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ive=9325&creativeASIN=B001SAQVDQ”>Green Day ‘s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”‘ is stripped and sterile, as is “You Belong To Me,” which would be ethereal if the lush, legato cello weren’t masked by church-worship guitar work. “Good News” is a bad-news Juliana Hatfield , and “Supernova” collapses into a black hole of chorus effect and undulating percussion, […]

When bands are in sync, productivity flows, and Early Beat has been very productive in its short year and a half of existence. The middle child in a trilogy of albums, “I Need This Beat Right Now” will be officially unveiled Friday at Opolis, 113 N. Crawford in Norman. Fans who picked up the group’s […]

When times are tough, Ryan Walker is up and looking outward. The Oklahoma City shoe boutiquer turned singer/songwriter again wandered into Dustin Ragland’s Duplexio studio in Mesta Park, this time assembling a large cast of musicians and collaborators for “Looking on the Bright Side.” Oklahoma Gazette was given an exclusive preview of the new album, […]

Local indie-poppers Hush Hush, Commotion have not-so-quietly snuck up on an sound that’s unapologetically lighthearted and fun. In mid-August, the Oklahoma City band’ singer Scott Michael, guitarist Andy Adamson, keyboardist/guitar player Chris Lusk, bassist Daniel Adamson and drummer Adam Wilkey’ released “In Control,” a five-song EP that serves up a tasty snack tray of rock […]

A visual inspection of the Engine Orchestra doesn’t reveal an influence that’s readily apparent in its new album. Written and recorded this winter with Trent Bell at his Norman studio, “Become My Army” is the first full-length effort from the Oklahoma City band, which is singer/guitarist Garrett Balch, drummer Ross Lewis and bassist Drew Luper. […]

ral Minnesota’s acclaimed alcove Pachyderm (Alkaline Trio, The Appleseed Cast, Son Volt and Nirvana, among others)’ the album is the most synth-heavy record yet released by the Oklahoma City band.”I Am Forever” is progressive and aggressive’ a disc that’s as impressive as it is expansive.”?Joe Wertz

The Mean Spirits are the musical equivalent of a weird guy you went on a date with’ all your friends thought he was weird, and you agreed, but you secretly dated him anyway. Diminished psychedelic, punky chords mark the metro band’s new CD, “Honeychild,” which lends the trio a surf sound that sounds like the […]

Present on every song, shaping keyboard and organ notes and blurring guitar and vocal tones, fuzz might as well join Dennis Coyne, Casey Joseph, Matt Duckworth and James Young as the fifth member of Stardeath and White Dwarfs. The Oklahoma City band’s latest, “The Birth,” was released on vinyl and as a digital download May […]

Red City Radio‘s latest, “To the Sons and Daughters of Woody Guthrie,” treads almost no uncharted sonic territory. The elements are well-worn: vocals that ride atop a pop-punk mix of distorted guitars; trenchant bass lines; and punctual, upbeat drumming. There’s nothing new here, but that makes the Oklahoma City foursome’s five-song EP bolder and ever […]

icked gospel with a backbeat and carnival organ undulation that would set a scene of some backwoods snake-handling. Starkly different are a pair of barely-over-a-minute-long instrumental tracks: the saxophone-laden “Itty Bitty Deluxe” and the droning, atmospheric “Outclassed & Embarrassed.” The latter seems out of place, but is sonically among the most interesting tracks on the […]