Music

For the past six years, Chickasha native Travis Linville (my space page) has played at The Deli in Norman every Monday night, strumming guitar-rich ballads, full of iconic Oklahoma imagery and whining steel guitar riffs. “I think The Deli is a really cool place that has something special going on,” Linville said. Linville moved from […]

Blaine Cartwright, lead singer and guitarist for Nashville Pussy, said, “I consider us a pretty juvenile band. Mature means better to some people; to me, it’s just like maybe you’re starting to be boring.” Atlanta’s Nashville Pussy is far from boring. If anything, the band goes out on a limb to produce interesting testaments to […]

With its band members furiously jumping from instrument to instrument, Man Man live is a nonstop roller coaster of heartache, beauty, energy and ear-pounding ruckus that, oddly enough, feels like it was gently orchestrated. What makes all of this even more overwhelming and enthralling is the fact that there are no stops between songs. “We definitely […]

Despite more and more music being purchased online, independent Norman record store Guestroom Records has done well. So well, in fact, that co-owners Justin Sowers and Travis Searle are opening a second, bigger store in Northwest Oklahoma City. What makes their business work, Searle said, is that their business model never hinged on selling $20 […]

Umbrellas play gorgeous music that is full and melodic, bordering on orchestral. The band’s latest album, “Illuminare,” was recorded in a defunct comedy club in downtown Tulsa and released by California indie label The Militia Group. The band will finish its current tour up with an all-ages stop Friday at the Opolis in Norman, before […]

Many Oklahoma music fans have grown used to the state being passed over by big-label rockers. Luckily for fans of garage rockers Hot Hot Heat front man Steve Bays can relate. “We grew up on a little island. It was a good population, but it was hard to get to and expensive for bands to […]

Moviegoers checking out “Spider-Man 3” might hear something strangely familiar. Or familiarly strange. Oklahoma’s The Flaming Lips have contributed an original song, “The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to Be in Love,” to the sound track. The song is spacey, fun and quirky in the typical fashion of the Fearless Freaks ” a punchy digital […]

Danny Masterson, star of Fox’s long-running sitcom “That 70’s Show,” will DJ on May 9 at the Electro Lounge.   Masterson, aka DJ MomJeans, started DJ’ing in 2000 just for fun, but it eventually turned into a passion.   “I just had a lot of records. I started DJ’ing with a friend at a club. […]

Tuesday’s show at Norman’s Opolis marks the first time playing in Oklahoma for the Miami, Fla., indie pop band The Postmarks.   Yet the band has ties with Flaming Lips manager Scott Booker and the Edmond-based music label he co-founded, World’s Fair.   “We just sort of take each city as it comes along and […]