It’s been a quarter century since Blue made LeAnn Rimes the youngest Grammy Award-winning artist at the age of 14. Since, the multitalented artist has won a multitude of awards, not only for her music but for her advocacy and humanitarian work as well. On Sept. 16, the acclaimed performer will release her 19th studio […]
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Trip with kids
Trip G is for the children. From noon to 4 p.m. April 16, his popular monthly Oklahoma City hip-hop gathering Trip N Friends will lend its platform to the first-ever Trip N Kids festivity. The free event will host an Easter egg hunt at a noteworthy multi-purpose neighborhood park in OKC’s Eastside, Riley Leroy “Pitts” […]
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Indie overground
Some of the most up-and-coming artists in indie/alternative music have headlined Norman Music Festival since its inception, but that doesn’t stop naysayers from voicing unsolicited advice every year. While there has been an overwhelming fervor in comment sections over 2022’s big gets like The Drums, DIIV, Wet, and …And You Will Know Us by the […]
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Serendipitous Songs
When S. Reidy released “Abstract Gravity” as a single in the pre-COVID days of 2020, the longhaired, beanie-wearing Norman rapper didn’t know it would become the opening track to his new album. It was intended for a project called Open: Honesty, which he scrapped during the pandemic. The next year, following his well-regarded I Started […]
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Five years later…
In March 2017, my business partner Stephen Tyler and I had a dream to make Tower Theatre a world-class concert venue in the heart of our beloved Uptown 23rd entertainment district. We also had no money, an unfinished building, and an empty calendar. We were under intense pressure to open as soon as possible and […]
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Welcome to Beer City
While the original Beer City was a lawless and short-lived pre-statehood Panhandle town from which Beer City Music Hall took its name, the collective force behind the venue intends to bring the spirit of the town back to life in the form of a new 500-person music venue and survive much longer than the two […]
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YOLO with Yola
Stories abound of how musicians navigated the full-stop nature of the pandemic. For English singer-songwriter Yola, the extended COVID-19 pause gave her a chance to do a deep dive into herself with Stand For Myself, the follow-up album to her critically-acclaimed 2019 debut Walk Through Fire. While her introduction to the public came as a […]
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Family ties
Ciara Brooke and Brody Farrow go together like peanut butter and jelly, milk and cookies, macaroni and cheese. As a two-person brother/sister band, they are snack-size compared to some music groups, but for a new project rooted in sibling camaraderie, there is no need for a third ingredient. “You’d think we were twins,” said Brooke, […]
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Soundcheck: Jason Scott and The High Heat — Castle Rock
Castle Rock knows it’s amazing. Filled to the brim with crafty songwriting and smart arrangements, it could dazzle. It could toot its horn, but it doesn’t. Will fresh listeners catch Jason Scott’s play on words describing a punchdrunk time clock in opening track “Quittin’ Time”? Will they follow that the “six ideas in rotation” on […]
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Happily ever after
Most people go on honeymoons, but the founders of the Honeymoon Rock Fest are bringing the honeymoon to themselves. The festival’s founder will be wedding her husband on March 17, the day the three-day event kicks off. A who’s who of 90s mainstream rock acts, the festival runs March 18 – 20 at Remington Park. […]