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What does it take to motivate music fans to see a live show? Are local bands, performers and venues getting it right? What inspires audiences? Oklahoma Gazette assembled a small forum of local fans an...

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Undocked from the local music scene for nearly a year, Oklahoma City rock band Anchors for Arsenal  has returned to port with its best album yet. The metro four-piece has been together since ea...

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If she wasn't the first to run a whorehouse in Oklahoma City, Big Anne was certainly one of the most successful. She was a shrewd businesswoman who controlled and colluded with the city's thieves, g...

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Metro pop-rockers The Stock Market Crash have a major crush on their Oklahoma City audience. To show their love, band members are giving away hand-painted valentines Friday night in the form of a limi...

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As they prepare to record a sophomore album, Oklahoma City party-rock band Hinder has reached a new album sales milestone and broken a mobile music format record, according to the band's publicist. H...

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Texas guitarist Nathan Singleton leads a roots-rock band, His Sideshow Tragedy, that has drawn comparison to Bob Dylan and Old 97's, and is returning to Oklahoma City on Friday for a show at the Wormy...

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The National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame Museum is relocating from its home in Guthrie to a century old building in Bricktown, according to a report from the Associated Press. The $1.3 million buil...

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Oklahoma City alt-blues rock outfit Blake Lankford and the Coats will be making a TV appearance at 10 p.m. Sunday during KOKH-TV Channel 25's evening sports show, "The Locker Room." The band plays r...

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San Diego metal marauders As I Lay Dying have returned to Oklahoma City for another ground assault. Since forming in 2001, the band has collected droves of mostly younger metal fans worldwide. ...

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It's easy to scoop all actor-turned-musicians and dump them into the same bin. After all, attempts by the likes of Steven Seagal and Keanu Reeves don't exactly inspire confidence in those who take a m...

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To many in the metro, snow blows. The frosty weather and ice are just annoyances to suffer on the way to the mailbox and an extra irritation to survive on the drive to work. But to some, like Mary a...

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Care for a slice of synthesizer sounds sprinkled with electronic beats that crumbles with sweet garage-punk vocals? Grab a fork and help yourself to a slice of Peachcake, a buzzed-about band that cook...

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In the downtime between national tours with his metal band, singer Tyler Konersman can be found delivering pizzas in St. Louis. The other members of the ferocious Missouri five-piece each do what th...

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bestof2007.jpg hspace=10 src="/Images/Imported/Music%20pics/bestof2007.jpg" width=150 align=right vspace=10 border=0>Even with slumping sales, 2007 was still a great year for new music, much of which ...

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Hinder front man Austin Winkler was arrested in Arkansas on a drunk-driving complaint, the Associated Press reported.   An Arkansas patrolman pulled over a sport-utility vehicle spotted drivin...