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Box-office poison

Arsenic and Old Lace Aug. 22-Sept. 15 Jewel Box Theatre 3700 N. Walker Ave. fccokc.org/jewel-box-theatre 405-521-1786 $20-$30 When she first saw the film version of Arsenic and Old Lace, Denise Hughes did not expect a movie about insanity and murder to be funny — mostly because it was released in 1944. “As a general rule, […]

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Depth test

Photo: Laura Raczkowski Owning a recording studio and heading a small, Oklahoma record label gives Chris Harris, front man of local shoegaze three-piece Depth & Current, a certain perspective on what it takes to survive in the world of independent music: Namely, adapt or die. To that end, the Norman-based “nightmare-pop” band decided to include […]

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Current event

Recording music inside his home in the out-of-the-way Oklahoma town of Amber, Depth & Current singer/ guitarist Chris Harris often heard some bizarre sounds via CV radio that weren’t always necessarily his own. “Living out in the country, I would hit these distortion pedals and hear these crazy preachers and alien conspiracy theorists and government […]

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Current event

Recording music inside his home in the out-of-the-way Oklahoma town of Amber, Depth & Current singer/ guitarist Chris Harris often heard some bizarre sounds via CV radio that weren’t always necessarily his own. “Living out in the country, I would hit these distortion pedals and hear these crazy preachers and alien conspiracy theorists and government […]

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Depth & Current — Depth & Current

I like to think of him as a kindred, younger spirit to Shellac’s Steve Albini: well-thought and often intentionally shocking, not for the enjoyment of shocking people, but because shock is often a useful tool in creating provocative art. Prior to listening to “Depth & Current,” the first LP from the eponymous band comprised by […]

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