The Progressive Voice of the Mountains

Conscious underground hip hop, soul, and r&b that goes deeper than pimps and hoes. Female DJs Molly and Michelle play progressive beats, tight lyrics, and sensuous melodies while pushing the paradigm of hip hop music to new levels. Drop Beats Not Bombs focuses on upbeat music that influences positive change.

Frecuencia Latina is WPVM’s all Spanish Language news Magazine. Different topics are discussed during each program, Tuesday through Friday, News and information by and about Western North Carolina ’s Latino Community, from National Headlines, to local events. WPVM’s longest running local program!

The Green Radio Bistro features live music as host, Ian Booth welcomes top musical guests from the widely touted WNC music scene. The show also features guest co-hosts, interviewing regional innovators from the business, government, non-profit and grassroots communities about all facets of sustainable living. Together, a fascinating array of western North Carolinians share ideas and personal experiences that will pique everyone's interest in clean energy, alternative transportation, green building and much more.

Join Austin each Wednesday morning at 9:00am for non-Western music.

Host Jesse hopes that The Jazz Caravan will be the same guilty pleasure for listeners that it is for him, the opportunity to listen to some of the best of the original American art form with enough social and political musings thrown in to release endorphins for both sides of the brain.

Why conform when you can freeform? Join Farmer for Monday night freeform music with a special trip back in the day, with an old-school hip hop set each week.

Join the hosts of Listen2Women each Thursday on WPVM for news and information on local and national women’s issues, and well as interviews with special guests, and women’s music.

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Co-hosts Barry Summers, David Lynch, and Veronika Gunter explore local and national news from a progressive perspective. Tune in for guest interviews, music, humor, and the tools to get involved and change the news that affects you.

Geographically genre crossing, trippy, seasonal, experimental thought provoking regurgitate, fun mixing freeform, mood swing set, hokey soulful ethereal. Mental Notes host Steven seeks to expose himself and the listener to new sounds from round the world, and round the block.

Late night low slung electronic music mixed by Adam from Earthtone Soundsystem. Oh, and now Ausin helps out too. Too much fun for a Wednesday night.

Hosted by native of France, Francois Manavit, The Paris of the south radio hour is a tour of French music through history and specifics themes. Also included in the hour is a French magazine from radio France International called Rendezvous, bringing us directly from Paris the latest of cultural, political and artistic subjects.

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Throughout history human beings have sought to explain and connect with thte life force of the universe. Throughout history human beings have fought eachother for coming to different conclusions and believing different things. May Pathways to the Sacred act as a bridge our differences and celebrate our similarities. Hosted by Josh Jourdan

Join Amanda every Sunday night at 9pm for sound that doesn't stop.

We dig so you can dig it. Join Dr. Filth each Saturday for your recommended dose of rock, garage, soul, reggae, R&B, blues, rockabilly, ska, and more…intricately woven together to form a tapestry of awesomeness. The best show on WPVM, really.

Join Jon Corbin each Saturday for Saturday Swing. Elements of blues, ragtime, mariachi, swing, cowboy tunes, 30's & 40's Pop, Hokum, Vaudville, Dixieland, Appalachian, Hawaiian and Cajun music are all incorporated into the show. A good time will be had by all.

Sirens' Muse is a music show featuring contemporary female vocalist (with one "Man of the Hour" selection per hour). Co-hosts, AJ and Susan, play a variety of music -- mostly in the range of college alternative to non-commercial adult rock. When female vocalists are coming to town, Sirens' Muse spotlights these musicians to give people a chance to hear their music.

A music show with news briefs about why we should all be afraid... of everything. A satirical take on the doom and gloom mainstream news and the fodder used to fill time on 24 hour news networks.

Brian has narrowed the hundreds of musical genres down to two: good and bad. You'll only hear the former on this show. The main focus is new music with a few vintage greats thrown in for good measure. Heavy favoritism is shown towards sounds of a psychedelic nature.

Sound poiesis, phonemes, feedback, electronic or acoustic, broken speaker, bad ear, static plus, garbage theoretical and, Stephen Kirbach remains obsessed with dodging habitual terms, un sound invert as negative force possess characteristics which he expects prismatically to evolve (shatter). Some day he might speak.

The Swannanoa Journal is a radio broadcast produced under the management of Dr. John Huie, Director of the Environmental Leadership Center of Warren Wilson College. The Swannanoa Journal is recorded and produced at Asheville radio station WPVM and is broadcasted from their station as well as WNCW in Spindale, NC.

Somewhat schizophrenic freeform therapy to deconstruct Jonathan's aural fixation. Disproportionately representing jazz, international, percussive, experimental, psychedelic, and atonal sounds from past and present.

The Cut is a showcase of electronic music, which strives to highlight underrepresented experimental electronic artists. While the program is coordinated locally, in Asheville, and has featured many live, in-studio performances from regional musicians; the show is hosted internationally on a rotation basis by about a group of DJs, who are spread out over a half-dozen countries, including Chile, The UK, The Netherlands, and Slovenia. It can get pretty arty, but whatever.

Features the music of under-represented artists mindfully selected by our volunteer music staff for WPVM listeners. It's the program that happens as a collaborative experience shaped by your host, Stephanie, and her unique style, those who make great music choices, sounds not bounded by genre, and listeners who ask for more. It's music you'll hear in Asheville only on WPVM.

Tuesday Night With the Lark, Tuesdays from 9p - 11p. It's a free-form, wide open music show with plenty of surprises and delights, new & old, with info blurbs on the artists played, and some occasional comedy. The focus is simply good music in which you won't find on commercial radio. Modern / Alt Rock, Electronica, Ambient, Hip Hop, Jazz, Funk, Rock, Reggae, World, Blues, & Country are all touched upon ... every show is different and corresponds with the mood of the day and the mood of The Lark.

This is.. eclectic music; crossing genres and building bridges. Hosted by Adam Coulter.

Take a trip down memory lane and relive the glory days of Lexington Avenue. Each Sunday, host James Owen treats the listener to excerpts from an extensive library of live recordings from Vincent’s Ear Café, as well as local and regional, national, and international music related, and not-so-related to Vincent’s.

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WordPlay is a weekly program by, and about poets and writers, their craft, and their ideas. The program features interviews, conversations, and readings from local poets and writers as well as a weekly events calendar comprised of upcoming writers’events in and around the Asheville area.