Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Matt Carney
Hare hear
As Hare Tracks, collegian and OKC native Mac Kennedy is one of countless in-home music recorders the Internet enables.
The Typist — Midwestern High Life
Grand Ambassadors
Looking for your next favorite New York indie-rock outfit? We proudly present Ambassadors.
Music
Matt Carney
Ambassadors with Lights
7 p.m. Tuesday
Cain’s Ballroom
423 N. Main, Tulsa
cainsballroom.com
918-584-2306
Remembering Davy
An Oklahoma man lost a lifelong friend with the passing of the Monkees’ Davy Jones.
Music
Matt Carney
Even before (and well after) Larry White moved to Los Angeles in 1974 to manage the career of The Monkees’ Davy Jones, fun ensued.
Independence 76 — Magpie Parables
Folk
Matt Carney
It’s been a long while since I’ve heard a work of Americana as sprawling and ambitious as Independence 76’s debut album, Magpie Parables.
Buffa-loaded
Oklahoma’s best and brightest head to Texas to hit South by Southwest hard. The Buffalo Lounge will help them hit even harder.
Music
Matt Carney
Each year, Austin, Texas’ media smorgasbord known as South by Southwest draws visitors by the hundreds of thousands, each looking for the next big cultural thing. Wouldn’t it be awesome if that thing came from here?
Finding J.O.Y.
For Brooklyn singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs, things like life and music aren’t so bleak as they once were.
Music
Matt Carney
Jenny Owen Youngs with Little Hurricane
8 p.m. Friday
The Blue Door
2805 N. McKinley
bluedoorokc.com
524-0738
$15 advance, $20 door
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Nonfiction
Matt Carney
Oklahoma City lost one of its greatest native sons Feb. 16 when Anthony Shadid succumbed to a severe asthma attack while reporting in journalist-hostile Syria. He was 43.
Kill the Reflection — Together ... Apart ...
Rock
Matt Carney
Somewhere between Depth & Current’s thematic explorations of living in a broken world and Broncho’s uptempo pop-punk resides Oklahoma City trio Kill the Reflection, minus the two previous bands’ shoegaze and pop.
Sleigh Bells — Reign of Terror
2010’s hot indie innovators return without any new bells or whistles. Thank goodness.
Pop
Matt Carney
Two albums in, I’m certain that Sleigh Bells’ distinct brand of girly noise-pop was assembled in some covert lab so as to make me look as ridiculous as possible when commuting to work.
Cloud Nothings — Attack on Memory
Don’t be fooled by the title. This punk gem harkens back to days of plenty.
Rock
Matt Carney
It’s pretty tempting to call “Attack on Memory,” the latest album by Cleveland punks Cloud Nothings the work of a punkist, that being its obviously talented front man Dylan Baldi. That’s a compliment, I promise.
Linked in
Want to attend ACM@UCO’s LiveLink concert series, but don’t know any of the young bands? We’ve got you covered.
Music
Matt Carney
LiveLink
7 p.m. Friday
ACM@UCO Performance Lab
323 E. Sheridan
acm-uco.com
974-4700
free
Royal Baths — Better Luck Next Life
Mix the dirty blues, paranoia and ugly guitars, and you’ve got a winner of a sophomore album.
Days of Lives
Embraced by critics, NPR and now Radiohead, Stillwater band Other Lives is on the brink of exploding big beyond our humble borders.
Music
Matt Carney
Sitting opposite a large mural of themselves at Jericho Tavern in Oxford, England, three members of Radiohead watched and listened intently as Other Lives played 45 minutes’ worth of the somber chamber pop that the Stillwater group has spent near a decade refining.
Hurt rockers
Want to hear what a modern-rock band sounds like without all the bells and whistles? You’ve got to Hurt.
Music
Matt Carney
Hurt
6 p.m. Tuesday
The Conservatory
8911 N. Western
conservatoryokc.com
607-4805
$12 advance, $14 door
7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22
Cain’s Ballroom
423 N. Main, Tulsa
cainsballroom.com
918-584-2306
$16 advance, $18 door
