Chris Parker

Vivian Girls with Abe Vigoda, Male Bonding and more8 p.m. MondayOpolis113 N. Crawford, Normanwww.opolis.org447-3417$10 Advance, $12 door$12 Advance, $14 door under 21 Our lives have gotten faster and faster, and the Internet has only amplified the pace. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the life of musicians. The transition from an unknown act to […]

Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds with Willie V. and Gandhi Hospital9 p.m. Mondaythe Conservatory8911 N. Westernwww.conservatoryokc.com879-9778$8 If you don’t know who Kid Congo Powers is, you should. From the late-’70s to mid-’90s, he played guitar for seminal punk acts The Gun Club, The Cramps and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. His […]

Turbo Fruits with Mondo Drag and the Boom Bang8 p.m. Sundaythe Conservatory8911 N. Westernwww.conservatoryokc.com879-9778$8 If Sunny D made garage rock, it might sound like the Turbo Fruits: crackling with barely restrained energy, thick-as-corn-syrup hooks and the joyful, childlike abandon of a recess with electric instruments. The Nashville, Tenn., trio recalls its late Memphis neighbor Jay […]

Will Kimbrough with Lucy Kaplansky9 p.m. Fridaythe Blue Door2805 N. McKinleywww.bluedoorokc.com524-0738$20 Most art doesn’t do happy very well. It’s probably too close to self-satisfied, the place where creativity goes to die. Certainly for a musician writing an upbeat song, it’s hard not to come across as either cloyingly earnest, completely naive or smugly superior. But […]

Trainwreck10 p.m. FridayVZD’s Restaurant & Club4200 N. Westernwww.vzds.com524-4200$14 When not regaling the world with his face-melting skills as the glabrous half of Tenacious D, or appearing in a variety of movie and TV roles, Kyle Gass stokes the fire that drives Trainwreck.The quintet is a sort of classic-rock answer to the D, offering knowing, mildly […]

James McMurtry with Jonny Burke8 p.m. FridayWormy Dog Saloon311 E. Sheridanwww.wormydog.com601-6276$10 Naturally, a lot of people want to talk to James McMurtry about how much influence his novelist/screenwriter father, Larry (“Lonesome Dove,” “Brokeback Mountain”), had on his career. It was pretty big, but not in the way you might think. The comparisons inevitably arise because […]

Stoney LaRue and the Arsenals 10:30 p.m. Saturday Wormy Dog Saloon 311 E. Sheridan www.wormydog.com 601-6276 $15  By his own admission, things have really fallen into place for Stoney LaRue. “I just fell into the right spot, got on the right train at the right point,” he said. “So far, I’ve been very blessed.” Of […]

We the Kings with Mayday Parade, A Rocket to the Moon and There for Tomorrow6:30 p.m. MondayDiamond Ballroom8001 S. Easternwww.diamondballroom.net866-966-1777$16 advance, $19door While the media fuels the furor over sexting and fears of rampant teenage promiscuity, ample evidence remains that innocence isn’t lost, and that youthful existence is still a lot more “Pretty in Pink” […]