Transient, the Norman noise outfit’s second LP (if you can call it that) marks a departure from the sprawling psychedelic anthems of its self-titled debut. At eight songs, this mini-album effort clocks in at less than 14 minutes, with each track less than two minutes. The band — front man Chris Harris, guitarist Derek Lemke […]
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The sounds of Science
Jerrod Smith and Phil Danner’s Contextual Relations As director of Science Museum Oklahoma’s Satellite Galleries, Scott Henderson wants to take art in Oklahoma City into a whole new dimension. Eschewing the typical “pictures on the wall” or “sculpture on the floor” style of exhibition, he wanted to create something that would be a total sensory […]
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Paul Williams: Still Alive
Both documentaries deal with a musician wrongly presumed to be dead; the difference here is that the love comes straight from the director, Stephen Kessler (Vegas Vacation), whose impetus for the project is purely, deeply personal. With all the extra layers removed, I began to feel it, too; his adoration for his subject is infectious. […]
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Other Lives — Mind the Gap EP
From the sound of Other Lives’ new EP, Mind the Gap, the influence has been indelible and highly beneficial. 2011’s Tamer Animals was a brilliant record and dark-horse candidate for album of the year in certain circles. So it should mean something to say that “Take Us Alive,” the starter song on Mind the Gap, […]
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15 book titles from Mustang-based Christian publisher Tate Publishing that sound pornographic
1. The Story and Poems of the Boy from Dingle Hole Road by Al Luckette 2. Inside My Special Box by Helena R. Chung 3. Joy Comes in the Mourning by Korika L. Johnson 4. Adventures of the Wee People by Woody Miller 5. Mom from Down Under by Margaret Brittingham 6. Aidan & His […]
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Young love
It’s not hard to give a ballpark description of Young Widows’ sound, but pinpointing it is a whole other ball game. “It’s heavy rock music, but it’s not classic rock and it’s not metal,” singer and guitarist Evan Patterson said. “There’s this gray area that doesn’t get explored because people want to belong to these […]
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By the ‘Saints’
David Ives’ “Lives of the Saints,” now at Ghostlight Theatre Club, is comprised of seven one-act comedies of varying efficacy. An accomplished stylist, Ives works the language like Silly Putty, and he’s not above double entendres and groan-inducing puns. In “Babel’s in Arms,” about building the Tower of Babel, you get dialogue such as “Did […]
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Good Grooming
A guitar, by itself, is an amazing and beautiful instrument, but for musical swashbucklers looking to explore and find new sonic treasures, effect pedals provide limitless prospects. A true understanding of capabilities of guitar pedals figures in nicely with the distorted, effect-heavy alternative rock of three-piece Grooms, and when bandleader Travis Johnson found a side […]
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Such great Heights
JT Woodruff, lead singer of Hawthorne Heights, loves Bruce Springsteen’s work. And not just the anthem-laden albums, which would make sense, as Hawthorne Heights have been playing their own soaring, pounding rock songs for 10 years. Nope, he’s a fan of The Boss’ “The Promise,” a 2010 collection of B-sides from the “Darkness at the […]
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Return of the King
Travis LeDoyt as Elvis8 p.m. Saturday Riverwind Casino 154 West Highway 9, Norman 322-6464 $10-$20 Travis LeDoyt wants to get something straight right away: He doesn’t think he’s Elvis Presley. Although LeDoyt is an Elvis impersonator with an uncanny ability to sound and look like the King, he refuses to be lumped in with so […]