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| HELLRAISER: Josh the Devil at
Juanita's. |
With a name like Josh the Devil and the Sinners, it’s no surprise that frontman J the D names the punk/gore rock bands The HorrorPops and The Nekromantix as cohorts and influences. The Devil and his iniquitous bunch will be headlining a show at Juanita’s Cantina Ballroom on Friday, July 29.
The Devil uses the term “punk-a-billy” — a mix of punk and rockabilly — to describe the gruesome threesome, whose other members are "Hot" Karle Johnson on bass and Dirty Sean on drums. This is the group’s first Friday night booking at Juanita’s. The Sinners are almost finished with their new 13-track CD, “Wicked Souls and Rock ’n’ Roll,” which includes selections that make us want to pinch their cheeks — “Bloodbath and Bodyworks,” for one, and “Stab You in the Face” (an audience favorite, according to J the D).
Though it may not sound like
a show you’d want to take your mother to, it certainly reeks of
local originality, and the band is a favorite among the Stifft
Station punk kids.
Jeff Coleman, one of those White County
native rock ’n’ rollers, will open at 10 p.m. with the latest
incarnation of his band, now called the Feeders. Backing up Coleman
are Mark Chiarro, Stan James and Jerry Cordova, all of whom have
been in various band throughout the years, including Gas Can and
Chupacabra. Coleman has fronted several acts during the past decade,
including Sweetland in the late ’90s. Admission is $6.
Josh
and his sinning crew also play at the Boathouse, at 24th and Martin
Luther King, on Saturday, July 30, with the C*NTS and the Idle
Rejects. Admission to that all-ages show is $5.
A good alternative to the
Sinners’ Friday night show is indie-Europop rock band Radiant at
Sticky Fingerz. The Dallas-based band’s sound is sonically pretty,
with uplifting, hopeful tunes. Radiant’s song “World” was recently
tapped as the theme for a new FX pilot, “Over There.”
Also
appearing on the bill is the local high-energy, brass-influenced
band Sugar and the Raw — which we assume needs no introduction to
regular club-goers — and the well established, much followed local
rock band Underclaire. The show starts around 9:30 p.m., and
admission is $6.
Jimbo
Mathus, skinny as a rail and musically as stealthy as a pole-cat,
brings his band, the Knockdown South, to Sticky Fingerz on
Wednesday, Aug. 3. Mathus has delved into many musical caches,
including serving as side man to blues legend Buddy Guy, frontman of
the Squirrel Nut Zippers, producer to North Mississippi Hills blues
artist Jesse Mae Hemphill, and host of Elvis Costello at his Delta
Recording Studios in Clarksdale, Miss. The Mathus we know is sly as
a fox — his simple country boy demeanor belies his shrewd business
and music sense. Spookie Daly Pride, a quirky ragtime rock quartet
from Beantown, will open at 9 p.m. Admission for this 18-and-up
performance is $5.
Vino’s
Brewpub has a long lineup of metal bands, headlined by Chicago-based
Pelican, an instrumental/doom metal act, scheduled for Monday, Aug.
1. Pelican’s latest release is “The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon
the Thaw.” “Last Day of Winter” starts off the seven-track
compositional album that progressively grows in musical and seasonal
intensity, continuing with “Autumn Into Summer, ““March to the Sea,”
“Untitled” and “Red Ran Amber,” ending with “Sirius.”
Also
appearing are Big Business, Breather Resist and Har Meggido.
Admission for the 7 p.m. show is $10.
It’s official, and we reported this on the
Times’ “Little Rocking” blog late last week, but the Cornestone Deli
and Pub on Main Street in North Little Rock’s Argenta district has
lost its lease and must be out by July 31. Cornerstone’s last night
of business in that space will be Saturday, July 30, with a “Battle
of the Ad Bands” contest that night.
We spoke with Mike
Kent, who plans on re-opening the club next door with his brother,
Chris. That space currently houses the Hive, an art gallery and
recording studio. Kent says plans are to have the same lunch and
dinner service as well as nightly entertainment, but it will take
two to three months to remodel the Hive space.
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