Mike Gibson

It’s tempting to think of Stephen Perkins as Jane’s Addictions’ answer to Derek Smalls, the unassuming Spinal Tap bass player who stood between “fire-and-ice visionaries” Nigel Tufnel and David St. Hubbins, “kind of like lukewarm water.” After all, the seemingly ...

The Black Cadillacs stand on the cusp of their second release, Run, on a promising young indie, looking to build on their status as one of the two or three most popular rock acts in the city of Knoxville.

While the West family’s plans to open an event space, Scruffy City Hall, in conjunction with their Preservation Pub may take longer than originally planned, a portion of that area at 32 Market Square will be put to use in ...

The first thing one notices about Knoxville’s King Super and the Excellents—winner of the Square Room’s most recent Sound Off battle-of-the-bands contest—is the mustache, that being singer Dave Bowers’ frontispiece facial hair. And a most Excellent cropping of lip plumage ...

A proposed apartment complex along the river in South Knoxville may sound like a good use of long-empty property. It may also help restart the city’s much-delayed South Waterfront Vision Plan. However, residents in the adjacent Island Home neighborhood find ...

It seems inconceivable that you could take an oft-traveled four-lane road, add a huge shopping development and a slew of new housing at the mouth of its messiest juncture, narrow it to two lanes plus a middle turning lane and ...

Since Cumulus Media’s purchase of WIVK last fall, dozens of staffers have left or been pink slipped. The latest firing of award-winning operations manager Mike Hammond and other local talent raises concerns over whether the station will continue its storied ...

Knox ivi—the producer/streamer of original, local Web programming heretofore located on Market Square—is undergoing a sudden restructuring, as founder Joe Dickey and vice-president Susan Ridgell abruptly moved all production and office resources out of the erstwhile Square digs last week ...

If MMA has overtaken boxing as America’s favorite combat sport, you wouldn’t know from visiting Ace Miller Golden Gloves Sports Arena on a Tuesday night. More than 50 sweat-soaked young fighters, on some evenings, make the spacious gym seem almost ...

Thomas Reed understands that the story he has to tell exists in a realm far beyond the pale of credulity. He simply asks that people look at the evidence—multiple eyewitness accounts, polygraph tests, readings from Geiger counters and electromagnetic equipment—and ...