MUSIC SCENE: Cajun’s calls in the Chips; see Cee Knowledge

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)

LITTLE ROCK — Mudflap King will perform at 9:30 p.m. today at Cajun’s Wharf, 2400 Cantrell Road, Little Rock.

Admission is $5.

The band traces its beginnings to two acoustic musicians named Chip - lead singer Chip Eddleman and lead guitarist Chip Doty - who were based in Memphis. The pair had different leanings; Eddleman was prone to country sounds and Doty was a rock and blues guy. After a couple of years playing the Memphis bar scene, the two Chips decided to add a rhythm section, and they brought in drummer Jason Persico and bassist Jimmy Bass.

Saturday night, Donna Massey & Blue-eyed Soul will play at 9 p.m., with a “happy hour” set at 5 p.m. by Jim Mills.

Cover charge is $5. Call (501) 375-5351.

Cee Knowledge, formerly a member of Grammy Awardwinning group Digable Planets, will bring his latest group, The Cosmic Allstar Orchestra, to central Arkansas for a show Saturday night at the new location of Downtown Music, 211 W. Capitol Ave.

Doors will open at 8 p.m. and the show starts at 10 withsets by local rhythm and blues, soul and hip-hop acts.

Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Call (501) 256-7089.

Digable Planets won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for the single, “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat),” which was on the band’s debut album Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space).

The latest RiverTop Party will feature Molten Lava, a Northwest Arkansas band, at 8 p.m. today on the patio level of the Peabody Little Rock hotel, Markham and Louisiana streets, Little Rock.

Admission is $5 and the show is limited to those age 21 and over.

Call (501) 399-8059.

The Lee Boys will headline a show tonight at the Revolution Room, 300 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.

Cooper’s Orbit will openthe show at 9 p.m.

Cover charge is $10. Call (501) 823-0090.

The “red dirt” sounds of Oklahoma and Texas will be heard tonight at Sticky Fingerz Chicken Shack, 107 Commerce St., Little Rock.

Bleu Edmondson will headline the show; The Dirt Drifters will open it at 9 p.m.

Admission is $8. Call (501) 372-7707.

Mark Sallings and the Famous Unknowns will play at 9 p.m. today at The Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock.

Cover charge is $7.

Sallings now lives near Wynne in eastern Arkansas. For years he has toured the South with his band. When B.B. King’s Beale Street club first opened in the mid-1990s, Sallings and band played there regularly.

Call (501) 663-1196.

The Low Key Arts Center in Hot Springs will present its last show until the end of the summer this weekend.

At 8 p.m. today, the center, 118 Arbor St., just off Park Avenue, will host a split CD release show and tour kickoff by Attractive and Popular, plus El Paso Hot Button.

Ginsu Wives will open the show.

Attractive and Popular is a Hot Springs four-piece, that, according to press materials, plays “a strangely appealing experimental blend of futuristic dance/quirky rock.” The band will release a split CD, Live From Hell/Jungle Fever, on Little Mafia Records with El Paso Hot Button, a one-man band from Norman, Okla., who plays “White Stripes-esquegrooves.”

Admission to the all-ages show is $5.

Tanya Hollyfield’s art installation, “Wake Up and Strip the Bed,” will also be on display.

Call (501) 282-9057.

Weekend, Pages 74 on 05/16/2008