Not long ago, concert venues mostly had the same menu as high school football game concession stands: canned-cheese nachos, maybe a pickle or a soft pretzel, if you were really lucky a hamburger heated who knows how. Recently, mercifully, more local music venues are offering food you might actually want to, you know, eat. Carefully […]
Opolis
Muy Bonito
Kero Kero Bonito 8 p.m. Tuesday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman opolis.org 405-673-4931 $12 Kero Kero Bonito are the good kind of weird, widely known for an upbeat and colorful combination of sounds that makes you want to throw on some neon, eat some glitter, and frolic through the nearest city street. Intertwining the […]
Track record
Guestroom Records Turns 15 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday-Saturday Guestroom Records 125 E. Main St., Norman guestroomrecords.com 405-701-5974 Free If you’re a fan of vinyl in the Oklahoma City area, chances are you’ve stepped into Guestroom Records at some point. Maybe it was the Norman location, 125 E. Main St., with its concrete floors and industrial […]
Life support
Fantastic Negrito w/ The Guestlist 8 p.m. Tuesday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave. opolis.org 405-601-5633 $12-$17 Not many people would have pegged new-era blues vocalist and guitarist Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz as a logical opener for Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell. In some ways, their backgrounds and styles of music are different, but perhaps their shared friendship and […]
Dark art
L.A. Witch w/ Creep City 9 p.m. Monday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman opolis.org 405-673-4931 $10-$12 The members of garage rock trio L.A. Witch are known as true road warriors. Their reverb-laden tunes filled with dark and moody 1960s and ’70s callbacks have taken them to every corner of the country and overseas multiple […]
Alcoholmanac: Songwriter Nic Russo brings his rhinestoned alter-ego Dick Stusso to Norman for St. Patrick’s Day
The show begins 8 p.m. Saturday at Opolis.
Chelsey Cope celebrates her 30th birthday with her debut full-length album Where Nobody Goes
Cope is also a member of the band Vonna Pearl, which released its own debut album two weeks earlier.
Bully’s Alicia Bognanno leads the Nashville band’s charge from both sides of the studio glass
Bully plays 10 p.m. Feb. 16 at Opolis in Norman.
Norman-based Helen Kelter Skelter gives fans hot new tunes on sophomore album Melter
HKS plays two Norman-area album release shows, including a free show Jan. 12 at Opolis. The band also plays Jan. 13 at The Brew Sessions.
Lomelda’s Hannah Read brings her highway-wandering album Thx to Norman
Lomelda performs with Costello Jan. 14 at Opolis in Norman.
