Rock Candy

Friday gets here, and suddenly Little Rock has so much to do, some of us can’t make up our minds.

Billy Currington’s show at Electric Cowboy has cancelled, but AmyB’s got a bucketload (or a Trainwreck) of information on what you CAN do tonight at clubs and hearing other music, after the jump:

I’m excited about seeing this Celtic Woman show tonight. Yeah, I know to some of you that might seem like saying I’m looking forward to Riverdance.

Wish we could get them in Little Rock. Somehow, despite evidence that shows Little Rock is outdrawing Memphis regularly in rock shows, the Strokes will play the Orpheum, and it’s only about a two-hour drive anyway, so why not?

Patrick Beverly, a high school phenom who according to his coach shot 55 percent from beyond the 3-point line during his completed senior season for Chicago Marshall High School, has signed with the Razorbacks, giving Stan Heath and the Hogs that much-needed outside bomber.

Amy Brawner checks in with Wednesday’s what-to-do in the club music scene, after the jump:

The Juanita’s crowd danced hard and dripped sweat on the (pleasantly) not-too crowded dance floor last night as one of the best live funk and jam acts this or the other side of the river, New Orleans’ Galactic, got us all moving right from the very first set.

Bruce Springsteen is offering a “sneak peek” of his new album “We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions” via Clear Channel and locally through Magic 105’s website.

J.R. and Henry Some lessons from Hogs’ spring game
  
After Saturday’s spring practice-ending Red-White game, many observers wondered why Arkansas’s highly touted “new” offense looked so much like its “old” one.

Check out our Arkansas News Blog, where there’s a report on documentary filmmakers Craig and Brent Renaud having won the Overseas Press Club Award for their film of the Iraqi war, “Off to War,” which they filmed for the Discovery Times Channel.