It’s official: An Oklahoman now wears the crown of music royalty. Garth Brooks dethroned “The King” Elvis Presley, to become the best-selling solo artist of all time, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Brooks was given the honor, along with a special Career Award last week, during a ceremony on Brooks’ star on […]
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The Flaming Lips celebrate alley dedication
Confetti cannons, giant balloons and a monstrous inflated caterpillar creature marked the occasion as fans, freaks and city officials gathered today in Bricktown to celebrate an alley named after local live music legends the Flaming Lips. Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne stood on a stage near the ballpark, surrounded by an entourage of people […]
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Flaming Lips Alley’s official dedication slated Thursday
If you have lunch plans on Thursday, you should cancel them. And if they involve going anywhere near Bricktown, they will probably need to be rescheduled. The dedication of Flaming Lips Alley, which runs between the AT&T Bricktown Ballpark and the LiT Lounge, will start at 11:30 a.m. near the Mickey Mantle entrance to the […]
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Hard-rock duo Jucifer tours in RV
It’s been more than four years since Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood’s Georgia rent house was sold while they toured and they made the decision literally to live a life on the road. Together, Valentine and Livengood are Jucifer ” a frenetic, genre-warping rock band that has been a national touring mainstay for more than […]
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Norman’s Yacht Club! celebrates new CD with show
The Norman indie foursome Yacht Club! will be hosting a CD release party at The Opolis Friday night. With Edmond’s The Neopolitans and OKC band The City Lives opening the show up ” and turntable tunes provided by Dance Robots, Dance! ” the event is sure to provide hours of cool music and dancing. Despite […]
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Childhood move forced alt-country’s Votolato to pursue music
But singer/songwriter and guitarist Rocky Votolato moved to Seattle from Dallas when he was 15, thrusting him into an “entirely different world” that made an impression in his voice and his songs that one still can hear more than a decade later. “Oh, I put up a fight,” Votolato, now 30, said about the forced […]
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Hinder among 2007 nominees for Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame
Six more state musicians have been chosen as additions to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, including:” a platinum-selling modern-rock band, ” country singers and ” a legendary guitar player. The 2007 nominees will be inducted formally into the hall of fame at a Nov. 1 ceremony at the Muskogee Civic Assembly Center. COUNTRYSammi Smith, […]
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Tulsa-born Aqueduct brings act back to state
Oklahoma native David Terry laid the groundwork for his group, Aqueduct, in Tulsa, where he is from and where his family still lives. “Living in Tulsa definitely made me more hungry for music. The scene there now isn’t at all what it was, even just a few years ago,” Terry said. “Just driving to Dallas, […]
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Yukon cow stuck in silo made headlines in 1949
On Feb. 22, 1949, a Hereford cow named Grady had just given birth inside a barn at Bill and Alyne Mach’s farm in Yukon, according to daughter-in-law Pam Mach. After the attending veterinarian told Bill Mach to untie her, the 1,200-pound Grady bolted into a feed silo attached to the barn. The access door had […]
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Pick your pumpkin from variety of local patches
Pumpkins grow in the ground, not in the asphalt outside the local grocery store, so why not head to a metro patch to grab your orange orb? Oklahoma Gazette wants your autumn to be awesome, so we did the work for you and scooped out the most scenic spots to shop for the seasonal squash. […]