THURSDAY 1/13
n Searcy rock outfit and winner of Alice 107.7’s Battle of the Bands 3 Miles From Providence takes to ASU-Beebe’s Owen Center Theater, 7:30 p.m., $10 general, $5 seniors, free for students and faculty. D-Mite and Tho’d Studios return to Cornerstone Pub for their regular rap and hip-hop revue, 9 p.m. The Afterthought throws a birthday party jam for local musician Steve Winter, 8 p.m., free. William Blackart and Adam Faucett, two of Arkansas’s great songwriting talents, land in White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. Lark in the Morning bring out all the bells and whistles (and harps, fiddles and dulcimers) to perform their brand of “Ozark Celtic” music at the Laman Library, 7 p.m., free.
FRIDAY 1/14
n Self-appointed “masters of the face-guitar and smack-smack drum” Caspian Hat Dance return to White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. Adema the band, not edema the illness, brings a night of post-grunge shredding and shouting to Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $8 adv., $10 d.o.s. He’s a Damn Bullet, a Sad Daddy and a banjo plucking machine: Joe Sundell lands in Pizza D’Action for a special solo engagement, 10 p.m. Smooth crooning, genre-hopping man-about-town Cody Belew belts it out at The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. Matt Joyce, front man for local party band The Gettys, goes solo for the Flying Saucer, 9 p.m. The Mighty Groove Kings get, well, groovy at Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 p.m., $5.
SATURDAY 1/15
n It’s a band that needs no introduction: Lucero hops to it at Maxine’s a week after being added to the 2011 Warped Tour lineup. They’re joined by rowdy local super group Sweet Eagle, 8 p.m., $14 adv., $16 d.o.s. The Arkansas River Blues Society raises money to send its entries to the International Blues Challenge with a night of music from Clover Blues Band at Parrot Beach Cafe, 8 p.m., $5. Town Pump hosts a triple bill of fresh, indie rocking faces when Ezra Lbs., Catskill Kids and Haunted Pontiacs take the stage, 10 p.m. Rock ‘n’ roll cover band Tragikly White bring the party to Stickyz, 9:30 p.m., $5. On the club front, DJ Ja’Lee bumps speakers at Sway, 8 p.m., $5. At Discovery, radio personality DJ Kramer mans the lobby, Michael Shane and Justin Sane work the disco and reliably awesome local g-force takes to the hip-hop room, 10 p.m., $12.