Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth

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Thursday’s Music

Published on: June 6, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, Ezra LBs, Kofi Baker's Cream Experience, Rev Room, Star & Micey, Stickyz, The Memphis Dawls, White Water Tavern

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Star & Micey.

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Holly Cole, Jana Misener and Krista Wroten are the core of The Memphis Dawls, a band that includes Jonathan McLaren on vibraphone and drums, and Nahshon Benford on trumpet, and a group plays a mingling of folk and traditional country music that also finds time for a little R&B. The Memphis Dawls are the headliners for a show at Stickyz, but let’s talk a little about the openers, fellow Memphis act Star & Micey, a soulful, folk pop trio who are releasing their I Can’t Wait EP later this summer. It’s an EP recorded by the famed Dennis Herring (Elvis Costello, Modest Mouse, Buddy Guy) at Sweet Tea Studios in Oxford, Miss. You dig The Avett Brothers? You’ll dig Star & Micey. The music starts at 9 p.m. with a $6 cover for the 18-and-up show.

I don’t know Ginger Baker, the famous drummer in bands such as Cream and Blind Faith. He’s apparently a pretty cantankerous fellow from what I’ve read and heard: Check out a 2009 Rolling Stone profile, and his biography is titled Hellraiser. But man, he’s a talented drummer. And he has a son who is also a pretty talented drummer. That son has started his own Cream tribute band, Kofi Baker’s Cream Experience, an outfit that “captures the mood and energy of the late ’60s and early ’70s; adding their own distinctive styles.” The Kofi Baker’s Cream Experience plays Rev Room. No word on the opening act, but the music starts at 8:30 p.m. with tickets $10 in advance and $15 day of for the 18-and-up show.

The newest release from Little Rock’s Thick Syrup Records is the 22-track debut of Ezra Lbs. It’s a self-titled debut featuring the music of Daniel Craig on guitar, bass and vocals; Nathan Houser on bass, guitar and vocals; and Daniel Olah on drums. The trio’s debut is a collection of tunes that is DIY rock ‘n’ roll — a little grimy punk, a little slacker lo-fi rock and a little college rock. A record release party is being held at White Water Tavern for the band’s debut. The show starts at 10 p.m. with a $5 cover. Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth is the opening band with their atomic-bomb-powered “white trash power pop.”

Here are Star & Micey with their “Back to the Night”:

Back to the Night

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: April 23, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, The Dirty Streets, White Water Tavern

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The Dirty Streets.

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The Dirty Streets, a young Memphis rock ‘n’ roll outfit raised on Humble Pie, Sly & the Family Stone and Led Zeppelin, come back to Little Rock for a show at White Water Tavern. Throw in a little punk with the likes of the MC5 and a grooving R&B from James Brown, and one could say The Dirty Streets are a indie-rocking band with the emotions of a soul singer and the attitude of a punk. Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth are also on the bill with their “white trash power pop.” The music starts at 10 p.m., and all it takes for entrance is a donation at the door.

Here are The Dirty Streets with their “Give It Up”:

Give It Up

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: December 27, 2010

Categories: General

Tags: Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, Smoke Up Johnny, White Water Tavern

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Smoke Up Johnny.

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Arkansas rockers Smoke Up Johnny called it quits in the summer of 2009, but are promising one last show at White Water Tavern to mark the release of a new album. An album said to be the band’s last. Expect the post-punk rockers to deliver a set of rousing, central Arkansas-flavored rock. Joining Smoke Up Johnny will be Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth with their “white trash power pop.”

Here’s Smoke Up Johnny with their “Tough As They Come”:

Thursday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: December 8, 2010

Categories: General

Tags: Aloud, Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, Mandy McBryde, Sticky Fingerz, T-Model Ford, White Water Tavern

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T-Model Ford.

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Even at the ripe old age of 90 (Give or take a few years.), Mr. T-Model Ford is still touring, keeping the juke joint blues vibe alive with his primal, hypnotic blues. Earlier this year, Ford recorded an album with his regular backing band GravelRoad during a 14-show tour. The resulting album, Taledragger, is due in January, and in the meantime the “Boss of the Blues” is hitting the road with GravelRoad for his Juke Joints & Dive bars of the South Tour 2010, including a stop at White Water Tavern. What Ford will bring to White Water is his real Mississippi hill country blues sound, a mingling of Ford’s rough vocal style and his raw-edged guitar playing, sparse but rhythmic.

With an album titled Exile and a tour titled National Exile Tour, Boston-based indie rock band Aloud visits Sticky Fingerz. The show starts at 9 p.m. with cover $5 for the 21-and-up affair. The opening acts are a couple of locals: Mandy McBryde, an acoustic singer/songwriter with her backing band The Holy Ghosts, and Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, who kick out their “white trash power pop” — better known as gritty, power rock. Aloud bandleaders Henry Beguiristain and Jen de la Osa spent a year in the studio recording Exile, building a new sound that is intimate and organic in nature with acoustic guitars, strings, horns, a stripped-down drum kit and handclaps.

Here’s T-Model Ford with GravelRoad and their “Ask Her For Water”:

Saturday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: August 13, 2010

Categories: General

Tags: Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, Downtown Music, Jeff Coleman and the Feeders, Joey and Kelly Kneiser, Juanita's, KSSN Colgate Country Showdown, Neckbroke Entertainment, Revolution Music Room, Scott H. Biram, Synfest V, The Dirty Streets, White Water Tavern

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Scott H. Biram.

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He’s called the “Dirty Old, One-Man Band.” Not by the media or fans, but self-proclaimed. He likes that name because Scott H. Biram captures blues, psychobilly, country and punk in a jar, violently shakes and then releases it for his primal blues rock. Biram will bring his devilish pulpit of tour-de-force music to Juanita’s. The show starts at 10 p.m. with cover $7 for the 18-and-up show. Joining Biram will be the duo of Joey and Kelly Kneiser from Glossary, the Tennessee rock band known for their fiery anthems tinged with country and R&B. Local support will be provided by local rockers Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth.

Ten local country acts — Tony Melton, Neal Travis, Heather Swain, the Alan Hunt Band, Ashley Quinn, Brian Mullen, Gwendlyn Kay, Lindsey Triplett, Bretten Low and The Luke Williams Band — are converging upon Revolution Music Room to compete in the finals of the KSSN Colgate Country Showdown. So what does the winner receive? A chance to move onto the state finals at the Arkansas State Fair in October. The all-ages show starts at 8 p.m. with cover $5 for 21 and over, and $10 for 20 and under.

Hot-rod Arkansas rock ‘n’ roll collides with blues-fueled Memphis rock ‘n’ roll as Little Rock act Jeff Coleman and the Feeders teams up with The Dirty Streets for a show at White Water Tavern. While Coleman has been providing organ, piano and background vocals to Little Rock Americana band Good Time Ramblers, with the Feeders one can expect Southern rock ‘n’ roll chock full of hard rock, blues and honky tonk country influences. And The Dirty Streets? A young rock ‘n’ roll outfit with punk and soul roots raised on MC5, Deep Purple, Sly & the Family Stone and Led Zeppelin.

Neckbroke Entertainment and Downtown Music presents Synfest V, including music from Evacuate the City, Bolt, Sh*tfire, Iron Ton, Knee Deep, Sychosys and A DarkEnd Era. Each band will play a 30-minute to 40-minute set. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the music at 7 p.m., and cover is $7. Downtown Music will also feature door prizes and drink specials both nights, and the kitchen will be open.

Here’s Scott H. Biram with “Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue”:

Saturday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 4, 2010

Categories: General

Tags: Arkansas Music Video Competition, Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, Revolution Music Room, The Avery Set, White Water Tavern

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The Avery Set.

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Taking their cues from artists as classic as Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, and as modern as M. Ward and Neutral Milk Hotel, the Nashville, Tenn., quartet The Avery Set — Chris Zehnder on guitar and vocals, Jake Bartlett on drums, Brandon Harris on lead guitar and Shawn Supra on bass — create a musical brew of country and folk-infused rock ‘n’ roll. The Avery Set visits White Water Tavern with local support from Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, who kick out their “white trash power pop” — better known as gritty, power trio rock.

As part of the Little Rock Film Festival, the Arkansas Music Video Competition returns to Revolution Music Room. The all-ages show starts at 8 p.m. with cover to be announced. The bands scheduled to have videos shown are Ace Spade & the Whores of Babylon, Bryan Frazier. DJ G-Force, Michael Witham, The Floor Plan and Winston Family Orchestra.

Here’s The Avery Set in action with their “I’m Not One to Bet”:

Saturday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: May 21, 2010

Categories: General

Tags: Androids of Ex Lovers, Annuals, Bill Street, Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, I Am The Life, Ivoryline, National Sulac Day, Revolution Music Room, Smoke Up Johnny, Stereo Sound, Sticky Fingerz, The Classic Crime, The Gemini Party, The Most Serene Republic, Thick Syrup Anniversary Party, Town Pump, What Laura Says, White Water Tavern

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Annuals.

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Sticky Fingerz presents a trio of indie rock acts with visits from The Most Serene Republic, Annuals and What Laura Says. Co-headliner The Most Serene Republic are a JUNO Award-nominated sextet known for their crossing of rock with baroque pop while fellow co-headliner Annuals are a North Carolina band who describe their music as “Experimental Jungle Pop,” although it’s better described as cinematic indie rock that draws from guitar-based rock, lush vocal harmonies and experimentalism. Arizona band What Laura Says is a desert mix of stomping blues, gospel and folk. The music starts at 8:30 p.m. with cover $8 for the 21-and-up show.

A show at Revolution Music Room features Seattle indie rockers The Classic Crime, and alternative rockers Ivoryline, a Tooth & Nail Records act just like The Classic Crime. Local support will come from Hot Springs progressive rock act Stereo Sound. The all-ages show begins at 8 p.m. with tickets $10 advance and $12 day of show.

Travis McElroy’s Thick Syrup Records is celebrating its fourth anniversary with the Thick Syrup Anniversary Party at White Water Tavern, featuring reunited bar rockers Smoke Up Johnny and an also reunited Androids of Ex Lovers. Expect a rousing uppercut of central Arkansas flavored real rock from the former, and garage-flavored, experimental music created solely with bass, drums and howling, bluesy vocals from the latter. Also on the bill are Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, “mystic Indian hitmakers” who kick out “white trash power pop” — better known as gritty, power trio rock. Happy birthday Thick Syrup.

I Am The Life presents The Gemini Party at Bill Street, promising two parties, one kicking it. Or, as it says on the flier for the event: “2 Parties 1 Kickin It.” The Lounge inside will include SeanFresh, Jeron and Epiphany featuring Gina Gee with Pleasant Music backing up the musicians with live music, and The Club on the patio will include DJ Greyhound on the turntables and performances by EarFear and Rockst*r Jones. The party starts at 9 p.m. with a $10 cover for the 21-and-up event. Ladies and Geminis get in for $5 before 10 p.m. The flier also says the party is the “only place you need to be on the 22nd.”

Surely no government body voted to declare Saturday National Sulac Day, but that’s what the Town Pump is calling a celebration of the man known as Sulac as three of his five dozen bands play: Hector Faceplant, Winston Family Orchestra and Physical Science. The music starts at 10 p.m. with a $3 cover.

Here’s Annuals live in concert:

Saturday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: May 7, 2010

Categories: General

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Rob Zombie.

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Edgefest — the annual new rock festival presented by 100.3 The Edge — returns for its sixth rendition to the Arkansas State Fairgrounds with co-headliners and Edgefest veterans Rob Zombie and Godsmack. Other Edgefest veterans on the all-day affair bill are Five Finger Death Punch (2008 Edgefest) and Drowning Pool (2009 Edgefest). The newbies include California hard rockers Papa Roach, heavy metal supergroup Hellyeah (members of Pantera and Mudvayne among others), British heavy metal group Bullet for My Valentine and Italian heavy metal band Lacuna Coil. The gates open at 1 p.m. Tickets are $35 advance and $40 at the gate, with tickets available at all Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com or by phone at (800) 745-3000. Late additions to the bill are Seether, The Veer Union and Shaman Harvest along with local support from Dark From Day One and The Vail.

Hosted by Power 92.3 and Stack 3, and presented by The Fam Ent., the Big Apple Reunion Party at The Village is a night of hip hop and R&B with Lil Keke (a Houston southern rapper) and Mista Mayhemm (a Little Rock hip hop heavyweight) headlining, and special guest appearances by MC Mack, E Dubb, Lil P Da Keepa and Doe Boi. DJ Whuteva will be on the turntables. The doors open at 9 p.m. with a 10 p.m. start time. General admission tickets are $15 advance and $25 at the door.

Michigan psychobilly trio Koffin Kats have a tune titled “Saw My Friend Explode Today,” which starts off innocently enough with lead singer Vic Victor crooning, “I saw my friend explode today right before my eyes/I wear his blood impatiently as if I’m waiting to die.” Then the tune explodes with the gallop of upright bass, guitar and drums. Other ferocious anthems cover the topics of drug use, self-loathing and a girl named Rock and Roll. The band’s Coast to Coast Party Time tour plays Sticky Fingerz. The opening act is local rockabilly on steroids act Josh the Devil & the Sinners, kicking off the music at 9:30 p.m. Early admission is $5 for the 21-and-up show.

The Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative has its Elements: Hip-Hop main event, with all the elements of the hip hop culture included, with MCs, DJs, breaking and graffiti artists along with other art and music, and drinks and a raffle with a chance to win the Elements graffiti back drop. The all-ages event kicks off at 2 p.m., and admission is $3.50 for ACAC Sustainer members, $5 for members and $7 for non-members. Proceeds will go to materials to paint the ACAC. Graffiti artists from Arkansas, Los Angeles, Texas, Mexico and Kansas City will paint the building. Music will be presented by local hip hop acts and DJs.

Bear’s Den Pizza in Conway welcomes a visit from two of Little Rock’s top musical acts: Dangerous Idiots and Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth. The music starts at 8 p.m. with a $5 cover. The Dangerous Idiots is a band comprised of Techno-Squid Eats Parliament founding members Aaron Sarlo and Shayne Gray, and Trusty founding member Paul Bowling. The Idiots sound can be compared to The Pixies, Camper Van Beethoven, Nirvana, Big Star and maybe Green Day. (Back when they were hungry, Gray said.) The outfit is currently trying to raise enough money to mix, master and release their debut album. Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth are “mystic Indian hitmakers” who kick out “white trash power pop” — better known as gritty, power trio rock.

And just because I’m a huge fan of Blade Runner, here’s Zombie with “More Human Than Human”:

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: April 12, 2010

Categories: General

Tags: Anchored, Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, Heartless Bastards, Jonathan Wilkins & The Reparations, Juanita's, Revolution Music Room, Saliva, Since October

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Heartless Bastards.

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The story of the Heartless Bastards might have started in Ohio, but the band’s sound is rooted in the black dirt gold of the Mississippi Delta. Just check out the band’s February 2009 release The Mountain, a bluesy shout of jagged garage-y rock ‘n’ roll filled with grit, grime and killer guitar riffs, such as the grinding title track. It’s not all blues and garage rock though, as the band softens their focus with mandolins and banjos on other The Mountain tracks. The Heartless Bastards will visit Juanita’s. The show starts at 9 p.m. with two local acts taking the stage first: the roots rocking Jonathan Wilkins & the Reparations, and the gritty, punkish rock roar of Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth. Tickets are $10 advance and $12 day of for the 18-and-up show.

Saliva, the Memphis, Tenn., post-grunge hard rock band known for their modern rock hit “Always,” is making a return trip to Little Rock, playing the Revolution Music Room. Presented by The Edge 100.3, the music starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale now for the 18-and-up show for $15. Tickets day of show will run $20. The quintet is currently working on their sixth Island Records album, due to be released in the summer. The group’s 2008 release Cinco Diablo spawned the mainstream rock hits “Family Reunion” and “How Could You?,” and the band’s songs include other mainstream and alternative rock hits such as “Ladies and Gentlemen” and “Your Disease.” The opening acts are Florida alternative rock outfit Since October whose new album Life/Scars/Apologies is out in June, and Texas, active rock band Anchored, who are on the road in support of their newest album, Listen To This, with its first single “Dirty In Texas (D.I.T.).”

Here’s the Heartless Bastards with the title cut from their newest album The Mountain:

Monday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: March 21, 2010

Categories: General

Tags: Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth, Flameing Daeth Fearies, Green Jelly, Juanita's, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers, Sticky Fingerz, Suckers

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Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson.

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Kicking off with a playful keyboard riff, the lyrics of Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson‘s “The Sound” are as dark as the music is triumphant. Try “Why would I try to hang on to anyone else/It’s a hard enough time just trying to hang myself” on for size. While Robinson’s lyrics are often bitter and filled with self-loathing, his updated indie folk is usually gorgeous. Robinson will open for the fuzzy, indie popsters Suckers with their squiggly kaleidoscope of music as the Brooklyn band returns to Sticky Fingerz. Tickets are $8 advance and $10 day of show for the 21-and-up gig, with the music starting at 8:30 p.m. with Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers, an incendiary live act.

Green Jelly originally formed as a comic punk band in the early 80s, scoring it big with their 1993 heavy metal ode to a children’s fairy tale, “Three Little Pigs,” back when they were named Green Jello. A lawsuit from Kraft led to a name change, and the band went on hiatus on the late ’90s. But following a 2008 reunion, the comedic heavy metal band is back and on the road, including a stop at Juanita’s. Tickets for the all-ages show are $5 advance and $8 day of show with the music starting at 9 p.m. Local support will be provided by Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth with their lo-fi, garage-y music and the Flameing Daeth Fearies, the North Little Rock cabaret punk rock band.

And here’s the sound of Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson with “The Sound”:

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