Giving you the music a day early: Former Deadboy & the Elephantmen lead singer, guitarist and songwriter Dax Riggs (he also fronted Louisiana sludge band Acid Bath before that) is closing out a May tour with a Stickyz visit. There’s a $10 cover at the door with the music starting [...]

Giving you the music a day early: Those opening piano chords in “Trouble Won’t Last Always” from Tennessee-based Glossary‘s October 2011 album Long Live All Of Us tells you quickly the 12-track record is going to be a rollicking good time filled with boogie R&B, horn-filled soul and pedal steel-laced [...]

Giving you the music a day early: These guys in Memphis-based Tiger High have quite the musical pedigree. Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jake Vest was in Jack Oblivian and The Trashed Romeos, and drummer Greg Roberson was in Reigning Sound, Arthur Lee’s Love, The Trashed Romeos, Jack Oblivian and Compulsive Gamblers. [...]

  Giving you the music a day early: Have you heard Elizabeth Cook‘s “Heroin Addict Sister”? It’s one song you won’t ever hear on country radio. It’s — to say the least — a little too brutally honest, but it’s oh-so great: devastating lyrics delivered with Cook’s angelic vocals. “Sometimes [...]

Giving you the music day early: Psychedelic, electro, roots music? Well, that’s what the Portland, Ore., by way of Kentucky band Morning Teleportation offer up when they come to Stickyz. The band also likes calling their music “deep-space pickin’ ‘n’ grinnin’.” Check out the band’s 2011 debut Expanding Anyway for [...]

Giving you the music a day early: You want to hear great Americana/country/folk songs of the 21st century? You get down to the Rev Room and hear Chris Knight, a singer/songwriter who grew up in Slaughters, Ky., and sings about despair, bad luck, sorrow and the rural struggle to survive. [...]

Giving you the music a day early: Here’s what country musician Joe Nichols says about his new work It’s All Good, his sixth studio album released in November: “Yes, this is about commercial success, but if you want to make something that lasts, it’s about art, too. I want to [...]

Giving you the music a day early: Each second Thursday of the month, the William F. Laman Public Library kicks off the weekend with a free show titled Live at Laman. This week it’s Audrey Dean Kelley doing the Live at Laman thing, playing a free, 7 p.m. show in [...]

Giving you the music a day early: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is close to the deep dark woods of Canada, so it’s apt that an indie folk rock quartet from that city would name themselves The Deep Dark Woods. The group is currently on a run of shows far from home that [...]

Giving you the music a day early: It has been 11 years — give or take a few months — for Little Rock bluegrass outfit Runaway Planet. Let’s hope the band keeps on going, too, because the metro and the world needs their hard-driving bluegrass that also mixes in traditional [...]