Music
Stephen Carradini
If you’re going to be playing mournful New Orleans jazz, you better have a broken heart, a gritty voice and a talented band.
Saturday 18 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Band
'Grow' into it
Music
Stephen Carradini
If you’re going to be playing mournful New Orleans jazz, you better have a broken heart, a gritty voice and a talented band.
Leggo my emo
Jimmy Eat World is the reluctant luminary of emo, stuck in ‘The Middle’ of the genre, but paying it no mind
Music
Phil Bacharach
Jimmy Eat World with David Bazan & Band
7 p.m. Saturday
Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern
www.diamondballroom.net
677-9169
$22 advance, $24 door
Roping in ears
With a debut album as fresh as morning dew, Braids entangle ears nationwide with their purposeful patterns of experimental rock
Music
Joshua Boydston
Braids with Native Lights and Gentle Ghost
9 p.m. Wednesday Opolis
113 N. Crawford, Norman
www.opolis.org, 820-0951
$8
Divine Grace
Don’t hate Grace Potter because she’s beautiful. Love her because she and her band have broken through with old-school rock.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals with Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights
7 p.m. Sunday
Coca-Cola Bricktown Events Center, 425 E. California
ticketstorm.com, 866-966-1777
$17.50 advance, $20 door
Purple Church - Woodsporn/Hayseed EPs
Indie
Stephen Carradini
I hadn’t even heard the “Woodsporn” EP before I was impressed with Oklahoma City band Purple Church, because anything that comes handnumbered, hand-printed and sporting a mini-zine (complete with fold-out mini-poster!) as liner notes is pretty impressive.
Blasting off
Oklahoma, we have no problem. The Rockettops are ready to soar into space from their launchpad at ACM@UCO.
Music
Joshua Boydston
The Rockettops with fos and Matt Stansberry Band
7 p.m. Saturday
ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 323 E. Sheridan
acm-uco.com,974-4700
$6
Life’s a beach
‘Down’ may have long been a radio memory, but 311 still adds up for plenty of funkhungry fans of the ’90s airplay mainstay.
Music
Joshua Boydston
311 with The Pretty Black Chains
7 p.m. Friday
Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern
diamondballroom.net, 677-9169
$35 Advance, $40.75 Door
Space invaders
With a name like Aliens Vs. Robots, you’d expect these Oklahoma City indie rockers to be interstellar. They are.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Aliens Vs. Robots with Hundredsomethings
9 p.m. Friday
VZD’s Restaurant and Club, 4200 N. Western
vzds.com, 524-4203
$5
Got milk?
It's a milkshake of bluegrass, classical and jazz.
Music
Chris Parker
More chamber quartet than string band, alt-folk act MilkDrive takes gallons of influence from bluegrass.
He’s Poppe-ular
Nakedness will always get you press.
CFN
Gazette staff
The Oklahoma Film and Music Office’s Buffalo Lounge at the Austin, Texas, music conference South by Southwest drew more famous people than CFN intern Bucky’s favorite TV show, “The View.”
