Big Ears Festival, a music and arts festival put on by AC Entertainment in downtown Knoxville, takes place at various venues throughout the town for four days. This year, Sidelines experienced all the...

Shabazz Palaces, the brainchild of Ishmael Butler and Tendai Maraire, was one of the best shows we caught at Big Ears 2016. Butler is most well-known for his work with Digable Planets in the early '90s,...

Yo La Tengo was the first event we caught at Big Ears 2016. The group took the Mill and Mine stage later into Thursday night. The Hoboken "indie rock" band completely abandoned their coined genre for an...

Story by Anthony Williams // Contributing Writer | Photos by Olivia Ladd // Assistant Lifestyles Editor Out of all of the sets I saw at the Big Ears Festival this past weekend, none were quite as grand...

Maya Beiser embodied the avant-garde spirit of the festival in a breathtaking show at the Bijou Theatre Saturday morning. The world-renowned "cello diva" came on stage about 15 minutes late, but to no...