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'2015 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase'

New video from Lo Thraxx, 'City Slickin / Corner'

Here's a new, two-part music video from Little Rock's Lo Thraxx, for his songs "City Slickin'" and "Corner." His forthcoming record, the long-awaited "Sharkansas," is set to be released on March 13.
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Enchiridion wins round 5 of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase

Congrats to Little Rock metal band Enchiridion, who closed out last night's round of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase with a powerful and punishing set, winning over the judges in the process. They'll join Open Fields, Ghost Bones, Becoming Elephants and American Lions at the showcase finals, which will be held next Friday, March 6, at Revolution, 9 p.m., $5.
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Chinese Girls to get double LP reissue this spring

Was Little Rock at the turn of the century a stranger, headier, more ambitious place? Was it more fun? I'm perennially haunted by these questions, and if art-rock duo Chinese Girls is any indication, the answers are clearly yes. We're in luck, though: the band's recordings are set to be reissued this spring by Drawing Room Records (also the home for Girls band member Andrew Morgan's new project Country Florist). Started at a Halloween party in 1999 by Morgan and Sam Murphy, the band made delay-heavy, energetic post-punk (some of which you can find here).

New music from BLACK PARTY, 'Dancing'

BLACK PARTY, the rapper and beat-maker who fled Little Rock last November for L.A. with friend and collaborator Kari Faux, just released a new single, "Dancing," that sounds a little like Phil Collins and N.E.R.D. and, I don't know, DMX — pure robotic soul. It's a departure for the rapper-turned-singer, though he hinted at the direction on last year's mixtape, "Prototype," which seems to have disappeared from the internet.
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Legendary jazz musician Clark Terry dies at 94

Clark Terry, the jazz trumpeter who performed early in his career with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, and who went on to mentor a generation of jazz musicians from Miles Davis to Dizzy Gillespie (who said that he considered Terry the greatest trumpeter in the world), died last night at his home in Pine Bluff, where he retired in 2006. He was 94.

American Lions wins Round 4 of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase

Congrats to Conway's American Lions, who won last night's round of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase at Stickyz.
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Watch Malcolm Holcombe live at Fellowship Hall Sound

Courtesy of Greg Spradlin, here's Malcolm Holcombe playing live at Little Rock recording studio Fellowship Hall Sound with Jared Tyler. Holcombe plays at White Water Tavern tonight at 9 p.m.

Becoming Elephants wins Round 3 of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase

Conway prog-rockers Becoming Elephants won Round 3 of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase.  Will will have more on the night and next week's competition on Wednesday. 
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Rwake's first album, 'Xenoglossalgia,' gets reissued

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Relapse Records has provided the important public service of reissuing the debut album (or demo), "Xenoglossalgia (The Last Stage of Awareness),” by seminal North Little Rock doom metal band Rwake, originally released 25 years ago. A collage of demonic energy, pitch black emotional turmoil, spacey samples and genre-evading twists and turns (Popol Vuh synths, folk-rock interludes), the record is unpredictable and heavy and unforgettable.

Africa Tour Diary: Big Piph and Tomorrow Maybe, Part 1

My name is Lucas Murray, and I have the incredible honor and opportunity to be traveling to Africa with fellow Little Rock musicians Corey Harris, Dre Franklin, Paul Campbell and Epiphany Morrow. Last winter our band Big Piph and Tomorrow Maybe applied and auditioned for a state department grant program called American Music Abroad.
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Congratulations to Ghost Bones, winner of Round 2 of the Arkansas Times Musician Showcase

The Hot Springs band took the second round of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase last night at Stickyz, beating out Big Still River, The Federalis and Black Horse.

Todd Rundgren is coming to Little Rock

Whatever you thought you were doing on the night on April 19, drop it: Todd Rundgren has added a Little Rock stop to his "Global Tour 2015," and is playing at the Rev Room. Didn't know Rundgren was still making music? Never liked his music in the first place? Doesn't matter — this is too important to be left up to issues of musical taste.
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