VIDEO: Sugar Free Allstars - “Cars and Trucks”
Sunday, August 29th, 2010Here’s Sugar Free Allstars‘ music video for “Cars and Trucks”, off their latest album, Funky Fresh and Sugar Free.
The video was animated by Shawn Downey.
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Sugar Free Allstars Featured on Time.com
Friday, May 7th, 2010
Sugar Free Allstars are currently featured on Time Magazine’s web site in a photo essay featuring some of Kindie Rock’s top musicians!
Another favorite of XM-Sirius’ Kids Place Live, the witty duo of Chris Wiser and Rob Martin blend blues, New Orleans funk and gospel to create an original, high energy sound. The title of their newest CD, Funky Fresh and Sugar Free, says it all. Of its humorous-yet-jammin’ lead song, “Rock Awesome!” Chris Wiser says, only half jokingly: “We figured the genre needed its own anthem song.”
Purchase Funky Fresh and Sugar Free on iTunes.
Sugar Free Allstars Release New Album Today
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Sugar Free Allstars release a new album, Funky Fresh and Sugar Free, today.
“The best music made for children is many things — fun, educational, smart, tender, catchy — but generally speaking, it does not bring the funk. Unless it’s made by the Sugar Free Allstars, that is.” - Dadnabbit
Tracklisting after the jump.
Norman Music Festival 3 Schedule & MP3s
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Photo: Jeremy Charles
Hundreds of musicians and tens of thousands of fans converge on downtown Norman this Saturday and Sunday for the third edition of Norman Music Festival.
I will be there with Mrs. OklahomaRock and Baby OklahomaRock. I hope to see many of your faces there as well. (This event is totally FREE!)
To get your ears ready, here’s some FREE mp3s from NMF 2010 artists:
DOWNLOADS:
8Bit Cynics - “You Ain’t That Pretty”
Brother Gruesome - “Cut It Out”
Cecada - “Handspots”
Copperheads - “Drugs”
Dead Sea Choir - “Image D93″
Depth & Current - “Arms of Your Love”
Early Beat - “Maybe I Love You”
Euclid Crash - “Girl Talk”
Evangelicals - “Bloodstream” (Slow Blood Version)
Gentle Ghost - “Please Don’t Go Out Tonight” (Basement Session)
Hush Hush Commotion - “The One That Got Away”
Jabee & Ashlee Madison - “Picture on the Wall”
Junebug Spade - “Buckshot”
Maggie McClure - “Out of My Mind”
Marcy Priest - “Never Ending”
Mayola - “Where Does God Come In?”
Miracord - “New Religion”
The Pretty Black Chains - “Ambulance”
Rainbows Are Free - “Are You Dead?”
Student Film - “Whirling Dervish”
Traindodge - “Messenger’s Victim”
After the jump, get your hour-by-hour band schedule, which should come in handy.
Norman Music Festival Gets Awesomer
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Photo: Jeremy Charles
More bands playing this year’s Norman Music Festival (April 24 & April 25) were announced this week.
This is only a partial list. More bands will be announced in the coming weeks. Oklahoma bands are in bold. You can view the previously announced bands here, here and here.
The Octopus Project, Colourmusic, Hush Hush Commotion, Depth & Current, Locust Avenue, Junebug Spade, Kite Flying Robot, DEERPEOPLE, Ghost of Monkshood, The Toothman, Debris, Euclid Crash, Brother Gruesome, MONTU, Zèbre, Love Button, Klipspringer, Mama Sweet, Lost At Sea, Miracord
The Little Rockers Kid Stage lineup has also been announced:
OU Steel Drum Band, Sonder Music, Dance & Art, Sugar Free Allstars, McMichael Music, Balcum Rancum Puppetry, Norman Music Institute, The Studio of the Sooner Theater
The free two-day festival will take place in downtown Norman on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25. Saturday performances will take place at night inside downtown venues, while Sunday performances will take place all day on stages set up on Main Street and inside downtown venues. NMF is for all ages and FREE!
More than 30,000 people attended the 2009 edition of the festival, with an estimated $2.5 million being spent locally.
A Guide to Oklahoma Music on Twitter
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
As Twitter gets bigger and bigger every minute (the site gained five million new accounts in March), bands are realizing how useful the service can be. Tweet about upcoming shows, tweet while you’re recording, tweet about new music and videos and get instant feedback. It’s all relevant and interesting to your fans.
Follow us on Twitter - @oklahomarock
After you get figure out the @’s, #’s and RT’s of Twitter, it’s ridiculously easy to use. And, it opens a whole new world of interaction between bands and their fans.
We’ve compiled a listing of Oklahoma bands, radio stations, venues and music-related Twitter accounts. Check it out after the jump!
Norman Music Festival Schedule and More Bands
Friday, March 13th, 2009
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The schedule for Norman Music Festival (Saturday, April 25) has been released, along with an updated list of bands.
You can view the previously announced bands here and here.
The Lee Boys, Crocodile, The Separation, Early Beat, Penny Hill, Locust Avenue, Mayola, Dead Sea Choir, The Gunship, Mama Sweet, Hush Hush Commotion, The Ike Lamb Band, Gabriel Marshall, Galapagos, Lemma, Here is There, Ford Chastain, John Fullbright, Michael Bendure, The Workweek, Kristen Stehr, Depth and Current, Meredith Meyer, Richard Daddy Love, Susan Herndon, Dorian Small, Rainbows are Free, Proprietors of the Earth, Glowbead, Edgar Cruz, The Lily Guild, Hollywood Homicide, Bungalouski, Sugar Free Allstars, Buffalofitz, Ivan Peña Trio, The Nghiems, Buzz Radio Winner
The second-year festival will feature around 68 artists on ten stages in historic downtown Norman. Over 13,000 people attended the event last year and this year promises to be bigger and better. NMF is for all ages and FREE! So, if you like free stuff, sunny sunshine, good music and trains, they you’re in luck.
Norman Music Festival is looking for about 150 volunteers to assist in crowd control, clean up, hospitality, parking and many other areas of the festival. Volunteers will work in four hour shifts and each receive a free t-shirt. Sign up to be a volunteer here.
Full schedule after the jump.
Sugar Free Allstars on XM Kids
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
A song by Sugar Free Allstars has been getting generous airplay on XM Radio.
“Bathtub Boy”, off their recent album Dos Ninos, is currently No.2 on “13 Under 13″ on XMKiDs (channel 116). The song is currently ranked ahead of songs by Hannah Montana and High School Musical 2. “Bathtub Boy” debuted on the show’s countdown four weeks ago at #12.
The countdown airs every Friday at 9pm CST and replays Saturdays at 7am & 4pm CST and Sundays at 10am CST. To request the song, click here, call 866.328.2345 or email xmkids@xmradio.com.
And if you’re a parent and looking for some good songs for your children, you won’t do much better than SFA’s Dos Ninos.
DOWNLOADS:
Sugar Free Allstars - “Poppy and Meemaw”
Sugar Free Allstars - “He’s Okay (The Spider Song)”
Wade Burrow on “Roadtrip Nation”
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
PBS has selected Wade Burrow’s song “Becoming a Redwood” for use on their 12-part documentary series “Roadtrip Nation”. The documentary will air on PBS later this fall and a DVD release will follow.
Burrow will be the third Oklahoma artist featured on the show with Hosty Duo appearing in 2005 & 2006 and Sugar Free All-Stars appearing in 2006. Other artists featured in recent years have been Caribou, Jack Johnson, Sufjan Stevens, Xavier Rudd, White Buffalo and Brett Dennen.