Matthew Everett

• Fantagraphics Pays a Long-Overdue Tribute to Walt Kelly’s 'Pogo' Published 02/01/2012 at 10:24 a.m.

  The appeal of Pogo is impossible to ignore but hard to describe. A big part of Walt Kelly’s genius lies in plain old expert craftsmanship. His skill was such that his hand almost became invisible.

• Dirty Guv'nahs Wrap Up Nashville Recording Session Published 01/25/2012 at 10:43 a.m.

  The Dirty Guv’nahs have just wrapped up recording sessions in Nashville for their upcoming, still-untitled new album, due out sometime this year.

• Dumb Lunch's Contrarian Hip Hop Noisemaking May Work To Their advantage Published 01/18/2012 at 1 p.m.

  In performance, Dumb Lunch’s stumbling beats take on a darker aspect, as the music collapses into a vortex of noise, volume, and 21st-century underground shock theater.

• Wampus Cat: 'Wampus Cat' Published 01/18/2012 at 11:08 a.m.

  Knoxville doom quartet Wampus Cat takes is name from the mysterious wampus cat of Cherokee mythology and Appalachian folklore, a foreboding half-woman, half-feline harbinger of death.

• New Film Project to Document a Year in the Life and Culture of Knoxville Published 01/18/2012 at 11:02 a.m.

  Knoxville Films and veteran television producer Melissa May have teamed up for a year-long film project to showcase Knoxville.

• Wallace Coleman Finds a Second Act as Classic Bluesman Published 01/11/2012 at 10:59 a.m.

  Wallace Coleman’s unlikely blues education began in East Tennessee.

• Matt Morelock: A Hillbilly in Paradise Published 01/11/2012 at 10:34 a.m.

  An interesting fact, according to banjo aficionado and hillbilly fashion plate Matt Morelock: His namesake music store on Gay Street has actually done better business since its owner quietly slipped away to paradise last fall.

• 4620 Space Gets Makeover as the Well Published 01/11/2012 at 10:31 a.m.

  The eccentric downstairs bar/restaurant/music space at 4620 Kingston Pike, previously home to Velvet and two iterations of a club called 4620, is getting another makeover this month.

• Rocket From the Tombs: 'The Day the Earth Met the Rocket From the Tombs' Published 01/04/2012 at 11:47 a.m.

  By the usual pop-music standards, Cleveland’s Rocket From the Tombs barely even counted as a band during its first incarnation, from 1974 to 1975. The group never officially released any music at all, never recorded anything beyond a handful of ...

• Local Favorites the everybodyfields Reunite for One Last Show Published 12/21/2011 at 11:01 a.m.

  The everybodyfields' fairy tale story took a harsh detour into real life in 2007.

• Best DJ: DJ Eric B Published 05/12/2010 at 5 p.m.

  Hot 104.5 FM’s DJ Eric B, fresh off a performance opening for Vanilla Ice in Maryville, throws a little bit of everything—house, techno, hip-hop, trance, even a little Queen and ZZ Top—into his mixtapes and live sets.

• Best Band Break-Up to Inspire Solo Records: the everybodyfields Published 05/12/2010 at 5 p.m.

  When Tri-Cities transplants the everybodyfields finally got settled in Knoxville in 2008, they seemed to be on the verge of breaking out of the regional circuit to some real national acclaim.

• Best Blues Band: The Hector Qirko Band Published 05/12/2010 at 5 p.m.

  Nearly 25 years in—the HQ Band will celebrate its first quarter century together this summer—and they’re still at the top of the local blues scene.

• Best Local Idea: Sundown in the City Published 05/12/2010 at 5 p.m.

  Never mind all the grumbling about the crowds and the teenagers and the lineups and how much beer costs—nothing symbolizes downtown Knoxville’s recent renaissance like Sundown in the City, the free music series on Market Square that’s just started its ...

• Overkill: Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister Published 08/27/2009 at 10:25 a.m.

  There may be a small cult of unbelievers out there, but their opinions count about as much as those of flat-earthers and moon-landing conspiracy nuts. The simple fact is that Motörhead is the baddest-ass rock ’n’ roll band in the ...

• In Memoriam: Kris Hawkins Published 05/27/2009 at 11:45 a.m.

  Kris Hawkins’ death last April in a motorcycle accident stunned not only his family and friends but a big part of Knoxville’s music community. Many of them were at the Catalyst nightclub in the Old City on April 27 to ...

• Best Local Twitter Page: AC_Ent Published 04/30/2009 at 2:32 a.m.

  A year ago, Twitter was a bunch of people offering tiny little updates about their mood, where they were going to dinner, who they saw there, and what they were watching on TV after that. It’s gotten a little less ...

• Best Local Blog/Blogger: wigsphere.com Published 04/30/2009 at 2:30 a.m.

  The whippersnappers at wigsphere.com (“The Sunsphere is NOT a wigshop”) aren’t cynical and jaded about Knoxville like some of the rest of us. Most of the eight contributing bloggers aren’t natives; for them, alternative transportation, sushi, movies on Gay Street, ...

• Best Ambassador for Knoxville: Pat Summitt Published 04/30/2009 at 2:23 a.m.

  This wasn’t exactly a season to remember for Pat Summitt and the Lady Vols basketball team. But even among the 11 losses—the most for a Summitt-coached team since 1976—and getting bumped in the first round from the NCAA Tournament, Summitt ...

• Best Radio Personality: Derek and Rob from The Funhouse, WUTK 90.3 Published 04/30/2009 at 2:13 a.m.

  Do you like big, loud guitars? Do you mix in a little ’80s hair metal in with your ’90s indie rock? Have a bunch of cryptic stories about when you used to hang out with Superdrag, way back before they ...

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