Matthew Everett

• Local CD Review: Jack Rentfro and the Apocalypso Quartet Published 01/16/2013 at 10:35 a.m.

  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.

• Community Design Center Seeks Artists for Interstate Mural Published 01/16/2013 at 10:33 a.m.

  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

• Lonesome Coyotes Recruit Original Guitarist Hector Qirko for February Show Published 01/16/2013 at 10:31 a.m.

  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.

• Hard Rock Cafe Announces Band Competition Published 01/09/2013 at 10:39 a.m.

  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.

• Get Happy With Waynestock 3 Published 01/09/2013 at 10:29 a.m.

  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 ...

• Magpie Suite Reunites for One More Show Published 12/19/2012 at 10:06 a.m.

  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.

• New Box Set Highlights the Horror Soundtracks of Italian Weirdos Goblin Published 12/19/2012 at 9:47 a.m.

  The Awakening makes a solid case for Goblin as one of the most important independent film-music forces of the late 20th century, alongside Ennio Morricone, Carpenter, and Popol Vuh.

• Beardsley Farm Announces Fifth Snow Day Fund-Raiser Published 12/12/2012 at 1:56 p.m.

  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 ...

• WDVX Announces "World-Class" Bluegrass Concert Series Published 12/12/2012 at 1:54 p.m.

  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.

• 30th Century Man: Scott Walker’s Second Act Continues With 'Bish Bosch' Published 12/12/2012 at 10 a.m.

  Bish Bosch is a meticulous, intelligent, and generally stupefying addition to what has already been one of the most remarkable second acts in pop-music history

• 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 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 ...

• 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.

• 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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