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| 12/08/13 | BREAKFAST, BOOKS, & BOOZE. HOLIDAY HANGOUT Closing Night | BREAKFAST, BOOKS, & BOOZE. HOLIDAY HANGOUT Closing Night in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 12:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
Tree of Knowledge, The White Water Tavern, & Last Chance Records presents day 3 of the Holiday Hangout!
Breakfast, Books, and Booze is FREE admission and ALL AGES all day!! Brunch starts at noon with the Tree of Knowledge book sale happening throughout the day. Featuring independently published literature with topics that range from cultural studies, activism, and history to music, art and graffiti, gardening, sustainability and political theory. After 5pm there’s a $5 cover for an evening of acoustic music from: MICAH SCHNABEL SHANE SWEENEY ADAM FAUCETT KEVIN KERBY BONNIE MONTGOMERY ISAAC ALEXANDER JKUTCHMA (Red Collar/JKutchma & The Five Fifths) JOHN MORELAND |
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| 12/10/13 | The Dangerous Idiots w/ Peckerwolf & Mothwind | The Dangerous Idiots w/ Peckerwolf & Mothwind in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 10:00pm.
Admission: Donations.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
www.dangerousidiots.com
www.reverbnation.com/peckerwolf www.reverbnation.com/mothwind ” Dangerous Idiots is a blast of an album…well-crafted, catchy tunes played by veteran, professional musicians who don’t take themselves too seriously. ” – Sync Weekly |
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| 12/12/13 | MALCOLM HOLCOMBE ( North Carolina ) | MALCOLM HOLCOMBE ( North Carolina ) in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://www.malcolmholcombe.com
” Not quite country, somewhere beyond folk, Holcombe’s music is a kind of blues in motion, mapping backwoods corners of the heart. ” -David Fricke -Rolling Stone Magazine Holcombe started out playing in the country band Redwing in his native North Carolina before becoming an underground sensation in Nashville in the early 1990s. Singing poetic lines in his customary growl, he gained converts in everyone from Lucinda Williams to a young Justin Townes Earle. In 1996, Holcombe signed with Geffen Records. Although he made a brilliant album for the label, Geffen chose not to release it. It wasn’t until 1999 that the shelved work finally found release on Hip-O Records. It’s name: A Hundred Lies. In an effort to kick a drug habit, the mercurial singer moved back to North Carolina. After cleaning up his act, he began to record at a furious pace, beginning with I Never Heard You Knockin’ in 2005. He ended the decade with four more records to his name. They included Gamblin’ House and Not Forgotten (both in 2007), Wager in 2008, and For the Mission Baby in 2009. |
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| 12/13/13 | ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART w/ John Pugh ( Vision Control ) | ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART w/ John Pugh ( Vision Control ) in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:00pm.
Admission: $7.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://www.mojomusic.com/alvin/
The cosmic American love child of Howlin Wolf and Link Wray. Known as a “musician’s musician,” Alvin Youngblood Hart’s praises have been sung by everyone from Bob Dylan to Brit guitar gods Eric Clapton & Mick Taylor. VISION CONTROL John Pugh XI (Jet Jangua, Rat Fink a Bu Bu, Red Brigade, Crown Of Glory, Uptown Prophets, No City No State, Third Sleeper Is The Brain and many others) builds on his lineage of punk, soul and noise with the project Vision Control. Using only a guitar, a loop pedal and his voice, Pugh creates a minimalist landscape where syncopated pointillist patterns interlock with heavy proto-punk R&B vamps liberally peppered with bursts of no wave dystopia. Though the songs are conspicuously drum-less, the heartbeat rhythm of the dancefloor is subliminally implanted; hidden in plain sight. The overall effect is akin to sonic hypnotism. Be aware: the management does not assume responsibility for any loss of inhibition you may experience during the show. |
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| 12/14/13 | Booyah! Dad w/ Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth and Adam Faucett & The Tall Grass Buffalo | Booyah! Dad w/ Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth and Adam Faucett & The Tall Grass Buffalo in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://booyahdad.bandcamp.com
www.adamfaucett.com |
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| 12/17/13 | The Frontier Circus w/ Bonnie Montgomery | The Frontier Circus w/ Bonnie Montgomery in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 10:00pm.
Admission: Donations.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://www.maxrecordings.com/the-frontier-circus/4557670812
http://www.bonniemontgomerymusic.com ” Take a slab of garage rock psychosis, add a bootful of vintage country and western, a dash of inspiration from the old Donnie & Marie variety show, some roller derby moxie, the eerie sounds of a theremin, and you’ve got A Little Bit Psycho … A Little Bit Western, the debut album from central Arkansas’ The Frontier Circus. ” Arkansas born and bred Bonnie Montgomery is a classically trained composer and opera singer by day and country queen by night. Bringing her raucous spin on traditional southern music to honky-tonks throughout the U.S. and Europe, Bonnie’s catalog hails from a place where outlaw country saddles up with Americana and folk. |
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| 12/18/13 | Amanda Shires ( Nashville, TN ) | Amanda Shires ( Nashville, TN ) in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:00pm.
Admission: $7.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://amandashiresmusic.com
Amanda Shires is an American singer and violin player. She has performed as a member of the Texas Playboys, Thrift Store Cowboys and Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, in a duo with Rod Picott, and has released four solo albums. |
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| 12/19/13 | Foliage | Foliage in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
https://soundcloud.com/ntowbinj
” Foliage is a recently formed band in Little Rock that combines the harmony and improvisational approach of modal jazz with the intensity and syncopated textures of drum ‘n bass and metal. “ |
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| 12/20/13 | Collin Vs. Adam w/ Iron Tongue | Collin Vs. Adam w/ Iron Tongue in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 10:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
https://www.facebook.com/Irontongue
Arkansas’s own Iron Tongue don’t just find that spot, they drive a rusty nail through it. Burly yet compassionate, gruff but honest, The Dogs… is a nuanced storm cloud of a record that just tears your fucking guts out, one song after the next. It’s no surprise that Iron Tongue confront the assailable emotions with such vehemence; the band is fronted by C.T. of Little Rock sludge commandos Rwake, whose ugly riff-heavy doom metal is a perfect mixture of musical grossness and personal resonance. One of the most notable differences between Rwake and Iron Tongue, though, is C.T.’s delivery, which forsakes the singer’s traditional raspy mountain-howl (fuck you, you come up with a name for that chilling noise) for a cigarette-scratched holler and wail that could turn a weathered porch into a concert hall and vice versa. The album is primarily a Southern rock record, but the organ trills and soulful female back-up vocals don’t feel too injected the way they sometimes do on songs by other contemporary bands looking to touch upon these time-honored sonic traditions (Hammers of Misfortune come to mind). |
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| 12/21/13 | SMOKE UP JOHNNY Reunion Show | SMOKE UP JOHNNY Reunion Show in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 10:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Smoke-Up-Johnny/76118963692
” Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day said they Proved to be The Urban Cowboys! “Smoke Up Johnny made hangovers worth it in 2007. No local band played later or louder or with more spit-in-your-face joy. Born in Levy of cigarettes, cheap beer and a mutual affection for bands like Cheap Trick and Thin Lizzy, the dudes in SUJ did plenty of punk-rock posturing onstage — bassist Matt Floyd could kick your ass with a cross-ways look — but if you dug a little deeper, you’d see them wearing their hearts on their sleeveless shirts. Their music is pure rock ‘n’ roll, an unmitigated blast of all that’s simple and holy about rock, and Alan Disaster’s night-moves lyrics of one-night stands and rich girls slumming on 12th Street made Smoke Up Johnny one of the most visceral, earnest and funny bands to come around in years. No album can capture the furor of their live show, but this one came close.” Lindsey Miller Arkansas Times |
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| 12/27/13 | The Big Cats! w/ Mulehead | The Big Cats! w/ Mulehead in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 6:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://thebigcats.bandcamp.com
www.maxrecordings.com/#/mulehead/4523955629 ” The longtime Little Rock band has a longstanding annual tradition of playing around Christmastime, when a good many Central Arkansas expats are back in town. Well, half of the band’s members live in Little Rock. Bassist Josh Bentley and singer/guitarist Burt Taggart reside in Arkansas, while drummer Colin Brooks (who plays with Dan Zanes & Friends) lives in New York and guitarist Jason White (who’s also a member of Green Day) lives in California. ” – The Arkansas Times |
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| 01/03/14 | Color Club w/ House Red & Llinda & Kitten Rippers | Color Club w/ House Red & Llinda & Kitten Rippers in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
| Time: 9:30pm. Admission: $5. Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205. Venue phone: (501) 375-8400. http://colorclub.bandcamp.com | ||||
| 01/09/14 | Whale Fire w/ Collin Vs. Adam & Bombay Harambee | Whale Fire w/ Collin Vs. Adam & Bombay Harambee in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 9:30pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://whalefiremusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/BombayHarambee Whale Fire is a dream pop band from Little Rock, AR trading in hazy, melodic pop tunes underpinned by reverb-heavy guitars and multi-part harmonies. The band features co-lead vocalists/guitarists John Steel and Clay Grubbs, with Matthew Steel providing backing vocals/bass guitar, and Will Vick handling drums/percussion. |
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| 01/23/14 | KABF 88.3 Community Radio Benefit Show | KABF 88.3 Community Radio Benefit Show in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
| Time: 9:00pm. Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205. Venue phone: (501) 375-8400. Dj RJ Looney hosts a night of several great local musicians performing the Rolling Stone’s LET IT BLEED record with all proceeds benefitting the voice of the people, 88.3 | ||||
| 02/07/14 | The Hudson Falcons | The Hudson Falcons in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 10:00pm.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
Born in the swamps of New Jersey, the Hudson Falcons are following a sound that can only be achieved by playing more than 1,200 shows from the Jersey Shore to Germany. The influences of the road have clearly found their way through the well-worn tires of the band van and into the Falcons’ music. More than ever, there are traces of South Texas and a little bit of heartland stomp mixing in with the New Jersey soul and swagger that has come to symbolize the Falcons and brought them a loyal following both in the United States and abroad. Cultivating a new, fuller sound that is as much Replacements as it is Ramones, the Falcons are, as always, ready to prove it all night—not just through your speakers but in the backrooms, basements, and bars of the open road. |
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| 02/28/14 | JIMBO MATHUS & TRI STATE COALITION RECORD RELEASE SHOW! | JIMBO MATHUS & TRI STATE COALITION RECORD RELEASE SHOW! in Little Rock, AR | The White Water Tavern | United States |
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Time: 10:00pm.
Admission: $10.
Address: 2500 West 7th Street 72205.
Venue phone: (501) 375-8400.
http://www.jimbomathus.com
The late Memphis producer Jim Dickinson once called Jimbo Mathus “the singing voice of Huck Finn.” Outside the South, Mathus is likely known as the ringleader of the hyper-ragtime outfit Squirrel Nut Zippers. In his native Mississippi and throughout the South, however, Mathus is the prolific songwriter of born‐in‐the‐ bone Southern music, the torchbearer for Deep South mythology and culture. Think Delta highways, bowling‐pin Budweisers and “catfish music” for the masses. Jimbo Mathus remains a rising-star powerhouse that feeds the soul. His latest band, The Tri-State Coalition, features solid talent cut from the same Delta cloth. Mathus describes Tri-State’s sound as “…a true Southern amalgam of blues, white country, soul and rock‐n roll. As Dickinson would say, ‘If you don’t like this, there is seriously something wrong with you.’” |
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