Cavern Company 8:30 p.m. Saturday 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. 51stspeakeasy.com 405-463-0470 $3 Post-Tension, OKC indie rock conglomerate Cavern Company is learning to ease up and dig in. “Sonically, this EP is one step closer to where we really want to be as a band,” said frontman Zach Shomaker, describing Cavern Company’s second […]
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Saint’s Passage
Saint Loretto 9 p.m. Friday 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. 51stspeakeasy.com 405-463-0470 $3 Evan Crowley, aka Saint Loretto, recorded his debut, Depth / S in his home, but following a divorce, he began recording sophomore album Passage / S in someone else’s. “A friend lent me a place to stay, a house that […]
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ALCOHOLMANAC Lyrical libations
Oklahoma City has a rich and thriving live music scene, and a wide variety of venues have found success supporting the diversity of the city’s music fans. Some of OKC’s coolest venues have bars that reflect this uniqueness, too. Want someplace smoke-filled, small or sort of divey? Or how about an arena setting where the […]
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Fully Applied
Applied Music Program, Carly Gwin and the Sin and Lacey Elaine 9 p.m. Feb. 2 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. 51stspeakeasy.com 405-463-0470 $3 21+ Oklahoma music fans will have the rare opportunity to see several local bands perform together at an upcoming show at 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St., on Feb. […]
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New Year’s Eve: Bye 2018
Speakeasy 90s-00s Dance Party 8 p.m. Monday 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. 51stspeakeasy.com 405-463-0470 $5-$10 DJ Ryan Drake uses “the 1990s” as shorthand to promote his monthly parties, including this month’s New Year’s Eve Dance Party, at 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St. But if you ask him about it, he thinks […]
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Truth and Soulmatic
Soulmatic vinyl release party 9:30 p.m. Friday 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. 51stspeakeasy.com 405-643-0470 $5 Carrying amplifiers for a Ben Kweller show got The Nghiems booked on their first gig in 2007, and getting the attention of Broncho’s Ben King at that gig resulted in an invite to record at a storied local […]
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Rewind revival
VHS and Chill: Birdemic: Shock and Terror 8:30 p.m. Thursday 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. vhsandchill.net 405-463-0470 Free In the beginning, there was RoboCop, a VHS copy in a cardboard box full of old movies and episodes of Star Trek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer taped from television. For “like […]
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Sun tones
Saint Loretto Summer Bummer Beach Party w/ Cavern Company & Swim Fan 10 p.m. Friday 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. 51stspeakeasy.com 405-463-0470 Free Oklahoma is not necessarily the best place beach goths could select to spend their summer vacation. For one, there is no beach. Aside from that, it gets too darn hot […]
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Not last
When Yes on 788 officially declared victory on election night, a joyful cheer rang throughout 51st Street Speakeasy, where hundreds gathered indoors and out for an official watch party. It is appropriate that victory on the medical marijuana state question would be declared inside a bar taking inspiration from the speakeasy drinking establishments that popped […]
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T-shirts are presented as art in the 51st Street Speakeasy show The Art We Wear
The show, which will feature many unique, one-off shirt designs, begins 9 p.m. March 23.