News Joe Wertz
Oklahoma bands and musicians garnered nearly a dozen nominations for the 50th annual Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy has announced. Some of the nominations earned by Okies " past or present " i...
News Joe Wertz
Apparently, when Ryan Walker isn't slinging footwear at Shoe Gypsy in Nichols Hills, he is off somewhere writing gorgeous, quirky songs or recording near-brilliant albums with Oklahoma City indie ba...
Music Joe Wertz
Devil Doll sounds like the soundtrack from a bar brawl between June Carter Cash and Patti Smith, yet comes wrapped as a sultry, dark-haired pinup starlet: leading lady Colleen Duffy. The fun-lovin...
Music Joe Wertz
The Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular, held on Nov. 16, was a celebrity-studded variety show filled with performances from well-known Sooner State musicians "¦ except country superstar Garth Brooks. ...
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The liner notes for "American Kids," the Oklahoma City indie-pop band The City Lives' newly released full-length CD, notes that food from Arby's was used as partial payment to a recording engin...
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An enthusiastic and celebratory crowd packed the Ford Center Friday night to celebrate the Oklahoma Centennial with a star-studded variety show from Oklahoma celebrities, politicians and musicians. ...
News Joe Wertz
Break out the glitter and silver confetti, because Oklahoma City will say goodbye to 2007 and celebrate the new year with The Flaming Lips. OKC's three-time Grammy- winning psychedelic ban...
Music Joe Wertz
For the last year, members of Norman indie-rock band The Separation have been in and out of the studio, working on their first full-length album. Vocalist David Hoffner said the band has kept a st...
Music Joe Wertz
It's official: An Oklahoman now wears the crown of music royalty. Garth Brooks dethroned "The King" Elvis Presley, to become the best-selling solo artist of all time, according to the Recording Ind...
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Confetti cannons, giant balloons and a monstrous inflated caterpillar creature marked the occasion as fans, freaks and city officials gathered today in Bricktown to celebrate an alley named after loca...
Music Joe Wertz
If you have lunch plans on Thursday, you should cancel them. And if they involve going anywhere near Bricktown, they will probably need to be rescheduled. The dedication of Flaming Lips Alley, which...
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It's been more than four years since Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood's Georgia rent house was sold while they toured and they made the decision literally to live a life on the road. Together, Vale...
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The Norman indie foursome Yacht Club! will be hosting a CD release party at The Opolis Friday night. With Edmond's The Neopolitans and OKC band The City Lives opening the show up " and turntable tunes...
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There aren't many teenagers who would be excited about packing everything up to move across the country after just starting high school.
News Joe Wertz
On Feb. 22, 1949, a Hereford cow named Grady had just given birth inside a barn at Bill and Alyne Mach's farm in Yukon, according to daughter-in-law Pam Mach. After the attending veterinarian told B...
