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Friday, October 31, 2008 - 16:18:31
Barack'n'roll
"Don't Lie to Me," pollsters.
The American Princes have donated a long time staple of their live shows, a cover of Big Star’s “Don’t Lie to Me,” to Barack Rock, a website aimed at raising awareness and funds for Obama. Download it here. It's good. Spot on.
In other Arkansas-connected free music news vaguely tied to the election, John Pugh's new band, Free Blood, has a banging new track for download on Rcrdlb. Pugh shout's out Obama in a creepy/cool OPEN SESAME-style whisper. Politics on the dance floor!
In other Arkansas-connected free music news vaguely tied to the election, John Pugh's new band, Free Blood, has a banging new track for download on Rcrdlb. Pugh shout's out Obama in a creepy/cool OPEN SESAME-style whisper. Politics on the dance floor!
Klosterman coming to UCA
Writer and God-to-hipsters Chuck Klosterman will be at UCA Nov. 18-19 to lecture on his "published works" and teach two master classes.
The reading and public talk will be Nov. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the ballroom of McCastlain Hall with a book signing after.
The reading and public talk will be Nov. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the ballroom of McCastlain Hall with a book signing after.
Because the ad world is just like Mad Men
Click the pic, by Drew Harris, to enlarge.
For all you would-be Don and Bettys out there, here's your yardstick. The folks at CJRW went all out today.
Pictured left to right: Brandi Hinkle (as Bobbi Barrett); Chance Woods (as Don Draper); Nicole Boddington (as Betty Draper); Nancy Trice (as Trudy Campbell); Caleb Olson (as Pete Campbell); Chuck Robertson (as Roger Sterling); seated (center), Trista McBroome (as Peggy Olson); and, seated (front), Vanessa Miles (as Joan Holloway.
Pictured left to right: Brandi Hinkle (as Bobbi Barrett); Chance Woods (as Don Draper); Nicole Boddington (as Betty Draper); Nancy Trice (as Trudy Campbell); Caleb Olson (as Pete Campbell); Chuck Robertson (as Roger Sterling); seated (center), Trista McBroome (as Peggy Olson); and, seated (front), Vanessa Miles (as Joan Holloway.
Hearse Love
Not seasonally appropriate, but you get the idea.
In case you missed it earlier in the week, here's a nice, Halloweeny piece from Ron Breeding at KUAR on Ace Spade and his "Sleds of Dread" hearse club.
Not mentioned: Ace's vanity plate says "Necro."
Not mentioned: Ace's vanity plate says "Necro."
Halloween mixes
Halloween Weekend: Everything
Benjamin Del Shreve.
FRIDAY 10/31
With Halloween falling on a weekend, there are an almost overwhelming number of things happening. If the River Market is your ticket, seven clubs — Deep, Flying Saucer, Gusano's, Revolution, Sticky Fingerz, Underground Pub, Willy D's — offer the opportunity to buy a wristband that allows entry to each. That includes local party band Tragikly White at Revolution, rising Fayetteville rocker Benjamin Del Shreve at Revolution, 9 p.m., and all sorts of DJs and costume contests.
Down the street, the Peabody hosts the “Boo Bash Rivertop Party” with a DJ, a light show and a costume contest with a $1,000 prize, 8 p.m., $10.
Fresh off the release of their sophomore album, the Damn Bullets play Juanita's, 10 p.m., $7-$10, with FreeVerse, who later headline at Midtown, 12:30 a.m., $5.
At West End, perhaps Arkansas's favorite cover band, the Gettys, performs, 9 p.m., $5.
Party DJ Chucky P hosts a get-down at Cajun's, where there's a $500 costume prize, 9 p.m., $5.
At Restaurant 1620, local jazz-funk stalwarts Rodney Block and the Real Music Lovers team with DJ Swift for a Halloween Masquerade, 9 p.m., $15-$20.
The local all-M.D. classic rock cover band the B-Flats plays the hits at the Afterthought, 8:30 p.m., $7.
At Cornerstone, the Argenta Community Development Corporation hosts a party with a costume contest and live music by First Impressions, 7 p.m., $10-$25.
With Halloween falling on a weekend, there are an almost overwhelming number of things happening. If the River Market is your ticket, seven clubs — Deep, Flying Saucer, Gusano's, Revolution, Sticky Fingerz, Underground Pub, Willy D's — offer the opportunity to buy a wristband that allows entry to each. That includes local party band Tragikly White at Revolution, rising Fayetteville rocker Benjamin Del Shreve at Revolution, 9 p.m., and all sorts of DJs and costume contests.
Down the street, the Peabody hosts the “Boo Bash Rivertop Party” with a DJ, a light show and a costume contest with a $1,000 prize, 8 p.m., $10.
Fresh off the release of their sophomore album, the Damn Bullets play Juanita's, 10 p.m., $7-$10, with FreeVerse, who later headline at Midtown, 12:30 a.m., $5.
At West End, perhaps Arkansas's favorite cover band, the Gettys, performs, 9 p.m., $5.
Party DJ Chucky P hosts a get-down at Cajun's, where there's a $500 costume prize, 9 p.m., $5.
At Restaurant 1620, local jazz-funk stalwarts Rodney Block and the Real Music Lovers team with DJ Swift for a Halloween Masquerade, 9 p.m., $15-$20.
The local all-M.D. classic rock cover band the B-Flats plays the hits at the Afterthought, 8:30 p.m., $7.
At Cornerstone, the Argenta Community Development Corporation hosts a party with a costume contest and live music by First Impressions, 7 p.m., $10-$25.
Halloween To-Do: ACAC Cover-Up
About to get serious: Das Gift.
ACAC HALLOWEEN COVER-UP
8 p.m., Vino's. $6-$7.
It's an annual tradition stretching back the last five years: A diverse slate of local acts tries to not just cover but fully impersonate iconic acts. This year, the featured locals seem particularly well-suited to the groups they're representing. Das Gift, an experimental three-piece that self-identifies with obscure genres like dark wave (a gloomier version of new wave) and steam punk (a fantasy movement that infuses elements of science fiction into the steam-powered 19th century), takes on Pink Floyd. Organizer Andy Burns reports that Das Gift has hired a string quartet, booked laser lights and plans to bring in a children's choir, presumably for “Another Brick in the Wall.” If that's not reason enough to go, perennial participant in the cover-up, Juggernaut Glitch, comes as the Roots; an ad hoc band, Speedo Slay, made up of members of That Thing That Always Explodes, the Chicklettes and Cinemahurt appear as Bikini Kill; and after regularly drawing comparison to the Clash, the Moving Front lends their aggro bite to the seminal punks' catalog. The costumed get a dollar off of admission.
UPDATE: The only part of the schedule that's set is that Das Gift will close the show. Vino's shuts down at midnight, so that should be sometime around 11 p.m.
8 p.m., Vino's. $6-$7.
It's an annual tradition stretching back the last five years: A diverse slate of local acts tries to not just cover but fully impersonate iconic acts. This year, the featured locals seem particularly well-suited to the groups they're representing. Das Gift, an experimental three-piece that self-identifies with obscure genres like dark wave (a gloomier version of new wave) and steam punk (a fantasy movement that infuses elements of science fiction into the steam-powered 19th century), takes on Pink Floyd. Organizer Andy Burns reports that Das Gift has hired a string quartet, booked laser lights and plans to bring in a children's choir, presumably for “Another Brick in the Wall.” If that's not reason enough to go, perennial participant in the cover-up, Juggernaut Glitch, comes as the Roots; an ad hoc band, Speedo Slay, made up of members of That Thing That Always Explodes, the Chicklettes and Cinemahurt appear as Bikini Kill; and after regularly drawing comparison to the Clash, the Moving Front lends their aggro bite to the seminal punks' catalog. The costumed get a dollar off of admission.
UPDATE: The only part of the schedule that's set is that Das Gift will close the show. Vino's shuts down at midnight, so that should be sometime around 11 p.m.
Thursday: The Uglysuit, Adam Carroll, Ted Ludwig and more
Halloween podcast
Halloween Coundtown: 'Monsterfest!'
Thursday To-Do: Ready the Jet
Thursday To-Do: Quintron and Miss Pussycat
Chicken walking
Arkansas Film Series brewing
Halloween Countdown: George Hamilton is Dracula
The Fonz
She talks with angels
Halloween Countdown: Ace Spade and the Whores of Babylon tonight
Saturday To-Do: Meshugga Klezmer Band
Saturday To-Do: Mud Run
The Weekend: Little Rock Culture Shock, Cool Shoes, Cory Branan and more
Halloween Countdown: Stan Lee is a Misfit
Friday To-Do: Fred Eaglesmith
Friday To-Do: Hawthorne Heights
Weekend To-Do: 'Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business'
Weekend To-Do: Big Cruisefest in the Rock
Thursday To-Do: Matt White
Afternoon waster: '30 Rock' a week early
The To-Do List Podcast, 10/23
Thursday: Ian Moore, La Catrina Quartet and more
He rapped, tapped
Spitting crickets
Wednesday: Sideshow bands, Jerry Springer and more
Cash, covered
David Gordon Green pulls ahead in the "semi-famous person with marginal ties to Arkansas" race on Rock Candy
Monday: Nathan Brown's going away show
Monday To-Do: Marsalis Brasilianos
Monday To-Do: Astral Project
Hit the Road: The Frank Stanford Literary Fest
Sunday To-Do: Junior Brown
Saturday To-Do: Violin Pyrotechnics
Saturday To-Do: The Cheetah Girls
Week To-Do: Hot Springs Documentary Film Fest
The quotable Korto
The Weekend: Smoke Up Johnny, Bleu Edmonson, Epiphany and loads more
Friday To-Do: Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears
Friday To-Do: 'Andy Warhol: 15 Weeks of Fame'
Friday To-Do: 'for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf'
Thursday: Matt Joyce as Elvis, Chase Pagan and more
Hear this
Up all night
Tune In: Dale Hawkins on AETN
Wednesday: Korto and Dirtfoot
Free Candy: Esau Mwamawaya is the Very Best, Lucinda Williams and Johnny Cash remixed
Still alive and coming to Alltel...
Reviewed: Arkansas Blues and Heritage Fest
Tuesday To-Do: 'Tales of the Crypt'
Sunday To-Do: Nikka Costa
Sunday To-Do: Gymnastics Superstars
Saturday To-Do: Natural State Expo and Green Home Show
Saturday To-Do: Race for the Cure
The Weekend: Arkansas Chamber Singers, the Damn Bullets, Ray Price and more
Friday To-Do: Rodney Carrington
Thursday To-Do: Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival
Thursday To-Do: Gringo Star
Thursday To-Do: The Four Tops / The Temptations
Tuesday To-Do: Toadies
Cash to buy
The Frank Stanford Literary Festival
Bware is not joking
Sunday To-Do: Gordon Lightfoot
The Weekend: Musicfest, School Boy Humor,
Friday To-Do: The Subteens / Smoke Up Johnny
Friday To-Do: Cirque de la Symphonie
Friday To-Do: Buckcherry
Friday To-Do: Dean Agus' Etch-a-Sketch Art
Friday To-Do: The Wet Party
Al Bell preaches
Stream your weekend
Thursday To-Do: Randy Rogers Band
Thursday: BLVD, Deas Vail and more
Wednesday: Pete Best Band
Spradlin and Campbell
Have lunch with Al Bell
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