–Advertisement– by Colin Newman Mickey Reece’s Tarsus is a film about growth and redemption, told with the tone and rhythm of a 12 step meeting. When we first meet Patricia Peters (played with gaunt, wide eyed intensity by Rebecca Cox) she has just gotten out of prison after serving five years for meth… Continue Reading Film Review: Tarsus
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APF6 Recap: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Raveonettes
–Advertisement–by Colin Newman As with all road trips I participate in, our editorial voyage to Austin for the Annual Psych Fest started out as sort of a fiasco. I will spare you the details, but suffice it to say it involved a harrowing trip through DFW at not even rush hour, some inaccurate Google maps… Continue Reading APF6 Recap: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Raveonettes
OKC 365: Festival of the Arts
by Colin Newman Oh hey. Is it Arts Festival time again? If you’re new to the area or don’t leave your house much, Festival of the Arts is basically a giant block party/arts market/picnic that takes place right in the heart of Downtown OKC each year. Almost a million people crowd in from… Continue Reading OKC 365: Festival of the Arts
The Back Bin: Os Mutantes
by Colin Newman Of all of the bands at Austin Psych Fest, the one that I am most excited to see is one that most Americans have never heard of: Sāo Paulo psychedelic pioneers Os Mutantes. Portuguese for “The Mutants,” they were at the forefront of the tropicália movement in Brazil in the late… Continue Reading The Back Bin: Os Mutantes
Daft Punk release new single “Get Lucky”, humans rejoice
- By Brian Barbee - Helmeted french electronic pop-bots Daft Punk are releasing a new album. Excited yet? Well maybe I can give you a brief history on the band and privileged news about the new album to get the juices flowing. Not to be a Wikipedia article, but Daft Punk are known as the… Continue Reading Daft Punk release new single “Get Lucky”, humans rejoice
Record Store Day Picks 2013
After a depressing day of assembling bombing anniversary coverage, I now am tasked with telling you all about Record Store Day. Record Store Day is a pretend holiday where people get together and agree to spend a bunch of money at local independent record stores. In return, bands and labels release a whole bunch of… Continue Reading Record Store Day Picks 2013
Another year, Another Anniversary
By Sam Scovill There were children born on the day the Murrah Bombing happened. Today they are old enough to vote. I do fear that people will forget. As tragic as the events of the last week are, they are still eclipsed by the magnitude of what happened here in Oklahoma City, and not just… Continue Reading Another year, Another Anniversary
Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love
By Colin Newman, Photos by Helen Grant – “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” Martin Luther King, Jr. – I’m terrorized. After all of these years, I still feel a little bit terrorized. That is,… Continue Reading Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love
Do You Realize? And Does it Matter?
By Colin Newman The OKC social media ecosystem has been thrown into chaos today by the revelation that Mary Fallin decided not to renew Brad Henry’s executive order declaring the song “Do You Realize?” by The Flaming Lips to be the official state rock song. For those of you who don’t recall this proud chapter… Continue Reading Do You Realize? And Does it Matter?
Polarity
By Colin Newman “We have got an important task assigned to us and we are not going to be able to fulfill it to anyone’s satisfaction as manic-depressives in a perpetual state of personal train wreck.” – Walter Alter I have always found the world alternately transcendentally beautiful and soul crushingly unbearable. I have taken… Continue Reading Polarity
