Before you can watch Tenacious D’s 2018 sort-of animated sci-fi rock opera Post-Apocalypto on YouTube, you must click through a screen warning: “This video may be inappropriate for some viewers.” Go ahead and apply that same warning to the text beyond this sentence. In anticipation of the D’s Oct. 20 show at The Criterion, 500 […]
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Sunshine songs
EmiSunshine and The Rain 7 p.m. Oct. 19 Rodeo Opry 2221 Exchange Ave. ohfo.org 405-297-9773 $7.50-$15 The girl was 9 years old, but the song she sang was 75 years older. A YouTube video of young EmiSunshine singing Jimmie Rodgers’ “Blue Yodel No. 6” in a flea market in Sweetwater, Tennessee, became popular enough to […]
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Evolving experience
Just before we called Kali Ra frontman David Goad for this interview, he was practicing what he calls “angry yoga.” “I stand bending back, and I flash my genitals and scream for, like, an hour,” Goad said. “I feel refreshed.” Kali Ra 8 p.m. Oct. 11 89th Street – OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com […]
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Aural interludes
X Ambassadors’ second album is also a second try. X Ambassadors 6:30 p.m. Oct. 13 The Jones Assembly 901 W. Sheridan Ave.
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Crowds’ choice
Dead End Kids Club First Annual Fall Ball Tour 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5 89th Street – OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com 405-463-9203 $20-$23 Like many bands booked for Austin City Limits, Los Angeles’ Palm Springsteen wanted to schedule a quick tour around the trip, but the band members didn’t want to make it a […]
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Still groovin’
Early visits to Norman Groovefest made a big impression on Lindsey Martin. “As a kid, I remember going all the time,” said Martin, who has been helping organize the long-running music and human-rights-awareness festival for the past eight years. “There were legalize marijuana booths set up everywhere. This was back in the ’90s, and we’ve […]
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Perfect partnership
The musicians playing on it never broke up or really even formed a band, exactly, but Years to Burn is basically a reunion album. The follow-up to 2005’s In the Reins, Years to Burn, released in June, is the second collaborative album released by Iron & Wine and Calexico. Calexico and Iron & Wine 8 […]
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Electronic OKC
Taylor McKenzie started a record label to feed a habit he acquired overseas. “I lived and worked in Berlin for a couple years, and techno is just so not an underground thing there, so I got really addicted to the music,” McKenzie said. When he returned to Oklahoma City, McKenzie founded Fixed Rhythms with fellow […]
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Blonde evolution
Shawnee’s Shoulda Been Blonde was named after a joke lead singer Peyton Wilson’s cousin used to make at her expense. “We were doing a local talent show, and we needed a name,” said Wilson, a brunette often seen with her hair dyed neon blue. “We just came up with it, and it stuck. I wrote […]
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Tap tunes
Several local musicians are celebrating their new releases with beers, and you can join them. Local Tap, 2 p.m.-2 a.m. Sept. 14 at The Jones Assembly, 901 W. Sheridan Ave., pairs eight local bands with eight local breweries to create custom small-batch beers for a tasting and concert event. Cody Anderson, head brewer at Vanessa […]