with her to PARIS to hear a report about doggy luxury . We will visit a dog’s own baker’s shop , a luxury clothes store and spa , we will drive in a dog’s only luxury limousine . and finally there is a chance for us to learn how to talk dog. A perfect show for a gentrify Asheville ! (courtesy of RADIO – FRANCE INTERNATIONAL)
This show will stay archived until November 21 . Click below to listen to the show NOW ! .
We’ll talk to Cecil Bothwell of Blows Against the Empire about the upcoming City Council election, his new blog, and whatever else weighs on Cecil’s mind. Hmm…what else could there be?…
We’ll talk to filmmaker/activist/musician Shane Perlowin about the upcoming screening of his film, “Asheville Goes to War.” Preview it on Google video here.
We’ll also talk to Rebecca Macneice about the screening at the Asheville Film Festival of documentaries in progress by her & other local filmmakers.
The President lobs an unusual threat at the Congress on this weeks Weekly Radio Address.
This local news and public affairs show focuses on underreported information and encourages civic activism. Tune in live 6-7 pm Monday (followed by the radio edition of the Asheville Global Report at 7 pm), catch the 1 pm Tuesday rebroadcast, or stream or podcast.
A couple of weeks ago, Wordplay host Jeff Davis visited Charlottesville and met with poet Jessica Smith. This week’s show features her reading from her book Organic Furniture Cellar and talking about her work. Her poems have spatial as well as the usual temporal dimensions we associate with poetry, which most often remains, as Susan Howe put it in the title of her 1987 book, the articulation of sound forms in time. While there’s no way to share the visual fields via radio, you’ll find, I think, that there’s plenty left to catch your ears.
The program rebroadcasts (and streams) at 6:00 PM on Tuesday and again at 7:00 AM on Wednesday, but is available from the station’s archive page as either a stream or a podcast all day every day through next Sunday.
The version of the program that’s available today (Monday) begins with a couple of minutes of the show which precedes Wordplay, Pathways to the Sacred, but tonight a trimmed version of the show will go up on the internet server.
Join us tonight, November 3 at Joli Rouge 130 College Street, downtown. We’ll be celebrating the success of the WPVM Fall 2007 Listener-Support Fund Drive.
There will be live music from Ash Devine , Soul Society featuring Dewayne Barton, and The Foolish. DJ 2KLEEN will be joining WPVM DJs from Nighttime Swerve, Chris Chalice from Roots & Conscienceness, and The Lark.
We’ll be asking for a $5 donation at the door, but don’t let that keep you from coming out and partying with the gang from WPVM. Everyone will be there. It is sure to be a great time. There will be prizes and giveaways. If you donated during the fund drive and haven’t received your gift yet, ask someone there and we’ll get you squared away. Thank you to everyone that donated/supported us during the WPVM Fund-Drive. Hope to see you tonight.
WPVM would like to thank all of the listeners, restaurants, and local businesses that showed their support during our Spring Listener Support Fund Drive.
We raised over $15,o00, and had more individual contributions than any other previous fund-drive, making for yet another record-breaking fundraising event for the progressive voice of the mountains.
If you did not get a chance to donate during our fund-drive, it isn’t too late. You can make a donation online from our secure website, or call us during business hours at 258-0085 to show your support. Programming on WPVM is made possible by your financial contributions.
Thank you to all of the continuing supporters of WPVM, and to all of the new donors in WPVM’s growing audience.
“Before the Music Dies,” an award-winning documentary film about local musicians’ struggles against corporate media, will be screened at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8 at the Fine Arts Theater in downtown Asheville.
The Crossover Segment is an Afternoon Slacken inclusive feature which highlights another WPVM show-host. This week, get to know Molly and Michelle, of 
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We’ll talk to Cecil Bothwell of Blows Against the Empire about the upcoming City Council election, his 
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