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LISTEN UP: Lambert’s 2nd is a winner
posted: 05/22/2012 1:54 a.m. Discuss
Adam Lambert Trespassing 19/RCA B+ It began as it always does for any American Idol finalist — get that first album out ASAP. So to no surprise Adam Lambert’s 2009 For Your Entertainment sounded tentative, rushed. No such problems here. Lambert had time to marinate Trespassing in his glam, disco and pop-metal roots with confidence, adding touches of electronica, house and more.
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES: Tryouts, poets, music camps
posted: 05/22/2012 1:44 a.m. Discuss
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts this week: Hairspray auditions The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 S. Main St., Pine Bluff, will hold auditions at 6:30 p.m. May 29-30 for its production of the musical Hairspray (music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman, book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the John Waters film).
CRITICAL MASS: The sonic shapeshifter
posted: 05/20/2012 3:58 a.m. Comment 1
Fifty years is a long time to do anything. For most of human history, it was a long time to live. So maybe it is worth acknowledging that Bob Dylan has been making albums for 50 years.
NOTEWORTHY DEATHS
posted: 05/18/2012 2:54 a.m. Discuss
1970s disco queen, Grammy winner Donna Summer, one of the most influential singers of the disco era, died Thursday. She was 63.
Queen of Disco, Donna Summer, dies at 63
posted: 05/17/2012 11:46 a.m. Comments 3
Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as “Last Dance,” “Love to Love You Baby” and “Bad Girls” became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, dance and flashy clothes, has died. She was 63.
MUSIC: Lucero serves up rock, wrasslin’, vittles by river
posted: 05/17/2012 3:15 a.m. Discuss
It’s been a good year for Memphis-based rockers Lucero. The band, fronted by Little Rock native Ben Nichols, has seen its latest album, Women & Work, debut in the Top 20 on the Billboard charts, has been playing to sold-out crowds on its tours, will perform at Metallica’s Orion Festival in New Jersey in June and reboots its Lucero Family Picnic with pals Shooter Jennings, Glossary and others in Batesville on Saturday.
POP NOTES: 3-year Evolution complete
posted: 05/15/2012 2:22 a.m. Discuss
Gina Gee Evolution of a Woman Ferocious B Those with an ear tuned to the local music scene have been waiting a while now for Gina Gee, nee Regina D. Gulley, to drop a solo album. Evolution of a Woman has been in the works three years.
MUSIC: Kentucky foursome beams in to Stickyz
posted: 05/15/2012 2:20 a.m. Discuss
With a name like Morning Teleportation, music fans might at least contemplate an unusual evening excursion — complete with a trippy light show — and it’s something fans of the Kentucky/ Oregon/Kentucky band have come to expect.
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES: UCA has a full season ahead
posted: 05/15/2012 2:13 a.m. Discuss
Elsewhere in arts and entertainment this week: UCA season Fashion expert Tim Gunn, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Capitol Steps will kick off the Distinguished Lecture, Night Out at Reynolds and Broadway series, respectively — all part of the University of Central Arkansas’ 2012-13 Public Appearances season.
LISTEN UP: Madeira leads artists’ altar call for atypical Hymns
posted: 05/15/2012 2:10 a.m. Discuss
Mercyland Hymns for the Rest of Us Tone Tree/Fuel Music A- Emmylou Harris confidant and songwriter Phil Madeira has pulled together an intriguing array of folk and country artists to record songs of faith, many of them written or cowritten by Madeira.
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES: Claire Lynch Band presents Bluegrass Monday concert
posted: 05/13/2012 4:14 a.m. Discuss
The Claire Lynch Band — singer-songwriter Claire Lynch; Bryan McDowell, mandolin and fiddle; Matt Wingate, guitar and mandolin ; and Mark Schatz, bass — will perform for Jonesboro station KASU-FM, 91.9’s Bluegrass Monday concert, 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould.
Memories made still sweaty fresh
posted: 05/13/2012 4:12 a.m. Discuss
Some memories from those who were there: “I do remember my parents having concerns about my attending. When their friends found out I was going, they let my mother and dad know they thought it a very bad idea. The things I might learn from watching Elvis would stick with me forever. They were right.
LR disc jockey was the one who captured Elvis on tape
posted: 05/13/2012 4:10 a.m. Discuss
Elvis Presley sang just seven songs during his May 16, 1956, performances at Robinson Auditorium: “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Long Tall Sally,” “I Was the One,” “Money Honey,” “I Got a Woman,” “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Hound Dog.” “Heartbreak Hotel” spent eight weeks at No. 1 on Billboard magazine’s singles charts earlier that year.
MUSIC: ASO guests are 2 ‘Wicked Divas,’ in a good way
posted: 05/10/2012 3:51 a.m. Discuss
The two singers joining the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Associate Conductor Geoffrey Robson for a pair of “Wicked Divas” pops concerts this weekend at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Music Hall say they aren’t really divas.
MUSIC: Bentley has family roots in Arkansas lumber town
posted: 05/10/2012 3:50 a.m. Discuss
Country singer Dierks Bentley, who now lives in Nashville, Tenn., has performed in Nashville, Ark., but has never been in nearby Dierks, the city from which his name originated. The town was named for some of Bentley’s ancestors, who started their lumber company in 1900 and sold it to Weyerhaeuser Corp. in 1969 (after having been the largest family-owned landholding company in the United States).
