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Fall Guide: The Urban Outdoors

Thirsty Thursdays and Aloha Fridays at Surf OKC 4 p.m. – Sunset. Thursday & Friday Sept 3 – Sept 25 RIVERSPORT 800 Riversport Dr. www.riversportokc.org/boathouse-district/adventures/surfokc/ 405-552-4040 | $19.99+ (Daily) Just because you’re landlocked doesn’t mean you can’t catch some waves. This month, RIVERSPORT launches Surf OKC, an extreme experience suitable for all skill levels. The […]

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Meant to surf

Photo: Chris Burkard The guys behind Switchfoot never think clearer than they do out on the ocean. Surfing binds the band and its brotherhood as much as music or faith. And on the eve of the ninth studio album from the defiantly relevant alt-rock group (after 18 years together and a decade in the national […]

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Heating up

Denver garage rockers Sauna dreamed that meeting one of its musical heroes would lead to a record deal. And it kind of did, if not in the way the four members had expected. “We were 16, just a few months after the band formed,” said guitarist CJ Macleod. “We saw Hunx and His Punx were […]

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The Aquabats! Super Show! Season One! 2012

A surf-rock band I recall running across in the mid-1990s, The Aquabats have been reborn as superheroes in these utterly insane adventures, drawing more influence from ’70s-era Asian monster matinees à la Infra-Man than anything else. In each half-hour, our costumed quintet fights some rubber-suited creature (Manant and the Floating Eye of Death among them), […]

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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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