Girls, Guns and G-Strings: The Andy Sidaris Collection
Super-cheap, super-great set of 12 films blending T&A and TNT
Women in Cages Collection / Women in Prison Triple Feature
Six times the exploitation!
Jackson County Jail / Caged Heat
One of the best double features in the series so far
Mortal Kombat / Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
It has begunnnnnn! On Blu-ray.
Sugar Boxx
A silly-minded fightin' foxy female flick.
The Mechanic
Enjoyable work from Hollywood's go-to action guy
Hobo with a Shotgun
The feel-good homeless vigilante film of the year!
Tekken
A video game comes to partial life in 'Tekken,' we reckon
Drive Angry
Nic Cage doesn’t even need to try — and doesn’t — in this hard-R hoot
Captain America / Captain America II: Death Too Soon
‘America,’ eff yeah!
Friday 24 May
OKG Newsletter
Chris Parker
Better red than dead
Sometimes time off is a good thing, as the Arizona-based outfits proves.
Music
Chris Parker
The Bled with Pay at the Pump, Facing Giants and A Heart’s Polyphony
6 p.m. Tuesday
The Conservatory, 8911 N. Western
conservatoryokc.com, 607-4805
$10 advance, $12 door
Second-degree Murder
The Murder Junkies keep GG Allin’s memory and angry spirit alive. You’ve been warned.
Music
Chris Parker
The Murder Junkies with The Constanzas, Half Black Jesus and Bare Knuckle Shuffle
9 p.m. Monday
The Conservatory, 8911 N. Western
ConservatoryOKC.com, 607-4805
Russell’s brand
Tom Russell forces his way out of the constricting Americana box, preferring to let his songs speak for themselves.
Music
Chris Parker
Tom Russell
8 p.m. Thursday
The Blue Door, 2805 N. McKinley
BlueDoorOKC.com, 524-0738 |
$25 advance, $30 door
Low show
Punk pop’s All Time Low gets ready to do all the ‘Dirty Work.’
Music
Chris Parker
All Time Low with Hey Monday and Summer Set
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 6
Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern
diamondballroom.net, 677-9169
$19 advance, $24 door
Ray of humanity
Folk’s Ray Bonneville imparts musical messages of life the only way he knows how: feeling his way around.
Music
Chris Parker
Ray Bonneville
8 p.m. Friday The Blue Door
2805 N. McKinley
BlueDoorOKC.com, 524-0738
$15 advance, $25 door
Astro boy
Astronautalis tries to flip the script of his rap sheet by shaking indie hip-hop free from its creative doldrums.
Music
Chris Parker
Astronautalis with Sims and Algebra
7 p.m. Tuesday
The Conservatory, 8911 N. Western
conservatoryokc.com, 607-4805
$10-$12
Got milk?
It's a milkshake of bluegrass, classical and jazz.
Music
Chris Parker
More chamber quartet than string band, alt-folk act MilkDrive takes gallons of influence from bluegrass.
‘Dark’ horse
After 10 albums, folksinger John Gorka gets more up close and personal with ‘So Dark You See,’ mixing heartbreak with social commentary.
Music
Chris Parker
John Gorka
7 p.m. Sunday
Performing Arts Studio, 200 S. Jones, Norman
Pasnorman.org, 307-9320
$20
The last Samurai
Now reunited and it feels so good, Norman atmospheric rockers The Samurai Conquistadors prepare for battle again.
Music
Chris Parker
The Samurai Conquistadors with Lollipop Factory and The Forever Years
9 p.m. Friday
Opolis, 113 N. Crawford, Norman
opolis.org, 820-0951
$7
’Pike psyched
For Americana act Turnpike Troubadours, what lies ahead is nothing but open road and ample opportunities
Music
Chris Parker
Turnpike Troubadours with Rodney Parker & 50 Peso Reward
Saturday Wormy Dog Saloon, 311 E. Sheridan
www.wormydog.com, 601-6276
Bang on!
Despite setbacks, Bang Tango is in the glam-metal game for the long haul, making lots of noise along the way.
Music
Chris Parker
It all happened pretty quickly. One moment, Bang Tango singer Joe Lesté was just Joe McElyea, a 19-year-old from San Diego, Calif. The next, he was a rock star with a major-label deal and a hit video on MTV.
Ray’s way
Free of drugs and drink, Ray Wylie Hubbard now keeps his creative fires stoked by giving back to the music community
Music
Chris Parker
Born in the tiny Oklahoma town of Soper, singer/songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard moved to Texas as a kid and became one of its deans of songwriters, if by a rather circuitous route.
Chicago marathon
Music
Chris Parker
Chicago outlasts the scorn of the 1980s to establish itself as one of the biggest pop acts of all time.
Hippies that time forgot
Welcome to your ‘Nightmare’
Music
Chris Parker
Hinder, Oklahoma’s bad boys of rock, hopes to recapture that old chart magic with its new album, ‘All American Nightmare.’
