Melancholic and meditative, “punish” sees singer-songwriter Harry Glaeser simplifying his melodies, taming his tendency to get quirky, and channeling the moody, percussive strums of artists like Hovvdy and Runnner.
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7 artists from ‘Delta Triennial’ to speak at AMFA on Thursday
The artists include Kevin Demery, Christian Dinh, Anita Fields, Coulter Fussell, Letitia Huckaby, Jerry Phillips (who lives and works in Little Rock) and Andrew Scott Ross.
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‘Secret doors and lost texts’: A Q&A with writer Jen Fawkes
Partway through “Daughters of Chaos,” Sylvie Swift ventures beneath the brothel where she’s been staying in Civil War-era Nashville and discovers that the prostitutes are up to something darkly mystical, foregoing sex work in favor of feminist rituals through which they subtly reprogram the violence-prone psyches of their clientele. That’s just one of the many forms of masquerading going on in Little Rock writer Jen Fawkes’ debut novel.
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Three Dog Night at Robinson Center on Thursday
Three Dog Night may be touring with only one of its original members, but that won’t matter much when the opening chords to 1970 rock anthem “Joy to the World” peal out to the rafters at Robinson Center, forcing anyone within earshot to surrender to the singalong just as it has forced any kid named Jeremiah to be asked at least once by a wisecracking grownup whether or not he was, indeed, a bullfrog.
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Melissa Carper’s new album ‘Borned in Ya’ is here
“Carper sounds so natural in each sonic corner of ‘Borned in Ya’ that trying to assign it a genre is a fool’s errand.” That’s No Depression’s take on the new solo album from Arkansas-connected crooner Melissa Carper, which came out today. It’s a sentiment that’s hard to disagree with.
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Good Looks and Adam Faucett at White Water on Thursday
Mixing rollicking bar rock with jangly splashes of guitar sustain, Austin indie rock quartet Good Looks is going to fit right in at the White Water Tavern, but don’t let the good-natured jams fool you into neglecting the searching urgency of their lyrics.
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Cinema I/O to screen ‘Suburbia,’ ‘West Indies’ and more
Little Rock’s Cinema I/O — a “nomadic, non-profit microcinema” founded by Arkansas Times Film Series curator Omaya Jones, among others — is celebrating Art House Theater Day with a series of screenings next week.
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Arkansas Symphony Orchestra announces grand opening of future headquarters
The $11.75 million, 20,000-square-foot space will open in September, a little over a year after construction began.
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‘Footloose’ charms at The Rep
Full of standout performances by Spencer LaRue, Ray Robinson and Emily Royer, the production’s virtues are located in the little things instead of its overarching themes.
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Chappell Roan is coming back to Arkansas
As predicted, the venue this time around — the Walmart AMP in Rogers — is exponentially bigger than her Natural State appearance just a month ago, with the AMP’s 11,000-person capacity eclipsing The Hall eightfold.