John Sewell

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 ...

Few people know that Knoxville’s family tree of doom metal royalty extends beyond Victor Griffin of Pentagram/Place of Skulls and a handful of excellent current local bands.

Hot off the release of the their debut, Mixed Signals, Knoxville delinquent garage rockers Oversat have lined up a demanding schedule for this fall that includes some charitable work on the local front and then a foray across the big ...

Percussionist Larry Mullins has beaten the odds. A mainstay of Knoxville’s 1980s scene, Mullins is the rare example where perseverance, artistry, and timing produced amazing results—a viable career, even.

Long-time scenesters will certainly remember Jim Ellis, the stylish artiste whose projects included Jack Kirby-influenced cyberpunk landscapes, clothing items that were requisite hipster couture for those in the know, tattoos, and, most of all, himself. Ellis was a mainstay of ...

Quartjar's new album, 42, is a testament to Randall Brown’s endurance.

Knoxville’s old-school punk community has lost another great, Todd “Bonehead” Townsend, who died on Tuesday, April 26. Townsend, 50, was an important mover and shaker of the 1980s music scene that coalesced at the fabled Hippie House in Fort Sanders.

Despite the highfalutin conceptual mumbo-jumbo, 'Hyphenated-man' is a solid rock album in the vein of the Minutemen.

As mortals, we cannot question the mighty rock ’n’ roll monolith that is Motörhead.

With former Black Flag/Circle Jerks vocalist Keith Morris, bassist Jeff McDonald (Redd Kross), guitarist Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides), and drummer Mario Rubalcaba (Hot Snakes/Rocket From the Crypt), Off! definitely fits into the supergroup category—and they pull it off with aplomb.