A partnership between The Jones Assembly and The Auditorium at The Douglass is set to bring Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy to the former high school auditorium in March. “I’m personally just an enormous Wilco fan, and we’re, of course, always begging for a Wilco show to come to Oklahoma City,” said Graham Colton, a partner at […]
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Color spectrum
Amy Helm 8 p.m. Dec. 2 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $24-$33 One thing musician Amy Helm learned from playing with her father, The Band’s Levon Helm, was how to fail. “There were a lot of lessons,” Amy Helm said. “One of the main ones I took away was to not be […]
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Amplified knowledge
This year, the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma celebrates its 10th anniversary. Built originally on a partnership with Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, England, the institution opened its Bricktown doors in 2009 to 160 students, a figure that would grow exponentially throughout the next decade. Curating a curriculum of […]
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Class act
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul7 p.m. Nov. 26 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $35-$285 Steven Van Zandt master class2 p.m. Nov. 26 Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma 25 S. Oklahoma Ave. acm.uco.edu 405-974-4700 Free Steven Van Zandt always has his eyes on the culture around […]
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Being Broncho
Broncho 7 p.m. Nov. 21 The Jones Assembly 901 W. Sheridan Ave. thejonesassembly.com 405-212-2378 $15-$20 Keeping an accurate count of untoward actions, ugly manners and poor form in any given 24-hour news cycle or endlessly scrolling social media timeline seems impossible, but Broncho’s Ryan Lindsey has been taking notes. “Everybody’s behavior is on full display,” […]
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Pontiff pontification
Smoking Popes 8 p.m. Nov. 16 Blue Note Lounge 2408 N. Robinson Ave. bluenoteokc.com 405-600-1166 $10-$12 | 21+ Despite the title, Smoking Popes’ Into the Agony was more enjoyable to record than some of the band’s previous releases. “The recording process for Into the Agony was kind of slow and piecemeal,” said frontman Josh Caterer. […]
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Paranoia simulation
Musician Kevin Barnes and of Montreal have been pushing the boundaries of pop and indie rock since 1996. The band’s latest tour will bring it to Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St., on Nov. 14. Its 15th studio album, White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood, came out in March. Barnes said a major inspiration for […]
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Brain work
Hippo Campus8 p.m. Monday The Jones Assembly 901 W. Sheridan Ave. thejonesassembly.com 405-212-2378 $20-$500 Hippo Campus guitarist Nathan Stocker said the band’s new album, Bambi, is fire. Actually, make that a fire. “Landmark is kind of, like, dusk-ish, you know, sunset kind of, like, about to be chill,” Stocker said of the band’s 2017 debut, […]
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Flowering Burch
Molly Burch7 p.m. Nov. 7 ACM@UCO Performance Lab 329 E. Sheridan Ave. acm.uco.edu 405-974-4700 $10 Molly Burch’s debut was inspired by a devastating breakup and featured the subject of most of its songs on lead guitar, but she said recording the follow-up was even more difficult. Songs such as “Downhearted,” “Please Forgive Me” and “Torn […]
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Muy Bonito
Kero Kero Bonito 8 p.m. Tuesday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman opolis.org 405-673-4931 $12 Kero Kero Bonito are the good kind of weird, widely known for an upbeat and colorful combination of sounds that makes you want to throw on some neon, eat some glitter, and frolic through the nearest city street. Intertwining the […]