Yob 7:30 p.m. Thursday 89th Street – OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com $12-$15 Last year, Yob’s metaphysical doom metal was playing in an operating room. The patient on the table was lead singer and guitarist Mike Scheidt, undergoing the seven-hour emergency abdominal surgery that ultimately saved his life. “Once they started having these complications […]
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Seriously punk
The Coathangers 7 p.m. Sunday 89th Street – OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com $14-$16 After more than a decade of punk rocking, the ladies in The Coathangers are more thoughtful about their rage. “I think we had a point where it was a little bit mellower and had a little bit more melancholy feeling […]
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Eating good
Like the name suggests, WoRm stays hungry. But with each release in his Chicken N Waffles album series, the Oklahoma City rapper-producer is inching his way up the local hip-hop food chain. WoRm, born Sherman Johnson, is about as versatile as they come in the local rap scene. His lyric- and beat-crafting talents are of […]
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Purposeful partying
Making Movies and Flor de Toloache 6 p.m. June 7 Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City 900 N. Portland Ave. osuokc.edu/latinosunidos/ 405-945-9196 Free For the past several years, Making Movies’ Carnival music and education festival has been making waves in its native Kansas City, Missouri. Now the poetic and frequently political fusion Latin-rock band is sharing the […]
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Making it
Skating Polly 10 p.m. Friday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman opolis.org 405-673-4931 $8-$12 Getting out of Oklahoma gave Skating Polly’s Kelli Mayo a chance to appreciate it more. “When I was in elementary school, I always thought it was like the lamest place,” Mayo said. “I just hated how conservative it was. I just […]
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Summer vibes
Oklahoma Singer Songwriter Series: Felina & The Feels nightfall (around 9 p.m.) June 1 Blue Doors at Tenkiller 98413 Oklahoma Highway 100, Gore bluedoorsattenkiller.com 918-489-2174 $10 Norman-based singer-songwriter Felina Rivera played her first set at Blue Doors at Tenkiller in September during the inaugural Indigo Fest — an environmentally conscious music and art festival focused […]
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‘Carolina’ calling
James Taylor and his All-Star Band 7:30 p.m. May 25 Chesapeake Energy Arena 100 W. Reno Ave. chesapeakearena.com 1-800-745-3000 $65-$450 The release dates of their respective debut albums are separated by nearly 50 years. One has a viral YouTube music video in which he vows to “get it on” like Marvin Gaye, and the other […]
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Integrity principle
Hip-hop emcees wrote rap songs about all kinds of things in the 1980s, but one subject they rarely broached was their parents’ medicine cabinets. Today, however, the most pervasive (or at least the most infamous) subsect of the youngest generation’s rap movement seems obsessed with bragging about opioid and prescription drug abuse. Andre Stubbs, also […]
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Roamin’ holiday
John Calvin Abney album release show 8 p.m. Saturday The Blue Door 2805 N. McKinley Ave. bluedoorokc.com 405-524-0738 $20 Whenever John Calvin Abney needed to step away from life and think, he would cross the street from his old house on Tulsa’s S. Yale Avenue and visit the historic Route 66 diner Tally’s Good Food […]
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Consummate scribe
Radney Foster 8 p.m. May 16-17 The Blue Door 2805 N. McKinley Ave. bluedoorokc.com 405-524-0738 $35-$40 Radney Foster, one of the most lively Nashville-based songwriters in a city full of them, was wide awake at 9:30 a.m. for a phone interview with Oklahoma Gazette, far earlier than the interview times scheduled by most other night-dwelling […]