St. Louis-based experimental jazz quartet Bach to the Future is apt to perform Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” with an Afro-Cuban flow ” and the possibility of a laser zap thrown in for good measure. “It’s an oddball group,” keyboardist Mike Silverman admitted, albeit one committed to pushing its own musical boundaries through […]
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DJ Funke says mixing for OKC’s Bricktown no different than Vegas
DJ Graham Funke has played parties for Marilyn Manson, Jack Osbourne and porn star Jenna Jameson. But Oklahoma City is no different. “Honestly I’m gonna give the same level of performance for either party,” he said. “Alcohol has the same effect on everybody else. It goes for whether I am even in Oklahoma or […]
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OKC DJ offers live lunchtime mixes on radio
DJ Switch has spun his way out of the club and onto the radio with Friday afternoon’s “Beats for Lunch” program on KVSP-FM 103.5. Program director for Perry Broadcasting Terry Monday said Switch’s weekly show is an outlet for local unsigned talent and gives airtime to good mixes. INSTANT STREET CREDTired of the […]
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With new CD Of Montreal makes OKC tour stop
Of Montreal’s latest album, “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?,” is among the most seductive and danceable of Kevin Barnes’ career, yet comes from the most painful period in his life. “I was going through a really difficult time, and I was writing songs as a type of therapy to get through it,” Barnes […]
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Visiting OKC, DJ AM insists he’s no celebrity
Despite being a tabloid fixture thanks to a short-lived engagement with socialite Nicole Richie, modesty is the name of the game for DJ AM. “I am not famous,” he said. “I am just a DJ and have not done anything worthy of having that title in my book. It does make me feel self-conscious […]
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Genre-hopping Webber among OKC’s best vocalists
Carrie Webber is part rock, pop, folk, blues, funk and country. Even if she’s hard to label, one well-respected local music source said she’s the real deal. “Whatever Carrie decides to sing ” no matter what type of music ” she has the versatility and the voice to do it and do it well,” […]
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Sugar Free Allstars returns to OKC with new album, library tour
The duo Sugar Free Allstars is putting out its first album in two years, “Return of Dos Machos!” The songs pack a heavy punch, with Chris Wiser and Rob Martin doing more with just an organ and drums than other bands do with a full rhythm section. READY, SET, TOURMartin recently recorded with […]
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Fatboy Slim-The Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder
Astralwerks Fatboy Slim has been cobbling together sample-rific singles for a decade now. It’s amazing how many of them became instant pop-culture classics: “Praise You,” “The Rockafeller Skank” and “Weapon of Choice,” fun even without watching Christopher Walken waltz his way through an empty hotel. Indifference to 2004’s “Palookaville” has rendered Slim irrelevant for the […]
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Visiting OKC, Slayer remains a heavy-metal favorite
Something you wouldn’t imagine to hear from Tom Araya, lead singer and bassist of thrash-metal giant Slayer: “I live in a small town out in the country close to Dallas now. I got registered cattle and a big ol’ barn out back.” “We moved here when my wife got pregnant,” Araya said. “She was […]
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The Good, the Bad & the Queen
Virgin Post-Blur and post-Gorillaz, Damon Albarn has gotten ex-Clash bassist Paul Simonon out of retirement, and brings along former Verve guitarist Simon Tong and Fela Kuti’s drummer, Tony Allen. If it’s a supergroup, it’s a low-key one; it ain’t CSNY. Albarn’s vocal and keyboard fingerprints are most prominent, Simonon plays snakily and subterranean throughout, and […]