If you can believe it, Will Smith was almost cast as Neo in The Matrix, and his recent anecdote explaining why he turned it down actually made his decision more understandable to me. It’s hard to ...

Three big acts will not be taking the stage at the Big Ears Festival. Julien Baker & TORRES, among others, will not perform at Big Ears as originally scheduled. Baker and Torres were set to ...

Music echoes through the English Department halls, where a University of Tennessee at Knoxville class fully focused on Big Ears challenges students to deeply explore the 2025 lineup before ...

When Rufus Wainwright is closing down the Knoxville Civic Auditorium, mum is at the Bijou Theatre after missing Big Ears Festival during the canceled COVID-19 years and Explosions in the Sky is ...

Audiences will quickly “recognize the tenderness of Cat Stevens, the melancholy introspection of Elliott Smith, the anthemic psychedelia of Pink Floyd, and a deep abiding respect for Earl Scruggs” in ...

The first festival featured Philip Glass, Negativland, Michael Gira, Matmos and the Necks. The Big Ears festival debuted in 2009 as an event that embraced the experimental, a philosophy it ...