Tuesday 21 May
 
 
CD reviews

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

Tom Skinner — Tom Skinner

Sincerity is nearly dead in songwriting. The image of the earnest singer with eyes tightly shut and a crack in his voice as he plunges to emotional depths has become a joke.
05/08/2013 | Comments 0

VOTD: Turtle power!


What happens when three Okie VOTD regulars combine forces? You’ve got to see it to believe it.

By Matt Carney March 1st, 2012

Local garage-punk miscreants The Boom Bang and directors Kyle Roberts and Nathan Poppe are no strangers to VOTD’s digital pages. Before they explode your brains with their new venture, let’s review where we saw each of them last.

Inspired by Teen Wolf, The Boom Bang were dressing their friends up in fur and surfing on top of vans for “Jabroni Ramoney.”

Roberts most recently shot a spiffy, short music video with Defining Times’ Chase Kerby with a GoPro HD, but you might recall all the noise he made with his super-cool, stop-motion, video-game vid with The Nghiems back in October.

And Poppe last showed up with some New Year’s Eve Freakout footage of Phantogram that I was happy to assist him with.

But this glorious day, they’ve combined their powers to generate their own take on a gem from our collective childhood: the intro to the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. What follows basically combines Poppe’s drawings, Roberts’ stop-motion discipline (which he said required three months’ work when he stopped by the Gazette’s office last week), and The Boom Bang’s super-shredding, and it’s beautiful.
 
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