Thursday’s Music

Randy Rogers Band.

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 by its namesake continues to tour behind their August 2010 release Burning the Day, which hit No. 2 on the Billboard‘s Country Albums chart, and comes to Rev Room for a night of crossing Texas country and rock rhythms. No word on any opening acts, but expect the music at 9 p.m. with a $20 cover for the 18-and-up show. The band’s newest single from their latest album is “Last, Last Chance.”

Pulaski Technical College North Little Rock branch continues its Big Rock Reading Series with an appearance by poet Stacey Lynn Brown. Hosted by the English department at Pulaski Technical College and funded entirely by donations, the night gets going at 6:30 p.m. in the RJ Wills Lecture Hall in the Campus Center on the main North Little Rock campus. An Atlanta native, Brown earned her master of fine arts from the University of Oregon, and as a poet, playwright and essayist, her work has appeared in a number of literary journals. She is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University and will read from her collection of poetry Cradle Song is Gaither and other works.

Over at White Water Tavern, Cameron Holifield and TJ Deeter have teamed up for a night they are calling Self Defence Sistem. And yes, that misspelling is intentional. Now, what is it? It’s a “band/multimedia/performance piece,” or, as Holifield says, “We are syncing video with the music as well as doing some other performance type things.” The night starts at 9:30 p.m. with a $5 cover, or it’s free with a Little Rock Horror Picture Show pass, and passes are $40 and include entrance to all the films being shown at the festival Friday through Sunday at Market Street Cinema plus the festival includes various after parties and the like. (Self Defence Sistem is the official kickoff party of the horror movie festival.) The night opens with solo sets from Booyah! Dad members Andy Warr and J.R. Top.

Here’s Randy Rogers Band with their “Interstate”:

Interstate

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