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.
Bands: Submit at OKKLE.com!
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.
An initial list of bands has already been announced:
Acoustic Ross, And There Stands Empires, Bearhug, Brine Webb, Broncho, Bruder, Cecada, Daniels, Danny J. Buck, Dead Sea Choir, Digital Graffiti, The Doldrums, Eden Sharmaine, Ester Drang, Fiawna Forté, First Lady Assassins, Gentle Ghost, ISHI, Jacob Abello, Johnny Polygon, jor DAN, Kelli Lynn and the Skillet Lickers, La Panther Happens, Low Litas, Lunar City, The Moai Broadcast, Motive for Movement, Native Lights, The Non, The Panda Resistance, Popular Culture, Project Huckleberry, Recorder, The Red Alert, Science Club, The Shining Lights, Stars Go Dim, TeddyJackEddy, Triple Fang, Unwed Sailor & Vandevander
“The thing is we are both big fans of Dfest, but anytime there is a gap it’s going to get filled. The void is going to get filled with something. Probably several something’s and we wanted our something to be the best.” - Jeff Richardson
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.
Ticket prices and information will be announced soon.
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!
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)
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 final round of band announcements for DFest 2009 was revealed today. The festival and conference will take place on July 24 & July 25 in downtown Tulsa’s historic Blue Dome District.
Oklahoma artists in bold. You can view the previously announced bands here and here.
Emerging Artists:
8bit Cynics, Bald Eagle, Beau Jennings, Blue Island Tribe, The Boom Bang, The Boxing Lesson, Brine Webb, Broke City, Bruder, The Calm Blue Sea, Canja Rave, Damn Bullets, Death is not a joyride., DJ Demko, Derek James, Dogsway, Don’t Wake Aislin, Exit 380, French Horn Rebellion, Ghosts, Goodbye To Pretty, Haley McGuire, Here Is There, HighFiveLowFive, Jacob Abello, DJ Jason Sterling, DJ Jeff Haze, The Jonbear Fourtet, Junebug Spade, Love in October, The Moai Broadcast, Muchos Backflips!, The Nghiems, Oso Closo, Proprietors Of The Earth, R.C., RadioRadio, Rainbows Are Free, The Romantic Disaster, DJ Sea, Sherree Chamberlain, Taddy Porter, Turk, The Venditos & Western Heritage
Ticket and more festival information available after the jump.
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!