Sela Da Sorcerer compares her music to the cartoon South Park. “It’s raw, crass, fun on the surface but full of philosophy lower in depth,” Sela said. The OKC hip-hop artist performs Tuesday at Unwired Records, 2914 N. MacArthur Boulevard. Sela began recording as da Sorcerer about two years ago after a coworker saw her […]
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Hope remains
All Seems Lost 5-11:30 p.m. March 7 89th Street –OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. facebook.com/89thstreetokc $10-$12 All Seems Lost’s follow-up to Unscathed might cut a little deeper.“There’s a lot more meaning and passion, definitely, that went into it,” drummer Geoff Hochstetler said. “We all were going through some major losses.” OKC’s All Seems Lost celebrates […]
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Stage warning
Before you can watch Tenacious D’s 2018 sort-of animated sci-fi rock opera Post-Apocalypto on YouTube, you must click through a screen warning: “This video may be inappropriate for some viewers.” Go ahead and apply that same warning to the text beyond this sentence. In anticipation of the D’s Oct. 20 show at The Criterion, 500 […]
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Wizurdz compromise
Limp Wizurdz is getting serious — sort of. “It definitely did start off as a joke,” said guitarist Jeffrey Simmons, who founded the band with vocalist Taylor Young. “Taylor hates when I say this, but when we started the band, we were listening to Limp Bizkit.” At this point in the interview, Young interrupted to […]
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Flipped out
Tyson Meade 8 p.m. Aug. 2 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $10-$25 When former teenagers who used to bravely traverse the local mosh pits in the early 1990s start boring their children with stories about bands with names like Radial Spangle and Coma Club, eventually they tell the tale of Tyson Meade. […]
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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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PRIDE Inclusive notes
Music at Pride The music stage is located at the intersection of 39th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. 39th St. District NW 39th Street between Classen and Youngs boulevards oklahomacitypride.org Free Mary Lambert 6 p.m. Friday Lincka 7 p.m. Friday LCG & the X 8 p.m. Friday Rachel Lynch & the Daydrinkers 3 p.m. Saturday Raina […]
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Power harmonies
The Lunar Laugh with New Tribe and Sativa Prophets 11 p.m. Friday 51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. thelunarlaugh.com 405-463-0470 $3 Three-part harmonies are a trademark of Oklahoma City-based band The Lunar Laugh, which is indicative of the way lead singer Jared Lekites and guitarists Connor Anderson and Campbell Young work as a unit. […]
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New .WAV
.WAV FestivalSaturday-Sunday ACM@UCO 25 S. Oklahoma Ave., Suite 400 ACM@UCO Performance Lab 329 E. Sheridan Ave. acm.uco.edu 405-974-4700 Free-$25 Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma (ACM@UCO) hosts a diverse group of local and national artists in its female-centric .WAV Festival this weekend. The festival features performers at its main Bricktown campus, […]
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Carly Gwin and the Sin, “You Can Feel Sad” (video premiere)
Directed by Dylan Johnson, Carly Gwin and the Sin’s “You Can Feel Sad” puts the Norman-based band in gauzy, space cowgirl environments that perfectly suit the song’s wistful melody. The band performs 9 p.m. Saturday with Applied Music Program and Lacey Elaine at 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St. Visit 51stspeakeasy.com.