Teflo $ 7:20 p.m. Friday Norman Music Festival The Brewhouse 110 E. Main St., Norman soundcloud.com/405teflo Free Mt. Terror 10:30 p.m. Thursday Norman Music Festival Opolis 113 Crawford Ave., Norman mtterror.bandcamp.com/ Free Naturalist 2:30 p.m. Saturday Norman Music Festival Winston West Stage 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman naturalistmusic.bandcamp.com/ Free Maddie Razook 3:30 p.m. Saturday Norman […]
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Norman Music Festival announces 2019 lineup
Norman Music Festival has announced the headliners and several scheduled bands for 2019. The current lineup for April 25-27 includes Brooklyn indie act Beach Fossils, Detroit rapper Black Milk with live backing band Nat Turner, Indiana guitarist Omar Apollo, Nashville singer/songwriter Soccer Mommy, hard-to-classify Orange County duo The Garden, Seattle psych act Night Beats, Phoenix […]
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Art and commerce
In the august offices of Norman’s Fowler Holding Company, 37-year-old Jonathan Fowler sits behind a heavy wooden desk surrounded by classic, stately décor. There are no posters for Norman Music Festival (NMF), the massive annual event he helped launch over 11 years ago, or any obvious indicators of his love for the music of local […]
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Breaking spells
Editor’s note: Oklahoma Gazette is featuring Norman Music Festival performers each week leading up to its 2018 event Thursday-Saturday in Norman. Though much of Quit the Curse is built around the idea of incommunicative lovers and the dysfunction within modern dating dynamics, Michigan singer-songwriter Anna Burch now feels a little distant from the album’s subject […]
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Alive again
Editor’s note: Oklahoma Gazette is featuring Norman Music Festival performers each week leading up to its 2018 event April 26-28 in Norman. Beau Jennings is certainly no stranger to Norman Music Festival. He has played the free local music gathering several times, be it on the wide-open main stage or the tight shoulder-to-shoulder confines of […]
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Cover Story: Chicken-Fried News year in review and predictions for 2017
CFN looks back on 2016 and makes predictions about what Okies will get up to in 2017.
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“He wouldn’t let us be just good enough,” Simmons said. “If we could make it better in certain spots, he would definitely encourage us to make it better.”
“He wouldn’t let us be just good enough,” Simmons said. “If we could make it better in certain spots, he would definitely encourage us to make it better.”
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Announcement: Norman Music Fest 10 headliners include Thee Oh Sees, Oddisee and more
The fest is opening its call to interested bands through Dec. 15.
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Red-hot rock
Photo: Jason Tanaka Blaney When Ohio rock act Red Wanting Blue got booked to play Norman Music Festival this past spring, the band members worried about whether they’d be able to impress the crowd. “These people have seen everything,” lead singer Scott Terry said. “I’ve never been close to a tornado, but most of these […]
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We’ve been had
Coming up in the New York garage-rock revival of the early 2000s with bands like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Interpol, The Walkmen have stepped out of the past decade looking no worse for the wear. Unlike most of their peers, the group has put out one critically acclaimed album after another, emerging as […]