VINO’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
7 p.m., Vino’s. $5.
For me, it’s about driving two hours up I-30 to see Soophie Nun Squad in ’99. Or maybe the night I saw half of a Braid show before an unamused manager taught me the Get Out Shuffle through a side door after I started a bar tab with a bankcard (real, mine) and an Alabama i.d. (real, definitely not mine).
You can ask anyone who grew up spending weekends at Vino’s: It’s easy to get nostalgic about Seventh and Chester. There’s a heavy-duty patina of stories — both good and habitually dumbassed — on those hardwood floors.
And the role of the back room in our colorful local music history can’t be overstated. For that matter, it can’t be summarized in this space, either. We’ll just say that the tar-black stage has held both the earliest and final steps of almost every band to define the “Little Rock sound,” not to mention a string of legendary shows still notorious in local lore (like Fugazi and Green Day, both in ’91).