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Becky Carman
It's November, but somewhere in Massachusetts, Mike Kennerty is soaking up some unseasonably summery rays. Just as the warm weather has outlasted its usual tenure this year, even in the northeas...

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Becky Carman
College seems a funny time for rock musicians, where the optimism of your hundred closest high school friends faithfully attending every show dwindles. Dividing time, performers start paying the...

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Becky Carman
Sorry, Oasis. Reunions are the new band breakups. Members of No Doubt, Blink-182 and Pavement all cast aside their differences recently, and the trend has found its way to the metro-area music s...

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Becky Carman
What do Yoda, "CHiPs" and The Dead Milkmen have in common? On the surface, nothing really, unless you're JP Incorporated, in which case, these are all glimmers of what made you who you are today...

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Becky Carman
If you're hoping to congregate with 50,000 of Oklahoma's finest and freakiest, look no further than the Gazette's third annual Ghouls Gone Wild Halloween Parade. In conjunction with The Flaming ...

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Becky Carman
Got your full attention over hours of speculation / We're not running backwards, sings Matt Pryor, on the opening track of his band's 1999 EP, "Red Letter Day." "Don't you know that we love re...

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Becky Carman
A lifelong musician, Oklahoma City native Butch Johnson knows more than most how deeply music can affect the mind and body. TREATMENT PROGRAM GUITAR LES...

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Becky Carman
Rock stardom used to be so linear: Start band. Get signed. Meet girls. Make money. Buy drugs. Crash. Burn. Maintain a mystique, and live legendarily in the hearts and minds of your legions of fa...

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Becky Carman
Historically, when academic pursuits come to an end, it's generally important for early 20-somethings to put to rest their bohemian ways, to find gainful employment and eke out some semblance of...

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Becky Carman
Defensibly, the mid-'90s saw the death rattle of "real" punk rock. To the chagrin of purists everywhere, the popularity of bands like Green Day and Blink-182 brought the genre's message of rebel...

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Becky Carman
In the age of overnight Internet fame, "legwork" is often a foreign concept to new bands. The ultimate lack of memorable identity and real working friendships can mean a rapid demise for those w...

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Becky Carman
A veritable Kevin Bacon of Oklahoma music, it likely takes only a few steps to trace Chris Harris to any other local performer. As owner and recording engineer of Hook Echo Sound, behind the...

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Becky Carman
On the surface, Jacob Abello has a very 21-year-old life. He studies English literature at the University of Oklahoma and works part-time as a barista to get by. Since moving to Norman from his Tuttle hometown roughly two years ago, he has made a number of close friends on and around campus, but there's something they don't know about him.

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Becky Carman
Tinted Windows performs at 7 p.m. April 25 at Plunkett Park at the University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive in Edmond. Speaking in the collective "we" and perpetually reinforci...

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Becky Carman
It's an age-old cliché: A rocker leaves the stifling Midwest in the dust and rides westward into the sunset, eager to make it in the big city. In some sense, Beau Jennings is really living that ...