Live Music Previews

Blackwatch Presents The Burning Hotels, The Pretty Black Chains and The Boom Bang 9:30 p.m. Friday The Deli 309 White, Norman www.thedeli.us 329-3534 $5 Those who have borne witness to the Norman Music Festival know that the artistic community in Norman ” fans and musicians alike ” is a force to be reckoned with, although […]

Gloriana with Steel Magnolia 8 p.m. Saturday Frontier City 11501 N.E. Expressway www.frontiercity.com 478-2140 Free with park admission, $22.99-$36.99 Among the multitudes trying to make a career in music, precious few find that golden ticket in the corner bar where they languish. Tom and Mike Gossin, Rachel Reinert and Cheyenne Kimball spent plenty of time […]

The Budos Band with DJ Bronzai 9 p.m. Tuesday The Conservatory 8911 N. Western www.conservatoryokc.com 607-4805 $12 If Blood Sweat & Tears stole The Doors’ electric organ, raided a university percussion closet and grabbed anything that would fit in a hand or under an arm, local cops would be justified in calling up their New […]

Champian Fulton 9:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday Maker’s Cigar & Piano Lounge 25 S. Oklahoma www.makerscigarlounge.com 606-9000 Free Champian Fulton’s pilgrimage to Maker’s Cigar Bar & Lounge is fast becoming an annual affair. A New Yorker by way of Norman, Fulton has been in the big city since 2003, where she’s kept busy with […]

Season to Risk with New Franklin Panthers and Engine Orchestra 9 p.m. Sunday the Conservatory 8911 N. Western www.conservatoryokc.com 607-4805 $8 Listening to Missouri’s Season to Risk, it’s hard not to scratch your head and wonder what Columbia Records was thinking when it signed the band in the early ’90s. Guitars writhe, spasmodic rhythms rattle […]

Mayhem Festival featuring Rob Zombie, Atreyu, Korn and more 2 p.m. Saturday Zoo Amphitheatre 2101 N.E. 50th www.zooamp.com 800-511-1552 $42-$125 In its dozen years of existence, Atreyu has risen to the top of the melodic hardcore heap. In that time, the members of the California quintet have established themselves as an act capable of blinding […]

Happy Birthday with Residual Echoes, The Boom Bang and Shitty/Awesome 9 p.m. Wednesday The Conservatory 8911 N. Western www.conservatoryokc.com 607-4805 $5 Happy Birthday hadn’t even celebrated its first birthday before the quartet inked a record deal with one of the most respected independent record labels in the country. The group hits its terrible twos in […]

Okie Twist-Off featuring Psychocharger, The Straight 8’s, The Hickoids and more 8 p.m. Friday, noon Saturday 66 Bowl 3810 N.W. 39th www.okietwistoff.com $10 Friday, $15 Saturday, $20 two-day pass The four-man crew behind Okie Twist-Off is a motley one. Jeff Beck, owner of Beck’s Garage, is the strong-armed mechanic who first had the idea for […]

The Lily Guild and Terry “Buffalo” Ware Fundraiser for Mindy’s Memory Primate Sanctuary in Newcastle The Chouse, 717 W. Boyd in Norman 3-7 p.m. Sunday Donations will be taken at the door Brain lesions, Ebola virus, stroke, plague and drug-induced seizures. That was the life 55 long-tailed macaque monkeys left behind when In Defense of […]

Shooter Jennings with Bob Dylan 7:30 p.m. Friday Zoo Amphitheatre 2101 N.E. 50th www.zooamp.com 800-511-1552 $42 Shooter Jennings has always had a strong sense of self, something instilled by his father, the late outlaw country singer Waylon Jennings, who told him, “Don’t ever try to be like someone else.” As he’s grown older, he’s become […]