Friday, November 20, 2009 - 17:00:07
Stream/download: Love Ghost
He's angling to be the most prolific man in Little Rock music. Jason Weinheimer's just unveiled Love Ghost, his new solo project. He recorded it in the fall with Will Boyd engineering and Tulsa's Eric Amdt on bass, New Orleans' pedal steel whiz Dave Easley, Green Day's Jeff Matika on guitar and the Boondogs' Dylan Turner on drums. Earlier this week, Weinheimer mastered it in New York, and today you can stream it for free or download it (in just about any format) for $8. Hey technology!
It'll come out in physical form on Max Recordings soon. Love Ghost debuts in Little Rock at White Water next Saturday, November 28.
I just started listening, but on first brush, it sounds awesomely pop-y. Digging Weinheimer and Matika's harmonies. And Easley's pedal steeling.
Disappointed, though, that Weinheimer didn't take my suggestion and call the album "Succubus" or better yet "Succubus?"
It'll come out in physical form on Max Recordings soon. Love Ghost debuts in Little Rock at White Water next Saturday, November 28.
I just started listening, but on first brush, it sounds awesomely pop-y. Digging Weinheimer and Matika's harmonies. And Easley's pedal steeling.
Disappointed, though, that Weinheimer didn't take my suggestion and call the album "Succubus" or better yet "Succubus?"
Enter the 2010 Musicians Showcase online
It's that time again.
We've finalized the schedule of the annual Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase. It'll kick off on January 28 at Sticky Fingerz and continue at the club through the next three or four Thursdays. Then the finals shift to Revolution on Friday, March 5.
As usual, the contest is open to any act in Arkansas who specializes in original material.
Each week, four acts square off before five judges (four regular judges and one weekly guest judge). The winner moves on to the finals.
The entry deadline is Friday, January 8. Uploading band info and mp3s of your material online here is the easiest method. We'll also be running an entry form in the paper, beginning next week, for several weeks. So you can fill out that form and mail it and a CD in, too.
Holler at me with questions at lindsey AT artkimes.com.
We've finalized the schedule of the annual Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase. It'll kick off on January 28 at Sticky Fingerz and continue at the club through the next three or four Thursdays. Then the finals shift to Revolution on Friday, March 5.
As usual, the contest is open to any act in Arkansas who specializes in original material.
Each week, four acts square off before five judges (four regular judges and one weekly guest judge). The winner moves on to the finals.
The entry deadline is Friday, January 8. Uploading band info and mp3s of your material online here is the easiest method. We'll also be running an entry form in the paper, beginning next week, for several weeks. So you can fill out that form and mail it and a CD in, too.
Holler at me with questions at lindsey AT artkimes.com.
Sunday To-Do: Insane Clown Posse
INSANE CLOWN POSSE
7 p.m., The Village. $22.
Reason number 376 that the apocalypse is drawing nigh: Insane Clown Posse, the Detroit rap duo famous for painting their faces like evil clowns, carrying the torch for horrorcore (dark, largely horrifying subject matter) and spraying Faygo soda on its fans at concerts, pulls in up to $10 million annually. That spit-your-coffee-out-mid-sentence revelation comes courtesy of a recent Detroit Free Press article released not long after “Bang! Pow! Boom!,” the group's 11th album, peaked at number four on the Billboard 200. The report details the rap duo's empire — an artist-owned label, an annual festival that draws up to 20,000 fans, wrestling exhibitions, comic books, features films, a twice weekly Web radio show — without examining the most provocative part of it. Who's buying all this shit? Or rather who are the thousands of ICP fans who call themselves Juggalos and Juggalettes, rap/sing along to bad lyrics mostly about behaving badly, paint their faces and occupy a disturbing chunk of online real estate? Your guess is as good as mine, but I bet they fill up the Village.
Saturday To-Do: Arkansas vs. Mississippi State
ARKANSAS VS. MISSISSIPPI STATE
11:21 a.m., War Memorial Stadium. $45.
Things are looking up in Hogland. Our quarterback is obliterating school passing records. Our defense isn't terrible. And most importantly, we're bowl-eligible for the first time under Petrino (see a fuller analysis in Sooie, page 34). But contentment is not something that comes easy to Razorback fans. Ryan Mallet needs a 500-yard five-touchdown game (why wait until next season to mount a Heisman campaign?). Our defense needs to go one game without giving up a big play. And lest we end up in the Papajohns.com or whatever-the-hell bowl, we need to win these next two games. You can do your part by tailgating when the sun comes up and hollering louder than a cowbell. The game's sold out, but that never stopped anyone who really wanted to go. After all, the Cotton Bowl's calling.
11:21 a.m., War Memorial Stadium. $45.
Things are looking up in Hogland. Our quarterback is obliterating school passing records. Our defense isn't terrible. And most importantly, we're bowl-eligible for the first time under Petrino (see a fuller analysis in Sooie, page 34). But contentment is not something that comes easy to Razorback fans. Ryan Mallet needs a 500-yard five-touchdown game (why wait until next season to mount a Heisman campaign?). Our defense needs to go one game without giving up a big play. And lest we end up in the Papajohns.com or whatever-the-hell bowl, we need to win these next two games. You can do your part by tailgating when the sun comes up and hollering louder than a cowbell. The game's sold out, but that never stopped anyone who really wanted to go. After all, the Cotton Bowl's calling.
Saturday To-Do: Pat Green
PAT GREEN
9 p.m., Revolution. $25 adv., $30 d.o.s.
Texan Pat Green spent the late ‘90s touring relentlessly and self-releasing albums, building up a strong regional fan base and selling more than 200,000 albums without major-label support. With a sound somewhere in between that of home-state heroes Robert Earl Keen and Jerry Jeff Walker and the arena pop of bands like Hootie and the Blowfish, Green became a juggernaut in the college scene. When he signed to Universal in 2001, he appeared to be on the road to superstardom. Five albums and eight years later, he's still dancing between regional and national success, but in these parts, he's unquestionably a big deal. And on Razorback gameday, shew, better get your tickets early.
9 p.m., Revolution. $25 adv., $30 d.o.s.
Texan Pat Green spent the late ‘90s touring relentlessly and self-releasing albums, building up a strong regional fan base and selling more than 200,000 albums without major-label support. With a sound somewhere in between that of home-state heroes Robert Earl Keen and Jerry Jeff Walker and the arena pop of bands like Hootie and the Blowfish, Green became a juggernaut in the college scene. When he signed to Universal in 2001, he appeared to be on the road to superstardom. Five albums and eight years later, he's still dancing between regional and national success, but in these parts, he's unquestionably a big deal. And on Razorback gameday, shew, better get your tickets early.
Saturday To-Do: Discovery 30th Anniversary
DISCO TURNS 30
9 p.m., Discovery. $10.
G-force is in the lobby. Michael Shane mans the disco. They'll both do throwback sets that start in the 70s and end in our era in the wee hours. They'll be throwback drink prices until midnight, too.
Check out Robert Bell's story on the club from this week's issue:
Norman Jones has owned the nightclub Discovery since 1979. So far, the venue has weathered six presidential administrations, four recessions, several remodelings and countless trends in dance music. In that span, Discovery has morphed from a small space that served a mostly gay clientele into a 22,000-square-foot late-night behemoth, where remarkably diverse crowds dance and drink till dawn.
But at age 63-and-change, Jones isn't merely pondering retirement when he turns 65.
“I am counting down the days until I can retire,” he said. “I've worked my ass off for 30-something years and I think after that you deserve to retire and take a lower profile in your business — if it's still my business. Of course, anything I've got is for sale to the right person at the right price.”
9 p.m., Discovery. $10.
G-force is in the lobby. Michael Shane mans the disco. They'll both do throwback sets that start in the 70s and end in our era in the wee hours. They'll be throwback drink prices until midnight, too.
Check out Robert Bell's story on the club from this week's issue:
Norman Jones has owned the nightclub Discovery since 1979. So far, the venue has weathered six presidential administrations, four recessions, several remodelings and countless trends in dance music. In that span, Discovery has morphed from a small space that served a mostly gay clientele into a 22,000-square-foot late-night behemoth, where remarkably diverse crowds dance and drink till dawn.
But at age 63-and-change, Jones isn't merely pondering retirement when he turns 65.
“I am counting down the days until I can retire,” he said. “I've worked my ass off for 30-something years and I think after that you deserve to retire and take a lower profile in your business — if it's still my business. Of course, anything I've got is for sale to the right person at the right price.”
Saturday To-Do: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND
9 p.m., Sticky Fingerz. $15.
The Crescent City is known for harvesting its own flavor of swamp-boogie funk, voodoo blues and traditional Dixieland jazz roots. But combine those three and the result is truly original. Dirty Dozen Brass Band is gonna inject a shot of groove straight into a venue and turn it into a rump-shaking festival, especially combined with the post-Hog crowd certain to be in the area. Even though there are only nine members in its lineup, the band sounds like a full-bore marching platoon from the moment it launches into the opening number, which often is the title track to its 1984 debut album “My Feet Can't Fail Me Now.” Established in 1977, DDBB has been a guiding influence on New Orleans brass acts since. If you want three decades of culture, history and badass Big Easy sounds rolled up and twisted tight, make plans for this one. Longtime local favorites Freeverse set the mood in the opening slot. Be there.
9 p.m., Sticky Fingerz. $15.
The Crescent City is known for harvesting its own flavor of swamp-boogie funk, voodoo blues and traditional Dixieland jazz roots. But combine those three and the result is truly original. Dirty Dozen Brass Band is gonna inject a shot of groove straight into a venue and turn it into a rump-shaking festival, especially combined with the post-Hog crowd certain to be in the area. Even though there are only nine members in its lineup, the band sounds like a full-bore marching platoon from the moment it launches into the opening number, which often is the title track to its 1984 debut album “My Feet Can't Fail Me Now.” Established in 1977, DDBB has been a guiding influence on New Orleans brass acts since. If you want three decades of culture, history and badass Big Easy sounds rolled up and twisted tight, make plans for this one. Longtime local favorites Freeverse set the mood in the opening slot. Be there.
Thursday To-Do: Steve Kimock Crazy Engine
Thursday: Mickey and the Motorcars, Ted Ludwig Trio, Travis Linville, Willie Heath Neal and more
Thursday To-Do: Holiday Celebration on Ice
Times slipping by: Vote in Toast of the Town
Wednesday: Monte Montgomery, Divas and Dudes, Lucious Spiller Band
Wednesday To-Do: Celtic Thunder
Tuesday: Mickey Avalon, Chooglin, etc.
Review: Kris Allen's debut
Crystal Bridges commissions Dombek
Robert Palmer back in the New York Times
Last Weekend: Dane Cook
Last Weekend: Billy Joe Shaver
Monday To-Do: AA Bondy / Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Sunday To-Do: Bishop Allen
Sunday To-Do: Revival Tour
Saturday To-Do: Chris Michaels and the Cranks
Saturday To-Do: Young Dro / Huey
Weekend To-Do: 'Five Days of Giving'
The Weekend: Shiprocked!, Spinning Jenny, Runaway Planet, The See, Magic Hassle and more
Friday To-Do: Billy Joe Shaver
Friday To-Do: Dane Cook
Free Candy: Lucero, loving 'Love and Rockets'
Suga City gets 'Call of Duty'
Kris Allen, digested
Thursday: Charlaine Harris, Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights, joshua and more
Guitar nerds, rejoice, Pedal Talk is here!
The Night Before Last: deadmau5
Palmer anthologized in 'Blues & Chaos'
607 wants to know where the weird girls at
Thursday To-Do: 'Warrior Champions'
Weekend To-Do: National Black Storytelling Festival
Dwight David Honeycutt has the biggest dreams and strongest hands in this g-d state!
Clark Duke, soon to own stoner comic nerd demographic
Jay Russell gets "Sole"
Tuesday: Joe Buck, Austin Lucas, Dead Sea Choir
Tuesday To-Do: Deadmau5
Last night: Royal Bangs
Kris Allen's debut video set in really windy post-apocalypse
Sunday To-Do: Trevor Hall
Sunday To-Do: Royal Bangs
Saturday To-Do: 'Beethoven's Fifth'
The Weekend: Hank III, Venus Mission, Kevin Kerby, San Antokyo, Jagged Edge, The Dempseys and more
Friday To-Do: 'A Dark, Dark House'
Charles Wyrick stages a cock fight between Elizabeth Bishop and Ludacris
Thursday: Adam Faucett, Matt Joyce, Mandy McBryde, more
Beth Ditto talks fashion
Last Night: The Meat Puppets
Weekend To-Do: Ozark Folk Festival
Thursday To-Do: Tech 9ne
Thursday To-Do: Dirt Daubers
Wednesday To-Do: Meat Puppets
Tuesday To-Do: 'Little House on the Prairie'
Tuesday To-Do: King's Singers
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