Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Matt Carney
Get physical
Ten OKC-area CrossFits offer community and challenge
Sports
Matt Carney
If you’ve walked into Elemental Coffee or driven near N.W. Eighth Street and Hudson Avenue with your car windows down sometime in the last year or so, you might have heard furious alt-rock hits or hip-hop coming from the industrial garage-door entrance to CrossFit 405.
The Visible Man — Chuck Klosterman
Fiction
Matt Carney
“What would you do if you couldn’t be seen?” is a question that preoccupies neither author Chuck Klosterman nor the genius misanthrope Y____, the subject of the writer’s second novel, The Visible Man.
Vesper recipe
Mix folk with pop, sprinkle a dash of the divine, and you have The Vespers, a Nashvillle quartet that’ll convert your ears.
Music
Matt Carney
The Vespers with Brianna Gaither and Zach Winters
6:30 p.m. Wednesday
The Backroom at Bridgeway Church
228 W. Hefner
bridgewaychurch.com
749-8044
$5
May the Schwarz be with you
Local rock is in full force at Schwarzstock, one of the metro’s most under-the-radar music festivals.
Music
Matt Carney
Schwarzstock 2012
4 p.m. Saturday
3604 N. Cimarron, Yukon
$10-$15
facebook.com/schwarzstock
Ted, white and blue
Watch out, Oklahoma City! Ted Nugent’s on his way, and you don’t want to be caught in the classic rocker’s crosshairs.
Music
Matt Carney
Ted Nugent with REO Speedwagon and Styx
6:40 p.m. Friday
OKC Zoo Amphitheatre
2011 N.E. 50th
zooamp.com
364-3700
It’s who you know
ACM@UCO CEO Scott Booker’s industry connections help students get ahead in the music biz.
Music
Matt Carney
An eerie, ambient musical drone hung above the inside of the ACM@UCO Performance Lab, interrupted every so often by an alien voice warning that five minutes were left in the session.
JD McPherson — Signs & Signifiers
All 'Signs' point to excellence.
Rock
Matt Carney
If anybody in Oklahoma is most likely to capitalize on wide-audience distribution right now, it must be Broken Arrow’s R&B-flavored rocker JD McPherson, whose debut album, Signs & Signifiers, was re-released last week by Rounder Records.
Prehistoric powerhouse
Metal overlords Mastodon make ‘out there’ music about delving into the dark recesses of the human heart.
Music
Matt Carney
Mastodon with Opeth and Ghost
6:30 p.m. Wednesday
Diamond Ballroom
8001 S. Eastern
diamondballroom.net
677-9169
$27-$31
Giving them hell
Although The All-American Rejects long ago traded Stillwater for Los Angeles, their Midwestern sensibilities help them ‘Move Along’ the path of global greatness.
Music
Matt Carney
The All-American Rejects with A Rocket to the Moon
7 p.m. Friday
Diamond Ballroom
8001 S. Eastern
diamondballroom.net
677-9169
$22-$24
Charity vehicle
Watch out, OKC schools. The Rolling Thunder Book Bus just might stop by with thousands of books — and maybe an NBA star or two.
News
Matt Carney
A first-grader named Benjamin clutched a bright yellow book to his chest as he returned to the gym of his school, Santa Fe South Elementary in southwest Oklahoma City.
Josh Sallee — Probable Flaws
Hip Hop/Rap
Matt Carney
It’s pretty obvious that local rapper Josh Sallee graduated college between his debut album, Return to Sender, and his second full-length, Probable Flaws.
Just Joshin’
While on-the-verge Josh Sallee has named his new album 'Probable Flaws,' the Oklahoma City rapper lets his skills say otherwise.
Music
Matt Carney
Josh Sallee with Chase Kerby
9 p.m. Friday
Kamp’s Deli & XIII X Lounge
1310 N.W. 25th
kampsok.com
819-6004
$10
Union labors
Bluegrass giants Alison Krauss and Union Station continue to pick and pluck their way to popular brilliance.
Music
Matt Carney
Alison Krauss and Union Station
7:30 p.m. Sunday
Civic Center Music Hall
201 N. Walker
okcciviccenter.com
$49.50-$59.50
297-2264
Music Made Me: Cameron Neal
Horse Thief’s lead singer speaks about the five albums that he holds dear.
Music
Matt Carney
Grateful Dead, American Beauty (1970)
From the nine months before I was born until now, this album and every
other album by The Grateful Dead has been playing in my life. The
free-spirit sound and attitude of this band is a huge part of who I am
today. This would be a band that has changed the way I’ve thought about
more life situations than religion. The smooth feeling of folk with a
blend of psychedelic sound waves on this album speaks to me in ways
little music does.
My name is ____
We asked a bunch of local bands to tell us the origins of their names. Babies, zombies and Bible passages ensued.
Music
Matt Carney
Zombie vs. Shark
“Our name refers to the underwater fight scene in the 1979 Italian zombie flick Zombi 2. . It was [singer] Jeremy [Gragg]’s idea, but we all thought it was funny and appropriate for reasons we’ve nev ertheless found hard to articulate. But I’ll try. I imagine ‘Zombie vs. Shark’ as some-thing a preadolescent boy play ing with action figures would dream up as the ultimate fight scenario. A zombie fighting a shark is willful in its arbitrariness and, as such, it expresses a kind of enthusiastically staged conflict you can also hear in our music.” —Robert Scafe, guitarist
