The roster of Arkansas-connected films includes “All Happy Families,” which stars Josh Radnor and was co-written by North Little Rock native Coburn Goss.
Rock Candy
Posted inRock Candy
Glenwood native director Clark Duke wraps second film
Described as a “comedic thriller in the vein of the Coen Brothers’s oeuvre” and “a Southern-fried siege, with shades of ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ and ‘Die Hard,’” the film stars Ashley Benson and Jake Lacey.
Posted inRock Candy
Songwriting legend Randy Goodrum to perform at Ron Robinson Theater on Saturday
What do England Dan & Jon Ford Coley’s “It’s Sad to Belong,” Anne Murray’s “You Needed Me,” Michael Johnson’s “Bluer Than Blue,” Steve Perry’s “Oh Sherrie,” Toto’s “I’ll Be Over You,” DeBarge’s “Who’s Holding Donna Now” and Jo Dee Messina’s “Lesson in Leavin’” have in common? They’re all written (or co-written) by Hot Springs native Randy Goodrum.
Posted inRock Candy
Ron Robinson Theater screens ‘Napoleon Dynamite,’ ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ ‘Pulp Fiction’ and more in August
“The Mask,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “Repo Man” are also among the August lineup.
Posted inRock Candy
Banzai Florist goes sincere on new single ‘punish’
Melancholic and meditative, “punish” sees singer-songwriter Harry Glaeser simplifying his melodies, taming his tendency to get quirky, and channeling the moody, percussive strums of artists like Hovvdy and Runnner.
Posted inRock Candy
7 artists from ‘Delta Triennial’ to speak at AMFA on Thursday
The artists include Kevin Demery, Christian Dinh, Anita Fields, Coulter Fussell, Letitia Huckaby, Jerry Phillips (who lives and works in Little Rock) and Andrew Scott Ross.
Posted inRock Candy
‘Secret doors and lost texts’: A Q&A with writer Jen Fawkes
Partway through “Daughters of Chaos,” Sylvie Swift ventures beneath the brothel where she’s been staying in Civil War-era Nashville and discovers that the prostitutes are up to something darkly mystical, foregoing sex work in favor of feminist rituals through which they subtly reprogram the violence-prone psyches of their clientele. That’s just one of the many forms of masquerading going on in Little Rock writer Jen Fawkes’ debut novel.
Posted inRock Candy
Three Dog Night at Robinson Center on Thursday
Three Dog Night may be touring with only one of its original members, but that won’t matter much when the opening chords to 1970 rock anthem “Joy to the World” peal out to the rafters at Robinson Center, forcing anyone within earshot to surrender to the singalong just as it has forced any kid named Jeremiah to be asked at least once by a wisecracking grownup whether or not he was, indeed, a bullfrog.
Posted inRock Candy
Melissa Carper’s new album ‘Borned in Ya’ is here
“Carper sounds so natural in each sonic corner of ‘Borned in Ya’ that trying to assign it a genre is a fool’s errand.” That’s No Depression’s take on the new solo album from Arkansas-connected crooner Melissa Carper, which came out today. It’s a sentiment that’s hard to disagree with.
Posted inRock Candy
Good Looks and Adam Faucett at White Water on Thursday
Mixing rollicking bar rock with jangly splashes of guitar sustain, Austin indie rock quartet Good Looks is going to fit right in at the White Water Tavern, but don’t let the good-natured jams fool you into neglecting the searching urgency of their lyrics.