“Holy Souls” is confident, sturdy yet loose and, rarer still, joyful.
Kevin Kerby
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Change of the guard: White Water Tavern reopens in August under new ownership
Through its 45-year history, it’s stayed just the way we like it: crusty, unpretentious, sweetly familiar. And here’s the good news: After a year and change of being shuttered, the place looks largely the same ahead of its reopening.
Mulehead: 20th Anniversary Show
Twenty years in, “Pilate” is still a bop of biblical proportions, “Cheap Red Wine” is still a rhyme scheme for the barroom and “Out Here in the Pines” is still heavy as hell.
Adam Faucett, Kevin Kerby
With smartasses like Faucett and Kerby swapping songs together on stage, things could get a li’l roast-y. Beer and wine are available for donations.
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Graham Gordy speaks at Argenta Reading Series
Also, Randy Rogers Band, Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase, Lanterns! Winter Festival, Second Friday Art Night, Spa City Sweethearts, Lucero, Kevin & Gus Kerby, I Was Afraid and ‘The Ernest Green Story’
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Pre-order Mulehead’s new album ‘Forever Out Of Tune,’ out April 28
Mulehead, the beloved Little Rock alt-country band who called it a day a decade ago but now very much rides again, have finished a new album, “Forever Out Of Tune,” which will be out via Max Recordings on April 28. But! For those of you who can’t wait that long or who feel inclined to support an important and deserving local cultural institution, you can pre-order the record today at Pledge Music and get immediate access to a free download.
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New music round-up: The Brothel Sprouts, Vile Pack, Ten High, Churner and Kevin Kerby
Here’s a song from “Good Enough,” the recent debut record from Fayetteville’s The Brothel Sprouts, who make imaginative indie rock that’s loose and wild and kind of manic.
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New music from The Canehill Engagement, ‘Civilian Drag’
If you haven’t bought your copy of the long-awaited debut single from The Canehilll Engagement, the Little Rock all-star league rock group featuring Burt Taggart from The Big Cats (etc.), Mulehead’s Kevin Kerby, Jeremy Brasher and Brian Rodgers from The Moving Front and Jay Calhoun of Free Micah, you still have time. The 7″, issued on gorgeous red vinyl, is shipping now from Max Recordings.
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Friday To-Do: Shinyribs, Kevin Kerby
Kevin Russell’s Shinyribs plays White Water Tavern Friday.