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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Nutrocker
Trans-Siberian Orchestra guitarist Al Pitrelli has been a good boy this year. But for the guy who’s been the prog-rock Santa Claus to more than 8 million concert attendees since 1999, his gifts come in the forms of fan art, charity and the inseparable intertwining with American holiday culture that powers TSO’s merry sleigh of […]
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Nutrocker
Trans-Siberian Orchestra guitarist Al Pitrelli has been a good boy this year. But for the guy who’s been the prog-rock Santa Claus to more than 8 million concert attendees since 1999, his gifts come in the forms of fan art, charity and the inseparable intertwining with American holiday culture that powers TSO’s merry sleigh of […]
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That’s it … “Nice & Easy” …
For those with “Martinis & Mistletoe” on their wish list, good news: That’s the name of a special Christmas concert scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday at FireLake Grand Casino, 777 Grand Casino in Shawnee. Oklahoma City crooner Wade Tower will take center stage to give audience members a night of season music they won’t soon […]
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That’s it … “Nice & Easy” …
For those with “Martinis & Mistletoe” on their wish list, good news: That’s the name of a special Christmas concert scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday at FireLake Grand Casino, 777 Grand Casino in Shawnee. Oklahoma City crooner Wade Tower will take center stage to give audience members a night of season music they won’t soon […]
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Chrome extension
It’s not multiple personality disorder, exactly. Many of the area’s finest musicians, after all, flit between multiple projects, playing a festival here, helping on a record there. Local pop musician Steven Battles is familiar with the phenomenon, having backed Norman acts like The Nghiems and Jacob Abello. When Battles lends a hand to electro-pop act […]
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Chrome extension
It’s not multiple personality disorder, exactly. Many of the area’s finest musicians, after all, flit between multiple projects, playing a festival here, helping on a record there. Local pop musician Steven Battles is familiar with the phenomenon, having backed Norman acts like The Nghiems and Jacob Abello. When Battles lends a hand to electro-pop act […]
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The Roots — undun
Depicted by the band’s house emcee, Black Thought, Redford Stephens is the narrating character, a composition of many of BT’s family members and people he and fellow Roots founder ?uestlove knew from their hometown of Philadelphia. Listening to “undun” you hear Redford’s hopes, dreams, mistakes and struggles, all told in uncompromising, uncontrived lyricism from Black […]
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Drake — Take Care
My feelings about this are complicated, although I found the record to be a languorous epic that rewarded dividends upon repeat listens. It’s certainly a winsome, good album — probably even a great one — but for reasons ascribed to Aubrey Drake Graham’s sense as a producer more so than his voice or rapping. The […]
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Riley Jantzen and the Spirits — Feathers
Anybody who knows Jantzen knows that couldn’t be further from the reality, and “Feathers,” his first effort as Riley Jantzen and the Spirits, should dispel his scary-guy image for those who don’t. It’s a wonderfully intimate album lyrically, and musically enriched by his absurd skill as a player. He’s credited as playing all the instruments, […]