Gift Raps 6 8:30 p.m. Dec. 12 Ponyboy 1 423 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-896-2037 Free (with donation) 21+ For households already struggling to make it month to month, the holiday season can bring more anxiety than merriment.“I remember my mom stressing out during Christmastime,” said local hip-hop artist Jabee. “A lot of people come […]
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Yesterday road
The Yellow House Revisited 8 p.m. Dec. 13 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $30-40 If, as the Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation Department’s Travel Promotion Division tells us, famous Stillwater musicians’ hangout The Farm is “the undisputed birthplace of Red Dirt music,” in the 1980s and early ’90s, The Yellow House is where […]
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Intimate Archive
Maddie Razook 8-10:30 p.m. Dec. 5 The Blue Door 2805 N. McKinley Ave. bluedoorokc.com 405-524-0738 $10 (cash only) You might have heard her in Pigments or Lust, but Maddie Razook’s Archive is the sound of the singer-songwriter going solo in the truest sense. “I decided that it was really important to me that every single […]
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Bank notes
After our cover story about the difficulties local musicians have making money (Music, “Broke music,” Jeremy Martin, Nov. 1), a few musicians reached out to tell us that article didn’t really reflect their realities. “While the fact that the Oklahoma City public does a terrible job of supporting live, local, original music could itself be […]
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Bass invaders
ATLiens 7-11:45 p.m. Nov. 29 OKC Farmers Public Market 311 S. Klein Ave. subsonix.info $18-$22 If ATLiens’ warped bass-forward electronic dance music sounds otherworldy, that’s entirely the point. “We try to eliminate the ‘human’ aspect in our live shows and try to keep it all about the music,” said the anonymous Atlanta-based production duo in […]
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Full spectrum
Rainbows Are Free 9 p.m. Nov. 29 Blue Note Lounge 2408 N. Robinson Ave. facebook.com/bluenoteokc 405-600-1166 $10-$12 Lead guitarist Richie Tarver doesn’t know what you’ll hear when you listen to Head Pains, but to him, it sounds more like Rainbows Are Free and less like doom-metal standard-bearers Black Sabbath. “I think we finally kind of […]
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Transcendental arpeggiation
Rodrigo y Gabriela 6:30 p.m. Sunday The Jones Assembly 901 W. Sheridan Ave. thejonesassembly.com 405-212-2378 $39.50-$59 Rodrigo y Gabriela’s fifth studio album, Mettavolution, finds the acoustic duo discovering how to evolve through simplification, but that’s more complicated than it sounds. “We’re playing very differently, a lot of new techniques,” said rhythm guitarist Gabriela Quintero. “[Lead […]
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Guide to the Holidays: Hometown Christmas
For Norman-based duo The Imaginaries, Christmas has, in many ways, been the most wonderful time of the year. Married musicians Maggie McClure and Shane Henry’s holiday songs have been featured in Hallmark movies, played on the radio and earned them invitations to play NBA halftime shows, including a New York Knicks Game at Madison Square […]
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Trap Mozart
Black Violin 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 Visual and Performing Art Center Theater Oklahoma City Community College 7777 S. May Ave.
