You might call Jimmy LaFave the Cal Ripken Jr. of the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. In 16 years, the singer-songwriter and founding father of Red Dirt hasn’t missed a single hour of the five-day festival.
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Album review: Kierston White — Don’t Write Love Songs
The Tequila Songbirds have become just as beloved as about any group around these parts.
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L.A.-via-Oklahoma trio Modern Pantheist found spark on West Coast
Chris Anderson was a fixture of the Oklahoma music scene for much of the past 10 years, both as the chief force behind The Electric Primadonnas and co-founder of The Wurly Birds. And he prospered here, with each project garnering sizable local — even regional — followings.
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Rocker Chipper Jones brings influences to metaphorical dugout
The Austin-based indie duo is little more than a year old, but the musical collaboration has been a lifetime in the making.
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Album review: Tyson Meade — Tomorrow in Progress
Tyson Meade might not be a household name (outside of his home state of Oklahoma, at least), but his influence on the scope of alternative music is just as indelible as that of Lou Reed, David Bowie or Morrissey.
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Doug Schwarz had a beautiful moment a couple years ago, lying underneath the starlight after an impromptu birthday party and concert on the quiet, wide-open spaces offered by one of his family’s farms.
Doug Schwarz had a beautiful moment a couple years ago, lying underneath the starlight after an impromptu birthday party and concert on the quiet, wide-open spaces offered by one of his family’s farms.
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Okemah native John Fullbright writes music with his listeners in mind
Amid celebrity comparisons and a Grammy nomination, this small-town Oklahoma songwriter isn’t letting big-time success get to his head.
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The minds behind Perfect Pussy didn’t figure they’d make much of a peep outside of their native Syracuse when the five of them came together as a fake band for a film.
The minds behind Perfect Pussy didn’t figure they’d make much of a peep outside of their native Syracuse when the five of them came together as a fake band for a film.
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There’s no one way to DIY, but Oklahoma hard rock outfit Anti-Mortem found the most quintessentially Oklahoma way to throw its own shows in the earliest days of the band.
There’s no one way to DIY, but Oklahoma hard rock outfit Anti-Mortem found the most quintessentially Oklahoma way to throw its own shows in the earliest days of the band.
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Album review: Deus Eyeslow — Lyrical Voodoo
With his third mixtape, Lyrical Voodoo, Deus Eyeslow feels primed and ready to ascend to the local scene’s upper echelon rather than fall back with the rest of the pack. The charismatic record is chock-full of whip-smart, progressive party rap brought to life with an ease that’s hard to come by — a glassy-eyed daze but racing mind echoing Curren$y or Schoolboy Q.