As OKPOP prepares to break ground on an actual brick-and-mortar building, its founders are currently collecting pop culture artifacts for various exhibits and displays that reflect Oklahoma’s varied stance in the world of popular culture — everything from music and movies to comic books and comedy. One of the most illustrious of these collections was […]
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Norman Music Festival announces headliners
Also performing will be Moreland and Arbuckle on the Sailor Jerry stage. Downtown Norman will transform into one of the nation’s largest free music festivals with a main stage at Main Street and Porter Avenue, the Sailor Jerry Stage at Jones Avenue and Comanche Street and the Sooner Theatre stage at 101 E. Main St. […]
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BREAKING: Moby to headline ACM@UCO Rocks Bricktown festival
Grammy-nominated Richard Melville Hall, aka American songwriter, musician and world-class DJ Moby, will perform a DJ set 10 p.m. April 11 at the Chevy Bricktown Events Center. His performance caps off the free, fifth annual event that features performances of more than 70 students from the Academy of Contemporary Music at University of Central Oklahoma […]
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Web and flow
Photo: Mark Hancock There’s a lyric from Josh Sallee’s new album, Know Society, in which the 26-year-old Oklahoma City rapper confronts this very issue: “Who is he?/ Is he who he sees?/ Is he everything that he ever liked or seen?/ Is the game of fame influencing?” The song — “TLD – Technologicallogicaldreams” — serves […]
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Moving music
It may not be a story as old as time, but the trope of Okies wandering to California in search of opportunity goes back at least to the Dust Bowl. And while the paucity of prospects may not have the same harrowing look it did in the 1920s, people still move from windy plains to […]
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Parker Millsap — Parker Millsap
Millsap uses that narrative but flips the script heading into his self-titled follow-up; while most sophomore records are stiffened-up and self-serious compared to their predecessors, Millsap untucks his shirt, kicks up his heels and celebrates a job well done with this relaxed but purposeful collection of songs. He shuffles poignant balladry (“The Villain,” “Forgive Me”) […]
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Nativity scene
Artists find their truth in all sorts of places. For Tulsa alt-rockers Native Lights, it was an abandoned and forgotten mid-century-style cattle auction house in the sleepy farm community of Hominy. Seeking a special space to record its debut album, the four-piece — featuring Johnathon Ford (bass), Nathan Price (drums), Bryce Chambers (guitar/vocals) and Philip […]
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PERFORMING ARTS
Picnic, a balmy Labor Day in the American Heartland, 7 p.m., Feb. 20-22; 2 p.m., Feb. 23. Rose State College, 6420 SE 15th St., Midwest City, 733-7673, rose.edu. THU–SUN The Drowsy Chaperone, a show within a show full of every cliché, gag and gimmick from musicals of the golden era, 8 p.m., Feb. 20-22; 3 […]
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New Ado
Director René Moreno has set the play in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, at the turn of the last century. Thus, you have a Col. Don Pedro, a Lt. Claudio and a Capt. Benedick of Chickasha, all of the First Cavalry Regiment. Moreno makes numerous other dialog changes to fit the setting. Placing Shakespeare plays in the […]
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Royal treatment
The Oklahoma City Philharmonic is ready to rock audiences this weekend with The Music of Queen. The Pops concert event, produced by Windborne Music, will feature the full orchestra performing with a live rock band. The set list will be comprised of the greatest hits and lost classics that span Queen’s catalogue. Formed in 1970, […]