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Saturday’s Music

Published on: June 29, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: ABK, Anybody Killa, DJ Clay, Downtown Music, Kris Allen, Lucas Clayton Hunsicker Scholarship Fund's Bummer Summer, Magic Springs Water and Theme Park, Underground Summer Jam, White Water Tavern

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Kris Allen.

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Kris Allen at Magic Springs Water and Theme Park‘s Timberwood Amphitheater. This Arkansas resident won the eighth season of American Idol and will be promoting his new album Thank You Camellia. The concert gates open at 6 p.m. with an 8 p.m. showtime. Admission is free with a general admission ticket to the park ($44.99 per adult, and $29.99 per junior under 48 inches tall, or senior 55 or older) or season pass ($59.99).

White Water Tavern will host the Lucas Clayton Hunsicker Scholarship Fund’s Bummer Summer, a musical benefit for the fund that awards an annual scholarship to an aspiring Park View High School artist or musician. The show starts at 9 p.m. with a $10 donation at the door. Some of the performers are Isaac Alexander, Phillip Huddleston, Jack Lloyd, Mike Motley, Matt Quin and Correne Spero. Hunsicker was a Little Rock musician who died in August 2010.

The Underground Summer Jam is coming to Downtown Music. So what does that mean? ABK. Who? Anybody Killa, the American Indian rapper who specializes in spiritual rap that crosses his culture with horror themes and comedy, and is signed to Insane Clown Posse’s Psychopathic Records. So yes, it’s going to be that kind of night. The doors open at 7 p.m. with the music starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $11 in advance and $15 at the door. Who else is playing this Underground Summer Jam? Fellow ICP-related hip-hop artist DJ Clay, and Pine Bluff hip-hop/metal act Klaun VI along with IntoxXx and Down South Juggalos.

Here’s Kris Allen with his “The Vision of Love”:

The Vision of Love

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 25, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Downtown Music, Lydia Loveless, Scott H. Biram, Seamless, Stickyz, The Battle Within, Whitechapel

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Lydia Loveless.

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Scott H. Biram and Lydia Loveless at Stickyz — this is going to be quite a show. Why? Biram is a 21st-century blues sorcerer, throwing blues, psychobilly, country and punk in a jar with a few gulps of whiskey, violently shaking it and then releasing to create his primal blues rock. Loveless loves Loretta Lynn. And Lucinda Williams. And Hank Williams. She also loves Television (the band). And just pure punk rock. So she creates rock ‘n’ roll. Country, Americana and punk flavored. And she sings about God, hell, white trash, hangovers, whiskey, Jesus and guiding lights. The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show for the 18-and-up night.

Tennessee deathcore — that’s what Whitechapel delivers, and the band uses a three-guitar, buzz-sawing sound in their delivery. Whitechapel is the band’s newest album, a 10-track record that came out June 19, and the band is touring in support, including a Downtown Music stop. The show will start at 7:45 p.m. with tickets $14 in advance and $16 at the door. Two Arkansas acts open: progressive metal band Seamless and melodic death metal act The Battle Within.

Here’s Lydia Loveless with his “Can’t Change Me”:

Can’t Change Me

Friday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 21, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: At War's End, Downtown Music, Reticient, The Revolutioners

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At Wars End.

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It’s going to get heavy at Downtown Music. How heavy? Well, how heavy does a show that includes At Wars End, Reticient and The Revolutioners sound? Oh yeah, not that heavy if you don’t know what the bands sound like. Well, here’s a primer: headliners At Wars End are a Little Rock heavy rock, almost metal band; Reticent is Arkansas native singer/songwriter Chris Long’s new band, a band that plays heavy indie rock mixed with grooving music; and The Revolutioners are Little Rock rock ‘n’ roll. The doors open at 8:30 p.m. with the show starting soon afterward. Cover is $7.

Here are At Wars End with their “Leroy Creepy”:

Leroy Creepy

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 18, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Crime Wave, Crossfade, Downtown Music, Juanita's, Pose No Threat, This Is Hell, Weaving the Fate, Xerxes

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Weaving the Fate.

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South Carolina hard rock band Crossfade visits Juanita’s, delivering a powerful shot of their rock sound based on heavy metal and post-grunge. The band’s newest album is the summer 2011 release We All Bleed, and the album’s first single “Killing Me Inside” hit the Top 20 of the mainstream rock charts. Of course, the band is also known for their other alternative and mainstream rock tunes such as “Cold,” “So Far Away” and “Colors.” Weaving the Fate are the opening act, a South Carolina quartet that blends hip-hop with metal, including a cover of Tyga’s “Rack City.” The doors open at 8 p.m., and the show starts at 9 p.m. with tickets $10 in advance and $12 day of.

Long Island, N.Y.-based hardcore band This Is Hell visits Downtown Music. The doors open at 7 p.m. with the show starting soon afterward. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. Joining This Is Hell will be Louisville punk/hardcore band Xerxes, who just released their Our Home Is A Deathbed, and Crime Wave and North Little Rock hardcore act Pose No Threat.

Here are Weaving the Fate with “Rack City”:

Rack City

Wednesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 12, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: 3 Pill Morning, Downtown Music, Everyone Dies in Utah, Ionia, Juanita's, Myka Relocate, Sirens & Sailors, Smile Empty Soul

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Sirens & Sailors.

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It’s midweek. Time for some rock. Time for some post-grunge rock from California band Smile Empty Soul, a group that released their newest album 3′s back in May, but a band probably best known to fans of active rock via their 2003 hit “Bottom of a Bottle.” Joining the band for a Juanita’s stop will be Minneapolis rock band 3 Pill Morning and the melodic rock of New York City’s Ionia. The doors open at 8 p.m. with the music starting at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10.

Perhaps you want rock during the midweek, but perhaps you want that rock to be hardcore. Well, prepare thyself for the Wasteland at Sea Tour stopping at Downtown Music and featuring headlining act Sirens & Sailors, a five piece from Rochester, N.Y., that play … well, what else, hardcore. Joining them will be Everyone Dies in Utah, a post-hardcore act influenced by Attack Attack and I See Stars and not from Utah but from Texas, and electro-flavored hardcore act Myka Relocate. Doors open at $7 with the show starting soon afterward. There’s a $7 cover.

Here are Sirens & Sailors with their “Signs”:

Signs

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 4, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Ash of Cedars, Chronic Ritual, Cough, Downtown Music, Dragged Into Sunlight

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Cough.

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It’s only the second night of the work week, but get heavy with the arrival of Virginia doom metal band Cough at Downtown Music. The band — known for their creeping, sludge-y music — is touring in support of their new album Ritual Abuse, and playing the tunes from it such as the dark, devilish doom of “Crippled Wizard.” The doors open at 8 p.m. with the music starting soon afterward. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. Included on the bill is UK extreme metal band Dragged Into Sunlight. Local support will be provided by Memphis/Little Rock metal band Ash of Cedars and Chronic Ritual.

Here are Cough with their “Acid Witch”:

Acid Witch

Monday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 3, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Downtown Music, Glass Cloud, My Hands to War, Once by the Pacific, The Science of Sleep

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Glass Cloud.

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Glass Cloud is the new band of former frontman for Sky Eats Airplane and Of Mice & Men Jerry Roush. Yes, it’s metalcore, and includes guitarist Joshua Travis (The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza), bassist Travis Sykes and drummer Chad Hasty. The quartet’s debut The Royal Thousand is being released in July, and the band is touring, including a stop at Downtown Music. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the music starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 day of show. The openers are three local acts: North Little Rock progressive act Once by the Pacific, Maumelle/North Little Rock post-hardcore band The Science of Sleep and Central Arkansas post-hardcore group My Hands To War.

Here are Glass Cloud with their “White Flag”:

White Flag

Saturday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 1, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: 2012 Pepsi Concert Series, Blane Howard, Bon Iver, Bubba Hernandez, Chancie Neal, Craig Campbell, Downtown Music, From Which We Came, Luke Bryan, Magic Springs Water and Theme Park, Riverfest Ampitheatre, Scale the Summit, The Staves, Today I Caught the Plague, Trace Adkins, White Water Tavern

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Luke Bryan.

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Riverfest Ampitheatre will host two concerts this weekend. First up is country musician Luke Bryan on Saturday. Presented by KSSN 96, the show starts at 7:30 p.m. and includes special guests Craig Campbell and Chancie Neal. Tickets through Ticketmaster are available for $46 and $41. Sunday, it’s indie folk band Bon Iver at 7 p.m. along with folk rock trio The Staves. Tickets through Ticketmaster are available for $49 and $38.50.

This is how Cenobio Xavier “Bubba” Hernandez III describes himself on his website: a “singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer of diverse musical endeavors.” He was a member of polka rock band Brave Combo for two decades and his newest diverse musical endeavor is his solo album Big Pounding Heart, a 12-track album of “pop rock songs with worldly rhythms careened through the garage grunge machinery” provided by Los Angeles producer and guitarist Scrote. Bubba Hernandez comes to White Water Tavern. The show starts at 9:30 p.m.

The Adventure Metal Across America Tour arrives at Downtown Music so that means headliners Scale The Summit will be playing their instrumental progressive rock from Texas. What else does it mean? Today I Caught the Plague with their Canadian progressive metal and From Which We Came with their central Arkansas progressive metal. The doors open at 7 p.m. with the music starting soon afterward. Cover is $10.

Trace Adkins was the country singer first introduced to audiences with his late-1990s country No. 1 “(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing.” Since then, he has scored Top 40 hit after Top 40 hit, including the No. 1s “Ladies Love Country Boys” and “You’re Gonna Miss This.” As part of the 2012 Pepsi Concert Series at Magic Springs Water and Theme Park, Adkins will take to the Timberwood Amphitheater at 8 p.m. Gates open at 6 p.m., and Hot Springs native and country musician Blane Howard kicks off the night at 7 p.m. Admission is free with a general admission ticket or Season Pass to Magic Springs.

Here’s Luke Bryan with his “Country Girl”:

Country Girl

Monday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: May 27, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Buried Beds, Downtown Music, Imaginary Cities, mewithoutYou

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mewithoutYou.

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So what kind of band would write and record an album about the wreck of a circus train in 19th century Montana? Philadelphia indie band mewithoutYou, that’s who. The band’s new album Ten Stories is all about that, which is a little bizarre, but then so is the experimental indie music of the quartet. mewithoutYou come to Downtown Music. The doors open at 7 p.m. with the music starting soon afterward. Tickets are $14 in advance and $16 at the door. The opening acts are Buried Beds with their rock ‘n’ roll from Philadelphia and Imaginary Cities with their Motown-influenced indie pop from Canada.

Here are mewithoutYou with their “The Fox, The Crow And The Cookie”:

The Fox, The Crow and The Cookie

Saturday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: May 18, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Dax Riggs, Downtown Music, Ezra LBs, Hands Like Houses, Indie Bullsh*t, My Ticket Home, Palisades, Stickyz, The Air I Breathe, The Tricks, Through the Looking Glass, Vino's

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Dax Riggs.

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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 at 9:30 p.m. for the 18-and-up show. Riggs plays blues rock, albeit experimental, or, as he calls it, a collection of “roots music, doom metal and glam-punk poetry.” Say Goodnight to the World is the newest solo release from Riggs.

The Freshman Class of ’12 Tour visits Downtown Music, which means New Jersey hardcore metal act The Air I Breathe will be headlining a show that includes Ohio hardcore group My Ticket Home, Australian post-hardcore experimental act Hands Like Houses and New Jersey post-hardcore outfit Palisades. Local support will be provided by Hot Springs hardcore metal act Through The Looking Glass. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the music starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

Sometimes it’s okay for others to do the work for you so we’re going to let Alexander Jones, bassist of Little Rock’s The Tricks, tell you about their show at Vino’s. “Great show to kick off the summer featuring two rising Little Rock three pieces. The Tricks combine influences ranging from Pixies to Weezer to Pavement. Thick Syrup Record’s Ezra Lbs. will bring the ruckus as always and showcase their talents with great melodies and a killer rhythm section.” Joining the two bands will be Little Rock’s Indie Bullsh*t, a band comprised of members from SiVersa, After the Tragedy and B-side Folk Union. It’s an 18-and-up show with the doors opening at 8 p.m. Cover is $8.

Here’s Dax Riggs with the title track from his Say Goodnight to the World:

Say Goodnight to the World

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