Matthew Everett

• AIGA Celebrates Design Week Published 05/08/2013 at 10:41 a.m.

  Good design is sometimes invisible—if something is designed well, you might never even notice just how useful/elegant/informative it is, especially if you’re not a designer. So AIGA Knoxville’s third annual Design Week, scheduled for May 13-17, is a good opportunity ...

• George Jones Joins an Exclusive Knoxville Club Published 05/08/2013 at 10:40 a.m.

  When George Jones died on April 26, he also got a pass into an exclusive club: that small handful of famous performers whose final concerts happened in Knoxville.

• Uncle Acid and Ghost B.C. Try to Stay Mysterious in the Information Age Published 05/08/2013 at 9:55 a.m.

  Sometimes the best publicity is no publicity at all. When the British band Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats released its second album, Blood Lust, in 2011, the group was shrouded in mystery—no interviews, no photos, no concerts, no names, even. ...

• AC Entertainment Announces Artists for October's Mountain Oasis Festival in Asheville Published 05/01/2013 at 11:04 a.m.

  AC Entertainment may have lost the rights to the Moogfest name, but the Knoxville music promoter isn’t giving up on a fall electronic-music festival in Asheville.

• Knoxville Film and Music Festival Adds Music Video Contest Published 04/24/2013 at 9:56 a.m.

  The upcoming Knoxville Film and Music Festival, scheduled for June, has just announced an addition to its lineup of local films and music performances that will combine both disciplines—the Competitive Music Video Awards, a four-day music-video shootout contest pairing local ...

• Local CD Review: The Blue Heavy Published 04/24/2013 at 9:53 a.m.

  On its very first recording, a four-song self-titled EP, the Blue Heavy convincingly recreates the nasty, scuzzy Neanderthal heavy rock of early-’70s bands like Mountain, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, and Sir Lord Baltimore.

• Semi-Tough: Some Less Strenuous Fitness Tips Published 04/10/2013 at 11:45 a.m.

  So you don’t necessarily want to get ACTION MOVIE RIPPED!, but you’d like to lose some weight and keep it off, feel better, get a little bit stronger and faster and run farther. In short, you want to get in ...

• Going Caveman: Will Crossfit Training, a Paleo Diet, and Minimalist Running Make You Prehistoric-Strong—Or Just Worn Out? Published 04/10/2013 at 11:43 a.m. 2 Comments

  CrossFit training is the newest cult-like workout regimen. Along with paleo diets and minimalist or barefoot running, it’s part of a cultural trend to get back to our caveman-like habits to find new health. Does it work? Yes—if you stick ...

• Forbidden Fruit Published 04/10/2013 at 11:28 a.m.

  It’s been a crazy year in local news—Stacey Campfield’s seemingly never-ending extravaganza of outrageous pronouncements and proposed legislation, butt-chugging, Gloria Ray, Bigfoot, Derek Dooley.

• Knoxville Musicians Pitch In for Concert Fund-Raisers Published 04/03/2013 at 9:38 a.m.

  April will see a bunch of notable benefit concerts, starting this weekend with a fund-raiser for a local girl with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and running through the well-established Wolfe Jam, which will raise money for the Joy of Music School.

• Best Blues Band: The Hector Qirko Band Published 05/12/2010 at 5 p.m.

  Nearly 25 years in—the HQ Band will celebrate its first quarter century together this summer—and they’re still at the top of the local blues scene.

• Best Band Break-Up to Inspire Solo Records: the everybodyfields Published 05/12/2010 at 5 p.m.

  When Tri-Cities transplants the everybodyfields finally got settled in Knoxville in 2008, they seemed to be on the verge of breaking out of the regional circuit to some real national acclaim.

• Best DJ: DJ Eric B Published 05/12/2010 at 5 p.m.

  Hot 104.5 FM’s DJ Eric B, fresh off a performance opening for Vanilla Ice in Maryville, throws a little bit of everything—house, techno, hip-hop, trance, even a little Queen and ZZ Top—into his mixtapes and live sets.

• Best Local Idea: Sundown in the City Published 05/12/2010 at 5 p.m.

  Never mind all the grumbling about the crowds and the teenagers and the lineups and how much beer costs—nothing symbolizes downtown Knoxville’s recent renaissance like Sundown in the City, the free music series on Market Square that’s just started its ...

• Overkill: Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister Published 08/27/2009 at 10:25 a.m.

  There may be a small cult of unbelievers out there, but their opinions count about as much as those of flat-earthers and moon-landing conspiracy nuts. The simple fact is that Motörhead is the baddest-ass rock ’n’ roll band in the ...

• In Memoriam: Kris Hawkins Published 05/27/2009 at 11:45 a.m.

  Kris Hawkins’ death last April in a motorcycle accident stunned not only his family and friends but a big part of Knoxville’s music community. Many of them were at the Catalyst nightclub in the Old City on April 27 to ...

• Best Local Twitter Page: AC_Ent Published 04/30/2009 at 2:32 a.m.

  A year ago, Twitter was a bunch of people offering tiny little updates about their mood, where they were going to dinner, who they saw there, and what they were watching on TV after that. It’s gotten a little less ...

• Best Local Blog/Blogger: wigsphere.com Published 04/30/2009 at 2:30 a.m.

  The whippersnappers at wigsphere.com (“The Sunsphere is NOT a wigshop”) aren’t cynical and jaded about Knoxville like some of the rest of us. Most of the eight contributing bloggers aren’t natives; for them, alternative transportation, sushi, movies on Gay Street, ...

• Best Ambassador for Knoxville: Pat Summitt Published 04/30/2009 at 2:23 a.m.

  This wasn’t exactly a season to remember for Pat Summitt and the Lady Vols basketball team. But even among the 11 losses—the most for a Summitt-coached team since 1976—and getting bumped in the first round from the NCAA Tournament, Summitt ...

• Best Radio Personality: Derek and Rob from The Funhouse, WUTK 90.3 Published 04/30/2009 at 2:13 a.m.

  Do you like big, loud guitars? Do you mix in a little ’80s hair metal in with your ’90s indie rock? Have a bunch of cryptic stories about when you used to hang out with Superdrag, way back before they ...

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