■ inbrief THURSDAY 6/3
n Memphis nu-metal outfit Saliva makes up a canceled Little Rock gig at Revolution; local acts Iron Tongue and Afternoon Delight open, 7:30 p.m., $15 adv., $20 d.o.s. Cajun’s Wharf gets Some Guy Named Robb for the happy hour detail, 6 p.m., and Eoff Brothers for the later crowd, 9:30 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. J-One Productions’ “In Too Deep” party returns yet again to Deep Ultra Lounge, 9 p.m. In Hillcrest, this month’s Shop and Sip offers up browsing, buying and boozing, 5 p.m.; afterwards, the Little Rock Jazz Quintet plays their weekly engagement at Ferneau, 8 p.m.
FRIDAY 6/4
IN BETWEEN A DAYDREAM AND AN ANXIETY ATTACK: Woven Bones. balanced on your head, chance nothing, you are a god. Bow down, blues geeks. LM.
M O N D AY 6 / 7
SPLIT LIP RAYFIELD
9 p.m., Juanita’s. $10 adv., $12 d.o.s.
n Like a lot of thrash-grass bands, these guys are an affair straight from Dr. Frankenstein’s jam room. Finetuned vocal cords from the Grand Old Opry, wild hair from CBGBs and flying fingers straight from the Sunset Strip. Their signature sound: fast, faster, rub some twang up in it, do it again. Sure, the guys have mellowed a bit since their beginnings in 1998, now taking their shot glass of moonshine technique back to a sloe gin fizz sway, but their innate, rural goofiness is still in the strings. They’re coming off of a weekend’s worth of daily Wakarusa gigs, so it’s safe to expect spirits to be, well, high. Arkansas bluegrass fixtures The Crumbs — self-described as “drunkbilly, nastygrass”—kick off the night with their pure-grain, woodsy rumblings. JT.
anxiety attack: surreal and weightless pop with a lingering sense of dread. (Albeit an exciting, kind-of-sexy sense of dread.) Their skeletal take on vitriolic fuzzpop is meant to convey a vibe moreso than share a melody (they’re too cool for melody) but, the songs, all mumbled and nasally, manage to slink off to a corner of your head and stick there. Yet what separates this band from the recent critical mass of other lo-fi garage revivalists is that these guys sprang to relative fame from the lean jangle of a handful of songs released on fewer small-run 7” records than you can count on one hand. Now, with a proper full-length to hustle, they’re back in town, again with local indie-throwback outfit Magic Hassle. JT.
W E D N E S D AY 6 / 9
MOVIES IN THE PARK: ‘BACK TO THE FUTURE’ Sundown, Riverfront Park. Free.
n After being rained out not once, but
two years in a row, it was apparent that God’s attentions were squarely focused on keeping Little Rock at bay from the apotheosis of teenage rebellion, Chicago’s false idol himself, “Ferris Bueller.” But it was OK. Ferris, Cameron and Sloane were slated to kick off the 2010 Movies in the Park series. But the Lord works in mysterious ways. He decided another rainstorm would be predictable, so He tried his hand at distribution laws — and it worked, leaving our town Ferris-less yet another year. Call it density — I mean, destiny — but another mid-’80s classic has taken its place — another note-perfect, infinitely rewatchable movie centered around teenage recklessness and a bitchin’ car: “Back to the Future.” It’s the epitome of crowd pleaser, literally with something for everyone. Have you ever met someone who doesn’t like “Back to the Future”? I haven’t. So make like a tree and get out of your house Wednesday night. This is one of the greats, meant to be seen projected in front of a crowd. It’s free, it’s temperate and it’s BYOB for those of age. JT.
T U E S D AY 6 / 8
WOVEN BONES
9:30 p.m., White Water Tavern. Donations.
n Austin’s new blog-darling has treated Little Rock to a handful of house shows in the last few months, summoning the snotty, garage waggle of The Cramps through layers upon layers of vertigoinducing reverb. It’s a sound that exists somewhere between a daydream and an
n Celebrated singer-songwriter and jam fest favorite Bob Schneider plays Juanita’s with co-ed pop act Smile Smile, 10 p.m., $15 adv., $20 d.o.s. Conway’s Soundstage gets a great metal lineup with local favorites Pallbearer, prog-dosed Still Reign and Vilonia thrash act The Curse Follows supporting for the kickoff show for Fire to Reason’s summer tour, 8 p.m., $6. After a week’s hiatus for Riverfest, the weekly Rivertop Party at the Peabody is back with emcee extraordinaire Epiphany and omnipresent DJ g-force, 8 p.m., $5. Local country act Ryan Couron is still CMT-ready; he’s taking his act (and his gear truck with his face on the side) to Fox and Hound, 10 p.m., $5. In Hot Springs, Low Key Arts shows cult-classic action flick “Point Blank” alongside art inspired by the movie, 7:30 p.m. Lollipop Shoppe bakes together glam, hard rock and prog in a decidedly odd, curiously catchy recipe; they’re at Vino’s, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY 6/5
n Expect a crowd at White Water Tavern when local favorites Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth play with throwback country act, Nashville’s The Avery Set, 9:30 p.m. Texas country hero Pat Green plays Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater in Hot Springs with the soul-infused Western music of Randy Houser and the summery sound of Mark McKinney, 8 p.m., $5-$10. Flying Saucer hosts the dense, melodic bluegrass tunes of The Crumbs, 9 p.m. ACAC invites local competitive video gamers to test their button-mashing skills for their Little Rock Multitap Game Night, 6:30 p.m., $5. For the club contingency, Discovery brings in DJs Michael Shane and Brandon Peck to spin in the disco and lobby, respectively, 9 p.m., $10.
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