Matthew Everett

The band Ghost is made up of six ghouls from Sweden. Seriously—the five musicians behind lead singer Papa Emeritus are officially credited on the band’s 2010 debut album, Opus Eponymous, as Nameless Ghouls. They’re inspired by classic heavy metal from ...

On its sixth album, High on Fire further entrenches its position as the American version of Motörhead, not least because singer/guitarist Matt Pike sounds more than ever like Motörhead main man Lemmy Kilmister. (And also because the initial response to ...

Travis Gray has a distinctive creative sensibility. Inspired equally by Stephin Meritt, Saturday morning cartoons, and the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Gray’s particular perspective is elegant and absurd, sly and yet still naive, childlike but sometimes heartbreaking.

Knoxville modern-rock headliners 10 Years are making a switch for their next album, due out on July 17.

For a first-time production called Scruffy City Roots, the first installment of the new concert/broadcast series at the Square Room wasn’t scruffy at all.

Springtime means new music, and it’s officially spring, so here’s a round up of upcoming new local releases.

There’s no easy definition for the kind of music played by the Portland, Ore., pop-orchestra Pink Martini. It’s a throwback, but not to any particular style or era. It’s jazzy, but not jazz; poppy, but not pop, at least by ...

After a decade and a half, one of downtown Knoxville’s biggest events is officially over. AC Entertainment announced last week that the Sundown in the City series of free concerts “simply no longer fits its Market Square home.”

What the world needs even less than a new pop-culture vampire franchise is somebody saying that the last thing the world needs is another pop-culture vampire franchise. So let’s examine Dark Horse’s new series The Strain on its own terms.

When Dan Baird and the Georgia Satellites signed a deal with Elektra Records in 1986, they didn’t expect much. But something weird happened. The first single from the Satellites’ self-titled debut album, “Keep Your Hands to Yourself,” turned out to ...

Andrew Skurka has logged 30,000 miles of long-distance hiking and has refined walking in the woods to a science. Now he has distilled his hard-earned outdoor skills and insight into the recently published book The Ultimate Hiker’s Gear Guide (National ...

Steven Wright first rose to prominence in the 1980s as a kind of anti-comedian; his deadpan style, unruly haircut, and absurdist observational one-liners were completely unlike any other comedy at the time. Wright has only released two albums during his ...

WDVX is bringing a smaller version of the Tennessee Shines series back with a new weekly broadcast performance.

It might seem like the local post-metal trio Generation of Vipers has been taking it easy since the release of its 2007 album, Dead Circle.

The Shed, the classic-rock outdoor music venue adjacent to Smoky Mountain Harley-Davidson in Maryville, has announced the first round of its spring and summer lineup of Friday and Saturday concerts.

Amid the continuing decline of record sales, the ongoing tightening of commercial radio playlists, and the decade-long collapse of the major-label music industry, the Dirty Guv’nahs have survived. They have methodically built themselves a reliable paying audience across the Southeast ...

The Pine Ridge House Concert Series in Anderson County kicks off next month in a big way, with a living-room performance by the Last of the Full-Grown Men.

For once, anyway, it seems that at least some of the big rumors about the Bonnaroo lineup were true. Radiohead, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Phish were all reported as possible headliners well in advance of the official announcement ...

On Hyfantis, Hyfantis hasn’t completely abandoned the classic pop-rock sensibility that defined the Bishops Band’s 2010 CD, Carnival Authority. The jazzy arrangements have been pulled back, and the touchstones on the new EP seem to be artists whose pop is ...

Knoxville’s music community took its second big hit in 2012 when Ed Corts died on Jan. 30.

The winter doldrums are over and local musicians are coming out from hibernation.

The appeal of Pogo is impossible to ignore but hard to describe. A big part of Walt Kelly’s genius lies in plain old expert craftsmanship. His skill was such that his hand almost became invisible.

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

In performance, Dumb Lunch’s stumbling beats take on a darker aspect, as the music collapses into a vortex of noise, volume, and 21st-century underground shock theater.

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.

Wallace Coleman’s unlikely blues education began in East Tennessee.

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.

By the usual pop-music standards, Cleveland’s Rocket From the Tombs barely even counted as a band during its first incarnation, from 1974 to 1975. The group never officially released any music at all, never recorded anything beyond a handful of ...

The everybodyfields' fairy tale story took a harsh detour into real life in 2007.

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.

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.

Further evidence of the Dirty Guv’nahs’ level of local celebrity: Before we even had a chance to report on it, the band’s Kickstarter campaign to pay for a new album has already surpassed its goal of $20,000.

On the Fifth Street Saints’ first EP, Reason to Run, slickly produced by Travis Wyrick, singer/guitarist Eddie Self adopts Metallica frontman James Hetfield’s barking grunt, and both the band’s groovy rhythms and guitar solos owe considerable debt to Hetfield and ...

Carl Story (known as “The Father of Bluegrass Gospel”) and his Rambling Mountaineers were stars on WNOX in the 1950s. Yet Story is a shadowy figure in Knoxville’s music history, remembered vividly by those who were there to see him ...

When Thomas Tallant, Mark Kiser, and Kevin Lay began playing early music together in 1991, they had no idea that their jam sessions would quickly evolve into Knoxville’s longest-lasting professional early music group.

Sound Off continues on Wednesday, Dec. 7, as the third round of contestants face off against each other and in front of a panel of judges at the Square Room for a spot in the finals in March.

Local composer and prog-rock mastermind Johnny Newman may have outdone himself when he hired metal veterans Yanic Bercier and Steve DiGiorgio to perform on his new album.

Local weirdo hip-hop trio Dumb Lunch’s second album is just as woozy and psychedelic as its predecessor, Royal Blunts, released earlier this year.

Puscifer, the third band fronted by Maynard James Keenan, after the multiplatinum post-grunge art rockers Tool and the singularly platinum A Perfect Circle, is complicated—a side side project, you might call it.

Some of the best Hellboy adventures of recent years have been Mignola’s collaborations with underground fantasy legend and Heavy Metal veteran Richard Corben, particularly the 2010 one-shot Hellboy in Mexico, in which Hellboy joins a team of luchadores to drink ...

Looking for a way to burn off some of those Turkey Day calories? Try one of these three after-Thanksgiving events.

Ex-Dixie Dirt singer/guitarist Kat Brock, after a move to Nashville and several years of solo performance, returned to rock-band mode this summer.

The cover of Miranda Lambert’s fourth album shows the singer walking away from a vintage car on fire. It’s an update of her arrival on the country music scene back in 2005 with the incendiary honky-tonk firebug revenge fantasy “Kerosene.” ...

Trey Daugherty, the upstart impresario behind an experimental two-person opera adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s short story “Diary of a Madman” at the Neighborhood Center in Fourth and Gill earlier this month, already has plans for more work from his avant-garde ...

The apparent success of last year’s A K-Town Christmas compilation of holiday songs by local artists has led the producer and organizer, Kent Oglesby, to prepare a follow-up for this holiday season.

Uncle Acid traffics in occult classic rock, drawing its inspiration from Hammer horror films, the Stooges, the first four Black Sabbath albums, and The Satanic Bible.

Coming just in time for the holidays: an original local production of John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the late-’90s Off Broadway hit rock musical about a transsexual rock star and her sad career and love life.