Closing the loop on a seven-year stretch between Oklahoma City appearances, Lady Gaga led a sold-out crowd of her “monsters” through a two-hour set of hits and fan favorites, strutting across four stages Saturday at Chesapeake Energy Arena and achieving a sweet balance between nuclear pyrotechnics and real human warmth. A skilled theatrical mind […]
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Cover: Fans share their stories as Lady Gaga returns to OKC for the first time in seven years
The show begins 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9 at Chesapeake Energy Arena.
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June Bug Jam promotes mental health awareness through music
The event begins 7 p.m. June 3 at Norman’s Sooner Theatre.
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Greyson Chance’s Somewhere Over My Head shows maturity beyond viral appeal
Opening track “Afterlife” on Greyson Chance’s new EP has the makings of a summer jam.
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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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Light it up
Few weren’t charmed by The Darkness’ ubiquitous single “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” when it hit stateside in 2003. The honest-to-God rock ’n’ roll stylings recalling the likes of Thin Lizzy, Queen and Kiss were hard not to appreciate. Even Lady Gaga counts herself as a fan, hand-picking the British glam band to […]
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M83 — Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
And not just in indie. Released this week, Coldplay’s “Mylo Xyloto” (also see Florence + The Machine, Lady Gaga) is the group’s biggest, brightest, largest-swelling album yet, just as optimistic in tone as its lyrics are complimentary and superficial. Meanwhile, once the biggest, loudest, hardest chest-beaters of the indie-rock scene (just watch them playing “Wake […]
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That’s the ticket
If you were a member of the Oklahoma City Council, you could have gone to see them for free. Over the course of three years, current and former City Council members received thousands of free event tickets, mostly for Oklahoma City Thunder games, but also included tickets to rock concerts, stand-up comedians, ballet performances and […]
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Fame monster
According to KFOR-TV 4, 20-year-old metro-area resident Angelina K. Barnes was so intent on attending a Lady Gaga concert drenched in blood that she allegedly killed a cat to get the red stuff. Lady Gaga famously performed in the same manner at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards; she had an April 4 concert in […]