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Beau Jennings gets personal with The Christmas Light.

Tags: Music Features, Beau Jennings, music, Opolis Holiday Program, Opolis, Christmas music, The Christmas Light, Beau Jennings and The Tigers, Samantha Crain, Maddie Razook, James Nghiem, Homeless Alliance

Oklahoma Gazette suggests 12 local holiday events to jingle your bells.

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, holiday events, 12 Bars of Christmas Crawl, Pretty Please Social Room, A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live on Stage, FireLake Arena, Christmas with the Crawfords, The Boom!, Deck the Hall With Buddy Holly, The Auditorium at The Douglass, Handel’s Messiah, Civic Center Music Hall, Canterbury Voices, Holiday Reindog Walk & Puppy Parade, Earlywine Park, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, The Pollard Theatre, Pollard Theatre Company, Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker, Oklahoma Shakespeare, Erin Woods, A Christmas Carol, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Dirk Lumbard, The Nutcracker, Oklahoma City Ballet, Civic Center Music Hall, Opolis Holiday Program, Opolis, Samantha Crain, LABRYS, Beau Jennings, James Nghiem, Hip-Hop Nutcracker, RACE Dance Company, Hui Cha Poos

Psychedelic garage rock band Pearl Earl stops at Norman’s Opolis on the way to starting a new chapter.

Tags: Music Features, Music, Arts & Culture, arts, culture, entertainment, Pearl Earl, Ariel Hartley, Opolis, Bailey K. Chapman, Denton, Texas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, psychedelic rock, Los Angeles, Stefanie Lazcano, Chelsey Dannielle, Something’s Gotta Change, EP, Helen Kelter, Psychotic Reaction

Death Valley Girls’ playfully morbid music resurrects the magic of rock ’n’ roll.

Tags: Music Features, Music, Music news, live music, arts, culture, entertainment, Death Valley Girls, Opolis, Deb Frazin, Darkness Rains, Dream Cleaver, Terrence McKenna, Bonnie Bloomgarden, Billie Holiday, The Gun Club, LA Weekly, Larry Schemel, Iggy Pop, Roky Erickson, Kate Clover

Opolis’ back-to-school bash features a local lineup with a few bonus bands touring through Oklahoma.

Tags: Music Features, Opolis, Summer Daze 2.0, Mad Honey, Hovvdy, Norman, Andy Nunez, University of Oklahoma, The Garage Burgers & Beer, Notorious P.I.E., Anthem Brewing Company, Sports, Hovvdy, Lomelda, Tyson Meade, Break Up, Smokey Motel, Spinster, Swim Fan, Net, Poolboy, LCG & the X, Mad Honey, Masterhand, Laine, Burl, Mt. Terror, Buzzcut, Audio Book Club, Hannah Read, Charlie Martin, Will Taylor, Tiff Sutcliffe, Keegan Ball, Austin Valdez, Evan Jarvicks, Make Oklahoma Weirder, Jo Babb

Shane Mauss’ Stand Up Science merges comedy with curiosity.

Tags: Arts, Shane Mauss, comedy, Stand Up Science, Opolis, Here We Are, stand-up, science, podcast

Oklahoma City and Tulsa are getting inundated with concerts this summer.

Tags: Music Features, Summer Guide, concerts, Arlo Guthrie, Carter Sampson, John Fullbright, Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Okemah, Broncho, Colourmusic, Deerpeople, Tower Theatre, Chainsaw Kittens, Tyson Meade, The Crystal Method, IDL Ballroom, Tulsa, Liberty & Lasers, Lost Lakes Amphitheatre, Subsonix, Jason Isbell, Father John Misty, BOK Center, Portugal. The Man, The Criterion, Pedro the Lion, mewithoutYou, This Will Destroy You, Vampire Weekend, Glen Hansard, Twenty One Pilots, Chesapeake Energy Arena, Cuco, Juice Wrld, Ski Mask the Slump God, Thundercat, 21 Savage, Dababy, Khalid, Cardi B, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Devin the Dude, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Cain’s Ballroom, Built to Spill, Nelly, Diamond Ballroom, Interpol, Joy Division, James McMurtry, Mercury Lounge, Marty Stuart, Steve Miller Band, River Spirit Casino, Riverside Parkway, Son Volt, The Jones Assembly, Wynonna & the Big Noise, Riverwind Casino, Norman, Alan Jackson, Peter Frampton, Oklahoma City, Peter Frampton, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Catoosa, Dio, Alice Cooper, Halestorm, The Zoo Amphitheatre, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Zakk Sabbath, Kansas, Full of Hell, Primitive Man, 89th Street — OKC, Jawbreaker, X, MDC, Verbal Abuse, Ani DiFranco, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Man Man, Rebecca Black, Opolis, Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, Flying Lotus, Insane Clown Posse, Diamond Ballroom, Scott Stapp, Nickelback, Jimmy Buffett

Area musicians offer some of the best reasons to attend Norman Music Festival.

Tags: Music Features, Norman Music Festival, NMF, Beau Jennings & the Tigers, Flock of Pigs, Sativa Prophets, The Annie Oakley, Mt. Terror, Teflo $, Naturalist, Maddie Razook, Brennan Barnes, Deerpeople, Opolis, Pigments, Lust, Joseph Tassinari, Ashton Prescott, Nathan Schatzer, Daniel Acuna, Rodrick Malone, Benzo El Toro, Methotrexate, Purple Mouth Bandits

Lincka throws the rule book out the window with her new mini-album, Blank Slate of Mind.

Tags: Music Features, Lincka Elizondo, Lincka, National Public Radio, NPR, Para Ti, Blank State of Mind, music, Opolis, Norman

Both old and new music venues in Oklahoma City offer a range of drinks to concertgoers.

Tags: Music Features, 51st Street Speakeasy, Chesapeake Energy Arena, Film Row, Alcoholmanac, HiLo Club, Houston Mandy, HiLo Happy Meal, Holy Diver, Ronnie James Dio, The Jones Assembly, Frose, El Jimador, The Disco Nap, Jenny Lewis, Jones Squeeze, Opolis, Marian Nunez, Pineapple Dream, Greyhound, X-Hound, Alcoholmanac

OKC’s music venues have risen to the challenge of providing concertgoers with more than just nachos and stale pretzels.

Tags: Music Features, Chesapeake Energy Arena, music venues, food, Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Club, Budweiser Brew House, The Jones Assembly, Opolis, Tower Theatre, Pizzeria Gusto, Cheever’s Cafe, The Pump Bar The Drake Seafood & Oysterette, Burger Punk, Ponyboy

Kero Kero Bonito stirs a colorful cultural stew.

Tags: Music Features, Kero Kero Bonito, Opolis

Guestroom Records celebrates 15 years of against-the-odds success.

Tags: Music Features, Guestroom Records, Norman, Steve Keene, Justin Sowers, Travis Searle, Suzy Thompson, Opolis, Will Muir, Record Store Day, COOP Ale Works, Oh Johnny! Girls, Tyson Meade, Locust Avenue, Net, LCG & the X

Past Tiny Desk Contest winner Fantastic Negrito brings Please Don’t Be Dead to Norman.

Tags: Music Features, Fantastic Negrito, Chris Cornell, Soundgarden, blues, roots music, NPR Tiny Desk Contest, NPR Music, Opolis, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah, Goodwill

L.A. Witch returns to Oklahoma to cast its spell on Opolis.

Tags: Music Features, L.A. Watch, garage rock, punk, Opolis, tornado, tornadoes, Sade Sanchez, Irita Pai, Ellie English, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Phil Spector, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, My Bloody Valentine, psychobilly, shoegaze, DIY, DIY punk, The Gun Club, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Suicide Squeeze Records