The Flaming Lips on Fallon Tonight
May 15th, 2013
The Flaming Lips will appear on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (NBC 11:35pm CST) tonight, playing music from their new album, The Terror.
Julie Bowen and Demi Lovato will also be guests on the show.
VIDEO: Skating Polly – “Lost Wonderfuls”
May 14th, 2013Skating Polly‘s music video for the title track from their new album, Lost Wonderfuls, premiered on NewsOK.com today.
Video by Delo Creative.
Jesse Tabish of Other Lives Explains His Guitar Work
May 13th, 2013Jesse Tabish of Other Lives gave a guitar lesson for Backstage Broadcast from Germany earlier this year.
Tabish talks about finding power chords through Nirvana and Link Wray, plays a punk song (“Conspiracy”) he wrote when he was 10-years-old, and explains how he found new ways to write songs like “Weather”, “Dust Bowl III”, “Dark Horse” and “As I Lay My Head Down”.
Introducing: Husbands
May 9th, 2013
Husbands is new music project, comprised of Wil Norton (The Non) and Danny Davis (Daniel the Brave).
They’ve been releasing a new song every week for the past few weeks. We think it’s fantastic.
VDub Sessions: Ripple Green
May 9th, 2013Ripple Green is featured in the latest episode of Fowler VW & TheSpyFM.com‘s video series, “VDub Sessions”.
The Oklahoma City band performs “The Mother” in a green 1977 Vanagon as they drive around Oklahoma City.
The video was shot by Nathan Poppe and produced by Jonathan Fowler.
John Fullbright on “Later… With Jools Holland” Tonight
May 9th, 2013
John Fullbright‘s April 12th appearance on “Later… With Jools Holland” will air for the first time in the United Stated tonight on Palladia (COXHD 749, 9pm CST).
Can’t wait that long? Well, just watch his performance of “Satan and St. Paul” on the show below:
“Satan and St. Paul” appears on Fullbright’s 2012 album, From the Ground Up.
AM & Shawn Lee Release Second Album
May 9th, 2013
Tulsa native AM and Kansas native Shawn Lee released their second collaborative album, La Musique Numerique, on Tuesday.
“In many ways, the album brings to mind the Moog synthesizer sounds of such early electronic innovators as Giorgio Moroder, Laurie Spiegel, and Kraftwerk, as well as the work of such contemporary and similarly synth-centric bands like Air and Phoenix.” - Matt Collar (Allmusic)
“Burbling bass, analog synths, disco beats, ageless pop melodies. Tracks taken from a dozen underappreciated genres from around the world. Call AM & Shawn Lee’s second album La Musique Numerique kitchen sink music if you must, but recognize that this kind of sink just doesn’t exist in present-day kitchens.” - Etan Rosenbloom (ASCAP)
“AM & Shawn Lee dig deep into obscure musical wells, gaining approval from other like-minded audiophile obsessives and vintage Sound Library revivalists.” - WHOA Magazine
Tracklisting after the jump.
Jam In The Van: John Fullbright
May 8th, 2013John Fullbright recently performed three songs for JamintheVan.com.
“When You’re Here” is a new song, while “Fat Man” and “Satan and St. Paul” are on his 2012 album, From the Ground Up.
VIDEO: Blake Shelton – “Boys ‘Round Here”
May 6th, 2013Blake Shelton is joined by the Pistol Annies (which features his wife Miranda Lambert) in his music video for “Boys ‘Round Here”.
The song is featured on Shelton’s new album, Based On A True Story.
Samantha Crain: Rolling Stone’s ‘Artist to Watch’
May 6th, 2013
Photo: Jeremy Charles
Samantha Crain has been named Rolling Stone‘s “Artist to Watch”:
Hometown: Shawnee, Oklahoma
Backstory: The 26-year-old Crain is a born-and-bred Okie with Choctaw heritage; she plays with a revolving cast of musicians, including fiddle player Daniel Foulks. While attending Oklahoma Baptist University, she registered for a semester-long songwriting retreat at Martha’s Vineyard. The experience helped Crain hone her craft, and after returning to Oklahoma, she went all-in on a music career. Crain released her debut EP, The Confiscation, in 2007 and has released three albums since. Her latest, Kid Face, was released in February on Ramseur Records.
Cruising the Country: Here, Crain covers Sufjan Stevens’ “Romulus” with help from Foulks. She first heard the track while on a family vacation at age 17, as her dad drove through mountain roads in Colorado and New Mexico. “I had a very histrionic reaction to the song the first time I heard it,” Crain tells Rolling Stone. “The combination of the fog sleeping in the valleys, the pine branches cumbersome with moisture, and the slow, winding path of the truck really supplemented the anguish of the song.”
The video was shot by Nathan Poppe.
Homecoming: Nine years after first hearing “Romulus,” Crain was visiting Wayne Coyne’s Oklahoma City art space, the Womb Gallery, around Christmas when she noted a “muffled holiday solitude.” She decided to play some songs, filming them in single takes. “I like that it is a bit antithetical that we recorded such a melancholy song at a place that is known for radiating joy and celebration,” Crain says.