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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dropkick Murphys will drop into OKC for Pre-St.Patrick's Day event


Charles Martin March 6th, 2008

Celtic punk rockers the Dropkick Murphys will give Oklahoma City a swift kick of Irish pride just ahead of St. Patty's Day as they perform at 7 p.m. March 6 at the Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern. T...

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Celtic punk rockers the Dropkick Murphys will give Oklahoma City a swift kick of Irish pride just ahead of St. Patty's Day as they perform at 7 p.m. March 6 at the Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern. Tickets are $22.

 

The Boston band unites bruising guitars, furious mandolins, a bit o' bagpipe and growling barroom anthems that lend a new set of teeth to the drinking songs of yore.

 

Sports fans have long been familiar with the Dropkick Murphys since the renaissance of Boston-area sports. The band has reworked many traditional folk songs, but struck a chord with Red Sox fans with the ode-to-the-early-1900s Boston rallying cry "Tessie." It was released just before the Sox's historic championship that snapped an 86-year drought.

 

THE WOODY GUTHRIE CONNECTION

Although the chest-thumping, seafaring tune "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" can be heard during games of all that area's major professional franchises, it transcended into a well-known national anthem when it was used in Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning 2006 crime epic "The Departed."

 

Lyrics for the song, which the band released on its 2005 "The Warrior's Code" album, were actually written by Oklahoma folk legend Woody Guthrie in the Forties. The band was invited by Guthrie's daughter, Nora, to check out the archives because her son was a Dropkick fan, according to archives administrator Michael Smith. 

 

Sports arena songs and Billboard charts are all just icing on the cake to vocalist Al Barr and the band, but the music and energetic live crowds are the reason that the Dropkick Murphys are still going strong after more than a decade.

 

"The nice thing about this band is the crazy devoted fans," he said. "When you see the crowd going off on your music, it makes you reach down for an extra bit."  - Charles Martin

 
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