Ain’t No Time To Sit Down: Review of Tennessee Shines, October ’09

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WDVX’s monthly live broadcast, Tennessee Shines, is now established as the go-to venue for great, sometimes eclectic, music. The latest installment was a concert with no real singular highlights, just performance after performance that proved to be continually luminescent, with every musician at the top of their game.

Ain’t No Time To Sit Down: Review of Generation of Vipers’ Dead Circle

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What do you think of when you hear the term “post-metal”? My best guess is that 99.9999999999% will retort a truly esoteric “huh? Whuzzat?” According to the bastion of truth that is Wikipedia, post-metal is “…broadly characterized by distorted guitar, heavy atmospherics, gradual evolution of song structure, and a minimal …

Ain’t No Time to Sit Down: Review of Blue Mother Tupelo and Mindy Smith Concert

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A weekly peek into what makes the Knoxville music scene phe­nom­e­nal. We’ll be bring­ing you album + con­cert reviews from the Knoxville area and inter­views with local musi­cians + peo­ple behind the scenes. Blue Mother Tupelo is band that’s been on the edge for a while now. Around here, they’re …

Ain’t No Time To Sit Down: Interview with Chris Armstrong of The Retroholics

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A weekly peek into what makes the Knoxville music scene phe­nom­e­nal. We’ll be bring­ing you album + con­cert reviews from the Knoxville area and inter­views with local musi­cians + peo­ple behind the scenes. JC: What made you want to start playing the guitar? CA: My brother. He played the guitar, …

Ain’t No Time To Sit Down: Review of Vertigo’s The Coming and the Going

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A weekly peek into what makes the Knoxville music scene phe­nom­e­nal. We’ll be bring­ing you album + con­cert reviews from the Knoxville area and inter­views with local musi­cians + peo­ple behind the scenes. Vertigo produces a sound that is difficult to define. That’s not a bad thing; it’s actually a …

Ain’t No Time to Sit Down: Review of The American Plague Album, Heart Attack

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A weekly peek into what makes the Knoxville music scene phenomenal. We’ll be bringing you album + concert reviews from the Knoxville area and interviews with local musicians + people behind the scenes. Heart Attack, The American Plague’s latest album, came with a lot of baggage. Would it be a …