It’s been a breakout year for Asheville indie-rock quintet Wednesday, and the momentum generated by the band’s latest and greatest album Rat Saw God is poised to carry them right into 2024: Karly Hartzman and company have announced the expansion of their current tour with new U.S. dates, including a February stop at Jack Rabbits, and a documentary on their …
New 4-Part Series on Jax PBS Explores How Hip Hop Changed the World
Nearly fifty years ago, in the summer of 1973, Cindy Campbell asked her brother, Clive, better known as DJ Cool Herc, to spin records at a “Back to School Jam” at their apartment complex’s recreation room in the Bronx. While Herc dropped the needle on drum-and-bass-heavy cuts from his collection of vinyl, his friend Coke La Rock held the mic, …
Asamov, the Influential Jax Hip-Hop Group, Finally Gets its Due
Recent years have seen more mainstream attention being given to local rap artists than ever before. But the stars of today are newer, younger artists, most of whom have never known anything but the digital future we’re currently living in. There was, however, a whole generation of local legends who never got the hype they deserved. And Asamov sits atop …
The gripping ‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ confronts the artist’s complexities
Louis Armstrong made his first transatlantic voyage in July of 1932, sailing from New York City to Plymouth, England, aboard the ocean liner RMS Majestic. This was a triumphant visit for Armstrong, whose bravura feats as a trumpeter and rugged ebullience as a singer had already made him a sensation on both sides of the pond. But while the British …
Honored onscreen and in sound, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, a messenger whose time is now
Beverly Glenn-Copeland, or Glenn as he’s known to friends, compares himself to a radio that’s tuned to pick up certain frequencies. These ideas and sounds, which typically defy classification, come to him by way of what he calls the “Universal Broadcast System.” He sees his role as merely to receive and transcribe them, then send them back into the world …
Join NPR Music’s film screening of ‘Karen Dalton: In My Own Time’
Join us for an online screening of Karen Dalton: In My Own Time. Bob Boilen from All Songs Considered will be joined by director Robert Yapkowitz and singer-songwriter Margo Price in a live conversation about the film. The event will take place on Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. ET – you can RSVP via NPR Presents and watch via NPR …
Go | Todd Haynes’ ‘The Velvet Underground’ documentary @ Sun-Ray Cinema
The revered avant-garde rockers finally get the rock-doc treatment
You don’t have to be a mystic, or even religious, to understand that coincidences don’t really exist. Indeed, any student of rock n’ roll knows that the history of the canon is littered with chance encounters and ripe scenes made up of unusually heterogeneous mixtures of characters. In 1957, a 15-year-old Paul McCartney paid threepence to watch a popular Liverpool …
PBS Docuseries ‘Icon: Music Through the Lens’ explores the history of music photography
The six-part docuseries Icon: Music Through The Lens is a visually-thrilling deep dive into the rich history of music photography, an artform that emerged simultaneously with and followed a parallel path to the medium it captures. Featuring in-depth and often irreverent interviews with the world’s best-known music photographers, musicians, gallerists, music journalists and social commentators, the series premiered in July …
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
Tonight at 10pm
Alzheimer’s Documentary
Tonight at 10pm
on WJCT-TV
‘CHAPLAINS’ Premiere
October 27, 2015
City of Bridges
Tune to WJCT Public Television Thursday night at 8, Channel 7.1 (Comcast Channel 8 & 440) for the WJCT documentary showcasing the bridges suspended over our beautiful waterway as part of “The Year of the River”. “City of Bridges” traces the growth that resulted from the construction of Jacksonville’s railroad and automobile bridges across the St. Johns River, and explores …
Cancer Documentary
March 30th – April 1st at 9PM on WJCT-TV