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Wednesday’s Music

by sstewart
Published on: March 20, 2012
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Lights.

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South by Southwest is not quite done with Little Rock, as several of the bands that played the Austin, Texas, music conference are heading home and stopping in Little Rock. One of those acts visits Juanita’s with an appearance by Lights, an electro rock artist who is still celebrating and promoting her simply excellent 2011 release Siberia. She’s got a teen-pop princess voice, but there’s a bit of grit in her synthpop. The doors open at 8 p.m. with tickets $13 in advance and $15 day of show. The Ambassadors are the opening act with their Brooklyn-bred indie rock that goes beyond being simply Brooklyn-bred indie rock. The band’s sound has range to it, including bits of R&B and soul along with chamber pop (Three-part harmonies!), and electronic and hip-hop beats. And, of course, it’s terribly poppy.

You say you like a good tune written by masterful songwriters? Well, you’re in luck with The Revival Tour 2012 coming to Rev Room. In its fifth year, the traveling collection of songwriters includes Americana singer/songwriter and leader Chuck Ragan, and other grand storytellers and songwriters such as Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio, The Emergency Room), Cory Branan and Tommy Gabel (Against Me!) in an intimate, acoustic setting. It’s a lineup that’s hard to beat, and the best part is all the songwriters collaborate and jam on stage so it’s kind of like an Americana music workshop. The musicians will be backed by Ragan’s bandmates Jon Gaunt on fiddle and Joe Ginsberg on bass. Also on the bill is the talented local singer/songwriter Adam Faucett with his “folk swamp soul” sound. Cover is $15 for the 18-and-up show with the music starting at 8:30 p.m.

Here’s Lights with her “Toes”:

Toes

Sunday’s Music

by sstewart
Published on: February 25, 2012
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Polica.

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It’s going to get weird and heavy and beautiful and experimental and probably a lot more when Minneapolis band Polica comes to Stickyz. Why heavy and weird? Well, the opening acts are Marijuana Deathsquads with their improvised electronic music (it’s experimental and hard) and Total F*cking Blood with their destructive, thrashy hardcore music kicking off the music at 8 p.m. So there. Now, Polica? Well, it’s indie rock. Kind of. But also pulsating electro R&B. Listen, you can dance to the band’s music and have a really good time with it. Isn’t that enough sometimes? Plus, it’s really, really great. Check out “Dark Star” from the band’s just-released debut record Give You The Ghost. It’s mysterious music that makes the body move with its chilly grooves. Cover is $10 for the 18-and-up night.

Earl Cate is one of those names well-known to central Arkansas music lovers of a certain age. (Really, it should be any age.) He’s the Cate of the Cate Brothers’ fame, an Arkansas, country-soul rock band known for their late-1970s hit “Union Man.” Now Earl Cate has a new band, titled Earl & Them, and it’s Earl & Them that is coming to Juanita’s. The music starts at 7 p.m. with a $10 cover for the night. It’ll be a night of rousing and soulful bar rock (blues, rock, R&B and soul) from a band well-seasoned in bar-rock playing. The night will include blues guitar master Jimmy Thackery sitting in with the band on some tunes.

It’s Sunday, true, but that’s no excuse to miss the great Malcolm Holcombe at White Water Tavern. As David Fricke of Rolling Stone says, Malcolm Holcombe is “not quite country, somewhere beyond folk … kind of blues in motion, mapping backwoods corners of the heart.” Raised in the foothills of Appalachian North Carolina, Holcombe was first introduced to music through a pocket transistor radio and music shows that featured the bluegrass, folk and country sound of the mountains. The influences have led Holcombe to create a rustic grass-roots Americana sound. Opening the show is Adam Faucett at 8 p.m. with his “Southern soul swamp opera,” a sound found on Faucett’s third solo album More Like A Temple. Cover is $7.

Here’s Polica with their “Wandering Star”:

Wandering Star

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart
Published on: September 19, 2011
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The Apache Relay.

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Nashville, Tenn.’s The Apache Relay with their indie, roots rock ‘n’ roll tunes that draw from influences such as Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska album come to Stickyz. The quartet is touring in support of their sophomore release American Nomad, a record that came out in April. The opening acts are “Southern soul swamp opera” singer/songwriter Adam Faucett and Conway indie folk rock band This Holy House, kicking off the music at 8:30 p.m. Cover is $7 for the 18-and-up show. Let’s allow Stickyz to give you a reason why The Apache Relay is worth checking out: “If you’re not familiar with this very talented band, do yourself a favor and check out their music (for fans of Deer Tick, Mumford & Sons and The Avett Brothers), and then come on down to the show for a guaranteed good time.”

Here’s The Apache Relay with their “Home Is Not Places”:

Home Is Not Places

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart
Published on: September 5, 2011
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Anthony David.

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Anthony David hit it big in 2008 with his tune “Words,” a duet with India.Arie. Although the tune didn’t hit the pop charts, it was nominated for a Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The R&B and neo-soul artist influenced by Bill Withers (David plays a mean acoustic guitar as well) comes to Juanita’s for a night of music, including tunes from David’s As Above So Below, an album released earlier this year. The doors open at 8 p.m. with the music at 9 p.m. Tickets are $17 in advance and $20 at the door.

Adam Faucett‘s third solo album More Like A Temple is both a natural extension of Faucett’s evolving sound and also a new direction. It’s meatier, rockier and Faucett’s voice is less operatic and more soulful. Still beautiful but grittier. Scrappier and dirtier. Sepia-toned. And Faucett has been delivering those new tunes to audiences across central Arkansas, and he’ll continue to do so with a stop at White Water Tavern. The music starts at 10 p.m. Faucett’s music is “Southern soul swamp opera,” a mix of country folk, rock ‘n’ roll, power pop and soul.

Here’s Anthony David with his “Words”:

Words

Saturday’s Music

by sstewart
Published on: August 26, 2011
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Band of Heathens.

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Austin, Texas, Americana outfit Band of Heathens‘ second album One Foot In the Ether featured the excellent ode to Hunter S. Thompson “L.A. County Blues,” a slow-burning country rocker with a bluesy guitar solo. The band’s latest is the spring release Top Hat Crown & the Clapmaster’s Son, and it’s a collection of well-crafted tunes that show the band’s hand: Southern rock, swamp blues, stomping roots rock and dusty country ballads with soulful vocals and cowboy poetry. A hard-touring act, Band of Heathens comes to Stickyz. The opening act is Grace Askew, kicking off the music at 9 p.m. with her Memphis urban folk with touches of jazz and soul. Cover is $10 for the 21-and-up show.

Since the release of his third solo album More Like A Temple earlier this year, Little Rock singer/songwriter Adam Faucett has been a mainstay of central Arkansas stages, playing his self-described “Southern soul swamp opera.” It’s a genre of music that covers Faucett’s influences, including the country folk of Townes Van Zandt, the art rock of the Velvet Underground and the fiery soul of Otis Redding. Faucett brings his “Southern soul swamp opera” to The Afterthought, including such tunes as the darkness-on-the-horizon march of “Gator” and the stumbling power pop of “Sweet Maureen.” The music starts at 9 p.m. with a $7 cover.

Philander Smith College is getting this particular Saturday started right with a jazz brunch that honors a well-loved Philanderian in Dr. Jill Trice and features the music of saxophonist Marquis Hunt and trumpeter Rodney Block. The event is 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Nugent Hall inside the Kendall Center. Trice, a noted pediatric neurologist, died in December 2010 at the age of 60 from lupus. She graduated from Philander Smith College in 1972. Her family established the Jill Trice Endowment Scholarship Fund in her honor. Tickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door, and all proceeds benefit the scholarship fund.

Downtown Music is the place to be for fans of hard rock, heavy metal and alternative rock as the venue presents the sixth version of Synfest. Titled Synfest: Music for Maddie, the two-night concert is a benefit for Madison “Maddie” Lanway, a young girl from Jefferson battling a rare form of cancer. Friday night’s lineup was DirtyFinger, Demeritrious 2.0 (In Ground Zero), Land of Mines, Rollo Tumasi, Rusty Hook, Gemini and At War’s End. But have no fear if you missed it because Saturday’s lineup includes Suffocating Hatred, Driven to Madness, Attack the Mind, Tha Mutha Load, Drop Dead Syndicate, The Midnight Ghost Train, and Eddie and the Defiantz. It’s an all-ages show with the music starting at 7 p.m., and the doors opening at 6 p.m. Each act will perform an approximately 30-minute set. Cover is $8.

Here’s Band of Heathens with their “L.A. County Blues”:

L.A. County Blues

Wednesday’s Music

by sstewart
Published on: August 2, 2011
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Score 24.

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Vino’s tells local teens it’s time for school again with a show featuring Long Island pop punkers Score 24 and Indiana pop punk outfit Late Nite Reading. The five members of Score 24 first formed in April 2009, coming from the same fertile ground that produced Taking Back Sunday and others, and Late Nite Reading is touring in support of their punchy, energetic EP. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door with the music starting at 8 p.m., and the doors opening at 5:30 p.m. The bill also promises some to-be-announced local acts opening.

Juanita’s presents a night of local singer/songwriters with Johnny Rocket, Dwain Roark, Kevin Kerby and Adam Faucett all taking to the stage. The doors open at 8:30 p.m. with the music at 9 p.m., and cover is $5. Little Rock artist Johnny Rocket is a guitarist and singer in Little Rock rock ‘n’ roll act Kingsdown but as a solo act he might be folky, heartland rock one minute and catchy pop rock the next. Dwain Roark is the lead singer and songwriter of Kingsdown, and Kevin Kerby is known for creating magnificent rock with his backing band Battery. Adam Faucett’s recently released More Like A Temple is a a 12-track recording of “Southern soul swamp opera” music.

Here’s Score 24 with their “She’s a Good Girl”:

She’s a Good Girl

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart
Published on: July 18, 2011
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Heartless Bastards.

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The Heartless Bastards are led by Erika Wennerstrom and known for howling music that includes jagged, garage-y rock ‘n’ roll and gritty, grime-y blues. But the quartet has a softer side, including mandolins, banjos and strings on their 2009 release The Mountain. Expect some of that softer side along with the grime for the band’s special acoustic evening at Juanita’s. The doors open at 8 p.m. with the music at 9 p.m. The opening acts are Elise Davis with her poppy Americana sound and Adam Faucett with his “Southern soul swamp opera,” and the music starting at 9 p.m. and the doors opening at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door.

It might sound like some pro-life rallying cry, but Dying Fetus is actually a Maryland-bred death metal outfit that adds hardcore and grind influences to their deadly music filled with technical rhythms and sonic blasts of music. The group visits Downtown Music for a headlining gig before heading out next week on The Summer Slaughter Tour. The local stop includes fellow Summer Slaughter tourmates Boston metal outfit Powerglove and Italian technical death metal band Fleshgod Apocalypse. The touring acts are joined by central Arkansas death metal band Wraith (formally known as Raccoon-Snake Hybrid). The doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the music starting soon afterward, and tickets are $13 in advance and $16 day of show.

Here’s Heartless Bastards with their “The Mountain”:

The Mountain

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart
Published on: June 20, 2011
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The Romany Rye.

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White Water Tavern is offering up an early-week show not to be missed: Adam Faucett and The Romany Rye. The music starts at 10 p.m. The Arkansas born and bred Faucett released his third album, a 12-track recording of “Southern soul swamp opera” music titled More Like A Temple, earlier this year. It’s a gem of an album that every fan of Arkansas music should own. And The Romany Rye? Well, the Little Rock/California band that includes Ryan Hitt, Judson Spillyards, Joshua Spillyards and Whitman Bransford won’t be on the cover of Rolling Stone through winning the Choose the Cover of Rolling Stone contest. (The band got knocked out before advancing to the third round.) But the band’s chugging alt-country tunes might get them there the old-fashioned way — by earning it.

It’s going to be a busy summer for Florida alternative rockers There for Tomorrow, as the band releases a new album The Verge on June 28 and begin the Vans Warped Tour 2011 on June 24. Before the summer begins though, There for Tomorrow comes to Juanita’s, headlining a show that includes Richmond, Va., alternative rock band Conditions (one of Alternative Press‘ “100 bands you need to know in 2010″), Maryland alternative rock band Life On Repeat and Florida indie rockers Oceana. The doors open at 7:30 p.m. with the music at 8:05 p.m., and tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

Here’s The Romany Rye with their “All the Boys”:

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Saturday’s Music

by sstewart
Published on: April 15, 2011
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Zoso.

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Who are Matt Jernigan, John McDaniel, Adam Sandling and Greg Thompson? Well, certainly not Led Zeppelin. That would be Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. But that’s certainly who Jernigan, McDaniel, Sandling and Thompson play, respectively, as the Led Zeppelin tribute band Zoso, named after Page’s famous symbol from Led Zeppelin IV. Formed in 1995, the group has toured excessively since, currently playing about 150 gigs a year, roaring through such Hammer of the Gods classics as “Whole Lotta Love,” “Heartbreaker,” “The Immigrant Song,” “Black Dog,” “Ten Years Gone” and more, from the must-haves to the deep tracks. Beyond the music, the quartet will bring the look and feel of the great Zep to Rev Room, and, in keeping with the Led Zeppelin tours of the mid-1970s, there will be no opening act. The show starts at 9 p.m. with tickets $10 in advance and $12 day of for the all-ages show.

Sweetwater Abilene is a Missouri — not Great Plains of Texas — quartet who crank out punchy, guitar-rific slices of garage-flavored indie rock with a heavy foundation in folk. They like to call it western garage rock. The band visits White Water Tavern with the music starting at 10 p.m. Also on the bill is Adam Faucett, the Arkansas born and bred artist who released his third album, a 12-track recording of “Southern soul swamp opera” music titled More Like A Temple, last month. Faucett’s a fan of the “high, lonesome sound” of Appalachian folk musician Roscoe Holcomb; the country folk of Townes Van Zandt; Tim Buckley, but not his son Jeff so much; the art rock of the Velvet Underground; and the fiery soul of Otis Redding.

Here’s Zoso with their version of the Zep classic “Kashmir”:

Monday’s Music

by sstewart
Published on: March 13, 2011
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Wild Flag.

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The four-piece Wild Flag is coming to Stickyz. Why is that important? Because Wild Flag is guitarist and vocalist Carrie Brownstein and drummer Janet Weiss, two members of seminal Oregon punkish indie rock band and riot grrrl pioneers Sleater-Kinney. The other half of Wild Flag? Not too shabby either: Mary Timony of Massachusetts, mid-1990s alternative rock band Helium, and Rebecca Cole was a member of The Minders, a a frequent opener for Sleater-Kinney. Weiss and Cole also play together in The Shadow Mortons, and … well, the Wild Flag is kinda a riot grrrl super group. The night also includes lo-fi indie rock Times New Viking and Yellow Fever, a band’s music Brownstein has described as “haunted house surf music,” opening the night at 8:30 p.m. Cover is $10 for the 21-and-up show.

Little Rock singer/songwriter Adam Faucett will appear at White Water Tavern, opening for Seattle-based singer/songwriter Damien Jurado, a musician known for his rough-hewed folk rock. The husband-and-wife duo Viva Voce is also on the bill with their Portland, Ore., via Muscle Shoals, Ala., psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll. Tickets are $15 with the music starting at 10 p.m. The Arkansas born and bred Faucett released his third album, a 12-track recording of “Southern soul swamp opera” music titled More Like A Temple, earlier this month.

Here’s Wild Flag in action with their “Future Crimes”:

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