Vinyl.
You know, those round black things with grooves on them that spin and, when placed on a turntable, make sound?
It appears that while CD sales are slumping as music buyers shift toward digital formats, vinyl sales have been picking up thanks to collectors and audiophiles, who swear the sound quality is better.
A newspaper in Illinois [...]
It seems the bands for the inaugural Dickson Street Music Festival are being confirmed. Pollstar.com and Shooter Jennings‘ Web site are indicating the rebel country musician and son of music legend Waylon Jennings will play at the festival, which will take place April 25-26 in the parking lot on the southwest corner of Dickson Street [...]
Photos by Kevin Kinder, Northwest Arkansas Times
The first thing anyone notices at an Indigo Girls concert is how rabid the fanbase it. Amid catcalls, song requests and declarations of love, Emily Saliers and Amy Ray kept their audience howling, sometimes screaming for more.
The acoustic-only concert was mostly a sit-down environment, but that couldn’t prevent [...]
Trust us. We want to know when the Foo Fighters will reschedule their Jan. 28 concert as much as you do. And while we’re trying hard to find out, we don’t yet know when that date might be. We’ll let you know as soon as we’ve got official word.
In the meantime, we do have a [...]
The winner of multiple Grammy awards and the voice responsible for the sales of nearly 10 million albums, Steven Curtis Chapman is on his way to Fayetteville.
Pollstar.com and his Web site indicate he will make a stop at 7 p.m. March 11 at the Christian Life Cathedral.
Chapman is currently on the “Live in This [...]
The good folks at the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival, a four-day music event that takes place near Lawrence, Kan., have just announced a few local bands who will compete for a spot on what will be a hulking lineup that already includes the Flaming Lips, the Avett Brothers and more.
The annual Wakarusa Winter Classic [...]
Photos by Kevin Kinder, Northwest Arkansas Times
For an 82-year-old, B.B. King can sure dance.
Seated for the duration of a sold-out Jan. 27 show at The Auditorium in Eureka Springs, King was about a lively as someone in a chair can be. During the middle of the set, for instance, King danced in his chair, [...]
Today’s Foo Fighters concert, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Barnhill Arena on the University of Arkansas campus, has been postponed because of the flu by lead man Dave Grohl, who informed his fans on the band’s Web site that he was “sick as a dog” in his hotel room in Nashville, Tenn. In addition, Tuesday’s [...]
Enjoying a little free time after their semi-retirement didn’t mean Earl and Ernie Cate, the Springdale brothers responsible for The Cate Brothers Band, were done with music.
They contribute to a new release, “XNA Allstars, Vol. 1,” which will be released today. Joining them are local musicians such as Karen FitzPatrick and Tony Walker from The [...]
After five years of playing together, Northwest Arkansas band Six Hung Sprung stopped performing after one of the original band members moved away. It has been a year since the punk, ska and pop rockers have played together. But the original lineup, which includes members Matt Lee, Michael Adkins, Cullen Boyd, Chris Moore, Jake Norton [...]