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 […]
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Wizurdz compromise
Limp Wizurdz is getting serious — sort of. “It definitely did start off as a joke,” said guitarist Jeffrey Simmons, who founded the band with vocalist Taylor Young. “Taylor hates when I say this, but when we started the band, we were listening to Limp Bizkit.” At this point in the interview, Young interrupted to […]
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Moving Mavericks
When guitarist Eddie Perez joined The Mavericks in 2003, the hard-to-classify band was more than a decade old and had recorded multiple Grammy-nominated hit songs and albums. It broke up the following year. “I think the first time around, I felt a little bit like, ‘Man, we just got this thing started, and now, it’s […]
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Summer sounds
To completely misquote Alice Cooper, school’s in. Summer Daze 2.0 7 p.m. Aug. 30-31 Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman