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 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.
Brother Gruesome will release their new self-titled cassette (Slanty Shanty Records) tonight at The Opolis in Norman.
Purchase: Big Cartel│ BandCamp
“…a two man Carnival with seismic drum beats overlain with syncopated guitar melodies” - Independent Cause
SHOW INFO:
• Where: The Opolis, 113 N. Crawford, in Norman
• Openers: Shitty Awesome
• Also: Karaoke Party!
Tracklisting 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!