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Saturday’s Music

Published on: June 22, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: 607, Bombay Black, Interstate Buffalo, John D. Hale Band, Shooter's Bar & Grill, Stickyz, The Afterthought, The Tricks, Town Pump, Turnpike Troubadours

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Turnpike Troubadours.

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Here’s a little-known fact: Outside of the city of Tahlequah, Okla., is a public use area titled No Head Hollow Public Use Area. No lie. The city is also the capital of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation. Now, why are we discussing Tahlequah here? It’s the hometown of Turnpike Troubadours, a quintet of roots-rock playing musicians. This isn’t Red Dirt country like many bands from Oklahoma, but music that throws in a little bit of everything, including folk, Cajun and bluegrass. Turnpike Troubadours revisit Little Rock for a show at Stickyz. The John D. Hale Band kicks off the show with their alternative country sound that blends country, Americana, Southern rock and even bluegrass, and expect the music at 9 p.m. with a $10 cover for the 18-and-up show.

That rhythmically tight, fast-paced rock trio known as The Tricks will play Town Pump. The show starts at 10 p.m. with a $3 cover. Also on the bill is 607 — and you know 607, don’t you? Only one of the best rappers/hip-hop artists/musicians around the area. The Tricks and 607 will share the stage so for $3 this might be the best $3 you can spend. Look for a CD release party from The Tricks on July 5 at White Water Tavern.

Conway hard rock outfit Bombay Black released their new album Bullets And Booze back in May, and now the melodic rock band is holding a CD release party at Shooter’s Bar & Grill. It’s a rowdy and raunchy album filled with rock solid … well, modern rock. Cover is $5 with the music starting at 9 p.m. It’s a 21-and-up event. If you can’t make it to Shooter’s, catch the band a night earlier when they play Cregeen’s Irish Pub on Friday night. The music starts around 8:30 p.m

Interstate Buffalo‘s full-length debut One Step Away is blues rock. Really, really, really good blues rock. Blues rock with nasty guitar riffs, and even some funky grooves. The album’s kickoff is “Down in a Bad Way,” a tune that possesses a steamroller of a riff. “Camera” is a stone-cold funk groove. And there’s more great stuff on the album. Interstate Buffalo will celebrate the release of its One Step Away with a CD release party at The Afterthought. The music will begin at 9 p.m. with a $7 cover.

Here are the Turnpike Troubadours with their “Gin, Smoke, Lies”:

Gin, Smoke, Lies

Wednesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 5, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Interstate Buffalo, Soundstage, Stickyz, The Cons of Formant, The Winter Sounds

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The Winter Sounds.

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Nashville, Tenn.-based The Winter Sounds arrive in central Arkansas for two shows. The band — who play this folk-y influenced music that blends punk with synth-y New Wave — is touring in support of their EP L’ete des Trois Michel(l)es. First up is a Wednesday show at Stickyz. No word on an opening act, but the music starts at 9 p.m. with a $5 cover for the 18-and-up show. Then on Thursday, The Winter Sounds will hit Conway’s Soundstage for a show that includes central Arkansas folk rockers The Cons of Formant and Little Rock blues rockers Interstate Buffalo. The music starts at 7 p.m. with a $6 cover.

Here are The Winter Sounds with their “Trophy Wife”:

Trophy Wife

Saturday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: May 25, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Cregeen's Irish Pub, Interstate Buffalo, Luke Williams, Magic Springs Water and Theme Park, Riverfest, The Charlie Daniels Band, Timberwood Amphitheater

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The Charlie Daniels Band.

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The Charlie Daniels Band? Country. Southern rock. Outlaw country. The man known for “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” has played a little of it all during his career — everything from the novelty country of “Uneasy Rider” to the jingoistic Southern rock of “This Ain’t No Rag, It’s a Flag.” If you need a Riverfest break, head down to Hot Springs and Magic Springs Water and Theme Park for a concert by Daniels and band. Part of the 2012 Pepsi Concert Series, Daniels takes the stage at 8 p.m. at Timberwood Amphitheater. Gates open at 6 p.m., and local country musicians Luke Williams kicks off the night at 7 p.m. Admission is free with a general admission ticket or Season Pass to Magic Springs.

Maybe you’ve heard this question before, but what do Snoop Dogg and Lynyrd Skynyrd have in common? Well, nothing, except both are headlining acts at this year’s Memorial Day weekend blast in downtown Little Rock known as Riverfest. More than 50 musical acts on three main stages plus a kid zone and family zone, an international village, artists and merchants, other goodies and food, food, food — it’s Arkansas’ premier arts and music festival for good reason.

Riverfest is still going on. But there’s music elsewhere, including an appearance by Interstate Buffalo at Cregeen’s Irish Pub. It’s an all-ages show with the music starting around 8 p.m. No word on the cover, but Interstate Buffalo is a Little Rock outfit that play a blend of blues and rock (with a little funk) that burns places down. Well, not literally, but you get the picture.

Here are The Charlie Daniels Band with their “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”:

The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: January 9, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Interstate Buffalo, Stephen Compton Guitar Lessons, Stickyz

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Interstate Buffalo.

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Stephen Compton is the lead guitar player for Little Rock blues rock outfit Interstate Buffalo. But he is also a guitar instructor at Little Rock Jams, a private music school located in Breckenridge Village. So when Stickyz says it is offering Stephen Compton Guitar Lessons one has to believe they are offering exactly what they say they are offering. And they are. First some lessons (Compton is a self-taught guitarist influenced mainly by blues greats such as Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and R.L. Burnside.) and playing from students, and then the blues rockers known as Interstate Buffalo. It’s an all-ages event with music from Interstate Buffalo at 9 p.m.

Here’s Interstate Buffalo with their “Running After Shadows”:

Running After Shadows

Thursday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: January 4, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Cajun's Wharf, Grace Askew and the Black Market Goods, Interstate Buffalo, Stickyz, White Noise Theory

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Interstate Buffalo.

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Most of the time, Little Rock’s Interstate Buffalo is all flashy classic rock guitar theatrics and chugging Southern-flavored blues rock with a touch of funk — the kind of music that howls and wails, and then quiets its own tempest with a gorgeous guitar solo. But what many don’t know is the quartet got started back in 2006 as an acoustic blues cover band. So one would imagine that is what Interstate Buffalo will concentrate on for a happy-hour, acoustic set at Cajun’s Wharf, along with classic rock and blues rock done acoustically. The music starts at 5 p.m. Following the show, White Noise Theory takes the stage at 9 p.m. Interstate Buffalo’s show is free, but there’s a $5 cover after 8:30 p.m.

There are hybrid cars, hybrid football players, hybrid restaurants so of course there are hybrid musicians — artists who are not contained in one particular genre of music. A “slash” musician if you will. One such “slash” is Memphis musician Grace Askew, an artist who will visit Stickyz with her backing band Black Market Goods. And far as the music goes, expect a dose of alternative country, Americana, urban folk and jazz with Askew’s smoky voice rising above it all. No word on opening acts, but Grace Askew and the Black Market Goods‘ show starts at 9 p.m. Cover is only $5 for the 18-and-up show.

Here’s Interstate Buffalo bringing the rock with their “Running After Shadows”:

Running After Shadows

Saturday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: July 15, 2011

Categories: General

Tags: 3 Doors Down, FreeVerse, Interstate Buffalo, John Paul Keith & the One Four Fives, Magic Springs Water and Theme Park, Midsummer Night's Jam, Stickyz, The Afterthought, The Salty Dogs, Timberwood Amphitheater, Tyrannosaurus Chicken, White Water Tavern

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John Paul Keith.

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Memphis’ favorite rock ‘n’ roll heroes John Paul Keith & the One Four Fives are no longer billed as John Paul Keith & the One Four Fives. It’s just John Paul Keith now. Why? Well Keith has a new album out titled The Man That Time Forgot, and Keith is not always on the road with the One Four Fives, the touring/studio outfit of drummer John Argroves, bassist Mark Stuart and keyboard player Al Gamble. Sometimes he goes out with other musicians. So the One Four Fives are not always the One Four Fives of Argroves, Stuart and Gamble. Kind of confusing, huh? Well, know this: When John Paul Keith plays White Water Tavern he’ll be backed by his crack backing band the One Four Fives (whoever that might be), and fans can expect another dose of Keith’s blend of power pop, garage, rockabilly, Tex-Mex, country and blues rock. The music starts at 10 p.m.

It has been more than a dozen years of rocking for Mississippi rock band 3 Doors Down, but the band that gave the world “Kryptonite” shows no signs of slowing down, gearing up for the release of their fifth album, the July 19 release Time of My Life. The band has already released two singles from the album and expect those new songs along with post-grunge hits such as “When I’m Gone,” “Let Me Go” and “It’s Not My Time” when the outfit appears at Magic Springs Water and Theme Park as part of the park’s Pepsi Concert Series. The show is at Timberwood Amphitheater with concert gates opening at 6 p.m., and the show starting at 8 p.m. General main gate admission is $44.99 for the day, and tickets after 4 p.m. are available for $22.50.

This weekend it’s The Afterthought that is the lucky venue that gets to host Little Rock’s best honky-tonk outfit The Salty Dogs. The Dogs — vocalist Brad Williams, guitarist and pedal steel specialist Nick Devlin, drummer Bart Angel and bassist Brent LaBeau — will bring a little bit of that Bakersfield sound mixed with Chuck Berry rock ‘n’ roll, rural-living ballads and Texas swing together for a good-timing hoedown. The band’s latest release was Brand New Reason, an album that contained the brokenhearted misery march of “Words May Talk,” country swingers such as “Rock and Roll Will Never Stay” and turbo-injected gallops such as a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Nadine.” The music starts at 9 p.m. with a $7 cover.

Some of Arkansas’ best “jam” band are uniting for the second annual Midsummer Night’s Jam at Stickyz. The lineup of bands includes FreeVerse, a free-spirited, rock ‘n’ roll jamband known for keeping their jams tightly focused while infusing them with funk and jazz; the duo known as Tyrannosaurus Chicken with their freestyle trance Delta blues music straight out of Fort Smith; and local blues rock band Interstate Buffalo with their hard-charging, dirty blues powered riffs. The music starts at 9 p.m. with tickets $7 in advance and $10 day of show.

Here’s John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives with their “She’ll Dance to Anything”:

She\’ll Dance to Anything

Thursday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: September 22, 2010

Categories: General

Tags: Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative, Cotton Jones, Dining With The Stars, Interstate Buffalo, Joe Pitts Band, Juanita's, Rena Wren, Revolution Music Room, Sterling Billingsley Band, The Backsliders, The Hold Steady, White Water Tavern, Wintersleep

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The Hold Steady.

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Perhaps it’s the fat power chords or tales of women, drinking, hood rats and bars, but the Brooklyn group The Hold Steady is saddled with the label of bar band. But the band is too literary for simple bar rock. Take “She said the theme of this party is the Industrial Age/And you came in dressed like a train wreck” from the 2010 release Heaven is Whenever. See? Anyway, the literary bar rockers return to Little Rock, headlining a show at Revolution Music Room with openers Canadian indie rockers Wintersleep and pop-flavored folkies Cotton Jones. The music starts around 8:30 p.m. It’s an 18-and-up show with the doors opening at 7 p.m., and tickets are $18 in advance.

The Dallas Observer‘s Best Hard Rock Band for 2010 — The Backsliders — pay a visit to Juanita’s to showcase their rock ‘n’ roll ear candy music. The band is led by Kim Bonner, a three-time winner and multiple nominee for Best Female Vocalist by the Dallas Observer, and a lead singer described as a female version of Mick Jagger. The opener at 9 p.m. is local folk rock artist Rena Wren. The music starts at 9 p.m. with cover $5 for the all-ages show.

The Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative has moved from Rodney Parham Road to a new headquarters located at 608 Main St. in downtown Little Rock, and to celebrate the grand opening the nonprofit is throwing a fundraiser called Dining With The Stars. The night includes a three-course meal with a celebrity artist at each table, a silent auction of memorabilia and front row seats to after-dinner performances. The stars of the night include local designer Korto Momolu, Broadway singer Lawrence Hamilton and more. The event is begins at 7 p.m., and tickets are $75. Dress is semi-formal.

The Oxford American is helping the Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival celebrate its 25th anniversary by presenting a blues concert at White Water Tavern to raise funds for the festival. The night starts at 6:30 p.m., and the performers include Sterling Billingsley Band, Joe Pitts Band and Interstate Buffalo, all of which will be featured acts at this year’s Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival. Admission is a $10 donation to the festival. The 25th Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival will take place in Helena on Oct. 7-9, and will include performances by B.B. King, Taj Mahal, Dr. John and more great blues musicians.

Here’s The Hold Steady with their “Your Little Hood Rat Friend”:

Friday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: July 16, 2010

Categories: General

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Boom Kinetic.

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Here’s what Chris King has to say about Fayetteville party dance rockers Boom Kinetic as the band returns to Revolution Music Room: “It’s [a] non-stop party weekend when the boys from Boom Kinetic come to town! If you haven’t seen these guys mesmerize the dance floor, then you must not like things such as (A) a good time, (B) a roomful of happy beautiful people or (C) hit ’80s dance songs. Formed in 2006, the band formerly known as Molten Lava, is a high-energy dance rock band that has been named Best Party Band Ever by the Northwest Arkansas Music Awards two years in a row. The band mixes in pop rock originals along with some of the ’80s greatest pop tunes. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. with an $8 admission price for the 18-and-up show.

Local pop-flavored indie rocker Bryan Frazier is fresh off a win at the Little Rock Film Festival’s Music Video competition for his “Angelene and the Alpha Ray” tune and playing a show at Sticky Fingerz as Bryan Frazier and the Action Figures. Co-headling the show are Southern California indie rockers Young the Giant (formerly The Jakes) who are signed to Roadrunner Records and preparing for a debut album release. The opening act kicking the music at 9 p.m. is Conway folk rockers This Holy House. The cover is $6 for the 21-and-up show.

The Campaign for Death Metal Purity Tour visits … where else? Downtown Music with a trio of bands: California death metal band Gravehill, Texas extreme metal band HOD and Chicago death metal act Cardiac Arrest. Arkansas support will be provided by Fayetteville death metal band Vore. The music starts at 8 p.m. with a $7 cover.

It’s long days and hot summer nights so why not have a Long Hot Summer Night Jam at Cornerstone Pub? That’s exactly what’s happening at Cornerstone as the Argenta bar hosts some of Arkansas’ most talented bands to showcase Arkansas music. Hosted and headlined by local blues rock band Interstate Buffalo with special guests, the lineup of music includes Brent and Adam (“The Duo” from FreeVerse), Weakness for Blondes and Starroy. Doors open at 7 p.m. with the music starting at 8 p.m. Cover is only $5. Works of art will also be for sale from Arkansas artists including Blake Fisher, Jake Jackson and Will Love.

The all-new Diversion, WIne Bar and Ultra Lounge is celebrating its … newness with a night titled The Remix featuring the music of Rodney Block & The Real Music Lovers. The cover is $10 with the night starting at 9 p.m. Block and his cohorts promise a “relaxing soundscape for the real music lovers.” And they also promise a selection of cuts highlighting the group’s love of jazz, neo-soul and R&B along with tracks from Block’s debut album Outside the Box and guest artists. The special drink of the night will be the Real Music Lovers Peach Martini, and the first 20 guests will receive a new Rodney Block & The Real Music Lovers beer glass. Seats are limited so arrive early.

Here’s Boom Kinetic in action with their “Ordinary People”:

Friday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: February 25, 2010

Categories: General

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American Aquarium. Photo by Amy Schlatter.

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Little Rock based Last Chance Records and White Water Tavern are teaming up to record a series of live albums at the Seventh Street bar, kicking off the Live From the White Water series with a recording of Little Rock favorites and Last Chance Records artist American Aquarium. The series will feature Last Chance artists and other White Water favorites, and use professional sound equipment and recording engineering pros, with the first album available in the spring. American Aquarium is a North Carolina alt country band whose latest album, Dances for the Lonely, is a collection of hard-charging, Bruce-Springsteen-gone-country-rock (“Katherine Belle”) and cautionary, acoustic-strummed ballads fueled by weeping pedal steel (“Downtown Girls”) that serves as a follow-up to 2008′s The Bible & The Bottle. Local rustic rockers Jonathan Wilkins & The Reparations are the openers, with the music starting at 9 p.m. with a $5 cover.

What better way to spend a Friday night than by watching other people cram nails and things up their noses, eat fire, swallow swords and horseplay with chainsaws? That’s the fun the Electric Acid Theatre — the sideshow tag-team of The Enigma, a founding member of the Jim Rose Circus, and Serana Rose — promise when they visit Juanita’s. Beyond the crazy sideshow stunts, the duo also perform to music that is described as “acid rock from the year 3000.” The opening act is the drums and guitar onslaught of Illinois duo Tweak Bird, with their fuzz-driven, big-beat rock. The night starts at 10 p.m. with cover to be announced for the 18-and-up show.

FreeVerse, a free-spirited, rock ‘n’ roll jamband known for keeping their jams tightly focused while infusing them with funk and jazz, return to Sticky Fingerz for a night of groovy tunes as they prepare for the release of their second full-length album. The band will be joined by Little Rock band Interstate Buffalo, a blues-based rock band who just finished up work on their first EP. The show starts at 9 p.m. with a $5 cover.

Invisible Children is a nonprofit organization supporting educational efforts in northern Uganda that grew out of the 2003 documentary Invisible Children: Rough Cut, a film showcasing the tragic use of child soldiers in that region’s two-decade old conflict between rebels and the government of Uganda. Five Arkansas bands — Falcon Scott, Free Micah, Listener, Badhand and Deas Vail — are joining forces at Revolution Music Room to present a benefit for the nonprofit and screen the organization’s newest documentary GO, a film documenting how Invisible Children is helping in northern Uganda. The documentary will be shown at 6:30 p.m. with music to follow at 8 p.m. Cover for the all-ages show is free for 21 and up, and $5 for 20 and under. Donations will be accepted for Invisible Children during the show.

Influenced by such “old school” heavy metal bands such as Metallic and Slayer, Massachusetts band Unearth have injected their heavy metal music with dose of hardcore punk to create their metalcore sound with dueling, searing guitar riffs and screaming vocals. It’s a sound that gets unveil as Unearth visits The Village on a tour that includes Chicago death metal band Veil of Maya and San Francisco hardcore punk band Early Graves, along with local support from Russellville heavy metal band Cruxx and El Dorado death metal band Once Exiled. The doors open at 7 p.m. with the music starting at 8 p.m. General admission tickets are $15 advance and $18 day of show.

It’s quite the opposite of the Sundance Film Festival — especially minus the talentless, puppy-dog-in-a-purse, Hollywood types — as the Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative presents Show Your Shorts Film Night. The biannual event allows local filmmakers to show and discuss their independent works, from the quirky to the family ready. About a dozen films will be presented, and the ACAC will have beer, wine and popcorn on hand, and will be accepting donations as well, but admission is $7 for the public and $5 for ACAC members. The event starts at 7 p.m.

Here’s what American Aquarium brings to the table with their tune “I Hope He Breaks Your Heart.” The first 2:30 of the video is lead singer BJ Barham dishing advice, poking fun at methheads in South Carolina and detailing why the love of a bad woman creates great songs:

Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: January 25, 2010

Categories: General

Tags: Interstate Buffalo, Revolution Music Room, Starroy, Sticky Fingerz, Take It Back, The Fiery Furnaces, Vino's

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The Fiery Furnaces.

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The experimental indie rock duo The Fiery Furnaces, the brother and sister team of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, released their seventh studio album, I’m Going Away, in 2009, and are out on tour supporting it, including a stop at Revolution Music Room. Tickets are on sale for $10 with a 8:30 p.m. start time with the music of Cambridge, Mass., duo Drug Rug, whose power-pop tunes rely heavily on a late-1960s vibe. The Fiery Furnaces’ first single from I’m Going Away is the beautifully doomed, piano-led ditty “The End Is Near,” but other tunes explode with a burst of frenetic guitar and jazzy arrangements.

Christian-themed hardcore act Take It Back pay a visit to Vino’s on a tour stop with special guest Something to Stand For, a Little Rock Christian metalcore band. Take It Back’s newest album is the November release Atrocities on Facedown Records, a roaring work of shouted praise anthems with pummeling music such as the B-52 bombing run rhythms of “The Skies Are Empty.”

The Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival is returning to Mulberry Mountain in Ozark on June 3-6, and the Wakarusa Winter Classic is offering bands in 16 regional cities an opportunity to play the festival. The six local bands competing at Sticky Fingerz for a spot at the festival are Little Rock blues rock group Interstate Buffalo with their hard-charging anthems, Forth Smith blues-based jamband Copesetic, longtime Little Rock jammy rock ‘n’ roll outfit Mojo Depot, Jonesboro psychedelic jamband Starroy, Northwest Arkansas folk-based rock group Where’s Lawrence, and the Northwest Arkansas acoustic guitar and sax, Americana duo Waoka. The music will begin at 8 p.m. with a $5 cover for the 21-and-up show. The crowd gets to vote on their favorite band. Last year’s Sticky Fingerz winner was Conway’s electric folk boogie quartet The Damn Bullets.

Here’s a shot of The Fiery Furnaces with a homemade video to their tune “The End Is Near”:

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