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LCG & the X celebrates the release of its debut album at 51st Street Speakeasy.

Tags: Music Reviews, Music, music news, arts, culture, entertainment, arts & culture, LCG & the X, Morgan Hartman, Jarod Evans, Blackwatch Studios, Pilar V. Guarddon Pueyo, Labrys, Twiggs, 51st Street Speakeasy

Singer-songwriter and Highwoman Amanda Shires brings her substantial stories to OKC.

Tags: Music Reviews, Music news, music, arts, culture, arts & culture, entertainment, Amanda Shires, To the Sunset, Tower Theatre, Deciphering Dreams, Neal Casal, The Texas Playboys, Bob Wills, Texas Monthly, The Highwaymen, Jimmy Webb, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, LA Edwards

Tony Foster Jr.’s Kaleidoscope reveals spirituality through soul and R&B.

Tags: Music Features, Music, Music news, arts & culture, arts, culture, entertainment, Tony Foster Jr., Kaleidoscope, Long Story Short, Sean C. Johnson, Jacobi Ryan, Thomas Who?, Adam Ledbetter, Adam & Kizzie, Ray June, Sid Carter, The Paramount Room, The Paramount, Paramount Room

Norman metal duo Bugnog’s debut Chuggernaut is “trudgy, slow” and secretly explosive.

Tags: Music Features, Music, Music news, arts & culture, arts, culture, entertainment, Bugnog, Chuggernaut, Blue Note, Blue Note Lounge, Black Sabbath, The Mars Volta, Chalres Mingus, death core, Metallica, Megadeath, Vinnie Paul, Pantera, Bug, Nog, Starfighter, Dire Gnome

Recorded at 51st Street Speakeasy, Matt Jewett Live captures the singer-songwriter in a creative flux.

Tags: Music Features, Music, Music news, arts & culture, arts, culture, entertainment, Matt Jewett, Matt Jewett Live, Iabel Robot Saves City, Shut Up Matt Jewett, David Nghiem, James Nghiem, Scotch Room, 51st Street Speakeasy, Caught Stealing, Pete Allen, Sisu Youth Services, Robot Saves City

OKC’s Jeremy Thomas Quartet opens for Kamasi Washington at Tower Theatre.

Tags: Arts, Music, music news, arts & culture, arts, culture, Jeremy Thomas Quartet, Kamasi Washington, Tower Theatre, Jeremy Thomas, jazz, Herbie Hancock, Cantaloupe Island, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, John Coltrane, Man Made Miles, To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar, The Guardian, Thomas Street, I Am, Motiv, Zack Gaddis, Shanna Proctor Dejear, University of Central Oklahoma, Kent Kidwell, Nipsy Hussle, The Skirvin Hotel

Atlanta rock band Chew brings its multi-genre psychedelic sound to Norman’s Red Brick Bar.

Tags: Music Features, Music, music news, arts & culture, arts, culture, Chew, Brett Reagan, Atlanta, Jamie Austin, Sarah Wilson, Red Brick Bar, Norman, Darque Tan, 3D, A Fine Accoutrement, Stolen Body Records, Immersive Atlanta, Russell Rockwell, math rock, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, WSBF, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mars Volta, Death Grips, Everything Is Terrible

Pitch HER Perfect’s Rhythm and Flow brings music and poetry to The Paramount Room.

Tags: Music Features, Music, Music news, music feature, Arts & Culture, Arts, Culture, Annisia Anderson, Vada Patrice, Pitch HER Perfect, Rhythm and Flow, The Paramount Room, Paramount Room, musical network, Glenjamin the Great, Joanna Reich, Miss Vee, spoken word, Tree Lounge, harmony, harmonizing, harmonic convergence, R&B, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, blues, gospel, genres, feel-good music

Wolf Parade brings Thin Mind to Oklahoma City.

Tags: Music Features, Music, Arts & Culture, art, culture, Wolf Parade, Tower Theatre, Thin Mind, new album, album, concert, Dan Boeckner, Apologies to the Queen Mary, At Mount Zoomer, rock, rock band, EP, Spencer Krug, Arlen Thompson, Dante DeCaro, Expo 86, Cry Cry Cry, live music, songwriting, lyric writing, Land of Talk, music feature

The Art Hall’s Tiny Little Fables: The Enchanted features collages by Louisiana artist Nonney Oddlokken and works by OKC artists Nicole and Aztrid Moan.

Tags: Arts, Art, Art & Culture, culture, entertainment, Helen Opper, Nonney Oddlokken, The Art Hall, Tiny Little Fables, The Enchanted, Tiny Little Fables: The Enchanted, art curating, art exhibition, mixed media collages, mixed media art, Nicole Moan, Aztrid Moan, ceramic, sculpted, DJ Ostara, Mardi Gras, New Orlean, Louisiana

A new restaurant concept in northeast OKC aims to become a family-friendly hub for black culture.

Tags: Metro, News, Business, northeast Oklahoma City, Kindred Spirits, Urban Roots, Quintin Hughes, Kindred, Octavia Butler, black business, black business owner, black culture, culture, Southern cuisine, African cuisine, local economy, EastPoint, EastPoint development, Intentional Fitness, live music, music, art, entertainment, culture, cultural hub, unapologetically black, black Oklahoma

Sideshow spotlights O. Gail Poole’s multifaceted exploration of “absurdism and human folly.”

Tags: Arts, Art, Arts & Culture, art, culture, entertainment, Nicole Poole, Sideshow, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Jr. Museum, O. Gail Poole, academic nudes, still life, landscapes, religious icons, political icons, puppets, magical realism, masks, Kaylee Kain, Mental Dilemma/No Joke, Female Icon, The Jury, Dealing with Al, Shot from a Cannon, Poole-Hobbes Inc., absurdism, human folly

The trials and joys of motherhood inspired K.C. Clifford’s self-assured new album.

Tags: Music Features, Music, Arts & Culture, arts, culture, entertainment, K.C. Clifford, album release, The Tag Hollow Sessions, David Broyles, Dr. Pants, motherhood, musician, Daniel Walker, singer-songwriter, songwriting, collaboration, Tower Theatre, Tower

Black Flag’s current incarnation plays 89th Street — OKC.

Tags: Music Features, Music, Arts & Culture, Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Black Flag, Mike Vallely, Ron Reyes, 89th Street - OKC, 89th Street, Henry Rollins, Damaged, My War, The Decline of Western Civilization, Keith Morris, Circle Jerks, Off!, Nervous Breakdown, Greg Ginn, Mike V & the Rats, Good for You, LA Weekly, Linecutters, Rob Wallace