Big Ears founder and organizer Ashley Capps talks about this year’s festival, which ended on Sunday, the events that surprised him, and plans for next year. Well, that’s another Big …
Local Music Review: White Stag, ‘Emergence’
More than 11 minutes into “Emergence,” the monster title track from White Stag’s debut album, the prog-metal quartet breaks the spell of a brooding acoustic guitar atmosphere, introducing a carnivalesque …
Local Scene Vets Team Up for Steamy Electronic Love Jams as Peak Physique
Peak Physique hit the ground running, at least as far as local music acts go. Within weeks of unveiling the project last summer, the alt R&B duo of Wil Wright …
Five Picks: Jason Herrera of Four Leaf Peat
“In the Irish music world, everybody’s a plebeian,” says Jason Herrera, who sings and plays bodhran, flute, and whistle in the local Irish-music band Four Leaf Peat. “You go to the …
Magnolia Records Set to Open North of Downtown in Time for Big Ears
Last summer, when the South Knoxville CD and vinyl warhorse the Disc Exchange went out of business, some of Knoxville’s more obsessive music enthusiasts felt like the natural order of …