GO! Where Grace & Effort Coalesce

Laura Bower Entertainment, Local Living, Popular 10 Comments

Watching bubbly teenagers morph into disciplined warriors is an interesting experience. One minute they’re giggling and gossiping. The next minute they’re performing water ballet on dry land – or on a cold hard floor, to be precise. Instructor Laura Raines beats a drum and guides the girls through a series …

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

Jody Collins Events, Music Leave a Comment

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: Brewers’ Jam Wrap Up

Jody Collins Entertainment, Events 5 Comments

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” – The Postman’s Creed, 1912 Apparently, beer drinkers have a code, too: “Neither rain nor gloom of cloud coverage nor cold nor mud nor coinciding UT football game stays …

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

Jody Collins Music 2 Comments

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 …

Quiddities: The Tennessee Stage Company

Robert Stockdale Entertainment, Knoxville Quiddities, Local Living Leave a Comment

A scene from the Tennessee Stage Company’s production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” in which a band of tinkers discuss a play that they intend to present at the wedding of Theaseus and Hippolyta. Before this summer, I had never attended a production of the Tennessee Stage Company (TSC). …

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

Jody Collins Music 2 Comments

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

Jody Collins Entertainment, Music 8 Comments

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

Jody Collins Entertainment, Music 11 Comments

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 …