Giving you the music a day early:
With The Black Crowes’ next scheduled gig at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, band guitarist Luther Dickinson is rejoining brother Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew, and returning to the fold for a few dates with the North Mississippi Allstars, including a show at Revolution Music Room. The opening act will be the modern, blues-heavy Southern rock side project of Cody Dickinson and Chew, Hill Country Revue, kicking off the music at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 for the 18-and-up gig. Expect a full serving of North Mississippi hill country blues sliced and diced with Southern rock for a night of gritty, funky, hard-charging music.
Downtown Music is celebrating its eighth anniversary, birthday, milestone, etc. Call it what you will, the night promises to shake windows up and down Capitol Avenue with a lineup of heavy rock and metal from Rwake, Vore, Hull and Snake Sustaine. The music starts at 8 p.m. with a $6 cover.
Pomegranates and Jookabox are both slowly snaking their way to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, including a Friday night gig in Athens, Ga., before swinging northwest for a Saturday night in Little Rock. To celebrate the long, long, long drive Jookabox — Indianapolis native David “Moose” Adamson’s rather eclectic yet synthesized musical collection of hymnals, punk, deep house and hip hop — and Pomegranates — a Cincinnati art pop group with happy-go-lucky rhythms — are holding court at Juanita’s. The all-ages show begins at 9 p.m. with a $7 cover. The two touring bands will be joined by local indie rocking favorites Big Boots and Whale Fire. The pairing of the two Arkansas bands promises “special guests, band intermingling, raucous original songs as well as some oddball covers sprinkled in the mix, and a healthy dose of Arkansas moxie,” according to Big Boots, aka Trevor Ware, Mason Mauldin and Michael Motley.
Former Mulehead guitarist and guitarist for Kyoto Boom’s post-punk rock, Dave Raymond has spent the last four years writing and recording Familiar Sting, his debut album on Max Recordings, and an album filled with real-life experiences and rocking tunes with help from a band that includes Geoff Curran on drums, Burt Taggart on guitar and Josh Bentley on bass. Dave Raymond and Present Company will hold a record release show at White Water Tavern for Familiar Sting.
Here’s the North Mississippi Allstars live, doing the late-night talk show thing with “Shake”:




