Live Music Previews

As 2007 gives way to 2008, downtown Oklahoma City may never sound sweeter, given the wide array of Sooner State musicians and bands performing at Opening Night on New Year’s Eve. Aside from that evening’s special Flaming Lips concert at 9 p.m. at the Cox Convention Center, all Opening Night performances Monday can be witnessed […]

Pulling yourself out of bed on Tuesday just to head back out to Bricktown might not seem like the ideal way to recover from New Year’s Eve, but the Wormy Dog Saloon is serving a healthy dose of acoustic red dirt to help soothe your throbbing head in its “Hangover Ball.” Singer Mike McClure said […]

h. After recruiting longtime friend Alex Aponte as bassist, the rest of the band fell together easily, and before long, “Southern Weather” made its way onto the Billboard 200, debuting at No. 29.   Complete with Dusty Redmon and drummer Kenny Bozich, The Almost is touring the country to share their music to sold-out crowds. […]

Kristin Gundred, front woman of Grand Ole Party blasts out big and brassy vocals which pipe through their new CD, “Humanimals.” She is as brash as Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, but a bit less brat and more art. But the real shock comes when one learns that Gundred belts out while tucked behind a […]

In the Eighties, the fanzine ” “zine” for short ” was the forum of choice for motivated young minds and agitated cranks to rant about music in Oklahoma.   One could find the publications at the hipper record stores ” self-published, often-Xeroxed manifestos often ornamented with anarchy symbols, band logos and maybe a vintage call […]

Devil Doll sounds like the soundtrack from a bar brawl between June Carter Cash and Patti Smith, yet comes wrapped as a sultry, dark-haired pinup starlet: leading lady Colleen Duffy. The fun-loving retro-rockers, known for their boisterous and energetic live performances, will take over Oklahoma City’s Blue Note stage tonight, and just might leave the […]

Peter Case is a songwriter’s songwriter who took Bob Dylan’s route backward, unplugging to go acoustic after doing the electric thing years with California power-poppers The Nerves and The Plimsouls.  His latest album, “Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John,” is stripped-down, but don’t let the title’s allusion to Sleepy John Estes fool you: It’s not […]

Mascis’ responses tend to be of the clipped, yes-or-no variety. He mumbles a lot, and the pauses between words could fill canyons. If he didn’t happen to be one of the most gifted and unique artists in rock music, it would be damned annoying. “I don’t like (interviews) especially,” he said. Pause. “Phone interviews are […]

In a world of posers and shoegazers, there’s a need for some good old-fashioned, foot-to-the-floor rock music. Gravity Propulsion System has heeded that call for a decade now, and with its latest album, “Days Like Razors,” the Norman-based band continues to carry the torch for dirty, angry and aggressive garage rockers everywhere. The band will […]

Pudding Attack isn’t the worst name in the world ” at least not for the Oklahoma City trio which has re-emerged with the album “Miniskirt Cash Machine.” The band has traded in the electric guitar for a menagerie of keyboards and electric pianos, making for fistfuls of fuzzy blips and beeps. Attack member Robb Benhoff […]