BEALE STREET MUSIC « FESTIVAL » May 2-4, 2014 IT’S ON! BEALE STREET MUSIC FESTIVAL STARTS FRIDAY AND RUNS THROUGH SUNDAY. We want to welcome our visitors — from Panamanians to Panolans. Our arms and our amps are wide open. You are in Memphis, a special place at a special time. We welcome the whole world every May in celebration of our culture: our music and our food. ere is so much music between here and Sunday that our brains hurt. We would not have made it through what Tony Joe White called a terrible winter without the promise of dancing on the Mississippi to great music. Also, corndogs. is year has the big guns: Kid Rock and Snoop. ey’ve been here before and know the score. Electronic dance music is on deck this year with late-night light-’em-ups featuring Beats Antique and Big Gigantic. ere’s so much blues that anyone who’s lost their mojo can probably nd it this weekend. We have swamp music like you wouldn’t believe. ere are up-and-comers and legends like Jerry Lee Lewis . ( ey say he hates beach balls during his set. Don’t mess with “ e Killer.”) Black Joe Lewis is cutting his own path in real time. Whatever suits you, it’s here. Let’s get rolling on this river. memphisflyer.com SPONSORS: Join Join Chiwawa + Cafe Ole on Cinco de Mayo for: Countdown to Cinco De Mayo, Fri, Sat, and Sun $3 Corona, Corona Light $3 Paciffi ico Drafts, and Modelo Bottles, $10 Corona and $3 Paciffi ico Drafts Corona light buckets Live Music and Food Specials $20 Paciffi ico Beer Bongs May 1-7, 2014 All Day Long, and $5 Icebergs plus a Chance to win a Corona mountain bike. Cinco de Mayo Specials Monday May 5th: $3 Corona, Corona light, Modelo bottles ENJOY RESPONSIBLY and $20 Pacifico Beer Bongs 2 BEALE STREET MUSIC « FESTIVAL » Friday, May 2 GROUPLOVE FEDEX STAGE ... Lord T & Eloise 6:00 P.M. GROUPLOVE 6:50 P.M. Juicy J 8:20 P.M. Pretty Lights 9:55 P.M. Big Gigantic 12:15 A.M. Juicy J ORION STAGE ... Project Pat 6:10 P.M. Dropkick Murphys 7:35 P.M. 311 9:15 P.M. Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion 11:00 P.M. BUD LIGHT STAGE ... MS MR 6:05 P.M. Third Eye Blind 7:30 P.M. Fitz & the Tantrums 9:10 P.M. Foster the People 10:50 P.M. memphisflyer.com HORSESHOE CASINO ANA BLUES TENT ... POPOVIC Lucky Peterson 6:10 P.M. Will Tucker 7:40 P.M. Ana Popovic 9:15 P.M. Dickey Betts & Great Southern 11:00 P.M. BLUES SHACK ... GATES BEALE STREET MUSIC FEST 2014 Kenny Brown OPEN TIMES VARY Robert “Wolfman” Belfour 5:00 TIMES VARY P.M. 273 BEALE STREET MUSIC « BANDS » Friday, May 2 this week at Blind Bear: William Charles Roman Trio 5/1 Thursday at 9pm 5/2 Friday at 10pm The Michael Brothers (Great, Fun Pop & Rock Band) 5/3 Saturday at 10pm every week at Blind Bear: Texas Hold Em’ Tuesday w/ Jamie at 8pm Team Trivia on Wednesday w/ Charles at 8pm 311 Hung Over Like a Bear Brunch Saturday & Sunday till 6pm LORD T & ELOISE FedEx Stage • 6 p.m. Sunday Night Poker w/ Jamie at 6:30pm Aristocrunk, the combination of debauched continental privilege and Deep South horror-core hip-hip, was founded by royalty right here in Memphis. Lord T & Eloise Happy Hour established the upper limit on wealth, braggadocio, and rococo trappings in the rap community. Providing an absolutist approach to policy issues, such as day drinking and M-F 5-8pm $2.50 select bottles, $4 well drinks & $5 house wine ne cobblery, Lord Treadwell and Maurice Eloise XIII rain down doubloons and malt beverages on the 1-percenters themselves. Playoffs Specials MS MR Bud Light Stage • 6:05 p.m. $2 Miller Lite, Miller High Life & Coors Light Lizzy Plapinger and Max Hershenow formed this duo, which is signed to Columbia, $4 Coors Light 24oz Grizz Cans! while attending Vassar College. In a musical environment where duos and DJs pack during ALL playoff games (not just Grizz!) everything they can nd into tracks, MS MR reserve the spaces between the beats for Plapinger’s voice. She has earned the distinction, and the music is all the better for the 119 S. Main St. • 901.417.8435 • blindbearmemphis.com style. It’s refreshing to see the voice take the primary focus of a band working in this milieu. Mon.-Fri. 5pm-3am • Sat.-Sun. Noon-3am Blind Bear Memphis (Check our Facebook page for passwords.) @blindbear901 PROJECT PAT Orion Stage • 6:10 p.m. Project Pat will be the perfect pick for anyone salivating to hear street-in uenced lyrics spewed with a Southern drawl over bass-ridden tracks. e North Memphis-bred spitter 5832 STAGE RD. • 901-371-0928 has been doing his thing since the ’90s and continues to keep his name ringing. He’s Located in historic Bartlett Station at the railroad tracks www.REVOLVEGUITARS.com released several projects over the past few calendars and was featured on his younger Like us on brother Juicy J’s Never Sober Tour earlier this year. He’s also putting the nishing touches facebook.com/pages/REvolve-Guitar-Music-Shop on the sequel to his platinum-selling classic album, Mista Don’t Play: Everythangs Workin. Keeping the crowd pleased shouldn’t be too di cult for the gold-grill sporting Southern Sat. May 10th 11am to 4pm rap heavyweight. May 1-7, 2014 AMP BIASING/CHECK UP CLINIC WITH ROB HULL How is your tube amp's bias? LUCKY PETERSON Horseshoe Casino Blues Tent • 6:10 p.m. Or, want to know more about your tube amp? Look out for Lucky Peterson. He had a hit at age ve and grew up in a club where he Have your amp rebiased and receive a 10 point amp check-up soaked in blues and jazz from greats like Muddy Waters and Jimmy Reed. Decades and performance evaluation! All for only $35 (regularly $45 - $60). later he can still seem like a kid when he plays. Peterson can assume all sorts of musical This is a special ONE DAY ONLY event, so come early. guises — from wearing stylin’ suits onstage with Wynton Marsalis in France to running www.myamptech.com around the joint in a biker jacket with a Gibson 330. He’ll play gospel-spiked R&B on the GUITARS Hammond or wild-dog blues on guitar. It all sounds good. Peterson’s backing band is LESSONS NEW Big selection! Everyday low pricing! worth the ticket, but he is a lively guitarist whose tone can be startlingly cool. Watching a Free layaway! We take trade ins! GEAR. REPAIR. LESSONS 284 FOR ALL & USED musician who still has such enthusiasm for performing is a blast. Peterson would not be AGES having so much fun if his audience wasn’t happily riled up, too. Grouplove FedEx Stage • 6:50 p.m. GROUPLOVE is a big, happy, and appropriately named collective of musicians. The group met traveling in Greece and New York. They bring an international bend to the traditional American pop collective: While the Mamas & the Papas and the Band might come to mind when you think of big, homey groups of talented musicians, GROUPLOVE is of these times. Hannah Hooper and Christian Zucconi bring big voices and a reliable pop sensibility to this group of talented players. That GROUPLOVE is hard to characterize speaks to their genre-bending capacities. They may look like a pop phenomenon, but this is a real band with good songs. Third eye Blind Bud Light Stage • 7:30 p.m. Those who grew up on MTV’s Total Request Live need no introduction to Third Eye Blind. With hits like “Jumper” and “How’s it Going To Be,” Third Eye Blind were one of THE alternative bands from the ’90s, alongside other radio-friendly groups like the Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox 20. Since starting in 1993, the alternative band from San Francisco has released four studio albums, appearing every few years or so to drop another album and keep the idea alive that purple-tinted sunglasses equal rock-and-roll. While their latest efforts might not live up to the hype of Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind is a must for anyone in their mid-20s wanting to take a trip down memory lane. dropkick Murphys Orion Stage • 7:35 p.m. While they have had a loyal following from Warped Tour types for years, it wasn’t until Martin Scorsese’s 2007 film dropkick The Departed that the Dropkick murphys Murphys became a household name. That movie introduced the world to their song “I’m Shipping Up to Boston,” a mega-hit that’s played at just about every sporting event you can think of. Since signing to Warner Brothers in 2007, Dropkick Murphys’ success continues to grow, with their last two albums making it to no. 9 and no. 6 on two Billboard charts. Not bad for a humble punk band from Massachusetts. Will Tucker Horseshoe Casino Blues Tent • 7:40 p.m. udith An up-and-comer on Beale, Tucker has settled in at B.B. King’s, where he started at age J 14 and his band still has its regular Friday night gig. Tucker has opened for King and played with Charlie Musselwhite, the Beach Boys, and others. He’s attracted attention beyond the local blues scene, notably that of American Idol judge and populizer of the word “dawg,” Randy Jackson, who called upon the young Memphian for two soundtrack jobs.