One of Clay Maselle’s newest songs is titled “Trailer Park Astronaut”—a fitting description for the quirky “gypsy-punk garage-grass” he creates with Chattanooga’s Strung Like a Horse. Backed by fiddle, banjo, …
Falloir Puts the Progress in the Local Progressive-Rock Scene
As a high-school senior, life can often feel limitless and impossibly restrictive at the same time. And like many sensitive 18-year-olds before him, Garrett Lemons dealt with that tension by funneling …
Black Lillies Introduce New Album and Announce Market Square Show
“We got a long way to go/and a short time to get there,” Cruz Contreras sings on the Black Lillies’ funky new single, “Hard to Please,” released last month through …
Massive Yes Box Set Highlights 1972 Knoxville Concert
It might reek of overkill, even to the most die-hard Yes fan: a 14-disc live box set, compiling seven shows from the prog-rock legends’ 1972 tour. It’s a stretch already documented …
Local Prog Quartet Maps Need Reading Regroups and Finds New Direction
Maps Need Reading has been an integral part of Knoxville’s progressive-music community for the past four years, developing an early style that guitarist David Webb labels “punk meets indie rock …