Let s stop this shilly-shallying around, y all. It s time to check out a few recent projects from Arkansas musicians, ranging from bluegrass and R&B to rock and hip-hop, to help provide the soundtrack to your spring.
Lots of new jams from Arkansas musicians have been released since the beginning of the year. There is fresh music from old favorites, major label stars, indie darlings, local heroes and a pair of stellar debut LPs from Little Rock acts. The offerings range from rock, pop, folk and R&B to country, extreme metal and a little bit of blues.
Lots of new jams from Arkansas musicians have been released since the beginning of the year. There is fresh music from old favorites, major label stars, indie darlings, local heroes and a pair of stellar debut LPs from Little Rock acts. The offerings range from rock, pop, folk and R&B to country, extreme metal and a little bit of blues.
MUSIC: Brae Leni and friends hunting Wild Scooch
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Sean Clancy
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Today at 1:44 a.m.
“Wild Scooch Hunt” is the new album by Little Rock singer-songwriter Brae Leni. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Prabhath Madusanka) Wild Scooch Hunt, the new LP from Little Rock singer-songwriter Brae Leni, drops Friday.
Recorded at his Soul Lounge Studio, the album is a sexy, sometimes funny, hook-filled excursion into Leni s world with traces of R&B, 80s electro-pop and soul all wrapped around his strong falsetto.
The nine-song project, available on CD as well as the regular streaming outlets, features contributions from Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-producer Timothy Bloom, JVokal, Jordan Craighead, Fero, TY1TLM, Kevin Cleveland, Nicco Rolon, Troy Gentry, Ashton Hollowell, Dshawn Lamkin, Louis Wimbley, Korey Fells, Deitric Williams, Rico Portillo, Andrew Tripplett, Jared Williams and Josh Paul of Daughtry.
50 Arkansas artists who made good noise in 2020
50 Arkansas artists who made good noise in 2020
December 29, 20207:43 pm (top left to top right) Bazi Owenz, Bailey Bigger, Joshua Asante, (bottom left to bottom right) The Eulogy Brothers, Elise Davis, DOT
Creators are going to create, and whether the upheaval of a year like 2020 stifles or fuels that process probably depends on the artist, and on the day. Many, undoubtedly, made music in 2020 at their own expense, investing time, money or both into projects they couldn’t support or promote with live performance, at least not for the foreseeable future. A good number of them, especially those who make music for a living, have spent the year devoted to an industry and to a live music landscape that may well emerge from Post-Pandemic Times looking very different than it did in 2019. But I’m willing to bet that by the time some of this quarantine-crafted music reaches the stage, congregants’ ears