The world’s wastebaskets are filled with tattered bar-naps scribbled over with big ideas that never got off the ground—product concepts, book titles, and fragments of movie scripts. But when Knoxville’s Jonathan Sexton ran into former Whiskey Scars bandmate Matt Urmy ...

One of the Knoxville’s favorite performers is coming back home, at least once a month, to front a monthly concert and interview series with everyone’s favorite local columnist.

The Dirty Guv’nahs have just wrapped up recording sessions in Nashville for their upcoming, still-untitled new album, due out sometime this year.

Knoxville doom quartet Wampus Cat takes is name from the mysterious wampus cat of Cherokee mythology and Appalachian folklore, a foreboding half-woman, half-feline harbinger of death.

Knoxville Films and veteran television producer Melissa May have teamed up for a year-long film project to showcase Knoxville.

An interesting fact, according to banjo aficionado and hillbilly fashion plate Matt Morelock: His namesake music store on Gay Street has actually done better business since its owner quietly slipped away to paradise last fall.

The eccentric downstairs bar/restaurant/music space at 4620 Kingston Pike, previously home to Velvet and two iterations of a club called 4620, is getting another makeover this month.

Stewart Pack is one of the elite usual suspects who have shaped Knoxville’s sound. With a tenure that stretches beyond 20 years with great bands like the 1-900s and Dinky Doo, Pack is notable for his prolific music-making and, more ...

This Sunday at 3 p.m. on East Tennessee PBS, Keith McDaniel—the auteur behind Oak Ridge’s annual Secret City Film Festival—will debut his new monthly talk show featuring Tennessee filmmakers.

Have you ever competed in one of the annual Knoxville 24-Hour Film Festivals and thought, “What I really need is 30 more hours.”? Well, your filmmaking contest has arrived.

It’s good news that members of Knoxville’s music community can organize a three-day benefit for one of their own as quickly as Waynestock 2 has come together. It’s just too bad that they have to.

As fashionable as it’s become to plunder old genres for easy cheers, there’s no sign on Dead Town that Knoxville mod-rockers the Vaygues have anything less than complete, qualified commitment to the jangly guitar pop of yesteryear.

The local high-school alt-rock band Ergo We Play has already outstripped most of its peers simply by staying together long enough to write and record two songs. The band has an even bigger opportunity next month

Knoxville Jazz Orchestra pulls out all the stops on this smooth and swinging disc of holiday standards, which will fit nicely next to A Charlie Brown Christmas and Christmas With the Rat Pack in anybody’s seasonal CD collection.

May Justus was a children’s book writer, teacher, and longtime supporter of the Highlander Folk School and its later incarnation, the Highlander Center. She was also a singer and folklorist, passions that are at the heart of a new CD ...