Countless musicians and fans converge on downtown Tulsa today and tomorrow for the inaugural edition of FreeTulsa.
Admission is $10 per day.
Below, watch some great videos of FreeTulsa artists Brine Webb and Deerpeople!
After the jump, get a handy hour-by-hour FreeTulsa show schedule.
A new music festival, FreeTulsa!, is filling the gap left behind by DFest. The festival will take place on July 30 & July 31 in downtown Tulsa’s Brady Arts District.
Recently announced acts:
8bit Cynics, Able the Allies, Algebra, Another Monday, Apollo, Audra Mae, Baron Von Swagger, Beneath, Benjamin Lyman, Brandon Clark Band, Brother Rabbit, The Calamities, Campus on Fire, Cavedoll, Chris Lee Becker and the Souvenirs, Dante & the Hawks, The Dawn Armada Band, The Del Toros, Dick Bath, The Don’t Care Bears, The Dull Drums, Eric & the Adams, Floodcar, FM Pilots, Gogo Plumbay, HipHopotamus, Hundredsomethings, Hurricane Mason, Imperius Rex, Ithica, Jayton, Jesse Aycock, John Moreland, Junebug Spade, Kawnar, Milos Fare, Misions, Mongo, Night of the Comets, OK Sweetheart, Paul Benjaman Band, Phillip Zoellner Band, Pilgrim, The Pretty Black Chains, RadioRadio, Rats! Rats! Rats!, The Righs, The Roundup Boys, Rude Amps, The Seven Degrees of Stephen Egerton, Slorder, Travis Fite, Tribe of Souls, Unmarked Cars, Walking City Outlaws, The Way It Was, Wink Burcham, WM Joseph Band, Zsa Zsa Ketzner
You can view the previously announced bands here and here.
Live music promoters Jeff Richardson (Hard Work Records) and Marc Matheos (owner of Crystal Pistol and The Marquee) have joined forces to put on an all-ages two-day music festival featuring top bands from Tulsa and surrounding areas.
Acts will play on nine stages, including two main outdoor stages, The Soundpony, two stages at the Crystal Pistol, Bob’s (Cain’s second stage), The Marquee, Hunt Club outdoor stage and Lola’s.
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.
The South by Southwest Music Conference gets underway this week and more than 40 Oklahoma bands will be playing.
Twenty-three Oklahoma acts will take part in official showcases:
Audra Mae, Ben Rector, Cady Groves, Chase Kerby, The City Lives, Colourmusic, Daniel Walcher, Dre Murray, Dwight Twilley, Fedel, Fiawna Forte, Green Corn Revival, Gum, K.C. Clifford, The Non, OK Sweetheart, Paul Benjaman Band, The Pretty Black Chains, The Red Alert, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, The Uglysuit, Unwed Sailor and Wanda Jackson
Twenty-three more Oklahoma acts will be playing unofficial showcases and day parties:
Ali Harter, Beatpunks, The Boom Bang, Brandon Jenkins, Brine Webb, Broncho, Camille Harp, Computer Blue, Crystal Vision, The Effects, Eric and the Adams, Grooms, Jabee, Jacob Abello, Joshua Distance, Kids at the Bar, Leon Russell, Mark Gibson, The Mean Spirits, Mike Kelly, Red City Radio, The Reverb Bros. and Trash Yourself
Six other SXSW acts have Oklahoma connections:
School of Seven Bells (features Lawton-native Benjamin Curtis), The Veils (lived in Oklahoma City for a short time in 2007), Daddy a Go-Go (featuring Tulsa native John Boydston), The Souls (featuring Medicine Park resident David Lott), Hot Club of Cowtown (featuring Tulsa-area resident Whit Smith) and Oh No Not Stereo (featuring former University of Oklahoma student Mykul Lee)
DOWNLOAD:
Ali Harter - “Grandpa”
The City Lives - “You Gotta Let Go”
Colourmusic - “Put in a Little Gas”
Daddy a Go-Go - “School Bus Driver (The Stop Song)”
Grooms - “Dreamsucker”
Jabee - “One”
The Pretty Black Chains - “Ambulance”
School of Seven Bells - “Half Asleep”
Stardeath And White Dwarfs - “Springtime In Martha Stewart’s Head”
The Uglysuit - “1902 Deep Ocean”
After the jump, check out schedule listings for all bands listed above.
Photo: Jeremy Charles
Another partial list of bands playing this year’s Norman Music Festival (April 24 & April 25) was announced this week on 105.3 The Spy.
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.
Bear Colony, The Burning Hotels, Graham Colton, Odis, The Workweek, Broncho, Native Lights, Ishi, The Orbans, Jacob Abello, Paul Benjaman Band, Brine Webb, OK Sweetheart, Marcy Priest, Cecada, Radiant, Chrome Pony, Chase Pagan, Beau Jennings, Jesse Aycock, The Red Alert
Last week, Leon Russell announced as the second stage headliner and Jabee was added to the main stage
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.
If you are a local band and have a music video, send it to NMF here! Deadline is March 25!
The South by Southwest Music Conference released the schedule for 2010 Official Showcasing Bands this week.
There were 11 Oklahoma artists on that list:
• Audra Mae
• Cady Groves
• The City Lives
• Colourmusic
• Dre Murray
• Gum
• The Non
• OK Sweetheart
• Stardeath and White Dwarfs
• The Uglysuit
• Unwed Sailor
Two bands with Okie-connections will also be showcasing at SXSW: School of Seven Bells (features Lawton-native Benjamin Curtis) and The Veils (lived in Oklahoma City for a short time in 2007).
The overall list will fluctuate over the next few weeks and we’ll bring you any news of Oklahoma bands added to an official showcase. If you are an Oklahoma band that will be playing in Austin during SXSW at an unofficial event, please use the comment section to let us in on the details.
We will post a full list of dates and times of Oklahomans playing at SXSW as we get closer.
Mike Kelly, formerly of Tulsa band The Pearls, is set to unveil his debut album Wake The Dead this spring.
Kelly has a remarkable story, as he experienced congestive heart failure and underwent double heart valve replacement surgery in February 2009.
These videos were shot by Austin Tolin.
Lending their songwriting and performing skills on the album include former Pearls bandmate Andy Skib (David Cook, Midwest Kings, To Have Heroes), bassist Monty Anderson (David Cook, Phil Marshall), Erin Austin and TJ McFarland. The album was recorded at Austin’s Yellow Dog Studios (formerly based in Tulsa).
NX35 Music Conferette in Denton, Texas (March 11-14) released a preliminary list of showcasing bands this week.
Eight Oklahoma bands will take part in the festival:
• The Flaming Lips (headliner)
• Colourmusic
• Green Corn Revival
• Native Lights
• OK Sweetheart (Erin Austin)
• Paul Benjaman Band
• Stardeath and White Dwarfs
• Unwed Sailor
More than 20,000 fans are expected to attend the four-day music conference, which will include performances by the Lips (FREE outdoor performance), Midlake, The Black Angels and Neon Indian. Other big attractions include a discussion with producer / musician / journalist Steve Albini and the grand opening of a museum honoring the history of the 8-track tape.
Tickets are available for $20 (all-night, one night) or $65 (all-access)
We will post a full list of dates and times of Oklahoman bands playing at NX35 closer to the event dates.
Videos of some of the artists listed above after the jump!
Thousands of musicians and fans converge on downtown Tulsa this weekend for the ninth edition of DFest.
I will be there solo this year and I hope to see many of your faces there as well. (Buy your tickets by midnight tonight or pay an additional $15!)
Throughout the coming weekend and into next week, we plan on bringing you recaps on the conference and festival, as well as Q&As, videos and pictures.
To get your ears ready, here’s a collection of free mp3s from DFest 2009 artists:
DOWNLOADS:
8Bit Cynics - “You Ain’t That Pretty”
Ali Harter - “Grandpa”
Astellaway - “It’s Not Worth It”
Callupsie - “The Murderous Type”
Crocodile - “August is Over”
Dead Sea Choir - “Image D93″
Ghosts - “Nuts n Boltz”
Hush Hush Commotion - “The One That Got Away”
I Said Stop - “Born To Be Great”
Jabee - “One”
Junebug Spade - “Buckshot”
Kawnar - “Lost”
Maggie McClure - “Out of My Mind”
Marcy Priest - “Never Ending”
The Nightlife - “Take My Hand”
Other Lives - “End Of The Year”
The Pretty Black Chains - “Ambulance”
Rainbows Are Free - “Are You Dead?”
The Romantic Disaster - “Full Blooded Fool”
Stars Go Dim - “Come Around”
The Uglysuit - “…And We Became Sunshine”
Van Risseghem - “We Are All Full of Love”
Western Heritage - “She’s Only 16″
X-Cal - “Starving Artists”
Ziff - “The City Knight Life”
After the jump, get your hour-by-hour show schedule, which should come in handy.
A partial list of bands playing DFest 2009 was announced at a press conference this morning at Dilly Deli in downtown Tulsa. The festival and conference will take place on July 24 & July 25 in downtown Tulsa’s historic Blue Dome District.
“Dfest 2009 will not only be more exciting with thanks to our new sponsors, partners and venues, but this year’s talent will by far be the most exciting and diverse offering yet.” - Tom Green
This is only a partial list. More bands will be announced in the coming weeks. Oklahoma bands are in bold.
Headliners:
The Black Crowes, Gogol Bordello, Ozomatli, The Knux, Blue October, Gil Mantera’s Party Dream, Joe Pug, The Uglysuit, Metro Station, Citizen Cope, Bassnectar, Bill Hamel, Delta Spirit, DJ Rekha, Gringo Star, Rachelle van Zanten, Dub Trio, Dusty Rhodes & The River Band, Other Lives
Emerging Artists:
Adam’s Attic, Ali Harter, The Burning Hotels, Callupsie, CoCo Jones, The City Lives, Crocodile, The Culprit, Daniel Walcher, Dead Sea Choir, Dignan, Dirtfoot, Erin Austin, I Said Stop!, Ivan Ives, Kawnar, Mayola, Modern Science, Native Lights, The Nightlife, P.D.A., The Pons, Recorder, The Round Up Boys, Ryan Lindsey, Sam and the Stylees, Scott Goldman, SydeWayz, SocietySociety, Stars Go Dim, Three Penny Upright, Tim Miller, Unwed Sailor & Vangough
Stages:
Poseidon Stage (Sante Fe Parking Lot), Triton Stage (PAC Parking Lot), PAC Williams Theater, PAC Liddy Doenges Theater, The Blank Slate, Exit 6C, The Asian Noodle Bar (formerly Tsunami), Blue Dome Diner, Dirty’s Tavern, McNellies, Dilly Deli (patio), Jo Mamma’s, Templ & The Flytrap Music Hall
“In addition, we are excited to welcome the Grammy Foundation, NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences), and MusiCares to the Dfest family. These new industry partnerships will allow us to further expand the already incredible opportunities that the Dfest Music Conference offers emerging artists and managers.” - Tom Green
Ticket and more festival information available after the jump.