Reared in rock with folk singer roots, red dirt music is often disparagingly referred to as “college country” in music towns outside Oklahoma and Texas. But that’s fine with Josh Abbott, a singer/songwriter and band leader from Texas. For Abbott and the rest of his band ” fiddle player and guitarist Preston Wait, drummer Edward […]
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OKC piano rock teaches ‘Science’ education
Oklahoma City piano-rocker Benji Kay has released “The Science of Sound,” a 10-song album from his electronic pop-project Love Is a Story. The upbeat album is peppered with vocoder-laced vocals, dance-pop electronic drums and peppy, catchy lyrical hooks. “If We Get Out, Let’s Make Out,” with its record-scratch background music and acoustic guitar is slower […]
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The Ettes return for another sweaty session at The Conservatory
Beneath the overdriven bass, fuzz-toned guitar and retro drum frenzy lurks a country tune. “That’s my favorite music,” singer Lindsay “Coco” Hames said. “All the songs start as a country song.” With a voice steeped in Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, Hames, 26, joins the rest of The Ettes ” drummer Maria “Poni” Silver and […]
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Locally produced, kindhearted comedy premieres
Arthur Bennett is off to college and on a mission. The 18-year-old (Jordan Brodess) has finally escaped his smart-mouthed sister (Magen Maddox), an awkward and generally uninvolved dad (Darryl Cox), and a overprotective, germ-phobic mom (Judith Pender) always at the ready with hand sanitizer and advice about bowel regularity. One last irritating trip in the […]
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Oklahoma bands, performers shut out at SXSW
Oklahoma bands and performers were absent from a list of more than 130 acts chosen for official performances at the 2009 South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Festival organizers vetted more than 10,000 applications for the March 18-22 festival and released a “first round” list of performers on Jan. 8. No Oklahoma-based bands […]
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Oklahoma City Zoo screens award-winning nature documentary
A free screening of an award-winning nature documentary will be held Thursday at the Oklahoma City Zoo. “America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie,” will unspool 6:30 p.m. at the zoo’s Rosser Conservation Education Center. The Nature Conservancy’s 2005 film explores a prairie ecosystem mired in a complex relationship with humans. “America’s Lost Landscape” is narrated […]
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Oklahoma brothers sing in prestigious choir
Two Comanche brothers have been invited to join a prestigious vocal ensemble slated to perform at a national conference in Oklahoma City this spring. Matthew and Scott Pitts, both University of Science and Arts students, were among the 50 college vocalists selected for the University Honor Chamber Choir, which will perform two concerts at the […]
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OCMA screens Sundance-winning film about rural Mississippi
Filmed in rural Mississippi, “Ballast” details the lives of a family coping with suicide and poverty. The feature-length debut from director Lance Hammer won awards for direction and cinematography at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and has been nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards. The film screens 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and 5:30 and 8 p.m. […]
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The Fortune Tellers reunite for a New Year’s Eve show
Considered local legends by many metro music fans, The Fortune Tellers reunite tonight for a New Year’s Eve show in Oklahoma City. Returning to the metro from Greece, guitarist Miho Kolliopoulos will join his brother Basile and bassist Victor Goetz for tonight’s concert. Well-known in the 1980s, The Fortune Tellers headlined large shows throughout the […]
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Opening Night will feature dozens of bands, musicians
Dozens of bands and musicians will perform for New Year’s Eve crowds tonight during “Opening Night” events scattered throughout downtown Oklahoma City. The 7-11:30 p.m. event, sponsored by the Arts Council of Oklahoma City, will feature performances from known locals like Junebug Spade, Lemma, Ford Chastain and Edgar Cruz (pictured). A midnight fireworks display at […]