Seductively dark Norman four-piece The Lost End debuts with a short but impactful self-titled record. The frequently somber post-punk unit is led by the vocals of Ryan Taylor. The rest of the lineup includes guitarist Scott Jones, bassist Brian Daniel and drummer Trevor Helm. The seven-track record, released in mid-February, was recorded and mixed by […]
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When Jabee, Bowlsey, The So Help Me’s and Gabrielle B. take the stage 7 p.m. Thursday at the OKG Music Show at Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St., they will represent some of the best music of the Oklahoma City scene, but there are plenty of extraordinary artists who are on their way up. It’s […]
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The Mountain Goats channels a goth-fueled youth ahead of its July 13 set at ACM@UCO Performance Lab
Peter Hughes said there is no need to feel sorry for the many post-punk and new-wave musicians of the 1980s beached ashore by the ever-shifting tide of pop culture’s restless ocean. The Mountain Goats bassist thinks society’s changing tastes might have helped force some of them into greater things. Hughes spoke with Oklahoma Gazette ahead […]
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Dawes schedules an intimate evening of music for Jan. 29 at ACM@UCO Performance Lab
Drummer Griffin Goldsmith talks about his family’s music tradition, Bob Dylan’s songwriting legacy and We’re All Gonna Die with Oklahoma Gazette.
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Local band finds new name with long history
Local band Speak, Memory borrows a title from Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov and plans to record vocals for its album.
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In the shadow of its own masterpiece, Interpol rediscovered its creative spirit
El Pintor is an anagram, a clever rearrangement of Interpol that just so happens to translate to “the painter” in Spanish.
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Kindest cut
Credit: Anna Lee As leader of the local post-punk outfit Paperscissor, Evan Crowley gets a little metaphorical when describing his band’s intense live shows, which have become a sight to behold. “A painter might know what they want a painting to look like, but they have these happy accidents along the way. That’s how our […]
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Brush with noise
Ross Adams James Hammontree, singer/guitarist for Paintscratcher, took a bad habit and twisted it into the perfect name for his then-fledging, Oklahoma City-based hardcore group. “The thing I used to do when I was nervous was scratch the paint of a windowsill furiously fast. I thought, ‘That’s a pretty good name for how I want […]
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Kill the Reflection — Together … Apart …
Unlike Depth & Current’s last-sane-man-on-Earth narrators, however, the characters residing in Kill the Reflection’s second full-length, “Together … Apart … ,” are just as fractured and disjointed as their environments. With “No Love at All,” we have such a song that opens with a bit of dour note-picking straight out of the Nirvana textbook. Singer […]
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Kill the Reflection — 3EP
On the group’s “3ep,” the standout “Cold” calls for the vocalist to deliver his notes in a low, forceful way that aspires toward the dominating control of Ian Curtis. The Oklahoma City-based three-piece musically churns behind him, channeling the energy of punk (especially in the drums) through tight, restrained rhythms. The tension of vocals versus […]