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Making adjustments

Westering started out as an instrumental math-rock band, but adding vocals balanced the equation. The Oklahoma City five-piece featuring vocalist Jamie Bramble, drummer Andrew Dolman, bassist Dalton Farr and guitarists Bryan English and Stephen Brand celebrates the release of its self-titled debut EP 8 p.m. July 27 at The Paramount Room, 701 W. Sheridan Ave.  […]

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Bubonic rock

When We’re Gone Sept. 29-Oct. 14 Lyric at the Plaza 1725 NW 16th St. lyrictheatreokc.com 405-524-9312 $25-$68 Beginning Sept. 29, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma will introduce the world premiere of When We’re Gone, a coming-of-age musical with a pop-punk twist. The show is the final production of the 2018 season and runs through Oct. 14. […]

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The Typist — Midwestern High Life

It gets sprayed all over the place, in fact. Matt Moran’s desperate punk hollers; his messy, confessional-to-the-occasional-point-of-embarrassing lyrics; his band’s well-coordinated, super-loud melodic rock arrangements all sound so much like a release, at times vindicating, at others reaching for (and grasping) the anthemic. Every song on the sardonically titled Midwestern High Life, is a rock […]

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Lyrical leprosy

What happens when your marginally successful punk-revivalist group winds down? If you are Steve E. Nix (!), you just start another one. Nix’s original group, The Briefs, lost steam when members lusted for lives not dictated by tour schedules. With the few still interested in the road, he formed The Cute Lepers, which functions quite […]

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