Danny Marroquin

Veteran punk performers The Queers will play in Oklahoma City June 12 at The Conservatory. Many years and beers have passed since The Queers formed in 1982 in Portsmouth, N.H., a rock ‘n’ roll reaction to that region’s androgynous-bent art community. Yet for singer Joe King, who goes by the moniker Joe Queer, neither time, […]

Hailing from Atlanta, all-girl band The Coathangers will play at Norman’s Opolis. To paraphrase “There Will Be Blood,” they’ve built up their hatreds over the years, little by little. But the girls in the hard-charging four-piece band The Coathangers have a good time releasing their hatreds in music before they fester. Take “Buckhead Betty,” a […]

The Helio Sequence will play along with Crocodile and Dance, Robots Dance! at Opolis in Norman. The Oregon band evolved after two events put The Helio Sequence’s future into a kind of limbo. First, drummer Benjamin Wiekel sat in on recording sessions with acclaimed rockers Modest Mouse, laying down rhythm parts on 2004’s chart-topping “Good News […]

Indie country rockers Neva Dinova will perform at The Conservatory in Oklahoma City Thursday in support of its latest release, “You May Already Be Dreaming,” a layered mix of slow picking guitars, imaginative lyrics (“I’m walking through traffic like I’m a prophet / There’s no one to stop it”), echoing piano and traditional country sounds […]

Those still hungry for a megamember music collective after The Polyphonic Spree’s performance at last month’s Norman Music Festival can feast on sounds from the Southern-fried psychedelic rock group Dark Meat, which will stretch the stage space Sunday at The Conservatory. “We’ll have 17 (members) at least ” probably more,” bassist/vocalist Ben Clack said, before […]

On Saturday, El Paso Hot Button will officially release the “Jungle Fever” EP, a split-album effort with Attractive and Popular, a Hot Springs, Ark.-based rock band whose half of the album is titled “Live from Hell.” PERFORMANCEBoth bands will join local rockers The Neighborhood, DJ John Bourke and Sunshine Bear for a Saturday show at […]