Stressed-out social media users regularly muse over which musicians they would resurrect if that were possible outside of a passion play. When a Russian journalist who was allegedly shot and killed in Kiev, Ukraine, last month showed up alive at a press conference on May 30, one Twitter user loudly wrote, “DO DAVID BOWIE NEXT.” […]
Prince
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Pop life
Downtown’s annual Metro Music Fest has built a reputation for bringing in enticing headliners. Guided by Voices headlined the free festival last year. Other past performers include Moby, Dan Deacon and Chic’s Nile Rodgers. But the names on this year’s bill might just take the cake. The Revolution, known as Prince’s band through […]
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Cut Copy ventures into The Jones Assembly fresh off its newest studio release
The Australia-formed synth pop band performs 8 p.m. Oct. 5.
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‘Two-thousand zero-zero, party over, whoops out of time’ at FlashBack RetroPub’s NYE event
“[We know] that a lot of people will be downtown and probably looking for places to go,” said owner José Rodriguez.
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Guestroom Records partners with rapper Jabee for the Black Future vinyl release party
Guestroom also will unleash more than 1,000 unpicked used records to the public on Black Friday.
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Tegan and Sara embrace roles as figures of empowerment ahead of Tulsa show
The Canadian indie-pop sisters released Love You to Death in June.
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Charlie Christian International Music Festival celebrates music pioneer’s 100th birthday
A local music festival celebrates Oklahoma musician Charlie Christian, widely regarded as the first major soloist on the electric guitar.
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Photo Page: Norman Music Fest 9 highlights
2016 will be remembered as the year of the Prince tribute.
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Prince of Darkness / Halloween: 35th Anniversary Edition
Well, in so many words. The important part is that the prof thinks that’s a swell idea. For the job, he selects Jameson Parker (TV’s Simon & Simon), Lisa Blount (An Officer and a Gentleman), Dennis Dun (also from Little China) and a host of random, more expendable character actors to monitor the evil force. […]
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Fantasmagorical
Grupo Fantasma’s experience with Prince may not have been chummy, but it was certainly memorable. “He made it clear from the get-go that he wasn’t trying to make new friends and wasn’t interested in hanging with us. He liked our music and wanted to experience that music, to not only take something from it, but […]