Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Stephen Carradini
The Point Blank Band — Sad Songs and Whiskey
Hot country with excellent songwriting
Country
Stephen Carradini
The Point Blank Band is a tight unit, as each member contributes to its hot country sound. The title track and opener features great bass and guitar work, a neat fiddle part, and Mike Novotny’s welcoming vocals, which deliver memorable, ear-catching melodies.
Paleo — Fruit of the Spirit
Outsider folk with gems to unearth
Folk
Stephen Carradini
Paleo’s acoustic guitar songs on “Fruit of the Spirit” call to mind a lot of different artists, for good or for ill.
Two Suns — Two Suns EP
Artsy electronic pop with a unique idiom
Electronica
Stephen Carradini
Although Two Suns’ beats, synth and guitar compositions are heavily electronic, it still feels as if electronics are just the foundation for the melodies.
Moz’ def
Think you know OK Mozart? Think again. For the first time, the long-running festival brings some unconventional acts — many of them Grammy winners — to the metro stage.
Music
Stephen Carradini
OK Mozart OKC Series
Monday-June 19
Rose State College Performing Arts Theatre, 6000 Trosper, Midwest City
OKMozart.com, 297-2264
Pipe dreams
For free entertainment throughout the metro, the key is in a series of organ concerts.
Doc ’n’ roll
In the local music scene, there’s a lot going on, and a web series now in its second season proves it.
Music
Stephen Carradini
Two guys from Los Angeles show up in Oklahoma City because they’re going to shoot a music documentary.
Manchester Orchestra — Simple Math
Passionate, excellent indie-rock tunes
Indie
Stephen Carradini
It’s pretty weird that there hasn’t been any monolithic indie-rock disc to polarize the blog masses so far this year, as we had Beach House to love or hate before January was up in 2010.
Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle — We Still Love Our Country
Gorgeous country duets and ballads abound
Country
Stephen Carradini
Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle’s “We Still Love Our Country” follows a very simple formula: Beautiful female vocals + easygoing male vocals + country standards + gentle acoustic-based accompaniment = an album of duets that’s an absolute gem, because they found an excellent plan and stuck with it for a wonderful half-hour.
The Indie Rock Poster Book — Yellow Bird Project and Andy J. Miller
Indie designers take indie songs and make indie posters. What’s not to love?
Nonfiction
Stephen Carradini
Yellow Bird Project is a charity organization that allows musicians and visual artists to do what they do best for charity: create art.
Hendrix: Band of Gypsys Live at Fillmore East
A doc and rare concert in one package!
Documentary
Stephen Carradini
“Hendrix: Band of Gypsys Live at Fillmore East” is a documentary and full concert from the short-lived group that Jimi Hendrix headed up in late 1969 and early 1970.
Dr. Pants — The Trip Side 1: Illusion & Truth
Tight pop songwriting with a sense of humor
Pop
Stephen Carradini
The cumbersomely named “The Trip Side 1: Illusion & Truth” by Dr. Pants suffers no such songwriting problems in its six tracks.
The Workweek — Promises, Promises
Country
Stephen Carradini
Oklahoma City’s The Workweek follows The Jayhawks and Wilco in making the lines between folk, country and rock negligible on its debut release, “Promises, Promises.”
Death Cab for Cutie — Codes and Keys
Indie-poppers' best album since the early 2000s
Indie
Stephen Carradini
To its benefit and ill, Death Cab for Cutie has never made the same album twice.
Def, not dumb
Still together after nearly a quarter of a century, Deftones are smart enough to keep hammering out metal that matters.
Music
Stephen Carradini
Deftones with The Dillinger Escape Plan and Le Bucherettes
7 p.m. Wednesday, June 1
Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern
Diamondballroom.net, 677-9169
$28
Pan-seared sounds
Your fortune reads: 'Lo-Pan will blast your ears with some tasty metal.'
Music
Stephen Carradini
Lo-Pan with Gypsyhawk, Dischordia and Foreign Contaminant
7:30 p.m. Sunday
The Conservatory, 8911 N. Western
ConservatoryOKC.com, 607-4805
$7
