THURSDAY 1/19
Gospel blues rocker Sean Michel plays Stickyz with Noah James and Annalisa Nutt, all-ages, 8 p.m., $6 for 21-and-older, $8 for 20 and younger. David Kimbrough Jr. and Lucious Spiller (see also: Saturday To-Dos) play White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $7. Party band extraordinaire Tragikly White plays at West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $5.
FRIDAY 1/20
For a night of electro pop, Dylan & The Zoo Crew headline at Triniti Nightclub, midnight, $10. Over at Vino’s, you can check out the next wave of up-and-coming local bands, with The Tricks, Swampbird and Ezra Lbs, 8 p.m., $8. Velvet Kente — the standard-bearers for soulful, intense rock — play White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $7. At ZaZa’s Conway location, psych-blues duo Tyrannosaurus Chicken plays a free show, 9 p.m. The band also plays White Water Tavern Saturday night. Get a taste of what’s to come at this year’s Wakarusa with the Waka Winter Classic, an 18-and-older show at Stickyz, with Culpepper Mountain Band, Ben Franks & The Bible Belt Boys, Chillyrose, Starroy and War Chief, 9 p.m. Reproductive Justice and Human Rights is an interactive workshop featuring Loretta Ross of SisterSong, Philander Smith College, 7 p.m. The Harlem Globetrotters bounce into Verizon Arena, 7 p.m., $22-$109. Down in Hot Springs, Maxine’s hosts Pearl Street Riot and Central Arkansas’s finest purveyors of psyche-garage-country mania, The Frontier Circus, 8 p.m., $5. Also in Spa City, you can catch a screening of the documentary “The Natural State of America,” about Carroll Electric’s use of toxic herbicides. Includes a Q&A with the filmmakers, Central Theatre, 7 p.m., $5.
SATURDAY 1/21
There will be a Rally for Reproductive Justice at the State Capitol, 1 p.m. Butterfly with Irie Soul bring some New Orleans sounds to The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. Singer/songwriter, road warrior and acoustic guitar shredder Eric Sommer returns to Midtown, 12:30 a.m., $5. Attn: ladies, The Chippendales Cuff ‘N’ Collar Tour is at Discovery Nightclub, 9 p.m., $22.50 adv., $25 door. Also at Discovery are DJs Brandon Peck, Ewell and Andy Sadler and performers Dominique Whitney and Zia D’Yor. Up in Mountain Home, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives play the Arkansas State University campus, 7 p.m., $20-$30. T. Jay with Livesosa, DJ J$outh, Reverse and The Real Deal are all at Vino’s, 9 p.m., $8. The Diamond Dames Burly-Q Revue hosts dancers from Memphis and Hot Springs with local comedian Amy Pannell serving as emcee at Juanita’s, 18-and-older, 9:30 p.m., $10.