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The liner notes for “American Kids,” the Oklahoma City indie-pop band The City Lives’ newly released full-length CD, notes that food from Arby’s was used as partial payment to a recording engineer for the 11-track recording. Featuring some of the most honest and well-written songs released by a metro rock band, “American Kids” just might have […]

Break out the glitter and silver confetti, because Oklahoma City will say goodbye to 2007 and celebrate the new year with The Flaming Lips.   OKC’s three-time Grammy- winning psychedelic band will take the stage at 7 p.m. Dec. 31 at the Cox Convention Center as part of the Arts Council of Oklahoma City’s annual […]

It’s been more than four years since Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood’s Georgia rent house was sold while they toured and they made the decision literally to live a life on the road. Together, Valentine and Livengood are Jucifer ” a frenetic, genre-warping rock band that has been a national touring mainstay for more than […]

The Norman indie foursome Yacht Club! will be hosting a CD release party at The Opolis Friday night. With Edmond’s The Neopolitans and OKC band The City Lives opening the show up ” and turntable tunes provided by Dance Robots, Dance! ” the event is sure to provide hours of cool music and dancing. Despite […]

But singer/songwriter and guitarist Rocky Votolato moved to Seattle from Dallas when he was 15, thrusting him into an “entirely different world” that made an impression in his voice and his songs that one still can hear more than a decade later. “Oh, I put up a fight,” Votolato, now 30, said about the forced […]

Oklahoma native David Terry laid the groundwork for his group, Aqueduct, in Tulsa, where he is from and where his family still lives. “Living in Tulsa definitely made me more hungry for music. The scene there now isn’t at all what it was, even just a few years ago,” Terry said. “Just driving to Dallas, […]

Six more state musicians have been chosen as additions to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, including:” a platinum-selling modern-rock band, ” country singers and ” a legendary guitar player. The 2007 nominees will be inducted formally into the hall of fame at a Nov. 1 ceremony at the Muskogee Civic Assembly Center. COUNTRYSammi Smith, […]

They have sold millions of albums worldwide and have played to huge crowds all over the United States and overseas. So why do so many Oklahomans shudder when they hear the name Hinder? An Internet search of the band’s name pulls up scores of rants and negative reviews of everything the band does. All Music […]

Narciso Argüelles, an artist and art instructor at the University of Central Oklahoma, said two of his pieces were removed from his photography exhibit at the state Capitol because the curator felt they were “too politically loaded.” One of the pieces, he said, was taken off the gallery wall after the exhibit had formally opened. […]

Just about anyone can fall in love with the experimental, quirky and, well, colorful fivesome known as Colourmusic The members all met on the Oklahoma State University campus. The band and its music is sort of a collective art concept. It strives to make colorful music, literally. Colourmusic started at one end of the spectrum […]