Drunken Sailor Music Makes A Kick-Ass Comeback
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A Fayetteville staple with endless charitable appearances and now a new EP.
Artist of the Week
A Soldier’s Heart
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By Ginny Masullo Jacob George of A Ride Till the End (ARTTE) is the Afghanistan war veteran and Arkansas native who burst onto the scene when he and his supporters rode out of Fayetteville on May 1, 2010, vowing to ride bicycles across the byways of America until the Afghan War ended. So far, the…
Perpetual Werewolf Is Punk Spazz River With No Sides
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By Roger Barrett Explaining Perpetual Werewolf is a difficult task, and could take years off your life. Try riding a fixed gear bike down the hill on Cleveland Street or streaking next to a church. The Fayetteville 3-piece is a river without sides, going where it wants to go and flooding when it wants to…
An Alternative Music Gem
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The Fayetteville music scene has always had its hidden gems. What rises to the top in our small town music scene is usually a dressed up imitation of something nostalgic or already geared towards mass consumption. With instant access and information overload, most musicians have become sterile waiting rooms of irony — you listen but you tune out because the words have nothing to do with your life. As music critics have pointed out, regional music scenes are on the way out.
James Releases “Shapeshifter” Trilogy
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By Mason Carr Shawn James is a local musician who can be seen playing his guitar and belting out bluesy-sounding tunes around town through many different avenues — be it busking, bars, restaurants or house shows. If you haven’t seen him, look for his long, dark beard, a sleeve of tattoos and a Subaru that…
Boom! Kinetic Reaches To Global Audience
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Mix the newest craze of light dance/electronic music with soft, indie male voices, catchy pop tunes and emotion-tugging lyrics
American Aquarium Takes Country Scene, Outlaw Style
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I’ll take American Aquarium’s blend of Americana/Outlaw/Alt-Country/Roots Rock…
The “Lionheart” in Folk Americana
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What folk Americana means today
Trip Through Space Camp’s Musical Fusion
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By Mason Carr Some unenlightened people will claim they don’t see the appeal of electronica, jam bands, or trance music unless they were to take a substantial amount of drugs. They say jam music is boring, saying that it would take a whole bunch of lysergic acid diethylamide to enjoy it. And some still say…
Del Shreve Finds Personality in ‘The Diamond’
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By Terrah Baker If walking through the Fayetteville Farmers’ Market or biking down the hills of Mount Sequoyah on a bright and warm spring morning had a soundtrack, then Benjamin Del Shreve’s new album “The Diamond” could be it. It has elements of folk and indie, as Shreve suggested when we met, but add to…