Bugnog 9 p.m. March 14 Blue Note Lounge 2408 N. Robinson Ave. facebook.com/bluenoteokc 405-600-1166 $5 Bugnog celebrates the release of debut album Chuggernaut 9 p.m. March 14 at Blue Note Lounge, 2408 N. Robinson Ave. At the time of this interview, the “two-dude” Norman metal band was still finishing it. “In past projects, we’ve had […]
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Full spectrum
Rainbows Are Free 9 p.m. Nov. 29 Blue Note Lounge 2408 N. Robinson Ave. facebook.com/bluenoteokc 405-600-1166 $10-$12 Lead guitarist Richie Tarver doesn’t know what you’ll hear when you listen to Head Pains, but to him, it sounds more like Rainbows Are Free and less like doom-metal standard-bearers Black Sabbath. “I think we finally kind of […]
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Blue Note Lounge hosts monthly medical marijuana concert series
Oklahomans for Health hopes its concert series can drive funds and petition support.
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Forté’s forte
For some musicians, performing is work. For others, it’s just a big party. For Tulsa’s Fiawna Forté, it’s therapy. “I was a very shy child, and had a pretty rough childhood. I buried everything,” she said of her intense performance style. “Onstage, I’m taking every bad thing in my life and throwing it up, mentally […]
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Color me busy
Jordan Herrera loves music so much, he hardly can step away from it, even for a moment. Always listening, of course, but always playing, too. Months ago at Norman Music Festival, Herrera played with four different bands (Chrome Pony, The Gentle Art of Floating, Good Morning Grizzly and The Nghiems) in three days, and that […]
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The gap
Credit: Nathan Poppe Although less than two years old, the Oklahoma City Southern folk act Black Canyon already is a whole new beast. “Black Canyon has changed a lot over the past six months,” front man and founding member Jake Morisse said. “Things are getting a lot louder.” There’s a fairly simple explanation: Founding member […]
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A crappy show
Austin, Texas-based garage musician Orville Bateman Neely stays busy. He produces records for the likes of The Strange Boys, drums for A Giant Dog, co-fronts Bad Sports and runs sound at Austin venue Beerland. Oh, and currently on its first national tour, his own band, OBN IIIs, plays 10 p.m. Saturday at The Blue Note […]
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Sultan of sting
Credit: Ben Pobjoy Mark Sultan has been playing garage rock well before it was in vogue. For 23 years, the Canadian has plugged away either as a solo musician (often under the moniker BBQ) or a member of The Spaceshits, Les Sexareenos, Almighty Defenders and, most notoriously, The King Khan & BBQ Show. Through that […]
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Mim’s the word
It had been almost a decade of wanting what you couldn’t have for rock’s The Mimsies. After the Norman-to- L.A. band split in 2004, its members migrated across the country, and the years since have been spent waiting and wishing. “It’s strange. For the last seven years of considering doing a reunion, there needed to […]