The weekend was pretty loaded with B'more-related talent, so it's no surprise that the city's City Paper (edited by former MP music editor Lee Gardner) sent a reporter to report it. Here's that report.
Knoxville, Tenn.--which probably connotes Bonnaroo and Dollywood to many people--seems like a hell of a place to assemble a crew including names such as Philip Glass, Christian Fennesz, Antony Hegarty, and Matmos. Knoxville is a sleepy, small city surrounded by low mountains and defunct marble mines. Its downtown, home to the festival's half dozen or so venues, is about the size of Mount Vernon with a small "Old City" nightlife-centric adjunct a few blocks square in size. Festivalgoers, the younger of which all tend to look like record store clerks, are easy to spot in the city's central pedestrian plaza, and strolling local families frequently look perplexed.
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