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Posted by Becca Martin at 02:53 PM on August 30, 2007
George Strait, who had his 55th No. 1 single this year and was recently inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame, returned Thursday to the Country Music Association Awards with top nominations including entertainer and male vocalist of the...
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Posted by Becca Martin at 01:25 PM on August 17, 2007
Officials say some 40,000 people filled Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis Wednesday night into Thursday to mark the 30th anniversary of the passing of The King -- in temperatures that got up to 106! He may be gone, but he...
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Posted by Becca Martin at 01:23 PM on August 17, 2007
Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, who just played the Tontitown Grape Festival, received 12 nominations Thursday from the International Bluegrass Music Association, including entertainer of the year.Besides entertainer of the year, Vincent was nominated for vocal group, female vocalist, song...
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Posted by Becca Martin at 11:24 AM on August 12, 2007
It wasn't just me hooting and squealing for a band that's been playing together 32 years. Air Supply rocked the Arkansas Music Pavilion Saturday night — and a good time was had by all!...
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Posted by Becca Martin at 08:43 AM on August 08, 2007
Justin Timberlake and Beyonce led the pop parade of nominees for the MTV Video Music Awards with seven nods apiece, it was announced Tuesday.Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” was nominated for video of the year, as was Timberlake’s ambitiously cinematic “What Goes Around...
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Posted by Becca Martin at 03:07 PM on August 07, 2007
Country star Vince Gill singer and humorist Mel Tillis and radio/TV personality Ralph Emery will become the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, it was announced today.This year, the three newest members of the Hall of Fame...
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Posted by Becca Martin at 09:03 AM on July 23, 2007
I rarely go out to hear live music: The asthma hangover just isn't worth it. But George's Majestic Lounge is mostly nonsmoking now, and Blues in the Natural State was a wonderful evening. If you've never heard Willie "Big Eyes"...
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Posted by Becca Martin at 03:20 PM on July 16, 2007
Here’s a word of advice: If you don’t want to get a performer’s attention, don’t sit in an aisle seat. if that performer happens to be Weird Al Yankovic, it’s a good bet that the aisle seat combined with the...
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Posted by Becca Martin at 10:12 AM on June 29, 2007
In news that the Arkansas Music Pavilion once again neglected to tell us, Air Supply is coming to the AMP Aug. 11....
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Posted by Web Admin at 01:55 PM on May 24, 2007
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End sets sail tonight and will escape with a chest of box-office booty by week's end. It's opening at every Northwest Arkansas theater except the Malco Towne Center 12 in Rogers. (Malco, truth...
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Posted by Web Admin at 02:06 PM on May 10, 2007
Pick up the Friday edition of The Morning News (or visit www.nwaonline.net) for our preview of Towncraft, Matson Films' new feature-length documentary about Little Rock's punk and indie music scene.Dickson Theater will host a screening of the movie and a...
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Posted by at 01:19 PM on April 12, 2007
The 2007 Northwest Arkansas Music Awards ceremony is tonight, so it's time to run through this year's nominees. (Better late than never.) Check back on Friday to find out who won.Nominees and some observations on each category after the jump. ...
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Posted by at 02:19 PM on April 03, 2007
Finally.The best television show of the 1990s always deserved better. Artisan Entertainment released the first season of Twin Peaks on DVD in December 2001 — without the series' pilot episode. Fans who wanted the first episode had to settle for...
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Posted by at 01:12 PM on March 19, 2007
These Arms Are Snakes' show at Dickson Theater is the sure shot this week. The Seattle post-hardcore band will perform with Chicago's Maps & Atlases, Montana's 1090 Club and the new Fayetteville band The Counterlife. Admission is $8; doors open...
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Posted by at 01:39 PM on March 14, 2007
Eureka Springs Festival Director Sally Thackery announced today that Randy Newman will open the city's May Festival of the Arts with a concert at the The Auditorium. Tickets are $48 and are available at the venue's Web site or...
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Posted by at 11:33 AM on March 09, 2007
George's Majestic Lounge owner Brian Crowne announced today that he will prohibit smoking in the venue's lounge and garden starting Thursday, March 15. Smoking will still be allowed on the George's patio. George’s has been serving Fayetteville since 1927 and we’re...
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Posted by Becca Martin at 10:26 AM on February 28, 2007
It wasn't rock 'n' roll, but it might as well have been. When Kodo played the Walton Arts Center Tuesday night, the audience hollered and hooted and gave the Japanese drum troupe two five-minute standing ovations....
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Posted by at 01:44 PM on February 23, 2007
Split Lip Rayfield frontman Kirk Rundstrom on Thursday succumbed to esophageal cancer. He was 38.The band performed at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville last fall. Rundstrom at that time had recently returned to touring and was treating his cancer with...
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Posted by at 10:01 PM on February 22, 2007
As promised, here's the "mayhem" that broke out at Harding University last month......
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Posted by at 12:24 PM on February 19, 2007
National Public Radio's "All Songs Considered" music series is one of the better sources of "official bootlegs" on the Internet. This weekend, the network recorded one of The Arcade Fire's five concerts at the Judson Memorial Church in New York....
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Posted by at 01:58 PM on February 16, 2007
Frank Broyles' impending resignation retirement may provide all the entertainment you'll need this weekend, but here are a couple of other options for you, just in case...• Springfield's Big Smith makes another stop in Fayetteville. The jug band will play...
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Posted by at 02:24 PM on February 09, 2007
• The Tulsa alt-rock band The Hero Factor and Fayetteville's Wooden Stares will be at George's starting at 9:30 p.m.• Allman Brothers bassist and star of the jam-band circuit Oteil Burbridge returns to George's at 10 p.m. Saturday.• Singer-songwriter Pierce...
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Posted by at 02:11 PM on February 09, 2007
"The Fascist machine" has brought an end to basement shows at the corner of Douglas and Whitham.So say the residents of The Delicious on the house's MySpace page. The house in past months hosted concerts by local acts like Fire...
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Posted by at 03:15 PM on February 06, 2007
"Hip-hop violinist" Daniel Bernard Roumain and his band, The Mission SQ, will perform "A Civil Rights Reader," a suite of four string quartets, at the Walton Arts Center at 7 p.m. tonight. "A Civil Righs Reader" consists of four pieces...
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Posted by at 02:09 PM on February 01, 2007
Snow and ice have closed the University of Arkansas, but Morning News UA reporter Dan Craft says the John Mayer concert is still a go....
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Posted by at 11:50 AM on January 26, 2007
Pick of the week: Tel Aviv at The Gypsy, 9 p.m. Friday. Get your hands on a copy of the Fayetteville trio's new album, "Underwaters," more than three weeks in advance of its official release. ("Underwaters," released by Little Rock's...
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Posted by at 01:27 PM on January 23, 2007
• David's Pegasus (above), The Darksuits and Timber at The Delicious in Fayetteville at 8 p.m. Tuesday.• Unwed Sailor (above) and Benjamin Del Shreve at The Gypsy in Fayetteville at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. ...
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Posted by at 03:01 PM on January 22, 2007
• Albuquerque's The City Is the Tower at The Delicious in Fayetteville at 8 p.m.• The Randy Rogers Band (above) and Travis Kidd at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville at 9:30 p.m. (Listen to a sample of Randy Rogers' music...
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Posted by at 02:31 PM on January 05, 2007
The results of the 2006 Jackin' Pop Critics Poll (the unofficial successor to the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll) are now up on Gawker Media's music blog, Idolator. No surprises, really — TV on the Radio nabbed Best Album...
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Posted by at 02:46 PM on December 22, 2006
The best-of lists are pouring in, and they look remarkably similar: The Knife, TV on the Radio, Clipse, Joanna Newsom, The Hold Steady, Ghostface, etc. Here are a few links to some of the more popular 2006 recaps...• Drowned in...
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Posted by at 12:18 PM on December 15, 2006
• Solomon's Vine will celebrate the release of its new album, Heartbreak Radio, with a CD release party at The Gypsy in Fayetteville tonight at 9:30. Admission is $5; copies of the album will be available at the show and...
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Posted by at 01:20 PM on December 08, 2006
2006 is as good as over from the standpoint of album releases, so it's time for a look back at what's held my interest over the past 12 months......
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Posted by at 01:48 PM on December 07, 2006
Another great show from Philly's Dr. Dog last night. It's obvious that the band is a little baffled by its own popularity in Fayetteville — Scott McMicken sounded both amused and confused at the response from the crowd at George's....
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Posted by Becca Martin at 12:29 PM on December 07, 2006
Northwest Arkansas folk duo Trout Fishing in America received a Grammy nod for the third time today in the Best Musical Album For Children category. Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet’s live CD My Best Day, recorded at a concert...
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Posted by Becca Martin at 11:59 AM on December 07, 2006
Mary J. Blige, whose album “The Breakthrough” was perhaps the biggest in her career, was nominated for a leading eight Grammy Awards on Thursday, including R&B album, record and song of the year. The Red Hot Chili Peppers were also...
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Posted by at 02:42 PM on December 05, 2006
• K Records artist Phil Elverum (above) — better known as Mount Eerie or The Microphones — and fellow lo-fi musician Adrian Orange will perform at The Delicious at 8 p.m. today. Suggested donation is $5.• Thirteen Dickson Street mainstays,...
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Posted by at 10:57 AM on December 04, 2006
• I missed the C.J. Boyd Sexxxtet the last time they were in Fayetteville, but I did hear good things about their show. If Boyd's solo work is anything like his stuff with the Sexxxtet (which features a strings, horns,...
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Posted by at 11:17 AM on December 01, 2006
Matson Films is putting the finishing touches on “Towncraft,” a feature-length documentary about Little Rock’s underground rock scene. (Watch the trailer here.) The movie and its 40-band soundtrack won’t be ready until next spring, but its creators this week unveiled...
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Posted by at 11:00 AM on November 21, 2006
• Robert Altman dead at the age of 81.• Chris Denny at The Gypsy tonight. 9:30 p.m....
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Posted by at 02:08 PM on November 20, 2006
• A slew of local bands including Deadbird (above), Blood Eagle, Wooden Stares, Brighter Later, Benjamin Del Shreve, Sandy, The Bling Grenades and Toula will play a benefit concert at the Gypsy starting at 8 p.m. Proceeds will go toward...
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Posted by at 04:17 PM on November 17, 2006
In case you haven't heard yet, John Mayer will play at Barnhill Arena on Feb. 1. Tickets go on sale through the Local 83 fan club on Nov. 24; general ticket sales start on Dec. 1. Josh Rouse will open.Mayer's...
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Posted by at 02:05 PM on November 17, 2006
FRIDAY • Emo veterans Brandtson (above) will share a stage with Lovedrug, The Myriad and Marca at The Music Hall at 8 p.m.• Roger Hoover & the Whiskeyhounds perform at The Gypsy at 9:30 p.m....
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Posted by at 03:14 PM on November 16, 2006
• The East Village Opera Company will perform its modern arrangements of Puccini and Mozart at the Walton Arts Center at 8 p.m. today.• The Little Rock hip-hop supergroup Conduit Family performs with Blood Eagle and Holy Ghost Children at...
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Posted by at 11:36 AM on November 16, 2006
Winners in bold italics. ARTIST OF THE YEARThe Eoff BrothersHunkr DownMountain of VenusPhase OneNEW BAND OF THE YEARChilly MoonEarly Morning Bourbon GirlsThe Eoff BrothersStorm the CastleTrue Folk...
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Posted by at 11:31 AM on November 13, 2006
• Bentonville's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art partnered with the National Gallery of Art this weekend to purchase Thomas Eakins' 1875 painting "The Gross Clinic." The $68 million price tag is a record for a pre-World War II American...
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Posted by at 12:58 PM on November 10, 2006
• Did you hear? Burt Reynolds' college roommate is coming to Fayetteville! (Apparently there's some game going on, too...I'll get back to you on that.)But not so fast, my friends! There's other stuff going on in Northwest Arkansas this weekend....
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Posted by at 01:09 PM on November 09, 2006
George's Majestic Lounge will host the 2006 Ozark Music Awards ceremony at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Jacob Enwood, Big'uns, The Bob Kramer Incident, Brad Durham, Brian Odle & the Dealers and Mountain of Venus are all slated to perform.The following are...
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Posted by at 01:51 PM on October 25, 2006
• Kurt Cobain beats out Elvis for the No. 1 spot on Forbes.com's list of "Top-Earning Dead Celebrities."• "Revolution Rock: The Story of The Clash" opens at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.TONIGHT • Middlepicker, a poppy punk...
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Posted by at 02:45 PM on October 24, 2006
• Runaways drummer Sandy West (second from right) dies at 47.• Out today: Albums from Bright Eyes, Euros Childs, The Curtains, John Legend, My Chemical Romance, Ordinary Boys, Sparta and The Walkmen; An American Haunting, Monster House, Nacho Libre and...
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Posted by at 02:24 PM on October 23, 2006
• "Father Knows Best" actress Jane Wyatt dies.• The Prestige debuts at #1; Flags of Our Fathers comes in third.TONIGHT • John Krane, Stellar's Jay (pictured) and Tomorrow the Gallows (maybe...it's a little unclear at this point) at tonight's "Goodbye Blue...
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Posted by at 12:05 PM on October 20, 2006
• Did I miss anything last night? Surely it couldn't have been any better or more important than this.• I've mentioned National Public Radio's concert series in my "Listen Here" column. NPR this month has added a few good ones,...
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Posted by at 03:31 PM on October 19, 2006
Apologies for no post yesterday and such a late one today. Look for a podcast soon (if it isn't up already).IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS...Bordino's: Gus & Matt Smith, 9 p.m.Foghorn's: Jeff Fox, 7 p.m.George's Majestic Lounge: Wrought, 9:30 p.m.The Green Door:...
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Posted by at 11:47 AM on October 17, 2006
WATER COOLER TALK...• Snipes sniped by IRS. (How many times will we see variations of this headline over the next 24 hours?)• "The music industry" files more suits against file-sharers in another desperate attempt to stop the bleeding. Key sentence: Legal...
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Posted by at 10:13 AM on October 16, 2006
WATER COOLER TALK...• It's official: CBGB closes.• The Grudge 2 takes the top weekend spot with $22 million.• "Bebop Kid" Freddy Fender died Saturday.Live music options after the jump... ...
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Posted by at 11:55 AM on October 13, 2006
LAST NIGHT...• The Paper Hearts delivered another knockout performance and promply crawled back into their hole. (They're going back on hiatus after returning for a handful of shows this summer.) Expect the Early Morning Bourbon Girls to pick up the...
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Posted by at 11:15 AM on October 12, 2006
WATER COOLER TALK... • Last night: Lost pours salt on the wounds of Cardinals fans everywhere.• Roger Ebert's getting his thumb ready for Oscar season.• Break out This Nation's Saving Grace and celebrate John Peel Day 2006. Live music after...
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