Last year’s version of Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s annual holiday tour was an outing unlike any other for everyone involved in bringing the visually spectacular concerts to audiences across the United States. On the one hand, coming off of 2020, a year in which the TSO tour could not happen because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was […]
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Surprise landing
When Jess Haney was asked to join Rainbow Kitten Surprise while the band members were in college at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, he certainly wasn’t thinking it would be a long-term commitment. In fact, as commitments go, it was as minimal as it gets. “I got into the band through Ethan,” Haney said, […]
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Hood makes good
You may not be too familiar with Adam Hood just yet, but these days, a lot of movers and shakers in Nashville have come to know him well. He started performing live shows at just 16 years of age in his hometown of Opelika, Ala., and hasn’t stopped writing, touring and recording music. For two […]
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Tuning in Tokyo
Blueprint Tokyo might be something of a little-known name here in their home state, but they’re blowing up around the world. 100,000-plus streams on Spotify. Top 30 on the UK iTunes charts. Collaborating with top international producers like Mark Needham and Travis Ference. But if you look at their social media numbers, you’d really never […]
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Rocketmen
SLANDER have been on the dance scene for nearly a decade, consistently blowing up, garnering massive video views and streaming play numbers and collaborating with an exploding cast of singers and songwriters. They’re also just getting around to dropping their debut album. Even with a hugely successful back catalog of singles and feature appearances, the […]
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Halloween to the extreme
Without question, one of the modern Oklahoma music scene’s greatest institutions is My So-Called Band, the “mostly” 90s cover act that packs rooms and picks at nostalgia all over the state, prompting the kind of full-throated, drunken singalongs most major acts can only dream of. As raucous and radical as an average MSCB show can […]
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House of ideas
2020 saw a loss of jobs, of homes, of community, and for many even the loss of access to their own art and creativity. Amy Young, owner and founder of art school and community center SixTwelve in the Paseo, nearly lost all of those things and more. “I had to choose between selling my house […]
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Live wires
Ten years ago, Oklahoma City had no Criterion. The Jones Assembly hadn’t been assembled, and Tower Theatre was still an abandoned relic of a bygone era. There were still concerts that came to town, but the city has grown and hopefully with it, our appetite for shows. OKC concert goers are in for a busy […]
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Straight in, no tricks
“I’m always fighting with it,” modern blues guitar legend Tab Benoit said about his now near-mythical 1972 Fender Telecaster, the same guitar he’s been playing practically every single day for over thirty years. “It’s not easy to play. It doesn’t play good, but I like it like that. You have to squeeze things out of […]
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Is your grass still blue in ‘22?
Well it’s just about that time of year once again when many a bluegrass bard, bone playin’ chicken pickin’ troubadour, and country-fied crooner will all be finding their way to Guthrie. That’s right folks, it’s almost time once again for The Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, The Grascals, The Kruger Brothers and […]