Giving you the music a day early: Wade Bowen, a Texas country artist with one foot in the Red Dirt country rock of Oklahoma, returns to Rev Room. Him and his band, including the twin guitar howl of Gary Wooten and Matt Miller, followed the success of 2008′s If We [...]

Giving you the music a day early: It has been almost seven years since Texas singer/songwriter James McMurtry released “We Can’t Make It Here,” an indictment of the Bush years, but the tune still rings true today. (Think about the opening line: “Vietnam vet with a cardboard sign/Sitting there by [...]

Giving you the music a day early: The Pretty Things Peepshow is coming back to Rev Room. Fans of the girlie road show will gather on down by the river for a night of sideshow acts including sword swallowing, knife and chainsaw juggling, glass walking and more along with a [...]

Giving you the music a day early: It’s Fat Tuesday, and for a full lineup of Fat Tuesday happenings, see here. But let’s go ahead and mention a Mardi Gras Party with the Little Rock Kickball Association at Stickyz again. Why? Because it’s both a Fat Tuesday throwdown and the [...]

Giving you the music a day early: A day after their appearance at Winter Jam at Verizon Arena, For King & Country is playing another local gig with a headlining show at Rev Room. The opening acts are North Little Rock quartet Ellison’s Cage with their self-described “progressive indie rock,” [...]

Giving you the music a day early: Alabama-born hip-hop artist Yelawolf‘s November 2011 album Radioactive was released via Shady Records (among other labels), the record label of one Eminem. After a couple of EPs, some mixtapes and guest spots on tunes with hip-hop artists from Big Boi to Game, it [...]

Giving you the music a day early: Seriously, a band by the name of Grisly Hand sounds like they might be into hardcore or punk. But not this Kansas City sextet. Nope, The Grisly Hand coming to White Water Tavern is better known for their heartland soul music. Rustic folk [...]

Giving you the music a day early: Oklahoma musician Samantha Crain released her second full-length album You (Understood) back in the summer of 2010. The album rightly earned praise from the critics. Why? Because it was 13 tracks of Crain’s unique singing style — angelic and vulnerable but with an [...]

Giving you the music a day early: Red Dirt country band Randy Rogers Band is a bit of a underdog but probably not for long. Rolling Stone has called them a must-see act, and they’ve opened for people such as Willie Nelson, the Eagles and Dierks Bentley. The band fronted [...]

Giving you the music a day early: After kicking off their three-day residency on Valentine’s Day, those blue guys are still hanging around Robinson Center Music Hall. And by the blue guys we mean the Blue Man Group, a group of men in blue who are not cops but really [...]