O.A.R. is not a rock band.
No, wait. Hear me out on this one.
Watching the Maryland-based group perform on Monday night in Barnhill Arena on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville on Nov. 10, I couldn’t help but think that O.A.R. is not a rock band, perhaps to the point they purposely try to avoid [...]
Attempts to take live photos at the Three 6 Mafia concert were unsuccessful. Silly cameras. And we can’t exactly post a YouTube for all the language, so here’s a text-only review:
The biggest crime perpetrated by the crowd at the Three 6 Mafia show on Oct. 24 at the Fayetteville Town Center was this: It ignored [...]
“I don’t want to be/anything other than what I’ve been trying to be lately,” Gavin DeGraw sings in the chorus of his pop hit, “I Don’t Want To Be.”
What has he been lately? Well, along with pop stars such as David Cook and Chris “No Need For A First Name” Daughtry, he’s been at the [...]
Please don’t consider this an actual review. It isn’t intended to be.
But we were on the scene, and this many rock music fans screaming together shouldn’t be ignored.
The blog was at the sold-out The Toadies concert at George’s Majestic Lounge on Oct. 8, but didn’t arrive until late and didn’t take notes as a result.
I [...]
If there were stars in this show, they were inanimate ones.
The two most interesting things at Friday night’s headlining Bikes, Blues & BBQ concert by The Allman Brothers Band were the guitars of Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks, a sunburst-colored Gibson and a red Gibson, respectively.
Together, those two instruments cast an intriguing, compelling cascade of [...]
By Tuesday evening, Bikes, Blues & BBQ was already bearing down on the quiet burg of Fayetteville. Many vendors were already set up in a sea of white tents, and the extra exhaust rattles were already undeniable.
But it was a very un-motorcycle crowd that showed up for the Sept. 23 concert by indie rockers Conor [...]
Although no one from our newsroom was at the Robert Cray show Sept. 18 at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Michelle Parks, from our sister publication the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette, was.
Read her take here.
Music festivals are a convoluted thing by their very nature. Music is here, there and everywhere. Choices have to be made, even at a smaller festivala such as the Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival, where there are three official stages and two active at most times.
Some good music, naturally, is going to be missed.
I tried, [...]
By the time the blog got to the Mulberry Mountain Ranch near Ozark, it was pretty early into the weekend: 4 p.m. Friday (Sept. 12), while most poor souls still had an hour before their weekend started.
Of course, by that time, at least 13 hours of music had already passed.
Like its predecessors, the third annual [...]
As a matter of smart showmanship, a headliner should NEVER, under any circumstance, have an opening act that has the potential to upstage them.
Unfortunately for Garrett Dutton, aka G. Love, he chose poorly when selecting the John Butler Trio.
To credit G. Love & Special Sauce, his set was an exercise in fine, fun hip-hop/funk/blues/whatever else [...]