Rock
Joshua Boydston
Oklahoma City’s Copperheads have remained relatively quiet this year — ironic, given that the punk outfit stands alongside The Boom Bang and Shitty/Awesome as the metro’s loudest rock bands.
Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: debut
Copperheads — Apocalyptic Behavior
Rock
Joshua Boydston
Oklahoma City’s Copperheads have remained relatively quiet this year — ironic, given that the punk outfit stands alongside The Boom Bang and Shitty/Awesome as the metro’s loudest rock bands.
Mouthing off
Taking his turn at a solo run, Purple Mouth Bandits member Wiley Merrell bears his paws as local rapper Wildcat.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Wildcat with Jon Tefic and Militant Mindz
9 p.m. Friday
Opolis
113 N. Crawford, Norman
opolis.org
820-0951
$5
Ex marks the hot
For boundary-breaking punk, the new group Ex-Cult is all set to brainwash you.
Boner jams
The Texas dream-poppers of Skeleton Coast couldn’t have picked a more appropriate role model for their music: The Flaming Lips.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Skeleton Coast with Depth & Current and New Fumes
8 p.m. Friday
Opolis
113 N. Crawford, Norman
opolis.org
820-0951
$8
A$AP Rocky — Long.Live.A$AP.
Hip Hop/Rap
Ryan Querbach
Harlem, New York, rapper A$AP Rocky has released his highly anticipated debut album, Long.Live.A$AP.
Amanda Earhart — Tell Me What You Want
Pop
Alyssa Grimley
Amanda Earhart’s sound is hard to categorize. Think today’s pop, but with fewer thump-thump club beats and synthesizers, traded for more undoctored vocals and guitar. Throw in a dash of country twang and a sprinkling of piano and violin, and that’s a start.
Cave in
After a long hibernation, Kansas City indie poppers The Caves finally break out a debut disc.
Music
Becky Carman
The Caves with Brother Bear
8 p.m. Friday
Opolis
113 N. Crawford, Norman
opolis.org
820-0951
$7
One in Three
Oklahoma City’s Nathan Mickle makes up a third of the new vocal group The American Three, dedicated to belting out standards.
Music
Louis Fowler
Press materials for The American Three tag the new vocal group as “fun and wholesome,” with a little Rat Pack thrown in “just for flavor!” It’s that extra flavor that Three member and lifelong Ol’ Blue Eyes fan Nathan Mickle believes fits his song stylings to a T.
Best in Show
Award-worthy comedy struts onto Blu-ray.
Comedy
Rod Lott
My favorite of Christopher Guest's mockumentaries is easily 2000’s Best in Show. While I think it helps to be a theater nerd to appreciate 1996’s Waiting for Guffman in full or a folk nut to opt for 2003’s A Mighty Wind, “must love dogs” is no requirement here. Love man’s best friend or hate him, the humor in Best in Show is less inside-baseball than its brothers.
