All Seems Lost 5-11:30 p.m. March 7 89th Street –OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. facebook.com/89thstreetokc $10-$12 All Seems Lost’s follow-up to Unscathed might cut a little deeper.“There’s a lot more meaning and passion, definitely, that went into it,” drummer Geoff Hochstetler said. “We all were going through some major losses.” OKC’s All Seems Lost celebrates […]
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Jazz messengers
Kamasi Washington/Jeremy Thomas Quartet 8 p.m. March 7 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $30-$45 On the short car ride home from his brother’s choir concert, Jeremy Thomas, 13 at the time, heard something that changed his life. “My dad turned on the radio, and he stopped at the jazz station,” Thomas said. […]
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Sound bites
Chew 9 p.m. March 4 Red Brick Bar 311 E. Main St., Norman 405-579-6227 $3 If Chew guitarist Brett Reagan absolutely has to apply a label to his band’s music, he calls it “savage psych.” “We don’t really want to sound pinned down to anything,” Regan said. “For me, psychedelic music isn’t necessarily like garage […]
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Seldom herd
Home on the Range Sunday – June 30 Exhibit C Native Gallery & Gifts 1 E. Sheridan Ave., Suite 100 exhibitcgallery.com 405-767-8900 Free Home on the Range offers 20 different ways of looking at a buffalo. Exhibit C manager Tom Farris said the exhibition — on display Sunday-June 30 at Exhibit C Native Gallery & […]
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Absolute monarchy
Queen Caution’s Pisces Bash 8 p.m. Feb. 28 View 919 N. Virginia Ave. $10 | 18+ The first half of Queen Caution’s name comes from her mother. “When I was younger, I had a lot of self-esteem issues because I went to a dominantly white school, and I’m black and white,” Caution said. “So it […]
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Motorcycle diaries
The first time he saw a motorcycle, Tommy Bolton knew what he wanted to be when he grew up. “When I was about 6 years old, I started seeing them going up and down the street, and it was like, ‘This is what I want to do,’” Bolton said. “By the time I moved to […]
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Rats revisited
Dweezil Zappa: Hot Rats Live + Other Hot Stuff 1969 8 p.m. Feb. 28 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 Free It would be hard to prove, but Dweezil Zappa said there’s a “distinct possibility” he first heard Hot Rats in utero. But the liner notes of his father Frank Zappa’s album — […]
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Survivors’ guilt
The Library Friday-March 14 Carpenter Square Theatre 800 W. Main St. carpentersquare.com 405-232-6500 $5-$25 The Library opens with a 16-year-old high school student being rolled into an emergency room. “Riddled with fragments,” says the nurse. “Multiples shotgun blasts to chest and abdomen,” the surgeon replies. The play, which runs Friday-March 14 at Carpenter Square Theatre, […]
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Home cooking
Having Our Say Feb. 19-March 8 Lyric Theatre 1727 NW 16th St lyrictheatreokc.com 405-524-9312 $25-$64 Monique Midgette remembers her grandmother’s house — the sights, the sounds and the smells. “The house always smelled like food,” Midgette said. “Something was always cooking. You could always find some good food at my grandmother’s house, and there was […]
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Cover: Old school
The poster for 1984’s Beat Street promised “the music and breakdance explosion of the summer,” but for Brian Frejo, watching in a Capitol Hill movie theater, what happened after the movie might have been more important than anything on screen. “The movie was packed,” Frejo said, “and when we came out of the movie, in […]