The basic framework of writer/self-mythologizer Jack Rentfro’s shambolic music project is familiar—spoken-word performance over moody, atmospheric, semi-improvised jazz rock—but the end result is decidedly not.

The CDC was recently awarded a grant from the city of Knoxville and wants to use the money to fund a mural on the Interstate 40 underpass between Washington and Glenwood avenues in northeast Knoxville

When local blues/jazz/rock guitar hero Hector Qirko moved from Knoxville to Charleston, S.C., almost three years ago, we all knew nobody would ever quite fill his spot.

The Hard Rock Cafe in Gatlinburg is gearing up for the opening rounds of Hard Rock Rising, the company’s worldwide band competition, with registration open now through Jan. 21 and local performances set for Feb. 18-April 15.

The third festival, scheduled for Friday, Feb. 1, and Saturday, Feb. 2, at Relix Variety Theatre on North Central Street, will benefit the Community School for the Arts, a Knoxville nonprofit organization that provides free arts instruction to children who ...

We take the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, who played their annual Christmas show at the Bijou Theatre Tuesday night, for granted, but National Public Radio just named KJO’s Christmas Time Is Here one of five recommended jazz Christmas albums of the ...

The last time the members of Knoxville rock band Magpie Suite played together, at a reunion show in 2010 at Manhattan’s in the Old City, they attracted a full house.

Beardsley Community Farm’s Snow Day benefit is turning into a local post-holiday season tradition—the farm has just announced the fifth edition of the one-of-a-kind concert/beard contest/silent auction/soup contest fund-raiser, set for Friday, Jan. 25, at Barley’s Taproom & Pizzeria in ...

With the Tennessee Shines name already resurrected for WDVX’s weekly series of Monday night concert broadcasts, the popular roots/Americana radio station had to find another name for its new schedule of quarterly performances at the Bijou Theatre.

Could this be the start of a new, loud, and possibly exciting holiday tradition downtown that does not involve light bulbs or decorated trees?

The mysterious saga of the Valarium looks like it will have a new chapter soon, when local tiki entrepreneur Daniel Leal reopens the warehouse venue as Blackstock Auditorium.

If you can’t make it to R&B superman R. Kelly’s Single Ladies Tour concert at the Tennessee Theatre on Tuesday, Dec. 4, you’ll still be able to see the show live in the comfort of your own home on AXS ...

Local folk-rockers the Lonetones have gotten bigger since the release of their last album, Canaries, in 2009. And they’ve added a bunch of surprising guest spots on their new disc, Modern Victims, all of whom will be performing next month ...

Fresh off a three-night run through the Northeast, the Dirty Guv’nahs’ recent show in Washington, D.C., found the Knoxville rockers at their finest—playing to an enthusiastic crowd of vocal Tennessee natives and fresh fans of the band’s soulful take on ...

Local rocker Tim Lee just finished up a month-long series of shows at Pilot Light with R.B. Morris, and his trio, the Tim Lee 3, has a new album due out soon (along with an EP and a live disc ...