Posts Tagged ‘Smoke & Barrel’
Something to do: Go see Nocando tonight at Smoke & Barrel
Monday, August 9th, 2010
Rapper NoCanDo explains why he’s not like the other rappers. CAUTION: Rap star language and references to both “Family Guy” and “Spinal Tap” are contained in the video.
L.A. rapper Nocando (say it like No Can Do) comes to Smoke & Barrel Tavern in Fayetteville tonight (Aug. 9), and he’ll be bringing the sounds of his debut album, January’s “Jimmy The Lock” with him.
Nocando comes from the West Coast battle rap circuit and finds himself on the peak of nationwide success. NPR, for instance, reviews his latest work much more eloquently than we could.
He performs tonight with Free Moral Agents. Admission is $5, and the show will start sometime around 10 p.m.
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Let’s get the Waka started
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The Heavy Pets
Wakarusa doesn’t technically begin until 12:01 a.m. tomorrow (June 3), but there is plenty happening tonight.
We anticipate that cars will begin lining up outside the festival grounds today. If you’re not one of those folks, Fayetteville has at least three pre-Wakarusa concerts happening tonight (June 2.)
Tonight at George’s Majestic Lounge, Florida jam band The Heavy Pets, above, play with Ben Miller Band. It’s a free show and it starts about 9 p.m.
At Rogue Pizza Co., Wakarusa band and Mississippi-based blues rockers Good Paper will play at an 8 p.m. show. Locals Apartment 5 open.
And at Smoke & Barrel, Kansans Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy will play sometime after 8 p.m.
It’s almost Waka Time!
Tags: Apartment 5, Ben Miller Band, Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy, Good Paper, Rogue Pizza Co., Smoke & Barrel, The Heavy Pets, Wakarusa
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The weekend in music, with Tas Cru (et. al)
Friday, May 21st, 2010
Tas Cru
Bluesman Tas Cru will pull double duty tomorrow (May 22) with two area shows. They couldn’t be much more different.
Cru, based in New York, will play for children at the Fayetteville Public Library at 10:30 a.m. and then at 9:30 p.m. at The Bayou of Rogers.
Admission to the early show is free; the late show is $5.
Cru is part of a busy weekend of tunes.
Dead Irish Blues, for instance, play at 6:30 p.m. today (May 21) at the Celtic Grill in Bentonville.
Miss Used is at Neumeier’s Rib Room in Fort Smith both today and Saturday.
Lucio will present the hip hop and rap show (with special guests, no doubt) Grown Folks at Smoke & Barrel on Saturday.
There are plenty of other gigs, too. You can see them in the column to the right.
What will you see this weekend?
Tags: Celtic Grill, Dead Irish Blues, Fayetteville Public Library, Lucio, Miss Used, Neumeier's Rib Room, Smoke & Barrel, Tas Cru, The Bayou of Rogers
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Live tonight: The Fox Hunt @ Smoke & Barrel
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
The Fox Hunt
The Fox Hunt make the kind of music one might expect a group from West Virginia to make. It’s steeped in Appalachian roots and features bluegrass instrumentation. On their newest album, “Long Way to Go,” the group sings about alcohol, abandonment and other anxieties. Currently on a tour to support the album, the group will visit the Smoke & Barrel Tavern at 324 W. Dickson St. today (March 11) for a show at 10 p.m. Admission is free.
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Shannon Wurst goes solo, confessional
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Shannon Wurst
Shannon Wurst knows she had a good thing going in 3 Penny Acre.
Their sound was pure, fun and, as she says, representative of the Ozarks.
But she also knows her dream: to be a solo artist. So the Alma native, who has also had brief careers as a whitewater rafting guide and a dog musher, is going it alone.
On the heels of her amicable departure for the Northwest Arkansas folk band, Wurst will release her second solo album, “What’s More Honest Than A Song?” at a show tonight (March 5) at the Smoke & Barrel Tavern in Fayetteville.
Wurst will also use tonight’s show as the starting point for a tour that will take her to the West Coast, East Coast and everywhere in between. Her tour is with a group titled the Swamp Family Band, composed of a group of songwriters who will take turns backing each other’s songs while on the road.
Wurst classifies her sophomore effort as a more honest effort in than her first album, 2007′s “Sunday Pie,” in that she wrote most of the songs featured on the new album.
It’s also a green effort — all of the album packaging is made from recyclable material and Wurst has even included a few flower seeds to plant for everyone who buys the record.
Tonight’s show is expected to begin about 10 p.m.
Before you go, take a listen to a couple of Wurst’s new tracks. The first is a reworked version of a 3 Penny Acre track that supplies the album title, “White Walls,” about a friend’s recovery from alcoholism.
The second is the song “Ivory Bill,” which Wurst wrote for the Arkansas Heritage Commission and performed at schools across the state.
“White Walls”:
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“Ivory Bill”:
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Tags: 3 Penny Acre, Shannon Wurst, Smoke & Barrel
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