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 […]
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Many of 2017’s best listens were deeply personal, bravely diving into aspects of human emotion that some artists dare not approach.
Many of 2017’s best listens were deeply personal, bravely diving into aspects of human emotion that some artists dare not approach.
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Sun Riah album is lush, hopeful genre defiance
Artist explores relationships and loss and plays the harp.
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Low Litas is a testament to the strength of lead singer/guitarist Mandii Larsen and bassist Penny Pitchlynn’s creative and romantic relationship.
Low Litas is a testament to the strength of lead singer/guitarist Mandii Larsen and bassist Penny Pitchlynn’s creative and romantic relationship.
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The group’s eponymous record bears some of its most compelling songwriting to date.
The group’s eponymous record bears some of its most compelling songwriting to date.
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The six-song effort doesn’t sound so much like the cold piece of stone or treasured keepsake left behind as the fuzzy, ambiguous idea behind it.
The six-song effort doesn’t sound so much like the cold piece of stone or treasured keepsake left behind as the fuzzy, ambiguous idea behind it.
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Killer tunes
Photo: Ben Aqua Sam Chown, best known as one-half of the Texas experimental psych duo Zorch, constantly has music rattling around in his brain. It forced him to form his latest outfit, Shmu, a shoegazing R&B trio, to get all the sounds he has been collecting out into the open for public consumption. “This is […]
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Who is Is/Is?
Photo: Alexander Uhrich Female-fronted shoegaze outfit armed with a punk-rock sneer and swagger? Raucous ’90s alt-rock revivalists touting surf-rock melodies? Beach House boasting an edge and a litany of distortion pedals? It’s hard to say what Is/Is is, exactly, but the Minneapolis outfit appears to be that way for a reason. “The first songs that […]
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Range rovers
When Ruth Smith and Derek Kutzer began making music together as Blackstone Rangers in 2011, they didn’t know what kind to make. Today, the now-trio — with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Daniel Bornhorst — still, proudly, doesn’t know. “We haven’t honed in on our sound, and I don’t think that we should, honestly,” Smith said. […]
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Depth test
Photo: Laura Raczkowski Owning a recording studio and heading a small, Oklahoma record label gives Chris Harris, front man of local shoegaze three-piece Depth & Current, a certain perspective on what it takes to survive in the world of independent music: Namely, adapt or die. To that end, the Norman-based “nightmare-pop” band decided to include […]