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🌙 Tonight - APLR is delighted to host Jane Kramer’s Moon and Mother Album Release Show with her full band! 🌙Moon & Mothe...
09/19/2026

🌙 Tonight - APLR is delighted to host Jane Kramer’s Moon and Mother Album Release Show with her full band! 🌙

Moon & Mother, Jane’s fourth full-length album and first release of new music in six years, was recorded at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC. The album shows the artist reaching new levels of mastery with her songwriting craft while showcasing surprising new power and agility with the effervescent instrument of her voice.

Working with producer Lillie Syracuse allowed Kramer to push the edges of her folk identity and infused the album with a more expansive, lush, and nuanced soundscape, resulting in a ten-song collection of Kramer’s strongest, most mature, and compelling work yet.

The album explores themes of motherhood, marriage, reclaiming self and artistry amidst those responsibilities, and the loss of Kramer’s beloved mother early in her own motherhood journey.

Pulling from some of Asheville’s most accomplished and renowned musicians, Kramer’s band includes Chris Rosser and River Guerguerian of Free Planet Radio, Matthew Smith (Amy Ray Band, The Honeycutters), Duane Simpson and Jake Wolf (MAMA, Dirty Logic), , Drayton Aldridge, and Franklin Keel (Asheville Symphony Orchestra).

The full band will celebrate the early release of Moon & Mother with a performance of the complete record on September 19th, at AyurPrana Listening Room in Asheville, NC.

Physical copies of the album on vinyl and CD will be available at the show, and the album will be available on streaming platforms worldwide in October.

Jane Kramer
River Guerguerian
Chris Rosser
Jake Wolf
Lillie Syracuse
Franklin
Drayton Aldridge

APLR is thrilled to welcome Jake Xerxes Fussell back on Saturday, February 20th. Tickets are on sale now, and linked bel...
09/18/2026

APLR is thrilled to welcome Jake Xerxes Fussell back on Saturday, February 20th. Tickets are on sale now, and linked below.

Over six unique and very personal studio albums, Jake Xerxes Fussell has found his musical future by reimagining, reorchestrating, and reunifying the past. By combining different traditional music sources in a completely original way, he routinely creates fresh works of art that are at once rooted in tradition and ingeniously modern.

“It starts at a very intuitive level, it has to be natural in order for it to succeed,” Fussell explains. “I’ll really get into a song and feel like I hear something in there like a melody, a particular phrase, a chorus, and I feel like ‘I could use that’ and one thing leads to another.”
It’s Fussell’s inspired intuition that remakes a classic American folk song like “Rock Island Line”—the first single from his latest album The Old Beloved Path—into something that still rings with inherent wisdom but is completely his own. An accomplished fingerpicker on guitar who’s also blessed with a smooth baritone voice that effortlessly exudes the gravitas his creations demand, he says that in the past he might have avoided a song like “Rock Island Line” because it seemed too commonplace to him—too many folksingers had already done it. This touchstone of the well-known fabric of American folk music, “didn’t really need my interpretation.” But after listening again to the recording of this train song by British skiffler Lonnie Donegan , something about the incantation of the chorus struck a chord. In typical Fussell fashion, his remarkable ear and intellect took over.

Jake Xerxes Fussell

09/16/2026

APLR welcomes WHY? on Friday, December 18th. WHY? is touring in support of his new album Oh Golly / Yes Lord. Tickets are on sale now and going fast!

Yoni Wolf was at war with himself. As he reached middle age, he was beset by questions that had plagued him for years. Why was life so difficult and lonely? When would the happy part of him take the steering wheel? Far from wallowing, he leaned into the dark and the light, asking how and when real change was possible. Of course, transformation wasn’t a foreign concept to WHY?, the mercurial project that’s housed much of Wolf’s neuroses and restless creativity since the late ‘90s. This time, the two sides of a man became the basis for a new album split in half, at times diametrically opposed. WHY?’s ninth album, Oh Golly / Yes Lord, airs all of Wolf’s baggage while asking how a person resolves their different selves. “The album is not a flattering look at my life, but that’s not the point,” Wolf asserts. “This is warts-and-all stuff. I’m always striving for honesty in WHY?, but Oh Golly / Yes Lord is particularly revealing.”

WHY?

09/15/2026

APLR is thrilled to welcome MANAS on Monday, November 30th in celebration of their new album - the most yielding thing in the world will overcome the most rigid.

MANAS is guitarist Tashi Dorji, drummer Thom Nguyen and Che Chen (of 75 Dollar Bill) on guitar, percussion and homemade instruments. Steeped in years of friendship and a cooperative, mutual-aid ethos, the group has gained a reputation for intense, cathartic live shows characterized by Dorji and Chen’s guitars, hypnotic one moment and ecstatically abrasive the next, and Nguyen’s multi-limbed maelstroms exploding outwards in parallel. Chen’s battery of auxiliary percussion and homemade instruments can refract Nguyen’s multi-directional rhythms or create ritualistic settings for the trio’s synchronistic interplay. Their post-hardcore take on free improvisation draws on their collective loves of punk, grindcore, black metal, free jazz, noise and other extreme sonics, as well as Buddhist and Taoist temple traditions of Asia and the Himalayas. 

Dorji and Nguyen originally formed MANAS as a duo in 2012 in Asheville, NC and immediately caught the ears of the many undergrounds they traversed via near relentless touring throughout the 2010s. Originally from Bhutan, where he absorbed US/UK 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 where he met Nguyen, a Vietnamese-Mississippian transplant who had been playing in local free rock outfits Nest Egg and Mendocino. The two met Chen as 75 Dollar Bill (Chen’s trance rock band with drummer Rick Brown) and MANAS’ tour routes crisscrossed the US, and the trio became fast friends. After many collaborations over the years, Chen officially joined the group in 2025 and their first record as a trio is forthcoming. 

The original MANAS duo has a new 2xLP titled the most yielding thing in the world will overcome the most rigid out now on the record label American Dreams. 

Tashi Dorji
𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔞𝔰
Thom Nguyen
75 DOLLAR BILL

Tickets are available now!

09/15/2026

APLR Presents: Nessi Gomes Vocal Workshop and Concert on Saturday, October 3rd!

Ticket Link below.

Workshop:Doors 11:30 AM || Event 12 PM - 2 PM
Concert: Doors 6 PM || Show 7 PM

Nessi Gomes Nessi Gomes is a songwriter shaped by cultural edges, emotional edges, and the places within us that don’t clean up easily. Born to Madeiran parents in Guernsey, she grew up between languages, between islands, and between identities. Maybe that’s why her work sits in the in-between: not folk, not pop, not confessional, not theatre, but something raw and unguarded, carried by a voice that doesn’t hide from itself.

Her debut album, Diamonds & Demons, was born from upheaval and built with community support, a record of fragile hope and stubborn resistance. It quietly found its people, carrying her across continents and into rooms where listeners come not to escape, but to remember themselves.

Offstage, Nessi has spent the last decade working with the voice as a place to meet emotion and truth, influenced by her background in Creative Expressive Therapies and voice-based therapeutic work. It’s not performance training. It’s more like tending to the parts that don’t speak in sentences. Over the years, thousands have joined her workshops and retreats, not in search of perfection, but presence.



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