Photo by: Mr. Goodspeed Earlier this week the announcement was made that Sundown in the City will trim its schedule from 12 shows to 5. Are you happy or sad to see to a shorter Sundown schedule?
GO! Where Grace & Effort Coalesce
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 …
Never Leave You Like Kiffin
You knew it was coming and now it’s here. Renaldo Woolridge, aka Swiperboy and UT basketball player, is famous for his hoops and his music videos. He just laid a new track, Never Leave You Like Kiffin, that we hope Southern California radio stations are playing non-stop. Good work Swiperboy.
Ain’t No Time To Sit Down: Review of Tennessee Shines, October ’09
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 …