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Pump up the volume

A few months ago, Cain’s — a highly respected, mid-sized live music venue in Tulsa — announced that it had booked two of my favorite touring bands, Tame Impala and Local Natives, for shows within a day of each other. Normally, this news wouldn’t be so eyebrow-raising for me. Tulsa is just a short drive […]

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Lip service

Brad Gregg Oklahoma City’s band is back with a double-vinyl release, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, which features collaborations with Ke$ha, Biz Markie, Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Yoko Ono, Neon Indian, Tame Impala, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James. Tracks include “Superman Made Me Want to Pee,” “Helping the […]

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Acid test

Just ask police in Edmond. In the largest LSD bust in the city’s history, authorities last week arrested an 18-year-old man reportedly carrying 1,041 doses of acid. To help put that in perspective, the seizure of 1,041 doses of LSD roughly equals: —40, 601 instances of dry mouth and jitteriness, —13,462 sudden epiphanies about the […]

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