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Tuesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: July 2, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: From Indian Lakes, Stickyz, The Rocketboys

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The Rocketboys.

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Austin, Texas, indie rock band The Rocketboys are coming to Stickyz. The band’s latest is the self-released Build Anyway. So what does the band sound like? Well, the Austin American-Statesman describes the band’s music as “clear, ringing guitars and full-bodied keyboard arrangements, hard-driving drum lines and well-practiced transitions between calm and controlled chaos” The opening act is From Indian Lakes, a California quintet that plays alternative rock, kicking off the music at 9 p.m. Cover is $8 for the 18-and-up show.

Here are The Rocketboys with their “Heartbeat”:

Heartbeat

Thursday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 27, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Blackberry Smoke, Juanita's, Rev Room, Stickyz, The Reverend Horton Heat, Wussy

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Wussy.

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Wussy is coming to Stickyz. So what does that mean? Well, Wussy is a Cincinnati rock band. Sometimes with pedal steel. Sometimes with a clavinet. Sometimes with harpsichord. It’s really hard categorizing them so let’s don’t. Just enjoy Wussy for what they are — a really great band with a jangling, sometimes rampaging, sometimes dreamy sound. No word on an opening act, but expect the music at 9 p.m. with a $6 cover for the 18-and-up show. Music critic Robert Christgau called Wussy “the best band in America.”

Jim Heath, aka The Reverend Horton Heat, realized a few years ago that people really dug his funnier, country-honk tunes. (Not that they didn’t dig his punkabilly tunes as well, with their gritty, greasy sound.) So with 2009′s Laughin’ & Cryin’ With The Reverend Horton Heat, Heath wrote a country album about drinking, guys who use their guts for beer holders and bad habits. With a new album — 25 to Life — on the way, Heath is hitting the road, visiting Juanita’s. No word on an opening act, but expect the music at 9 p.m. with the doors opening at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 day of show.

How does a band make a name for itself? By touring. And touring. And touring. Like Atlanta’s Blackberry Smoke. The band has already played Little Rock once this year, and return again for a show at Rev Room. Why get excited? What Blackberry Smoke plays is not just simply grounded in Southern rock. No, it’s music that also includes doses of country, bluegrass and gospel. Signed to Zac Brown Band’s record label Southern Ground, Blackberry Smoke has a new album coming in August. The opening act is to be announced, but expect the music at 8:30 p.m. with tickets $12 in advance and $15 day of for the 18-and-up show.

Here are Wussy with their “Airborne”:

Airborne

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

Saturday’s Music

by sstewart

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

Thursday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 20, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Bluesboy Jag Band, Stickyz, The Derailers, The Joint, The Nigh Ends, White Water Tavern, Whores

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The Derailers.

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The Derailers have been around for almost two decades now. That’s kind of hard to believe; not because the band doesn’t have staying power but 20 years is just a long time in general. Stephen King is a fan and you should be, too; that is, if you dig honky tonk music and the Bakersfield sound of Buck Owens. And who doesn’t? The quartet comes to Stickyz. No word on an opening act, but expect the music at 9 p.m. with a $10 cover for the 18-and-up show.

Here’s what Creative Loafing Atlanta said about noise rock trio Whores: “Bearing witness to a Whores show is like being crushed under the tread of a Panzer tank as it charges into battle.” If that sounds like fun, catch Whores at White Water Tavern for a massive, ferocious sound. The show starts at 10 p.m. Also on the bill will be Little Rock’s own The Nigh Ends.

North Little Rock cigar-box luthier and hill country blues master Bluesboy Jag is staying close to home tonight and playing a show at The Joint, a relatively new spot in Argenta. Well, he’s not by himself but bringing along the band — harmonica player and vocalist Jawbone Kenyon, drummer Joe Roitz and bassist Bass Joe — so it’s a Bluesboy Jag Band show. Expect the music at 8:30 p.m. with a $3. It’s a 21-and-up show. And expect some of the best blues music one can hear.

Here are The Derailers with their “Bar Exam”:

Bar Exam

Wednesday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: June 19, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Juanita's, Kopecky Family Band, Rev Room, Split Lip Rayfield, Stickyz, Whiskey Myers

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Kopecky Family Band.

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There’s something you should probably know about Kansas band Split Lip Rayfield. Before we even discuss the music. One guy in the band plays a bass made out of a gas tank. Yes, a vehicle’s gas tank. So you know the band is going to be hard to define, and Split Lip Rayfield is. Bluegrass maybe, because there is banjo and mandolin in the band. But the band is high-octane bluegrass if they are bluegrass because there’s punk and even heavy metal in the sound. Whatever it is, Split Lip Rayfield will bring their raucous sound to Juanita’s. The doors open at 8 p.m. with the music starting at 9 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of show.

Speaking of bands that are hard to define, let’s talk about the Kopecky Family Band. The band has been selected for Lollapalooza and the Austin City Limits Music Festival, but catch them in a smaller setting when the six-member band plays Stickyz. The band, formed in Nashville, Tenn., back in 2007, play music that is one part indie rock and one part orchestral rock. It’s rousing; it’s beautiful; it’s Kopecky Family Band. No word on an opening act, but expect the music at 9 p.m. with a $7 cover for the 18-and-up show.

There’s a lot of music for this Wednesday and the last band we’re talking about here is Whiskey Myers, the Tyler, Texas, band fronted by Cody Cannon that crosses Southern rock with country, but isn’t afraid to throw in some stomping hard rock rhythms or strutting blues rock into the equation. Think if Gram Parsons playing with ZZ Top. Or if Led Zeppelin was a Southern, country rock band. Heck, you like country rock? You’ll love Whiskey Myers when they hit Rev Room. No word on an opening act, but expect the music at 9 p.m. with a $10 cover for the 18-and-up show.

Here are Kopecky Family Band with their “Birds”:

Birds

Thursday’s Music

by sstewart

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

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

Friday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: May 31, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: 3:16, Arkansas Queen, Cinders To Ascension, Dead Fingers, First Baptist Chemical, Little Rock Film Festival, More Than Sparrows, Stickyz, Sync or Swim Riverboat Party, The Heavy Pets, Toubab Krewe, Transcend, Vino's, White Water Tavern

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Dead Fingers.

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Is Alabama the new center of the rock ‘n’ roll universe? Perhaps. More evidence of this is Dead Fingers, the married duo of Kate Taylor and Taylor Hollingsworth (Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band). The duo’s music is not quite dirty Alabama rock ‘n’ roll, but more folk-y Americana and includes tunes that cover everything from John Prine and Iris DeMent duets to The Rolling Stones and The Traveling Wilburys to She and Him, and Civil Wars. For the band’s show at White Water Tavern the opening act is First Baptist Chemical with their self-described “bumpkin folk/Afrobeat.” The show starts at 9:30 p.m.

Toubab Krewe bring their mixture of traditional African rhythms crossed with Southern rock, hip-hop, reggae and country to Stickyz. The Asheville, N.C., quintet has learned the roots of West African music, journeying to Mali, Guinea and Ivory Coast in the seven years since forming, and developing their unique sound of rock meets African. The Heavy Pets are the opening act with their fusion rock that includes funk, jazz and R&B. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. with cover $11 for the 18-and-up show.

So it has been a long day at the Little Rock Film Festival. Maybe you saw Beasts Of The Southern Wild at 4:15 p.m. Friday at Riverdale 10 Cinemas? Maybe you need a party? Fortunately there is this little shindig aboard the Arkansas Queen called the Sync or Swim Riverboat Party. Passes accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Boarding at 10:30 p.m. sharp. Music by Velvet Kente, DJ Poebot and Baldego.

Four bands are joining forces for a benefit show at Vino’s for the Jacksonville firefighters and police officer who were struck by a vehicle in Jacksonville while working another accident. Sponsored by 100.3 The Edge, it’s an all-ages show starting at 7 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door, and all proceeds will go toward the men and their families. The bands include Jacksonville metal act Cinders To Ascension, Cabot rock outfit Transcend, Beebe metal group More Than Sparrows and North Carolina rock band 3:16. The night will also include a silent auction.

Here are Dead Fingers with their “Wheels and Gasoline”:

Wheels and Gasoline

Thursday’s Music

by sstewart

Published on: May 30, 2012

Categories: General

Tags: Arkansas International Music Video Competition, Collin vs. Adam, Color Club, Laundry For The Apocalypse, Little Rock Film Festival, Rev Room, Stickyz, The Holy Grail, The Kickass, Valient Thorr, White Water Tavern

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Valient Thorr.

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First, Valient Thorr, what a great band name. Second, Valient Thorr at Rev Room. Get your rock on with the hard-hitting music of the five-piece known for their heavy, psychedelic-flavored rock ‘n’ roll amped up with pummeling drums and lightning-quick guitar breaks. Fans of the band, including such greats as Lemmy and Joan Jett, are known as Thorriors and love “the rock ‘n’ roll saviors from Venus.” Joining Valient Thorr will be heavier-than-metal, technical hardcore band The Kickass and Southern California heavy metal band The Holy Grail. It’s an 18-and-up show kicking off at 9 p.m. with tickets $10 in advance and $12 day of.

So who are these Laundry For The Apocalypse guys playing at White Water Tavern? Well, you probably know some of the guys from this new Little Rock band: Aaron Sarlo on guitar and vocals, Matt Rice on bass, John David Hilliard on keyboards, trumpet and vocals, Drew Wilkerson on drums and vocals, and Adrian Brigman on percussion and electric washboard. The group plays music from rock to punk rock to reggae to blues. Not metal though. Joining them will be two more local acts: the noisy, weirdly awesome punk rock of the female trio Color Club and the two-dude, effects-heavy rock of Collin Vs. Adam. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. with a $5 cover.

The Little Rock Film Festival is in full swing, and this night brings the Arkansas International Music Video Competition at Stickyz. There’s an art to making music videos, and some of the best artists making these videos are from Arkansas or making videos starring Arkansas bands. The night is a concert, party and awards show with appearances and videos from Randall Shreve & the Sideshow, Epiphany, Life Size Pizza and Messy Sparkles. VJ/DJ G-Force will provide the music between acts. It’s an 18-and-up show with the event kicking off at 9 p.m. Cover is $5 for 21 and over, and $7 for 18 to 20. It’s free for pass holders.

Here are Valient Thorr with their “Sleeper Awakes”:

Sleeper Awakes

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