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 ...

The Valarium may be closing but the show will go on—at least as far as Midnight Voyage, the weekly EDM concert/dance night that has been held at the Valarium’s sister club the Cider House since 2010, is concerned.

The release of the Black Cadillacs’ second album, Run, back in June, seemed like a turning point for the band. The group had improved significantly over its self-titled 2010 debut, in both songwriting and confidence, and the Cadillacs seemed poised ...

Knoxville’s night life will take a big hit later this month when the Valarium closes after five years of business, leaving the city’s entertainment infrastructure without a mid-size club venue.

AC Entertainment’s third annual installment of MoogFest in Asheville last weekend may have been scaled back to two days instead of three and may have featured fewer acts, but there was still plenty to see and hear.

MoogFest, AC Entertainment’s annual (mostly) electronic music festival in Asheville, may have displaced Knoxville’s own Big Ears as the hometown promoter’s out-there music fest, at least temporarily, but there’s no sense begrudging the city across the mountains.

Local jazz notable Donald Brown enjoyed a coming out of sorts at his Oct. 13 performance at the Grill on Highlands Row: It was his first live show in Knoxville in more than a year following surgery, in January, to ...

You’ll notice a few changes tonight at the Square Room’s monthly series of live broadcast roots-music concerts hosted by Scott Miller and Metro Pulse’s Jack Neely.

With Your Body Is a Wonderland, Knoxville-based instrumental duo Yak Strangler welds together a junkyard full of broken musical toys into a magnificent yet terrifying aural sculpture.

A couple of local artists are tired of walking through the Armstrong/Strong Alley between Market Square and the 400 block of Gay Street.

Maybe you noticed some art displayed in one of the parking lots under Interstate 40 at Magnolia Avenue and Central Street during the first University of Tennessee home football game on Sept. 8. That was the new art show Second ...

Last year, Tim Lee led an acoustic quartet that hosted a month-long series of weekly early shows at Pilot Light called 4X4. The final show in the series featured a guest appearance by local poet and songwriter R.B. Morris, which ...

Those free CDs artists hand out at shows prove the promotion budget sometimes pays back. It was a copy of Shine, Hudson K’s self-produced full-length album from 2010, that led internationally recognized producer Jason Rubal to Knoxville singer/songwriter Christina Horn.

MetroFest happened again.