Live Music Previews

Probably the best way to get an idea about singer Chris Knight is to think of him as a country guy with lots of dog-eared books on the shelf: novels by William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy.  “Reading Cormac McCarthy just makes me want to write more,” Knight said. “Some of the sentences in […]

Rockabilly had all but died before a trio of big-haired kids from New York named Stray Cats injected new life into the genre in the Eighties with singles like “Rock This Town” and “(She’s) Sexy + 17.” With rockabilly enjoying a resurgence in popularity, the Stray Cats are rocking again and strutting into the Zoo […]

With a beefed-up list of more than 150 acts and a move to a bigger venue, the two-day festival and music conference known as Dfest will celebrate the state’s centennial in style, Friday and Saturday in Tulsa’s Blue Dome District. Now in its sixth year, the festival also is breaking with tradition to bring in […]

A native of Baltimore, Amy Speace has a background in acting, and even once studied voice in hopes of an operatic future. She not only has performed Shakespeare, but also taught it. But she chucked it all for a $50 guitar from a pawnshop and a late start as a singer/songwriter. Speace’s first solo disc, […]

As a melodic indie-pop band, Bears is a perfect example of music made without any preconceived notions of attention or recognition. Bears has a refreshing and earnest quality to its music that truly shows that an album can be a work of art. “We really didn’t have high expectations,” front man Charlie McArthur said. “I […]

New bands are born every second, so every little step to set one apart helps. Recently, high-energy modern rockers Hush Hush, Commotion got a big nudge in the right direction. The Oklahoma City five-piece won first place in this year’s KHBZ-FM 94.7 “The Buzz’s” March Bandness Battle of the Bands. The band took the prize […]

In today’s technology-driven world, it’s feasible for young, inexperienced musicians to find ways to get their music to the masses. Kids are so computer savvy that most of them can easily navigate amateur computer recording programs, convert their creations into MP3s, throw them up on the Internet, and voila! But the art of studio recording […]

Arlo Guthrie, son of legendary Oklahoman folksinger and songwriter Woody Guthrie, will take the stage Saturday at the 10th annual Woody Guthrie Festival in Okemah, his father’s hometown. Dozens of singers, songwriters and performers are scheduled to play the event, which starts Wednesday and ends Sunday. “He wrote about 3,500 songs that we have,” Guthrie […]

Friday’s third annual Disco Bloodbath at The Conservatory is not your parents’ shindig from the Seventies, but a costume party with several different DJs providing tunes to a crowd displaying fake blood on their clothing and skin. Austin Greene, promoter for J.A.R. Productions, said the idea for the first Disco Bloodbath came when he and […]

If you want to chat with Poison front man Bret Michaels before Saturday’s show at the Zoo Amphitheatre, you are gonna have to catch him. Whenever the band comes to Oklahoma City to play, Michaels likes to spend time before the show unwinding by riding his mountain bike from the venue to Remington Park. “Sometimes […]