Live Music Previews

The Red Alert consists of Hank Hanewinkel III on guitar and vocals and his younger sister, Christy Hanewinkel, on drums. The pair first started playing four years ago, when she was only eight years old and he was just 14. It all started with that childhood dream and a White Stripes CD. “My uncle Phillip […]

Long recognized as one of America’s best country-blues fingerpickers and a scholar of acoustic blues, Paul Geremia has a very clear memory of when music first captured his attention. “My father had an old jazz recording of Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, which was one of my favorite records when I was a teenager,” […]

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone’s first three albums were made with the idea that art can be truly unique and amazing when made with strict boundaries. Or in Casiotone’s case, one: a Casio keyboard. “I like the idea of making stuff with sort of a limitation,” sole member Owen Ashworth said. “I like the idea […]

Norman’s The Gunship set out to play 50 shows in two months, and that’s just what they did. From one coast to the next, the Okie rockers have been firing off round after round of its own brand of post-punk vintage rock and finding out just how special home is. “We didn’t realize just how […]

Jimmy Webb, an Oklahoma native best known for his continuing career as one of America’s most highly regarded and prolific popular songwriters, is accustomed to performing in venues of all sizes. However, he said he has a special regard for performing in the intimate surroundings of small spaces that place him close to the audience. […]

For 11 years, San Antonio-based Two Tons of Steel has held down the fort at the legendary, un-air-conditioned Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas, for its annual Tuesday-night summer concert series, averaging 12,000 fans each year. Yet despite trips to Europe and Cuba, they’ve never played in Oklahoma. “We go east and south, but we […]

With little to no love from radio or television, Hold Steady cracked the charts at 124 with its latest album, “Boys and Girls in America.” On this third disc, the self-described bar band rambles and soars through 11 tracks about drugs, infatuation and the complexities of young love. “One thing I love about Craig (Finn)’s […]

The members of Athens, Ga., four-piece Maserati forego vocals in favor of bringing their expansive melodies and muscular, yet intuitive percussion to the spotlight. They blend ambient rhythms and modern dance rock with a Seventies groove to create highly emotive tracks on its latest release, “Inventions for the New Season.” “When we have an idea […]

George Benson already was one of the best guitar players in the history of jazz before he finally achieved his 1976 breakthrough with “Breezin’.” Currently he’s on tour with his latest album, the Grammy-winning “Givin’ It Up,” a collaboration with legendary vocalist Al Jarreau which includes covers of some jazz classics. By stocking up with […]

California-based indie-pop band Hellogoodbye began at Huntington Beach High School during 2001, when lead vocalist/guitarist Forrest Kline teamed up with keyboardist Jesse Kurvink to produce its brand of heart-on-sleeve synth-pop songs. “I wasn’t a bro or a surfer, and that’s what was the primary at the school,” Kline said. “The first couple years of high […]