FRMR FRMR is a Norman-based goth/New Wave outfit with an interesting eye for video. The phantasmagoric sequence of events that make up “Star Sick” evoke paranoid images and are contrasted with celestial keyboard ribbons that encourage a good night at the Electro Lounge, or at least a night of heady mystery. FRMR singer Chase Spivey [...]
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Review: TV on the Radio’s Nine Types of Light
“It might be impractical to seek out a new romance, we won’t know the actual if we never take the chance, I’d like to collapse with you and ease you against this song, I think we’re compatible, I see that you think I’m wrong, but, anytime will do my love.”—Will Do, TV on the Radio [...]
Norman Music Festival Picks (Part 1)
It’s that time of year again, when countless bands we’ve never heard of and 3 and clumps and clumps of bored party people who don’t care about music at all flood the streets of Norman in an attempt to make everyone feel better about our city, in general. The thing is, we are starting to [...]
Watching my friends make music: Purple Church at Guestroom’s Record Store Day
I will always, always, always get a thrill out of seeing friends perform on stage. Just like you, I’ve seen some stuff that deeply satisfies, stuff that anyone inherently knows is a rare treasure – a Yo La Tengo acoustic set with about 150 other people, the Unrest reunion last summer, Eef Barzelay solo or [...]
The National: On Tour in Oklahoma, to perform at Cain’s
The National is currently touring. And their fifth studio album High Violet should please anyone who got into Bon Iver’s For Emma and Noah and the Whale’s The First Days of Spring. The key difference between these three bands is that The National’s High Violet wasn’t intended to be an album about break-ups and love [...]
Vinyl or Die: Oklahoma City’s Record Store Day Picks
“We open at 11. We’re changing up the way we let people in this year for crowd control purposes. We’ll be letting in 5 people, waiting 3 minutes and letting 5 more in and so forth. We were lucky there wasn’t a fight last year.” – Travis Searle, Guestroom Records Basically, this Saturday is the [...]
Odd Future Odyssey
Lately, I’ve been trying to work out on paper why I have come to love the new rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (a.k.a. ofwgkta, Odd Future) so much. I’ve got essays about inner demons and darkness, essays about savage truth and evil honesty, I’ve even got an “essay” that just says, [...]
OK Sweetheart’s “Home” Released Today, April 5th
Home, OK Sweetheart’s debut full-length, is a very strong effort that exemplifies what happens when good songwriters meet good musicians. Commend the band for bundling lead singer Erin Austin’s jazzy sweet vocal range and bluesy writing tendencies into a soulful pop package that’s easy on the ears but a bit hard on the heart at [...]
Fleet Foxes “Helplessness Blues” – A Work That’s Yours
The self-titled Fleet Foxes debut surprised me. It wasn’t like most art around me. It seemed to come out of the deep past. This happened in the album cover design (a print from Breughel) and in the voices of Robin Pecknold and his bandmates. Their lyrics were laced with language reminiscent of a sermon (“You [...]
SXSW 6, The Search Closes, in the key of weird
Editor’s note: this is the final installment of vignettes about SXSW from okc.net’s intrepid scout, Danny Marroquin. See his previous article and links to the ones before it here. One of the most popular parties at SXSW was the Fader/Fiat Fort party across I-35 from SXSW proper, where a handful of unofficial festival parties irked [...]
