Indie
Stephen Carradini
As a newly minted music producer, I’m now professionally invested in the way that recordings sound (which means I have even more distaste for the intentionally terrible recordings of the San Francisco garage-rock scene).
Wednesday 22 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: san francisco
Piñataland — Hymns for the Dreadful Night
Beautiful arrangements, skilled players and excellent production. What more could you want?
Indie
Stephen Carradini
As a newly minted music producer, I’m now professionally invested in the way that recordings sound (which means I have even more distaste for the intentionally terrible recordings of the San Francisco garage-rock scene).
The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Hendrix in the West / Winterland
How many different versions of ‘Hey Joe’ do you need to hear, really?
Rock
Matt Carney
I’m absolutely, totally, 100 percent, completely in support of reissues. There is great music in the past that often gets neglected or forgotten once the generation that popularized it ambles a few years into their first mortgages.
Hey! Dodo this
Their namesake may be extinct, but indie act The Dodos have a long-term plan for sticking around. It involves saying ‘no.’
Music
Becky Carman
The Dodos with The Luyas and Deerpeople
6:30 p.m. WednesdayOklahoma Memorial Union
900 Asp, Norman
cac.ou.edu
free
Occupy OKC
Watch interviews with a pair of Occupy movement protesters in Oklahoma City.
News
Clifton Adcock
Occupy OKC protesters set up camp in Kerr Park on Monday evening, beginning what they determined an indefinite occupation of the park.
We Were Here
Documentary
Phil Bacharach
It would have been understandable had “We Were Here” veered into the maudlin. The documentary, which recounts how San Francisco’s gay community united in the 1980s to combat the AIDS epidemic, has its share of gut-wrenching stories. But the film is admirably no-frills.
Royal Baths — Better Luck Next Life
Mix the dirty blues, paranoia and ugly guitars, and you’ve got a winner of a sophomore album.
