Spinster album release 8-11 p.m. Friday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave.opolis.org 405-230-0311 $10-$12 The difference between The Annie Oakley and Spinster — according to Jo Babb, who writes songs for both — mostly comes down to whether or not her guitar is plugged in. “I know when I’m writing a song which band it’s going […]
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PRIDE Inclusive notes
Music at Pride The music stage is located at the intersection of 39th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. 39th St. District NW 39th Street between Classen and Youngs boulevards oklahomacitypride.org Free Mary Lambert 6 p.m. Friday Lincka 7 p.m. Friday LCG & the X 8 p.m. Friday Rachel Lynch & the Daydrinkers 3 p.m. Saturday Raina […]
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PRIDE Pop law
When they are going to work, lobbying on behalf of Oklahoma Education Association (OEA), Jacob Abello Tharp wears a wool suit like so many of the lawmakers they talk to every day. It is an incongruous look for the singer and prospective attorney, who became known to local music fans for their audaciously crafted glam-pop […]
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Dream evil
Dio Returns 8 p.m. June 20 The Criterion 500 E. Sheridan Ave. criterionokc.com 405-840-5500 $32.50-$35 Legendary metal vocalist Ronnie James “Dio” Padavona died May 16, 2010, but thanks to a combination of 19th- and 21st-century technology, he returns to Oklahoma City on a US tour — sort of. The Dio Returns tour, featuring a pseudo-holographic […]
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Breaks tradition
Josh Ritter 8 p.m. Sunday Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $27 Maybe Josh Ritter’s latest album, Fever Breaks, is different from the nine that came before it, but the singer-songwriter cannot say how, exactly. “It’s hard for me to compare records,” Ritter said. “It’s kind of like how you look in the […]
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Kingz speech
Homecoming Kingz 9 p.m. Saturday 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. 51stspeakeasy.com 405-463-0470 Free Hopefully Dallas-based hip-hop artist Motian’s return to the Oklahoma City area will go smoother than when his family first moved him here at age 12. “I came from Tehran, Iran, in 2001 right before 9/11 happened, and I’m in Moore, […]
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Rebel Son
Son Volt June 18 The Jones Assembly 901 W. Sheridan Ave. thejonesassembly.com 405-212-2378 $25-$30 Recorded in part in Tulsa’s Woody Guthrie Center, Son Volt’s latest album, Union, is one of protest music and a tribute to the tradition itself. Though protest songs have seen a resurgence for obvious reasons in the Trump era, Son Volt […]
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Overflowing Hell
Full of Hell 6 p.m. June 5 89th Street — OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com 405-463-9203 $12-$14 Despite their titles, Full of Hell’s most recent albums, Trumpeting Ecstasy and Weeping Choir, mostly consist of guitars, drums and screams. Recorded and produced by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou and combining elements familiar to fans of extreme […]
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Quality music
Formed in Santa Barbara, California, and named after a joke from Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album, Toad the Wet Sprocket originally came together in Oklahoma! — a high school production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, that is. “We were four people doing theater in high school, and we were all in a production of […]
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SUMMER GUIDE Hello, Oklahoma!
Not long ago, a roundup of notable concerts hitting Oklahoma in a given summer would have been depressingly Tulsa-heavy. Our neighbor to the northeast is well-represented on the list below, but at the risk of jinxing an encouraging trend, fans of music in many genres can get their concert fix without ever leaving the OKC […]