Music
Joshua Boydston
Tapes ’n Tapes with Oberhofer
9 p.m. Tuesday
Opolis
113 N. Crawford, Norman
opolis.org, 820-0951
$15
Saturday 18 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Minneapolis
Sticky situation
How does a band follow backlash? Internet sensation Tapes ’n Tapes ended its label deal and went back to the basics: the music.
Music
Joshua Boydston
In praise of pork
A new restaurant focuses on all things porcine.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
In a 1995 episode of “The Simpsons” titled “Lisa the Vegetarian,” Homer Simpson exasperates his daughter, Lisa, by asking her to enumerate the meats she will no longer eat: pork chops, bacon and ham. Lisa snaps at him that those meats all come from the same creature.
Craig Finn — Clear Heart Full Eyes
The Hold Steady’s songwriter steps out on his own to write some songs about loneliness.
Indie
Matt Carney
I think the best way to compare the songwriting material in 40-year-old Craig Finn’s first-ever solo album with the excellent stuff that constitutes his catalogue with Brooklyn-by-Minneapolis rockers The Hold Steady is to just embrace the truth that you can’t have fun all the time.
Poliça — Give You the Ghost
Nah, thanks — you can keep it.
Indie
Matt Carney
You’ve got to admire what they’re up to in the north Midwest these days. That Bon Iver/Gayngs/Megafaun collective is probably the best non-Aaron Rodgers thing to happen to Wisconsin in forever.
