Hinder with Saving Abel, My Darkest Days and Default7:30 p.m. Saturday Diamond Ballroom 8001 S. Eastern www.diamondballroom.net 677-9169 $19 Oklahoma City’s Hinder hit the sophomore slump like a speed bump at 60 mph, and the thump to the guys’ noggins hurt. The shot to their pride was even worse. After selling 3.5 million of their […]
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Games afoot
If video killed the radio star, many of today’s video games seem determined to bring him or her back. Since several musically inclined game titles may be on your loved ones’ lists this Christmas, I enlisted my kids to help tackle a couple, pre-Yule. First up? “Rock Band 3,” the latest in MTV Games’ venerable […]
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Purple Church – Woodsporn/Hayseed EPs
If that weren’t enough, Purple Church also saw fit to release a real-life cassette single (side A and side B, y’all) named “Hayseed” recently. This group of four dudes is rockin’ the DIY thing, much to my glee. The music within “Woodsporn” is worthy of the excellent art. The group throws down some dark, distortion-heavy, […]
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Rogers’ will
Randy Rogers Band 9 P.m. Friday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday Wormy Dog Saloon 311 E. Sheridan www.wormydog.com 601-6276 $50 Friday, $30 Saturday Not all metro music fans want to spend their New Year’s Eve with The Flaming Lips; some seek something a little more grounded in reality. That’s where red-dirt favorite Randy Rogers Band steps […]
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Campaign contributions
Campaign for Real Music featuring Crown Imperial, The Wurly Birds, Copperheads, Ryan Lawson, Plaid Rabbit, Dadrock, Psychotic Reaction and more 4 p.m. Friday-Saturday Opolis 113 N. Crawford, Norman www.opolis.org 820-0951 A diverse assortment of local bands will rally together Friday and Saturday at the seventh annual Campaign for Real Music at Opolis in Norman. Twenty […]
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Chicago marathon
Chicago with Leon Russell8 p.m. Sunday Lucky Star Casino 7777 N. Highway 81, Concho www.luckystarcasino.org $41-$91 After forming in college, the members of Chicago Transit Authority — soon simply Chicago — abandoned their namesake home for La-La Land in 1968. Within a year, they’d signed with Warner Bros. and launched one of the most successful […]
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‘Grow’ into it
If you’re going to be playing mournful New Orleans jazz, you better have a broken heart, a gritty voice and a talented band. Mark Growden has all three of those things, and he’ll bring his earthy, darkly religious tunes to OKC on 8 p.m. Saturday at a house concert (friend “Blue Moon House Concerts” on […]