Psych Fest March 28-30 Resonator Institute 325 E. Main St., Norman resonator.space $10-$20 Organizing a three-day psychedelic music and art festival might be easier than explaining what the word “psychedelic” means. “Everybody has their own sort of opinion on psychedelic,” said visual artist Eric Piper, one of the organizers of Norman’s inaugural Psych Fest. “When […]
The Velvet Underground
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Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music — Nona Willis Aronowitz, ed.
After that, she moved into feminist and political writing, then professorship. Her music writing was mostly forgotten. She died in 2006. “Out of the Vinyl Deeps,” a collection of most of her columns from The New Yorker and other music writings, shines a light on a woman whose work helped invent the concept of a sociological […]
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Imperial unit
Norman’s Crown Imperial is a no-name, lo-fi, indie-pop band. Or at least it was for its first show. The group was born as a side project of garage rockers The Mean Spirits, and it had a gig at The HiLo before it had a moniker. “The Mean Spirits were playing a show, and we had […]