X Ambassadors’ second album is also a second try. X Ambassadors 6:30 p.m. Oct. 13 The Jones Assembly 901 W. Sheridan Ave.
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Reggae royalty
Bob Marley, in a 1975 interview, said he did not necessarily play reggae music. “When people say reggae them expect a type of music,” he said. “As far as me is concerned, I never give it a name. Just play music. Once you put it in a bag and call it reggae and then maybe […]
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Picher Pile
Chat Pile 7 p.m. July 11 89th Street – OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 405-463-9203 $10-$12 One of the primary sources for lead mined to make the bullets fired in World Wars I and II, Picher, Oklahoma, now sits ruined and mostly empty. Environmental Protection Agency declared it a Superfund site in 1983 and began […]
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Overflowing Hell
Full of Hell 6 p.m. June 5 89th Street — OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com 405-463-9203 $12-$14 Despite their titles, Full of Hell’s most recent albums, Trumpeting Ecstasy and Weeping Choir, mostly consist of guitars, drums and screams. Recorded and produced by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou and combining elements familiar to fans of extreme […]
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New process
Girlpool 7 p.m. May 9 89th Street – OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com $12-$14 W magazine called them “the saviors of rock music.” Fader and Grantland said they were its future. Girlpool’s Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad were not really paying much attention. “Those kinds of headlines are just kind of funny to us,” […]
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‘Mother’ Hubbard
Ray Wylie Hubbard8 p.m. March 15 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $20-$45 Hold onto your hats. The guy who wrote the unofficial Lone Star State national anthem “Screw You, We’re from Texas” is actually from Oklahoma. “I was born in Hugo, Oklahoma, and then I lived in a little town called Soper,” […]
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Color spectrum
Amy Helm 8 p.m. Dec. 2 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $24-$33 One thing musician Amy Helm learned from playing with her father, The Band’s Levon Helm, was how to fail. “There were a lot of lessons,” Amy Helm said. “One of the main ones I took away was to not be […]