It gets dimmer with each passing year, but rock ’n’ roll used to be dangerous. Led by the towering, slightly unhinged and indefatigable Danny Grace, there isn’t a band that recalls those antiquated visceral jolts more than Central Arkansas outfit The Frontier Circus.
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Everyone Asked About You announces new EP, ‘Never Leave’
The EP, which was recorded by Jason Weinheimer of Fellowship Hall Sound and mixed by North Carolina producer Alex Farrar, comes out on Aug. 5.
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Fox Green score hat trick with excellent third album, ‘Light Over Darkness’
Make no mistake, Fox Green isn’t treading water with this new work. The band, which includes UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson on guitar, is clearly comfortable being uncomfortable, never settling into one predictable sound.
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Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band at AMFA Thursday
A collaborator of Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter and countless other jazz stalwarts, Brian Blade has also played on records by Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Sarah McClaughlan and Norah Jones.
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The Libras and Dave Easely at White Water on Thursday
When he’s not behind the board at Fellowship Hall Sound, the studio he runs in Little Rock, producer Jason Weinheimer gets up to his own noisemaking in The Libras, a Wilco-esque folk pop outfit.
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Isaac Alexander is amazed by the monster he made
“Future Sanctuary,” Alexander’s new double album has its fair share of despondency, but the records are marked by a newfound willingness to think optimistically.
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Tennessee hearts Arkansas: Here’s the Arkansas programming at Nashville’s Americana Fest
At Americanafest’s Arkansas contingent this year: Greg Spradlin, Bonnie Montgomery, Willi Carlisle, Dylan Earl, Erin Enderlin, Larry McCray, Jason Weinheimer, Stephen Koch, David Starr, Shannon Wurst and more.
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Songwriter Jim Mize dead at 64 of heart complications
Jim Mize of Conway, Arkansas — a perpetually undersung songwriter and a longtime insurance claims adjustor whose work commutes often traced the wake of natural disaster — died today of heart complications, his family reports.
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Jason Weinheimer of The Libras on pandemic-era collaboration, being a reluctant frontman and “that Little Rock thing”
Weinheimer, along with bassist Chris Michaels and guitarist Charles Wyrick, will play a set on the front porch of Control Records in the Hillcrest area of Little Rock, 6 p.m. Thursday, March 4 for the neighborhood’s monthly Shop and Sip happy hour hang.