Three of Norman’s best, loudest bands help kick-start the school year with a whole mess of chaos that costs a whole lotta nothing.
Music Matt Carney Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Broncho and Chrome Pony 6:30 p.m. Friday East lawn, Oklahoma Memorial Union, University of Oklahoma, Norman ou.edu/uosa/cac.html free
It’s the end of the Zoo Amp as we know it, and Oklahoma City’s own The Flaming Lips will send it out in style. And blood.
Music Becky Carman The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs and New Fumes 5:30 p.m. Friday OKC Zoo Amphitheatre 2011 N.E. 50th zooamp.com 364-3700 free
Indie Joshua Boydston
Fowler Volkswagen general manager Jonathan Fowler wants Oklahoma to
become the indie Christmas-music capital of the world. With three
straight stellar Christmas albums Fowler VW has supported (all but the
first with Norman’s Blackwatch Studios), that wish feels more like
reality.
Rock Louis Fowler
The Flaming Lips’ latest cover album, Playing Hide and Seek with the
Ghosts of Dawn, is a song-by-song remake of King Crimson’s 1969 classic,
In the Court of the Crimson King. Naturally, it’s only available on
hard-to-get, limited-edition colored vinyl.