Music Features

The Zoo Amphitheatre is seeing its best days since the PM Group took over operations six years ago. “We really revamped the amphitheater so it looks good, feels good, sounds good, so people want to come to it,” said Howard Pollack, a senior partner with the PM Group. Howard said it’s long been an underutilized location, […]

Albuquerque, N.M.’s Soular has spent a lot of time in Oklahoma ” the band has recorded in Norman, and even played Tulsa and Tahlequah, but never has played Oklahoma City. That all changes Friday when the quartet arrives at the Belle Isle Brewery with Oklahoma City’s Luma and Fayetteville, Ark.’s spiritual power popper Benjamin Del […]

After recording songs for its critically lauded fourth LP, “Palo Santo,” the Austin, Texas-based folk-rock band Shearwater toured extensively … and noticed the songs began to change. They hoped re-recording five of the 11 tracks and re-issuing the album through Matador Records would reflect that. “We’d played the songs a lot live, so we learned […]

The Sugar Free Allstars‘ quirky wit and bouncy melodies has been scoring adult fans throughout the state. But now with “Dos Niños,” their first album for kids, the Allstars are setting their sights to the under-5-foot crowd with a public library tour that will be hitting 24 libraries in two months. “The Arts Council (of […]

Chris Carrabba once said that during concerts, he’ll find someone in the audience who really feels the music and he will have “eye sex” with them. Oklahoma City audience members may ” and many probably hope ” to experience some “eye sexing” with Carrabba when his band Dashboard Confessional comes to Oklahoma Friday as part […]

Chet Baker was the greatest Oklahoma-born, toothless, drug-addicted, trumpet-playing jazzman ever to fall out of a hotel window and die on foreign soil. It wasn’t suicide and it wasn’t murder. It was loss of balance, which is an appropriate metaphor for his life. He was born Chesney Henry Baker Jr., on the family farm near […]

After eliciting laughter from the judges of “American Idol”‘s 2004 season with his off-key and off-kilter rendition of Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” during initial auditions for the show’s third season, it would seem that William Hung dream to be a singer should have died. Not so. “I try to convey a positive, optimistic image,” Hung […]

Marnie Stern plays the guitar. Not just plays, but destroys it. Super-fast, two-handed, finger-tapping rock guitar lines that prickle the hair on the back of your neck the first time you hear it. Stern is currently on her “Bye Bye iPod!!” summer tour through the United States and United Kindgom, and bringing their brand of […]