News
Joe Wertz
There aren't many teenagers who would be excited about packing everything up to move across the country after just starting high school.

News
Joe Wertz
Angered by a Soundcheck story posted earlier this month, the drummer of Oklahoma City rock band Hinder, flanked by a two-man entourage and sporting his requisite headband, stopped by Oklahoma Gazette offices on Aug. 8 to visit with the article's author: me.

Music
Joe Wertz
A self-described music junkie from California with a concert habit regularly fed by trips to large-scale festivals around the country, Steph Anderson knew little about The Flaming Lips as she glanced over a schedule of bands booked for Street Scene in the summer of 2005.