God bless metal

Becoming the Archetype with Bermuda, The Burial, Horror Cosmic and Veil of Suffering
6 p.m. Saturday
The Conservatory
8911 N. Western
conservatoryokc.com
607-4805
$12-$14

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Here for the party

Gretchen Wilson with Outlaw Son
6 p.m. Thursday
Newcastle Casino
2457 U.S. 62, Newcastle
mynewcastlecasino.com
387-6013
free

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Bright stripes

Tiger High with Cosmonauts and The Garden
10 p.m. Monday
Kamps 1310 Lounge
1310 N.W. 25th
kamps1310lounge.com
819-6004
$5

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Reverb brotherhood

Basile Benefit Bash with The True Believers, The Fortune Tellers, The Reverb Brothers, DJ Jon Mooneyham and more
9 p.m. Friday-Saturday
VZD’s Restaurant & Club
4200 N. Western
vzds.com
524-4203
$20 Friday, $10 Saturday

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Back to basics

O Fidelis with Chelsey Cope
9 p.m. Thursday
Wormy Dog Saloon
311 E. Sheridan
wormydog.com
601-6276
free

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CDs

Smith Westerns — Dye It Blonde

Packages 70 years of pop/rock into one fantastic album

Pop
Stephen Carradini
You know what’s often lost in hip and new sounds? Good songs. This is why chillwave was doomed. It was awesome, but who remembers it, other than a cloudy haze?

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Emily Arin — Patch of Land

Baffling, awe-inspiring and calming all at once

Folk
Stephen Carradini
Many artists do what they do within a framework that’s easily named: pop, folk, country, metal, etc.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Buried Beds — Tremble the Sails

Some good songs reside on a conflicted release

Pop
Stephen Carradini
Buried Beds wants to be a charming pop band and a serious act at the same time.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Unwritten Law — Swan

Do you miss rock in '02? You'll love this.

Rock
Stephen Carradini
You never really forget your first love, and my initial musical passion was turn-of-the-millenium pop-punk like Blink-182 and Sum 41.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Lelia Broussard — Masquerade

Will soon be breezing through the indie scene with perkiness and wonder

Pop
Stephen Carradini
Sometimes it’s hard to pin down what’s so great about an album.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Elbow — Build a Rocket Boys!

Mushy, mid-tempo pop tunes

Rock
Stephen Carradini
The raw attitude and stripped-down power of Elbow’s 2008 tune “Grounds for Divorce” make it one of my favorite indie-rock songs ever.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Bob Dylan — In Concert: Brandeis University

A must-have for Dylan collectors

Folk
Rob Collins
A year before The Beatles exploded on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Bob Dylan planned to perform “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” in the spring of 1963 for a national TV audience.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Dam Mantle — First Wave

A weird, wonderful electronic anomaly

Electronica
Stephen Carradini
Dam Mantle’s “First Wave” is an weird, wonderful anomaly. It’s some sort of glitchy, electronic music, but instead of being cold and robotic, it’s vivid and full of life.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Dirty Vegas — Electric Love

Sunny, optimistic Vegas, this time

Electronica
Rod Lott
If all you know of Dirty Vegas is its dark, omnipresent 2002 hit, “Days Go By,” you’ll be surprised by the trio’s third album, “Electric Love,” its first in seven years.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Noah and the Whale — Last Night on Earth

Folk band goes synth-rock?

Pop
Stephen Carradini
There’s one less witty folk-pop group in the world, and one more synth-driven pop band.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Brianna Gaither — Love Is Patient

Piano pop on the short list for 'year's best album'

Pop
Stephen Carradini
Piano-based singer-songwriters are a dime a dozen, so it’s always a shock when one immediately jumps out from the first seconds of a track.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Toro Y Moi — Underneath the Pine

Chillwaver goes disco/funk

Indie
Stephen Carradini
I’m pretty sure the whole chillwave genre was born of nervousness. New artists, afraid of their own voice, cloaked everything in waves of reverb.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Yuck — Yuck

Chapel Hill 1994 lives!

Rock
Stephen Carradini
Sometimes people buzz about a thing so that they can be excited about something. Some guy will promote a thing so that if more people get on the bandwagon, he can say he discovered it.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The Mountain Goats — All Eternals Deck

Great songs that aren't cohesive at all

Indie
Stephen Carradini

It’s hard to be on the other side of a masterpiece.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Monty Harper — Songs From the Science Frontier

Not your average kids' CD

Eclectic
Stephen Carradini
If adults dumb things down unnecessarily for kids, then Monty Harper’s not your average adult.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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