Samantha Crain 8 p.m. May 10 Resonant Head 400 SW 25th St., Suite A Phone Number resonanthead.com $22 Like hard-boiled detectives in black-and-white movies, singer-songwriters stereotypically work alone. Arriving on the scene Friday, May 2, Samantha Crain’s seventh full-length album, Gumshoe, finds a new formula, musically and lyrically. The sweet and poppy title track is […]
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Norman Music Festival April 24-26 Downtown Norman normanmusicfestival.com Free Touting more than 250 acts across three days on stages indoors and out (weather permitting), Norman Music Fest gives visitors a chance to relive the pre-algorithm days when you found out about new music by just kind of happening upon it. As fans of the continuation […]
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Top billing
Norman Music Festival April 24-26 Downtown Norman normanmusicfestival.com free Readers of 2024 album-of-the-year lists and Oklahoma Gazette will find several familiar names in this year’s lineup for Norman Music Festival. La Luz (laluzband.com) — scheduled to take the festival’s main stage at 9:50 p.m. on Saturday, April 26 — made multiple year-end lists for its […]
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Weather report
Dark Mode: Meteorology album release 7 p.m. Saturday, April 12 Mycelium Gallery 2816 N. Pennsylvania Ave. myceliumgallery.com $10 Named in honor of his “crippling storm anxiety,” Brett Fieldcamp’s “guitar and loop-y kind of experimental stuff” project Meteorology had a gig booked before he had any songs to play. Seeing a social media post seeking experimental […]
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Honor code
405 A Day for the City featuring Jaw/Line, Money, Lust Online, Heavytrip, Honor Choir, So Much Heaven 7 p.m. Saturday, April 5 Resonant Head 400 SW 25th St. resonanthead.com $12-$15 By the time you read this, the band might have changed the description again, but at the time of this interview, OKC/Norman band Jaw/Line’s Instagram […]
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OG PICK: Fae
Aptly named 2023 EP Take Cover features San Antonio punk band Fea’s engagingly aggro interpretations of songs by Iggy Pop (“Isolation”), Los Saicos (“Demolición”), X-Ray Spex (“I Am a Cliche”), and The Runaways en español (“I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are”). When Fea isn’t covering legends, they’re working with them: Alice Bag, Against Me!’s […]
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Artistic license
Heavy psych rockers Rainbows Are Free’s latest album Silver and Gold is rich with shiny metal forged to bend the mind, but lead single “Sleep” mines anxieties at the forefront of the brain. “It is pretty straightforward,” vocalist Brandon Kistler said, explaining the song’s meaning. “We’ve gotta hold it together, and sometimes it’s hard to […]
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Beyond Chaos
In 2010, stepsisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse released Skating Polly’s debut, Taking Over the World, recorded on a 24-track TASCAM with help from their dad in their home outside Oklahoma City. In 2023, Skating Polly, including brother Kurtis Mayo on drums and backing vocals, released Chaos County Line, recorded by producer Brad Wood (Liz […]
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Faye Webster
Featuring guest appearances by Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and experimental rapper (and middle school friend) Lil Yachty, Faye Webster’s 2024 album Underdressed at the Symphony stakes out a charmingly cozy little corner of that increasingly occupied space between R&B and country music that’s so hot right now. According to the press release, the album title […]
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Giveaway: Amigo the devil at Tower Theatre
Oklahoma Gazette partners with Tower Theatre for a giveaway of two tickets to see Amigo the devil May 20. To enter the giveaway, like the social post found on our Facebook or Instagram pages, tag a friend in the comments of the post, or share that post to your page or story. Giveaway begins February […]