Music
Joshua Boydston
Paperscissor with Horse Thief and So Called Savages
8:30 p.m. Friday
The Conservatory
8911 N. Western
conservatoryokc.com
607-4805
$10
Saturday 25 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: punk
Kindest cut
Oklahoma City band Paperscissor crafts a punk-rock sound as far away from stripped-down as it can get.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Paperscissor with Horse Thief and So Called Savages
8:30 p.m. Friday
The Conservatory
8911 N. Western
conservatoryokc.com
607-4805
$10
Aw, Swell
Not too punky, not too poppy, The Swellers know one thing: If they weren’t any good, they wouldn’t be celebrating their first decade.
Music
Joshua Boydston
The Swellers with And So It Goes, Just Marco and The Next Wave
6 p.m. Friday
The Conservatory
8911 N. Western
conservatoryokc.com
607-4805
$8-$10
The gap
The bluegrass of Black Canyon bears roots darker than the rest. Proof is in the Oklahoma City act’s newest material.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Black Canyon with Beau Jennings & The Tigers and Defining Times
9 p.m. Friday
Blue Note Lounge
2408 N. Robinson
thebluenotelounge.com
600-1166
$5
Affair of the hard
Street punk is where it’s at for Violent Affair, spiked with an unlikely coupling of hardcore and 8-bit.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Violent Affair
8 p.m. Thursday and Monday
The Conservatory
8911 N. Western
conservatoryokc.com
607-4805
$10-$12 Thursday, $8 Monday
Hostage situation
Keep calm and carry on? Not for Hostage Calm, an act for whom backing social causes are as important as making punk music.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Hostage Calm with Lost Empires and They Stay Dead
7 p.m. Monday
VZD’s Restaurant & Club
4200 N. Western
vzds.com
524-4203
$5
Foreign Home — How Strange the Night
Indie
Joshua Boydston
Arena-ready indie rock sounds like a bit of a contradiction, but with bands like The Black Keys, Muse and Kings of Leon all headlining the biggest venues in town, the weird subspace is here to stay.
Hank airin’
Punk icon Henry Rollins continues to air his grievances — only now, through another act.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Henry Rollins
7 p.m. Monday
Diamond Ballroom
8001 S. Eastern
diamondballroom.net
677-9169
$19-$24
Two Snakes — Cut Them Down
Rock
Joshua Boydston
Who needs Red Bull, 5-hour Energy or a Thermos of coffee when you can consume Oklahoma City rock act Two Snakes’ EP, Cut Them Down, in less than 10 minutes? It plays like an adrenaline shot: quick, ballsy, addictive.
Movin’ Melvins
Presidential candidates aren’t the only ones scouring the states. So are punk’s Melvins, on the march for a Guinness World Record.
Music
Joshua Boydston
The Melvins Lite with Tweakbird
9 p.m. Saturday
Opolis
113 N. Crawford, Norman
opolis.org
820-0951
$15
Lost Empires — Death and Evil Beasts
Rock
Joshua Boydston
Oklahoma is flush with Southern and hard-rock acts, but there’s a narrower selection of quality straight-ahead metal bands. Enter Lost Empires.
