That his Oklahoma City band is sharing a bill with Them Hounds and Dirty Evil People was not lost on Bona Fide Villains co-founder and front man Ryan Taylor. “They’re the three best band names in the city,” he said with a laugh. Kidding aside, the Villains’ coupling of corroded, antique guitar tones and Taylor’s […]
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Villainy
That his Oklahoma City band is sharing a bill with Them Hounds and Dirty Evil People was not lost on Bona Fide Villains co-founder and front man Ryan Taylor. “They’re the three best band names in the city,” he said with a laugh. Kidding aside, the Villains’ coupling of corroded, antique guitar tones and Taylor’s […]
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Ryan Parker — In Circles
Parker asks a lot of questions here in his debut, but judging by the crisp vocal harmonies (supplied by Brianna Gaither, Ali McIlroy and Amy Leming), chiming acoustic guitar chords and peppy percussion, he’s optimistic about the answers. “Just Because,” the disc’s shining love song, stands out in this regard. The jug-band bassline and handclaps […]
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Time to fly
Jonathan Byrd describes himself as a North Carolina picker and a Texas songwriter. It’s as apt a description as any, as his music unites the narrative influence of Texas country artists like Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt with flat-picked country gone decaf, the slower pace allowing folky melodicism to waft forth. He’s tipped his […]
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Time to fly
Jonathan Byrd describes himself as a North Carolina picker and a Texas songwriter. It’s as apt a description as any, as his music unites the narrative influence of Texas country artists like Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt with flat-picked country gone decaf, the slower pace allowing folky melodicism to waft forth. He’s tipped his […]
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Wreck the halls
Few bands enjoy the level of versatility hard-rock vets Staind do. “Roundness is helpful in all aspects of life, I think,” front man Aaron Lewis said. “We could definitely play a game of ‘you throw out the style, and we write a song to fit that.’” Trouble brewed, however, as that game increasingly disregarded the […]
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Wreck the halls
Few bands enjoy the level of versatility hard-rock vets Staind do. “Roundness is helpful in all aspects of life, I think,” front man Aaron Lewis said. “We could definitely play a game of ‘you throw out the style, and we write a song to fit that.’” Trouble brewed, however, as that game increasingly disregarded the […]
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Current event
Recording music inside his home in the out-of-the-way Oklahoma town of Amber, Depth & Current singer/ guitarist Chris Harris often heard some bizarre sounds via CV radio that weren’t always necessarily his own. “Living out in the country, I would hit these distortion pedals and hear these crazy preachers and alien conspiracy theorists and government […]
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Reckless play
Country rock’s Reckless Kelly is already batting a thousand with its upstart label, No Big Deal Records. Its first release — the band’s seventh studio album, “Good Luck & True Love” — is the act’s highest-charting to date. And last week, it earned the group its first Grammy nomination. “That explains why I’m a little […]
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Recording music inside his home in the out-of-the-way Oklahoma town of Amber, Depth & Current singer/ guitarist Chris Harris often heard some bizarre sounds via CV radio that weren’t always necessarily his own. “Living out in the country, I would hit these distortion pedals and hear these crazy preachers and alien conspiracy theorists and government […]