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.
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.
Photo: Jeremy Charles
More bands playing this year’s Norman Music Festival (April 24 & April 25) were announced yesterday.
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, here and here.
Eagle Claw, Dikes of Holland, The Cassingles, The Stuffies, Indian Jewelry, Psychedelic Horseshit, Audra Mae, Ali Harter, Maggie McClure, Sherree Chamberlain, Green Corn Revival, Shitty/Awesome, Gang Starr Museum, The Boom Bang, Algebra, Scales of Motion, 8Bit Cynics, Hiphopotamus, Copperheads, The Easy Lovers, Venus Bogardus, Radio Deception, Quantum Turbo, The Lily Guild, Wondernaut, The Candyguns
A local comedy showcase and an ACM@UCO showcase will be announced next week.
Additionally, a Norman Music Festival fundraising/promo show has been announced for Saturday, April 10 at The Opolis in Norman. The show will be co-sponsored by OklahomaRock.com and details will be announced later this week!
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.
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.
A few weeks back, we counted down the Top 100 Oklahoma Albums of the 2000s. Every weekday this week, we will be featuring Oklahoma albums that were overlooked or just missed the cut. Enjoy!
The Boom Bang - Pizzapocalypse (2009)
“A smashed amp, blistered fingers, dozens of smoke bombs, hundreds of Black Cats and countless blown minds would eventually lead to their debut EP, “Pizzapocalypse,” your future soundtrack to mischief-laden evenings and dastardly drives over abandoned highways. From the frightening thud of “Tokyo Roll” to wild yelp of “Tag Along,” you quickly get the sense of The Boom Bang being the band playing the legendary house party you wish you had been at and never left.” - Joshua Boydston (The Oklahoma Daily)
Here’s The Boom Bang’s music video for their song “Spies Like Us”.
For much of the early part of this decade Euclid Crash was one of the mainstays in the local underground music scene. The band has been broken up for six years but will be doing a reunion show at The Conservatory tonight (August 14). This interview was conducted via email with lead singer Tory Ayers-Gonzales in August 2009.
For more information on Euclid Crash visit the band on MySpace and Facebook.
Dave: What is the story behind Euclid Crash?
Tory Gonzales: Back in the year 2000, 5 Edmond kids, sitting around Denny’s pining after sounds of the Rentals and Weezer, decided to get together! When we started EC, Ryan was really into the movie Pi by Darren Aronofsky. Euclid was the name of the main characters computer mainframe, which crashed at one point in the movie. Also, we’re big fans of geometry. Currently, the lineup consists of Tory Ayers-Gonzales - vox, synth keys, Ryan Costello - guitar, Matt Owsley - guitar, Dave Klein - bass, and Marshall MacHugh - drums.
Dave: You have a reunion show coming up? What prompted the show? Is it a one-time gig?
Tory: Yup! Friday Aug 14. The Conservatory. Showtime 9pm. Forced Entree (pronounced ontray-I can’t get my iPhone to accent it) first, then The Boom Bang (garage surf rock), then us. You can purchase tix in advance through the show link at conservatoryokc.com. Dave (bassist) and Kelli Klein are adopting a 4 yr old girl with extra health needs from Russia. I wanted to find a cool way to fundraise for them, so after talking to Kelli, One Euclid Crash reunion coming up! It was at first, but getting back into practices really put the bug in all of us to keep going. For some of the old fav songs, it will be a one time reunion, but the band will regroup, write some new songs that reflect our musical changes over the last 6 years and continue.
SHOW INFO:
• Where: The Conservatory, 8911 N. Western, in Oklahoma City
• Openers: The Boom Bang & Forced Entrée
Here’s The Boom Bang’s music video for their song “Tokyo Roll”.
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.
Here’s The Boom Bang’s music video for their song “Time No Time”.