Pet Food Pantry is for the couple who walked in to the Oklahoma City Animal Shelter prepared to give up their pets after tearfully explaining they could no longer afford to feed their cats and dogs. It’s for the low-income senior citizen who didn’t have the means to buy food for her pets. And it’s […]
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After enduring as many stumbling blocks as there are colors in the rainbow, indie rock’s Colour Revolt is ready to shine
Colour Revolt with The City Lives and Coney Island 7 p.m. Thursday The Conservatory 8911 N. Western www.conservatoryokc.com 607-4805 $8-$10 It’s been a quick, but rocky, road for indie-rock upstart Colour Revolt. Over the course of its five-year career, most things have tended to come in reverse. Playing Thursday at The Conservatory, the Mississippi-based group […]
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Amber Swisher isn’t just a local Hooters employee, but featured in the company’s 2011 calendar
Recently, Amber Swisher beat out more than 20,000 women for the chance to hang on your wall. The Newcastle native works as a Hooters Girl at the 2109 W. Interstate 240 Service Road location of Hooters, and will be featured in the restaurant chain’s 2011 calendar, which also will be its 25th-anniversary edition. “It was […]
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Musicians emerge from an artists’ collective to form psych-rock outfit Conspiracy of Angels
Conspiracy of Angels with Bridgewater Band and Aliens Vs. Robots 8 p.m. Saturday The Blue Note 2408 N. Robinson www.myspace.com/conspiracyofangels 600-1166 Conspiracy of Angels is not so much a band, as it is the arrowhead for an artist collective its Oklahoma City founders have fostered for three years. On Saturday, the experimental rock group at […]
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Irish eyes are smiling at The Righs, Edmond’s very own Celtic punk band, whose members can’t wait to subvert your expectations
The Righs with The Gunship 8 p.m. Saturday VZD’s Restaurant & Club 4200 N. Western www.vzds.com 524-4203 Celtic punk rockers The Righs don’t actually hail from the Emerald Isle, but they are making a good go of mastering the culture. Marrying a love of Irish heritage with their rebellious nature has been at the center […]
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Indie rock’s Shearwater dissects our relationship with the natural world
Shearwater with Damien Jurado 9 p.m. Saturday Opolis 113 N. Crawford, Norman www.starlightmints.com/opolis.html $12-$14 Shearwater offers an intriguing mix of oddity and familiarity. Elements of folk, baroque pop and post-rock coalesce through music that doesn’t correspond very tightly with any of those styles. Call it “naturalistic chamber drama” because of its rich, orchestral mien; dynamic […]
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Punk legends The Queers go ‘Back to the Basement’ with new album
They’re here. They’re The Queers. But don’t get used to them, because the punk legends are in town for just one show: 7 p.m. Friday at The Conservatory, 8911 N. Western. Delivering their ever-popular blend of punk and pop since 1982, The Queers are touring in support of their brand-new album, “Back to the Basement,” […]
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‘Noon Tunes’ concert series spruces up lunch in the metro
Your lunch menu each Thursday may include a helping of R&B, or perhaps a side of folk, because the ongoing “Noon Tunes” concert series recently started its second year. The hourlong shows begin at 11:30 a.m. every Thursday in the atrium of the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library, 300 Park Ave. Admission is free. “We […]
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Elvis Presley’ Viva Elvis: The Album
That Elvis Presley, he sure is a workhorse! Some three decades and then some following his death, he’s the subject of “Viva Elvis,” a Cirque du Soleil stage show that brings his music … well, if not into the 21st century, then certainly to new heights of spectacle. This 12-tracker is the companion album, and […]
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Neil Diamond’ Dreams
while there’s nothing wrong with that, either, the production’ courtesy of Mr. D’ sounds curiously flat. Even at high volumes, these “Dreams” don’t crackle like they should. In what feels like an end-stage retrospective, Diamond tackles a pair of Beatles tunes (“Yesterday” and “Blackbird”) alongside tunes by The Eagles, Bill Withers and himself (“I’m a […]