Rebirth Brass Band 8 p.m. Monday Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St.
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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
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Reggae royalty
Bob Marley, in a 1975 interview, said he did not necessarily play reggae music. “When people say reggae them expect a type of music,” he said. “As far as me is concerned, I never give it a name. Just play music. Once you put it in a bag and call it reggae and then maybe […]
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Apocalyptic touch
Eliza Gilkyson’s Secularia is the sound of her singing in full voice, something she once wanted to keep secret. Eliza Gilkyson 8 p.m. Aug. 21 The Blue Door 2805 N. McKinley Ave.
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Cover: Never die
Hey, hey. My, my. Of all the concerts Brian Beuchaw has attended in his decades as a music fan in Oklahoma City, one memory in particular stands out. “I got to see Johnny Rotten’s asshole,” Beuchaw said, recalling the time the former Sex Pistol’s band Public Image Ltd played the State Fairgrounds in 1992 on […]
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Music, man
Woodstock 50th Anniversary Celebration Aug. 15-17 Myriad Botanical Gardens 301 W. Reno Ave. myriadgardens.org 405-445-7080 Free-$5 In August 1969, New York hosted an event called Woodstock, promising three days of peace and love; Oklahoma City, meanwhile, did not. Fifty years later, the opposite might be true. While Woodstock 50 — which boasted a lineup featuring […]
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Unbearably Buff
Audio Book Club and Special Thumbs 9 p.m. Aug. 9 51st Street Speakeasy 1113 NW 51st St. facebook.com/audiobookclubokc 405-463-0470 $5 Audio Book Club’s debut EP, What If We Got Buff?, is meant to make you laugh. “One day, I was talking with my wife, and it just turned into a conversation about what if, after […]
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Lion, tamer
Occasionally, the stuff people shout at the stage is more useful than “Free Bird.” “I get helpful hints and advice through interactions at shows sometimes,” said Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan. “In San Francisco a year or two ago, maybe more now, I guess … I was sort of shrinking from my role as, you […]