Audio Book Club and Special Thumbs 9 p.m. Aug. 9 51st Street Speakeasy 1113 NW 51st St. facebook.com/audiobookclubokc 405-463-0470 $5 Audio Book Club’s debut EP, What If We Got Buff?, is meant to make you laugh. “One day, I was talking with my wife, and it just turned into a conversation about what if, after […]
Talking Heads
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Pleasant paradise
Harsh polarization and general unrest have infiltrated many aspects of the modern world, but for at least one night, David Byrne will bring a piece of utopia to Oklahoma City. The musician and renaissance man’s one-of-a-kind American Utopia World Tour has already dazzled over a dozen eager audiences across North and South America, and soon, […]
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Talking Heads: Chronology
While official Warner Bros. compilations of the Heads’ mind-bending, envelope-pushing videos allow for a glimpse of the art-rock band at its most creative, this 18-track disc is the next best thing to catching them live — outside of Jonathan Demme’s “Stop Making Sense,” of course. “Chronology” kicks off with a 1976 mic test that captures […]
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Twin Sister — In Heaven
That show was just last Friday. Both bands were on form and very friendly to chat with, despite slightly less than ideal attendance. But I digress. On to “In Heaven,” Twin Sister’s debut LP for Domino Records. It’s a delightful, gentle indie record with wide ranges in sound, but not mood (set at “wispy”), save […]
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Shutter sounds
Picking up his new book, “Adventures of a Rock Photographer,” will get you stories and pictures from one of rock music’s most fertile periods: 1976-1986, with 165 of its 200 pages dedicated to 1977-1980. To illustrate just how top-heavy the era was in good music, consider Gowdy’s first assignment as a photographer at the University […]