Brittany Pickering: I’m Brittany Pickering, the editor-in-chief of Oklahoma Gazette, and I’m here with Cate Jones, a filmmaker, who has a film called She’s the Eldest in deadCenter this year. Can you tell me a little bit about your background and how you got into filmmaking and acting and all of that? Cate Jones: I […]
audio
Posted inArts & Culture
Writer of the Quarantine: Rachel Leonard
I’m the communication and events coordinator for the Down Syndrome Association of Central Oklahoma. In my free time I enjoy baking, volunteering with local arts organizations and writing poetry. Before we started practicing social distancing, I participated at Poetry Open Mic at Paseo Plunge held by Poetic City on Sunday nights. The Poetry Open Mics […]
Posted inMusic
Song review: TJ Mayes – “When Love Comes Down”
The lead single from TJ Mayes’ upcoming debut is so authentic it might as well come with a pack of cigarettes and jar of hair grease.
Posted inMusic
Song review: Boare – “playdatshit”
The world is in the midst of an electronic music renaissance, and you find most of this boon of producers laying claim to the club-friendly, bass-dropping variety.
Posted inMusic
Song review: Broncho – “Class Historian”
Addictive hooks come about as easy as breathing for frontman Ryan Lindsey.
Posted inMusic
The six-song effort doesn’t sound so much like the cold piece of stone or treasured keepsake left behind as the fuzzy, ambiguous idea behind it.
The six-song effort doesn’t sound so much like the cold piece of stone or treasured keepsake left behind as the fuzzy, ambiguous idea behind it.
Posted inMusic
Oklahoma City rapper L.T.Z.’s improbable story is best told atop a beat
Love, trust and Zion. After an asthma attack put him in a coma for nine days back in 2001, those were the words that kept popping up in the prayer book left beside the hospital bed of a then-11- year-old L.T.Z. It felt like a sign.
Posted inMusic
Chevy Woods bleeds black and yellow, cut from the Terrible Towel cloth with a mind like a steel trap. And the rapper can’t help but let his humble, blue- collar, hard-working hometown star in just about every song he writes.
Chevy Woods bleeds black and yellow, cut from the Terrible Towel cloth with a mind like a steel trap. And the rapper can’t help but let his humble, blue- collar, hard-working hometown star in just about every song he writes.
Posted inMusic
Horse Thief — Little Dust
In advance of their upcoming album, Fear in Bliss, Oklahoma City folk-rockers Horse Thief debuted a new single this week on popular music blog Stereogum. The song, “Little Dust,” is a breezier affair than “Devil,” the album’s first single. It features a mid-tempo rhythm section and twangy guitar swells layered beneath singer Cameron Neal’s nasally croon, and […]
Posted inMusic
Skating Polly — Fuzz Steilacoom
The former is a startlingly authoritative, snarling take of Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse’s brand of punk-anchored “ugly pop,” a fully realized vision of doom and gloom showing just how lethal Skating Polly can be. The latter is a stripped-down, heart-tugging piano ballad on par with anything Regina Spektor has ever done, toying with lush […]