Crowds gather to watch a band at last year's Block Street Block Party. This year's event takes place Sunday. Sunday isn’t often a big day for music. But not every weekend is the Block Street Block Party, either.
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Click here to view the embedded video. The song above is “New Blessings” by Messy Sparkles. Perhaps blessings are headed his direction after a magazine names him one of the Arkansas’ best acts. Paste magazine’s 50 State Project made a splash across my Facebook feed yesterday — it seem as if all of my musically inclined friends posted this link already.
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Click here to view the embedded video. Rockers Trapt tell you about being “Headstrong.” The group performs Thursday at George’s Majestic Lounge.
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Click here to view the embedded video. I’m picking up good vibes about the potential Walmart Shareholders’ roster I just compiled. Above, The Beach Boys play “Good Vibrations.” Are they coming to Fayetteville?
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Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. All photos by KEVIN KINDER, NWA Media. It would be nearly impossible for a crowd to appreciate Wilco any more thoroughly than the one assembled at the Arkansas Music Pavilion did
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Happy Cuatro de Mayo! That’s the fourth of May, for those of you interested. That leads us to the fifth of May, and the more popular Cinco de Mayo. Which leads us to a full weekend of music.
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Bret Michaels Exactly two months to the day that Bret Michaels was last in the area, he returns for a show at Neumeier’s Rib Room in Fort Smith. Michaels and his band were last here for the Kiss a Pig Gala, performing an abbreviated set to the gala crowd.
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Kid Cudi performing Sunday night at Barnhill Arena. All photos by KEVIN KINDER, NWA Media. Someone I follow on Twitter suggested there was an error in the billing of the Chip tha Ripper, Big Boi and Kid Cudi show at the University of Arkansas’ Barnhill Arena on Sunday (April 29) night. Big Boi, one half the rap giant (and ever-present soundtrack at clubs during my collegiate days) OutKast, was clearly the bigger deal than Kid Cudi, a relative newcomer to the scene, this person argued.
View PostThe Grace Potter concert scheduled for May 1 at the Rib Room in Fort Smith has been postponed. According to a post on the venue’s official Facebook page, the band had a “career-advancing opportunity” and will not make the originally scheduled date.
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Switchfoot lead singer Jon Foreman encourages the crowd. Photos courtesy BRIAN RICKARD. Just when I thought I had Switchfoot figured out — bright hooks, crisp guitar work and floppy hair — they went and did something different.
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