Want to get to the top via “From the Top”? The NPR program is on the lookout for pre-college-aged classical musicians to perform at its live concert radio performance at 3 p.m. May 15, 2011, at Oklahoma City University. From soloists and vocalists to composers, interested students age 8 to 18 who have not yet […]
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WWH&LD?
Harp & Lyre with A Bullet for Pretty Boy, A Sequence of Ghosts, Jerusalem and more6 p.m. Saturday The Conservatory 8911 N. Western www.conservatoryokc.com 607-4805 $8 advance, $10 door Outward appearances can be deceiving. Such is the case of Harp & Lyre. The six guys who comprise the group look like the typical rock band, […]
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List-en up
It’s the end of the year, and that means lists. I’ve actually been making a list of the best best-of lists (1. Paste Magazine, 2. MySpace, 3. Rhapsody), which means that I’ve officially gone overboard. But this means nothing but good things for you, dear reader. Here are a ton o’ lists that chronicle the […]
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Purple Church – Woodsporn/Hayseed EPs
If that weren’t enough, Purple Church also saw fit to release a real-life cassette single (side A and side B, y’all) named “Hayseed” recently. This group of four dudes is rockin’ the DIY thing, much to my glee. The music within “Woodsporn” is worthy of the excellent art. The group throws down some dark, distortion-heavy, […]
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Better off Fred
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey8 p.m. Friday Cain’s Ballroom 423 N. Main, Tulsa www.cainsballroom.com 918-584-2306 $19 advance, $25 door Brian Haas does not subscribe to your ideas of music. “It’s hard to have a conversation about music genres, because I simply don’t believe in them,” said Haas, pianist and founding member of Tulsabased Jacob Fred Jazz […]
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Special ‘Bulletin’
Now in its fourth year, the “New Year’s Eve Freakout” hosted by The Flaming Lips has become Oklahoma City’s version of the television networks’ traditional Dec. 31 programming. “Do You Realize??” has become our “Auld Lang Syne”; Wayne Coyne, our Dick Clark. The orb in which Coyne rolls around the arena is the crystal ball, […]
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Rogers’ will
Randy Rogers Band 9 P.m. Friday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday Wormy Dog Saloon 311 E. Sheridan www.wormydog.com 601-6276 $50 Friday, $30 Saturday Not all metro music fans want to spend their New Year’s Eve with The Flaming Lips; some seek something a little more grounded in reality. That’s where red-dirt favorite Randy Rogers Band steps […]
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Good Fortune
The Fortune Tellers with Feel Spectres and DJ Eddie Lee9 p.m. Friday VZD’s Restaurant and Club 4200 N. Western www.vzds.com 524-4203 If you were in Oklahoma City during that era when cell phones were bigger than irons and neckties were skinnier than Calista Flockhart — the 1980s, for those of you playing along at home […]
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Big in Japan
Sunday Jazz guitarist Issei Aoyama will pick, pluck and strum in a free concert 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Performing Arts Studio, 200 S. Jones in Norman. He will be accompanied by Cory Gavito on piano, Michael Geib on double bass and Justin Walke on drums. The quartet will play original pieces by Aoyama, as […]
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Morgan road
Kylie Morgan9 p.m. Friday Coach’s Brewhouse 110 W. Main, Norman www.coachsbrewhouse.com 321-2739 Oklahoma native Kylie Morgan has plans for the future that measure up with most other country artists, like having a video on rotation on CMT or sharing the stage with Carrie Underwood, but she also has other goals that most have already reached, […]