Lettuce: Vibe Up Tour8 p.m. Feb. 20 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $25-$28 For more than two decades, the band known as Lettuce has been bringing the funk in exciting live performances and a series of recordings. The band, comprised of drummer Adam Deitch, guitarist Adam Smirnoff, bassist Erick “Jesus” Coomes, keyboardist […]
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Valentine’s Day: Family man
Asking The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne a question he hasn’t heard before seems almost impossible. He has collaborated with Yoko Ono and Kesha and played Madison Square Garden and Beverly Hills, 90210’s Peach Pit in his more than 35-year career. But after he and Katy Weaver were married last month on the roof of Plenty […]
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Euphonius food
Not long ago, concert venues mostly had the same menu as high school football game concession stands: canned-cheese nachos, maybe a pickle or a soft pretzel, if you were really lucky a hamburger heated who knows how. Recently, mercifully, more local music venues are offering food you might actually want to, you know, eat. Carefully […]
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Truthful voice
Lucy Dacus9 p.m. Monday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman opolis.org 405-230-0311 $12 | 21+ Lucy Dacus creates music that’s alive. It breathes, expands and exposes itself in new ways each time you listen to it. So what might first seem like a straightforward, angry song about evading an ex like “Night Shift” will eventually […]
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Carly Gwin and the Sin, “You Can Feel Sad” (video premiere)
Directed by Dylan Johnson, Carly Gwin and the Sin’s “You Can Feel Sad” puts the Norman-based band in gauzy, space cowgirl environments that perfectly suit the song’s wistful melody. The band performs 9 p.m. Saturday with Applied Music Program and Lacey Elaine at 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St. Visit 51stspeakeasy.com.
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Off-world colony
Murder by Death with J Roddy Walston and The Business 8 p.m. Feb. 9 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $20 Concept albums are Murder by Death’s thing. Named after a satirical comedy from the ’70s, the band likes to aim cinematic with stories of small Mexican towns beset by the devil and […]
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Shred in Japan
Marty Friedman 7 p.m. Monday 89th Street — OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com 405-463-9203 $20 He has released albums called Speed Metal Symphony and Music for Speeding, but guitarist Marty Friedman said years have passed since he was impressed by quick fingers. “When I was a kid, I was just blown away by people […]
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Fire Woods
When he released his long-awaited 2013 album The 20/20 Experience, a lush and expansive collection that furthered his bona fides as a deserving star, Justin Timberlake was, as Pitchfork noted in its review, auditioning for an open position: King of Pop. His Saturday concert at Chesapeake Energy Arena in support of his most recent album, […]
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Living Legacy
Shortly after midnight on Dec. 18, 2017, 20-year-old Ada-born musician Connor Hicks died in a traffic accident on a foggy two-lane road in Seminole County. A little over a year later, Legacy, a collection of his previously unreleased songs, gives listeners one more chance to hear new music from Hicks. “We actually had a few […]
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Fully Applied
Applied Music Program, Carly Gwin and the Sin and Lacey Elaine 9 p.m. Feb. 2 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. 51stspeakeasy.com 405-463-0470 $3 21+ Oklahoma music fans will have the rare opportunity to see several local bands perform together at an upcoming show at 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St., on Feb. […]