Emo heirloom Everybody Requested About You to reunite for 2 back-to-back reveals at White Water Tavern

EVERYONE ASKED ABOUT YOU
Wednesday 12/28. White Water Tavern. 6 p.m. and eight p.m. 

For years, the meta narrative of the Little Rock music scene was that we punched above our weight with an unparalleled talent-to-population ratio. However with few exceptions, our brilliance was largely unheralded past our borders. Due to unhealthy luck. As a result of of us couldn’t break via the ties that bind (household, work, ingesting beer weekly at Vino’s and White Water Tavern). I don’t know if that’s true anymore — numerous Little Rock of us have recently discovered nationwide success at the very least in a distinct segment approach — or ever was. However in case you subscribe to the “we have been wonderful and folks ought to acknowledge” principle, the revival of Everybody Requested About You represents a tantalizing chance: a redo. Shaped simply after the Towncraft period, within the late ’90s, the emo band featured a number of of us you’ve most likely heard of: Lee Buford (drums) of The Physique, Collins Kilgore (guitar) of The American Princes and restaurateur John Beachboard (keys). Hannah Vogan (vocals) and Chris Sheppard (guitar) spherical out the lineup. The Promise Ring and The Leases are touchstones. I wasn’t round through the band’s heyday, however numerous of us on the scene report that, whereas Everybody Requested About You had a following, it wasn’t precisely huge. The group put out a handful of 7-inches and recorded an album that wasn’t launched. That was it. Then in 2012 a Minnesota label, 25 Diamonds, did a small urgent of the album. It and the 7-inches fetched outrageous costs on Discogs. Proof of a Japanese cowl band popped up on YouTube. Then this yr Numero Group, maybe the preeminent miner of forgotten musical gems, began reissuing the band. You’ll be able to even purchase Everybody Requested About You T-shirts on the label’s web site. These reveals, together with one catered to of us who prefer to go to mattress early, come forward of the band enjoying Numero’s twentieth anniversary present in L.A. in February with the likes of Unwound and Karate.