In a time of great change in the music industry, Lamb of God remains one of heavy metal’s constants.
Diamond Ballroom
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311 paves its own road to music success and celebrates 25 years together at Monday’s Oklahoma City tour stop.
311 paves its own road to music success and celebrates 25 years together at Monday’s Oklahoma City tour stop.
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Letters to the Editor: May 20, 2015
It’s dangerous The “fracking chemicals have never been found in drinking water” proclamation by the fossil fuel industry recently bit the dust. “Evaluating a groundwater supply contamination incident attributed to Marcellus Shale gas development,” a peer-reviewed scientific publication from the prestigious National Academy of Sciences published April 2, says otherwise. This study found evidence of […]
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They Might Be Giants brings grown-up tour to OKC on Friday
They Might Be Giants (TMBG) released its independent, self-titled first album in 1986, five years after MTV debuted on U.S. cable stations. That was a long time ago, back when the channel still aired music videos and backed genres like college rocker, alternative and indie pop, which were eventually abandoned during the rise of grunge […]
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Mastodon adds metallic gleam to Diamond Ballroom on Wednesday
Mastodon talks to Oklahoma Gazette in advance of its Wednesday show in Oklahoma City.
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Dreamers shake up reality with music, critical appeal
Dreamers ride the surreal wave it created all the way to Diamond Ballroom.
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Undaunted Durst
Credit: Brad Gregg Those guys are still around. No, really. Limp Bizkit challenged the May 31 tornadoes to “Break Stuff” at Diamond Ballroom and played afterward for an audience of about 20 plucky concertgoers who had braved the storm with them. The nu-metal band, all Florida residents, had an interesting day in Oklahoma. Front man […]
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Extra-strength EDM
When house DJ and music producer Kaskade steps out onstage and is greeted by thousands of screaming fans, it sort of feels like a dream. “It’s a shock,” said Ryan Raddon, 41, aka Kaskade. “I’ve been doing this so long, watching for over 20 years, and some people feel like this electronic explosion happened overnight, […]
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Anger management
Mike Ness has been guilty of many things — more than he’d like to remember, or even can remember — but holding back on his emotions isn’t one of them. As the singer, guitarist and all-around force behind the three-decades-strong punk band Social Distortion, the man has summoned plenty of personal demons in hard-charging, college-radio […]
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Band of brothers
Oklahoma City alt-rock outfit Aranda has come a long way from its first gig, which saw brothers Dameon and Gabe Aranda playing air guitar and lipsynching for their grandparents. Aranda has been nearly a lifetime in the making, but it almost didn’t happen after a record deal with Sony fell apart in the early 2000s. […]