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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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Union labors

Bluegrass giants Alison Krauss and Union Station continue to pick and pluck their way to popular brilliance.


Music

Matt Carney
Alison Krauss and Union Station
7:30 p.m. Sunday
Civic Center Music Hall
201 N. Walker
okcciviccenter.com
$49.50-$59.50
297-2264
 
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Music Made Me: Cameron Neal

Horse Thief’s lead singer speaks about the five albums that he holds dear.


Music

Matt Carney

Grateful Dead, American Beauty (1970)
From the nine months before I was born until now, this album and every other album by The Grateful Dead has been playing in my life. The free-spirit sound and attitude of this band is a huge part of who I am today. This would be a band that has changed the way I’ve thought about more life situations than religion. The smooth feeling of folk with a blend of psychedelic sound waves on this album speaks to me in ways little music does.

 
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

My name is ____

We asked a bunch of local bands to tell us the origins of their names. Babies, zombies and Bible passages ensued.


Music

Matt Carney
Zombie vs. Shark
“Our name refers to the underwater fight scene in the 1979 Italian zombie flick Zombi 2. . It was [singer] Jeremy [Gragg]’s idea, but we all thought it was funny and appropriate for reasons we’ve nev ertheless found hard to articulate. But I’ll try. I imagine ‘Zombie vs. Shark’ as some-thing a preadolescent boy play ing with action figures would dream up as the ultimate fight scenario. A zombie fighting a shark is willful in its arbitrariness and, as such, it expresses a kind of enthusiastically staged conflict you can also hear in our music.” —Robert Scafe, guitarist
 
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Getting a Woody

With thousands of votes submitted, the people have spoken! Here are your winners of Oklahoma Gazette’s Woody Awards for 2012!


Music

Matt Carney, Rod Lott
Best in Rock: Broncho
Nobody in the metro regularly plays more exciting shows than pop-punk savages Broncho. When that guitar riff and ensuing solo on “Pick a Fight” revs up, audiences just know to start hopping, shoving and yelping along with singer Ryan Lindsey, who’s unafraid of pushing and kicking back, nor getting his ass slapped mid-show. They may not “Really Wanna Be Social,” but they’re gonna have to suck it up because we love ’em a bunch.
 
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Swing sets

Kick back. Relax. Let the city’s next generation of lounge singers set the mood for the moment.


Music

Joshua Boydston
Lounge music never dies. The bad haircuts and cheesy outfits may have, but a new generation of performers in the metro still swing with a thoughtfulness and individuality that made crooners the toast of the town in the Rat Pack era.
 
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Randy melodies

If a song a day keeps the doctor away, Randy Montgomery may be immortal. He’s on his way to 200 consecutive tunes.


Music

Mia Cantu
Folk and blues artist Randy Montgomery started making music when he was 14 years old. As a self-taught guitar player, he would mimic the ways of his musical idols, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie.
 
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Band of brothers

With Stop the World, the siblings of alt-rock’s Aranda prove their start was no finish.


Music

Joshua Boydston
Aranda with 9 Left Dead, TwoFold and Spinal Cross
7 p.m. Saturday
Diamond Ballroom
8001 S. Eastern
diamondballroom.net
677-9169
$9
 
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Kick it

Thanks to the website Kickstarter, local musicians increasingly find it easier to fund albums before recording a single note.


Music

Joshua Boydston
Most local musicians don’t live like rock stars. It’s usually a part-time gig, more about the passion than the luxuries it brings.
 
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Hare hear

As Hare Tracks, collegian and OKC native Mac Kennedy is one of countless in-home music recorders the Internet enables.


Music

Matt Carney
Were he born 10 years earlier, Mac Kennedy may not be a musician today.
 
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Grand Ambassadors

Looking for your next favorite New York indie-rock outfit? We proudly present Ambassadors.


Music

Matt Carney

Ambassadors with Lights
7 p.m. Tuesday
Cain’s Ballroom
423 N. Main, Tulsa
cainsballroom.com
918-584-2306

 
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Remembering Davy

An Oklahoma man lost a lifelong friend with the passing of the Monkees’ Davy Jones.


Music

Matt Carney
Even before (and well after) Larry White moved to Los Angeles in 1974 to manage the career of The Monkees’ Davy Jones, fun ensued.
 
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Rock solid

Chevelle likes it hard. Rock, that is. Staying true to that ideal has kept the band at the top.


Music

Joshua Boydston

Chevelle with Middle Class Rut and Janus
7 p.m. Friday

Diamond Ballroom

8001 S. Eastern

diamondballroom.net

677-9169

$24 advance, $29 door

 
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Flight pattern

Diving in to kick off the Heartland Summit Jazz series are Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds. Cheap!


Music

Joshua Boydston
Heartland Summit Jazz Concert
with Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds and Cooking with John & Dave
7:30-10:30 p.m. Thursday
Meacham Auditorium
900 Asp, Norman
jazzinjune.org
325-3388
$5-$10
 
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Buffa-loaded

Oklahoma’s best and brightest head to Texas to hit South by Southwest hard. The Buffalo Lounge will help them hit even harder.


Music

Matt Carney
Each year, Austin, Texas’ media smorgasbord known as South by Southwest draws visitors by the hundreds of thousands, each looking for the next big cultural thing. Wouldn’t it be awesome if that thing came from here?
 
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Home sweet ’homa

Despite once proclaiming, ‘I Ain't Got No Home,’ Woody Guthrie will be feted with an all-star centennial concert from just that.


Music

Ryan LaCroix
This Land Is Your Land Tribute Concert
7:30 p.m. Saturday
Brady Theater
105 W. Brady, Tulsa
woody100.com
$53.50-$273.50
 
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
 
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