Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Matt Carney
The Del Toros — Young Blood Rising
Pop
Matt Carney
If you didn’t pick up on a sense of the dramatic while listening to white boy soul-rockers The Del Toro’s 2010 full-length debut “Come Down,” then there’s probably something wrong with your audio speakers. Or ears.
The Weeknd — Echoes of Silence
The best trilogy since ‘Lord of the Rings.’ At least in the field of eerie, Canadian R&B.
Hip Hop/Rap
Matt Carney
Two leering, damaged R&B mixtapes in and I was nearly certain that provocative Toronto collective The Weeknd (the brainchild of remarkable singer Abel Tesfaye) had exhausted its scuzzy-production-and-luxurious pop-voice-singing-about-banging-groupies shtick.
Peer review
Local musicians dish on the music that got their toes tapping in 2011, both local and national.
Good King Friday — Good King Friday
Eclectic
Matt Carney
The University of Oklahoma music department proved to be the intersection of a stellar symphonic-pop record.
In the ’zona
Headed west, sports fans? Tote this Arizona agenda along for your OU and OSU bowl season touring.
Peach — Peachy-P
Forecast: Thunder
With a bitter lockout now in the past, the Thunder is in position to contend for this season’s NBA title.
Sports
Matt Carney
Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Orlando Magic
7 p.m. Sunday
Chesapeake Energy Arena
100 W. Reno
nba.com/thunder
602-8700
$157.05-$289.75
The Black Keys — El Camino
Good job, whoever convinced Danger Mouse to loosen up a bit.
Rock
Matt Carney
Drummer and hilarious tweeter Patrick Carney recently explained DJ Danger Mouse’s (aka Brian Burton, the production half of Gnarls Barkley) role producing “El Camino,” The Black Keys’ seventh LP in nine years: “For this album, The Black Keys became a three-piece band.”
Horse Thief — Grow Deep, Grow Wild
Indie
Matt Carney
Local psych-rock outfit Horse Thief’s first album, “Grow Deep, Grow Wild,” blasts open with a Gothic church organ undercut by some very subtle guitar scratching for texture.
Villainy
Sonic tough dudes Bona Fide Villains want to creep out their fellow Okies. Bwah-ha-ha!
Music
Matt Carney
Bona Fide Villains with Them Hounds and Dirty Evil People
10 p.m. Saturday
Blue Note Lounge
2408 N. Robinson
thebluenotelounge.com
600-1166
Faster, Dischordia! Kill! Kill!
Oklahoma City metal trio Dischordia plays it fast and angry, but there’s more to it than that.
Music
Matt Carney
Dischordia with This Hideous Strength, Submerged In
Dirt and Look.Point.Whisper.
8 p.m. Friday
McSalty's Pizza
3000 N. Portland
943-3637
Dear Diaries
A new Oklahoma City band pushes for a gigantic sound and spectacle as it prepares for a big U.S. tour.
Music
Matt Carney
Modern Rock Diaries with Chrome Pony
8 p.m. Friday
VZD’S Restaurant & Club
4200 N.
Western
vzds.com
524-4203
$8 advance, $10 door
Ryan Parker — In Circles
Indie
Matt Carney
About two-thirds of the way through “What Is Light,” the eighth track on Oklahoma City singer/songwriter Ryan Parker’s “In Circles,” a melodic, piano-driven, chorus-less series of verses gives way into a worldbeat rhythm that evokes a living-room drum circle. This is the part where he asks about the light.
Pearl Jam Twenty
World-class rock geek Cameron Crowe offers a long-due doc on one of the ’90s’ biggest bands.
Documentary
Matt Carney
It’s no wonder the last song featured in “Pearl Jam Twenty” is fan favorite “Alive,” the searing five-and-a-half-minute grunge anthem that’s folded up and sealed in the all-time annals of rock ’n’ roll history by a Mike McCready guitar solo bestowed by the Stratocaster gods.
Nutrocker
It’s the most wonderful time of the year ... for epic, holiday-inspired, theatrical prog rock, courtesy of Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Music
Matt Carney
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
3 and 8 p.m. Saturday
Chesapeake Energy Arena
100 W. Reno
chesapeakearena.com
602-8700
$29-$57.50
