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Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 14:56:22
Showcase tees
Available tonight for the low-low price of $15.
Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase Rd. 1: The Running Back
The Running Back
Background: Lead singer/guitarist Alan Thomas formed the band in high school with his friend Jeffrey Humble, who plays pedal steel and "other off the wall" instruments. As students in Ouachita, they added players — Craig on guitar, Landon on bass and Vince on drums.
Sound like: Dreamy indie-pop. Music for the hoodie set to think about girls and boys to.
Where you'll find them: Coffeehouses and on campus. In the past, Juanita's once with the Damn Bullets and Rock 'n' Roar at the zoo opening for the Boondogs.
You can't say we discriminate: The Running Back have a "I Like Mike," button in support of Ouachita's most famous alum, on their MySpace.
Music:
"What We've Become"
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"Everything Really Just Stays the Same"
Background: Lead singer/guitarist Alan Thomas formed the band in high school with his friend Jeffrey Humble, who plays pedal steel and "other off the wall" instruments. As students in Ouachita, they added players — Craig on guitar, Landon on bass and Vince on drums.
Sound like: Dreamy indie-pop. Music for the hoodie set to think about girls and boys to.
Where you'll find them: Coffeehouses and on campus. In the past, Juanita's once with the Damn Bullets and Rock 'n' Roar at the zoo opening for the Boondogs.
You can't say we discriminate: The Running Back have a "I Like Mike," button in support of Ouachita's most famous alum, on their MySpace.
Music:
"What We've Become"
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"Everything Really Just Stays the Same"
Ark. Times Musicians Showcase Round 1: 607
Photo by Kat Wilson.
607 AKA Adrian Tillman
Who? C'mom, really? Surely, you know 607, the ubiquitous and prolific local rapper. Since the early aughts, no one, in any genre, has played more shows around town or released more albums. With his latest mixtape, "G for Go Getta," he's up to 29. Around town, even when he's not playing shows, he's a regular everywhere from swank clubs to barbershops in the hood, talking to people, always with his trusty graphite briefcase in tow (full of his latest CD).
The long game of sales: “I don’t tend to get girls’ phone numbers the first time I meet them. I see them and shake their hands and remember their names. The next time, I go up to them like I know them, and it’s much easier than trying to seal the deal the first time. It’s like that with everything. Some 40-plus, middle-aged white dude might be more prone to talk to me if he’s seen me a couple places.”
Anything you can do, I can do backwards: At early 607 shows, the rapper wowed audiences with "Palingraph," a long rhyme he'd do regularly and then go back through backwards. If you'll allow a little poetic license, it makes sense both ways. More.
To Russia, with love: After becoming frustrated without what he termed a "static" local market, 607 reduced a corporate model to scale and exported himself to "hip-hop starved" Russia twice last year. He's planning to continue overseas outreach with a trip to Australia in the spring.
Video love: "Cheat Wit," 607's latest foray into YouTube videoing.
Who? C'mom, really? Surely, you know 607, the ubiquitous and prolific local rapper. Since the early aughts, no one, in any genre, has played more shows around town or released more albums. With his latest mixtape, "G for Go Getta," he's up to 29. Around town, even when he's not playing shows, he's a regular everywhere from swank clubs to barbershops in the hood, talking to people, always with his trusty graphite briefcase in tow (full of his latest CD).
The long game of sales: “I don’t tend to get girls’ phone numbers the first time I meet them. I see them and shake their hands and remember their names. The next time, I go up to them like I know them, and it’s much easier than trying to seal the deal the first time. It’s like that with everything. Some 40-plus, middle-aged white dude might be more prone to talk to me if he’s seen me a couple places.”
Anything you can do, I can do backwards: At early 607 shows, the rapper wowed audiences with "Palingraph," a long rhyme he'd do regularly and then go back through backwards. If you'll allow a little poetic license, it makes sense both ways. More.
To Russia, with love: After becoming frustrated without what he termed a "static" local market, 607 reduced a corporate model to scale and exported himself to "hip-hop starved" Russia twice last year. He's planning to continue overseas outreach with a trip to Australia in the spring.
Video love: "Cheat Wit," 607's latest foray into YouTube videoing.
Ark. Times Musicians Showcase Round 1: Justin Bank
Photo by David Fowlkes.
Justin Bank
Background: "A computer will help you get good grades, but a guitar will get you great groupies," Bank's uncle told him when he was 15. Over the 20 year career that's followed, the singer/songwriter has played in Little Rock bands like SFZ, Free Love Virgins and the Royal Electric. In Colorado, he played with a roots rock band called the Beauregards.
Albums: A 1996 solo album called "Beauregard," named for a nickname Bank's grandfather gave him as a child and comprised of songs Bank wrote will living in New York and France. Coming up, a new album, half acoustic and half electric to be released through Upperworks.
Sounds like: Alt-country-tinged singer/songwriter material. "Wry observations on love, usually with tongue planted firmly in cheek," Bank says.
Showcase accompaniment: Nick Devlin, the acclaimed local guitarist.
Music:
"San Francisco"
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"Free of Me"
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Background: "A computer will help you get good grades, but a guitar will get you great groupies," Bank's uncle told him when he was 15. Over the 20 year career that's followed, the singer/songwriter has played in Little Rock bands like SFZ, Free Love Virgins and the Royal Electric. In Colorado, he played with a roots rock band called the Beauregards.
Albums: A 1996 solo album called "Beauregard," named for a nickname Bank's grandfather gave him as a child and comprised of songs Bank wrote will living in New York and France. Coming up, a new album, half acoustic and half electric to be released through Upperworks.
Sounds like: Alt-country-tinged singer/songwriter material. "Wry observations on love, usually with tongue planted firmly in cheek," Bank says.
Showcase accompaniment: Nick Devlin, the acclaimed local guitarist.
Music:
"San Francisco"
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"Free of Me"
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Ark. Times Musicians Showcase Round 1: Riverboat Crime
Riverboat Crime
Formed: March 2007
From: North Little Rock
Members: Josh Stoffer (vocals, guitar, piano, woolitzer), Adam Tompkins (drums, percussion), Wes Coker (bass).
Album: "Walking Shoes," the band's debut album was recorded at Blue Chair Studio with Jordan Trotter of Grand Serenade and Darian Stribling of Blue Chair Studio. It'll be out in Feb. or March.
Sounds like: The band says indie rock, garage blues and "a hint of alt-country," but a lot of songs lean more towards big, bright unironic pop-rock.
False start: The idea of Riverboat Crime started with a jam session between friends in 2005, but according to a press release, "time-restraints, alcohol, and substance abuse brought the project to a stand-still after only a month of rehearsals." The band came together in July 2007 after Stoffer booked a gig to help raise money after an automobile accident.
Where you'll find them: So far the band has kept to the north side of the river, playing Cornerstone and Reno's.
Music:
"You're Gonna Burn"
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"Attraction"
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Formed: March 2007
From: North Little Rock
Members: Josh Stoffer (vocals, guitar, piano, woolitzer), Adam Tompkins (drums, percussion), Wes Coker (bass).
Album: "Walking Shoes," the band's debut album was recorded at Blue Chair Studio with Jordan Trotter of Grand Serenade and Darian Stribling of Blue Chair Studio. It'll be out in Feb. or March.
Sounds like: The band says indie rock, garage blues and "a hint of alt-country," but a lot of songs lean more towards big, bright unironic pop-rock.
False start: The idea of Riverboat Crime started with a jam session between friends in 2005, but according to a press release, "time-restraints, alcohol, and substance abuse brought the project to a stand-still after only a month of rehearsals." The band came together in July 2007 after Stoffer booked a gig to help raise money after an automobile accident.
Where you'll find them: So far the band has kept to the north side of the river, playing Cornerstone and Reno's.
Music:
"You're Gonna Burn"
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"Attraction"
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 23:32:10
VH pics
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Brian Chilson got some nice shots from the show. 9,368 showed up.
How was it?
How was it?
g-force takes it up a notch
Always on the innovation tip, DJ g-force takes a break from music blends to twiddle the knobs on video. Video scratching, he calls it. Epileptics should probably sit this one out.
Meet the judges: Ben Jones
Meet the judges: Indy Grotto
Meet the judges: Razormack.com
The beginning
Tuesday To-Do: Jampire CD release
Record heads
Last weekend: You tell me
Flu Fighters
Trailer Gazing: 'Snow Angels'
Suzi Parker on 'Dr. Phil'
Friday To-Do: Christopher Denny and the Old Soles
Like being back in the womb
The night before last: Souljah Boy
Thursday To-Do: Flat-Top Tony
Robot sex
Heath Ledger is dead...
Tuesday To-Do: Goodman County and Bluesboy Jag
Souljah Boy: so famous people should intuit his performances
Monday To-Do: Thick Syrup presents
The Weekend: Moving Front, Whigs, etc.
607 "Cheat Wit" video
Canstruction
Friday To-Do: Doug McKean and the Stuntmen
Domination?
Last Night: Jason Isbell, Will Hoge and the 400 Unit
Friday To-Do: Ballet Arkansas
Jones "C.O.L.O.R.S"
Memphis!
Off key
Thursday To-Do: Al Sharpton
Free Candy: The Whigs
Showcase semi-finalists
Bzzz
Tuesday-Thursday To-Do: The Ten Tenors
Free Candy: Al Green!
Riverfest tidbit
Monday To-Do: Thick Syrup
Saturday To-Do: Trina / Plies
Saturday A.M. To-Do: Michael Feldman
Friday To-Do: 2nd Friday Art Night
The whitest rappers alive love Mike Huckabee
Fashion Saturday
Free Candy: Robé Flax "Cracks in the Stacks" mix
Free Candy: Rockst*r- Gettin' Cash feat. Sean West
Thursday To-Do: Boondogs / Meryll
Obligatory "Wire" post
Today's buzz
Serialized Brockmeier
Knuckfest
Friday To-Do: Kevin Kerby and Battery
Local access
Boondogs, YouTubed
The toe principle
How bout some branding
Wednesday To-Do: The Salty Dogs
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