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IndianGiver — Plafond EP

If you were to peruse the “About” section of IndianGiver’s Facebook page, you’ll notice how the instruments attributed to each of the Oklahoma City band’s five members are described with downright flippancy: Dylan Jordan plays “sticks & animal skins,” while Jazzton Rodriguez earns his keep with “shanties & loud noises,” and so on.
05/22/2013 | Comments 0

Various artists — Never Give Up: Celebrating 10 Years of The Postal Service

Few indie bands have had the impact on current music that The Postal Service has. Even fewer have done so with only one album.
05/15/2013 | Comments 0

Big Worm — Bench All-Stars

Fans of the comedy classic Friday may recognize the name Big Worm, but the Big Worm behind Bench All-Stars is rooted not in South Central L.A., but on the streets of Oklahoma City.
05/08/2013 | Comments 0

Code 22 — Going Soft: The Acoustic Album!

The guys of Oklahoma City’s Code 22 seem like a likable group of fellas. Their latest release, Going Soft: The Acoustic Album!, is likable enough as well — so likable that on first listen, I took its clean, acoustic sound and clear, unstressed vocals as an alternative praise-and-worship band.
05/08/2013 | Comments 0

Eureeka — Polysynthetic Fields

It’s always refreshing to hear music that embraces its own eccentricity, yet presents it in an accessible and meek fashion. Eureeka — the Norman-based duo of Jordan Vargas and Devin Wahl — has tapped into this rarified air on its self-released EP, Polysynthetic Fields.
05/08/2013 | Comments 0
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Billy Joe Winghead celebrating 15 years with new album


Charles Martin October 18th, 2007

Tiki-bar punk band Billy Joe Winghead is a landlocked and languishing in Middle America has a new album, "Dark Ride" " a shot of Butthole Surfers-style psychedelics chased with some swamp-water blue...

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Tiki-bar punk band Billy Joe Winghead is a landlocked and languishing in Middle America has a new album, "Dark Ride" " a shot of Butthole Surfers-style psychedelics chased with some swamp-water blues.

Any Okie listener immediately will attach to the Leadbelly cover "Bourgeois Blues." Lead singer John Manson adapts the song for his hometown with the line, "Don't you get a home in Oklahoma City, 'cause it's a bourgeois town!" Mason insists it's not an indictment of Oklahoma City " well, sort of.

"In Oklahoma City, we feel comfortably ignored, and if no one is watching what you're doing, then you're free to do anything and not worry how it will go over," Manson said. "Half the band lives in Tulsa, half lives in Oklahoma City, and we've settled into relative obscurity in both towns and that's how we like it."

Billy Joe Winghead's CD release show is 9 p.m. Friday at The Blue Note, 2408 N. Robinson. For more information call 524-5678. "Charles Martin

 
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