All Seems Lost 5-11:30 p.m. March 7 89th Street –OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. facebook.com/89thstreetokc $10-$12 All Seems Lost’s follow-up to Unscathed might cut a little deeper.“There’s a lot more meaning and passion, definitely, that went into it,” drummer Geoff Hochstetler said. “We all were going through some major losses.” OKC’s All Seems Lost celebrates […]
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Sound bites
Chew 9 p.m. March 4 Red Brick Bar 311 E. Main St., Norman 405-579-6227 $3 If Chew guitarist Brett Reagan absolutely has to apply a label to his band’s music, he calls it “savage psych.” “We don’t really want to sound pinned down to anything,” Regan said. “For me, psychedelic music isn’t necessarily like garage […]
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Absolute monarchy
Queen Caution’s Pisces Bash 8 p.m. Feb. 28 View 919 N. Virginia Ave. $10 | 18+ The first half of Queen Caution’s name comes from her mother. “When I was younger, I had a lot of self-esteem issues because I went to a dominantly white school, and I’m black and white,” Caution said. “So it […]
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Rats revisited
Dweezil Zappa: Hot Rats Live + Other Hot Stuff 1969 8 p.m. Feb. 28 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 Free It would be hard to prove, but Dweezil Zappa said there’s a “distinct possibility” he first heard Hot Rats in utero. But the liner notes of his father Frank Zappa’s album — […]
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Cover: Old school
The poster for 1984’s Beat Street promised “the music and breakdance explosion of the summer,” but for Brian Frejo, watching in a Capitol Hill movie theater, what happened after the movie might have been more important than anything on screen. “The movie was packed,” Frejo said, “and when we came out of the movie, in […]
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Food Issue: Tasty licks
In last year’s Food Issue, we highlighted several concert venues — Chesapeake Energy Arena, The Jones Assembly, Opolis — where you can see a nationally touring act and also eat a better than decent meal. This year, we’d like to offer a variation on the theme and serve up a menu of restaurants where, in […]
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Harmonic convergence
Pitch HER Perfect presents Rhythm and Flow 9 p.m. Feb. 21 The Paramount Room 701 W. Sheridan Ave. theparamountroom.com 405-532-6376 $10-$15 Annisia Anderson and Vada Patrice met singing backup for other artists, but as the duo Pitch HER Perfect, they’ve taken center stage. “We’ve been in music all of our lives, starting out in church, […]
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Reasonable doubt
aporia – noun 1. An irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, argument, or theory 2. The expression of doubt “Anybody that’s out here working, trying to pursue your goals or chasing after success, sometimes you don’t know what comes with that until you get there, and then once you get there, you […]
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Wolf mentality
Wolf Parade 8 p.m. Feb. 5 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $22-$32 True to its name, Wolf Parade is not standing still. “If your job is to output art and creative content, and if you’re not constantly re-interrogating your process and what you want to say, unless you’re just working in a […]
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Raw power
Norman’s Psychotic Reaction recorded Messiahs of Voltage over two days in 2015, and more than four years later, the band was ready to release it. “It’s been a long time coming,” guitarist and vocalist Robert Layton III said of the album that was released online Jan. 21. “I finally had the time off from work […]