Last week I had the privilege of sitting down with Eric Schlosser, acclaimed “Fast Food Nation” author and producer of the documentary “Food, Inc.,” the assassination of America’s corporate food industry that has been creating considerable hype among socially conscious 20-somethings. Sitting...

Those Darlins, the punk-rock Americana group of girls, Kelley, Nikki and Jessi Darlin, from down the road in Murfreesboro, played in The Americana Music Festival this weekend. The Belmont Vision had the chance to interview them and find out a little more about the outspoken musicians. None of you are...

Robert Knight has photographed rock bands for forty years and got his big break shooting one of Led Zeppelin’s first shows for Rolling Stone. Since then, he’s photographed artists as diverse as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bootsy Collins and Panic at the Disco. Knight is the subject of Rock Prophecies, a documentary...

Cursive’s music has always been about personal struggle—divorce, alcoholism, rejection and suburban mundanity have all found their way into the band’s 14 year career, and that’s just their songs. The band itself has weathered at least one break-up, numerous hiatuses, being absorbed into the emo...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough spoke with Vision editor Melanie Bengtson about his books, his perceptions of today’s youth and his advice for the future.  McCullough will speak in the Curb Event Center at Belmont University on March 30 at 7 p.m.  Tickets are free to the public...

Belmont University President Bob Fisher joined an elite group of Tennesseans, including former Vice President Al Gore, entertainer and philanthropist Dolly Parton and Titans head coach Jeff Fisher, when he was named the 2008 Tennessean of the Year. Fisher, who is in his ninth year as president, and his...

When Gregg “Girl Talk” Gillis mixes a song out of manipulated pop samples, he means business. Girl Talk’s latest album, “Feed the Animals” manages to squeeze 300 samples into 53 minutes, producing unlikely pairings like Radiohead and Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes and Rick Derringer and even MC Hammer...

Whether it is The Decemberists opening for a Barack Obama speech in Portland or Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee endorsing John McCain, musicians have become more present in presidential politics than they have been in recent memory. Over the coming weeks, until Election Day, the Vision will present...

When the band was founded in 2001, it is highly unlikely that anyone in De Novo Dahl expected that seven years later they would be signed to one of the most prolific metal labels in the business. Considering that Roadrunner Records is filled with bands named things like “DevilDriver” and “Cradle...