Interview

It’s been years since the Dollyrots played Oklahoma City. But for­tune finally favored the city’s denizens: last April they opened for Bowling for Soup

I drove to Okemah in early December to see folk singer and song­writer Tim Easton. Easton was on the first leg of a multi-city record­ing ses­sion for his new album Exposition. After we had lunch at the Hen House Café I took some pic­tures of him work­ing in his makeshift

On 26 May, cen­tral Oklahoma felt an earth­quake. The vibra­tions were from the nee­dle drop­ping on Godfather of Alt-Rock Tyson Meade’s new long player, Robbing the Nuclear Family. The 55-year-old rocker played piano and sang the entire album to an atten­tive audi­ence at his­toric music venue VZD’s Restaurant and […]

Jarvix. The man. The musi­cian. The mys­tery. Cynics call his music twee. The less jaded and more gen­er­ous call it sen­si­tive and bit­ter­sweet. Underneath all the lyrics flows a melan­choly cur­rent blended with self-dep­re­cat­ing humor. Evan Jarvicks came by the stu­dio last week […]

good friend David Goad is rais­ing money to tour with his band, Kali Ra, by record­ing a cook­ing show. He asked me to kick things off by talk­ing about some­thing I truly love: American Whiskey (bour­bon &; rye). Will Harrison from the OKC Edge ran cam­eras and sound. I’m afraid we talked so long that we used up… Read More …

Tumbling Nebulæ formed in early 2013 when bassist Steven Machovic and key­board player Cynthia “Luxy” Machovic got together with gui­tarist Joey Powell and drum­mer Jason “Lightsmith” Scott. Read on to learn about boozy cup­cakes, Japanese cars, heavy basses and fast drums […]

I first met singer-song­writer Alex Culbreth (Parlor Soldiers, Alex Culbreth and the Dead Country Stars) in July, when he was fea­tured in a Woody Guthrie […]

This past Sunday the Bureau invited noise-rock­ers SonicViolence, along with video direc­tor Mike Walsh, to drop by for an inter­view in antic­i­pa­tion of their upcom­ing EP release. They open for Wavves at the Conservatory tonight. […]

Local garage-rock­ers Shi++y/Awesome formed on a whim in 2009, when Guestroom Records co-owner Travis Searle and man­ager Will Muir got together with employ­ees Derek Lemke and Joey Powell with the idea of a band that would only ever play in the alley behind the store — or any alley, any­where — or house shows. […]

In the con­clu­sion to our Skating Polly inter­view, step­sis­ters Peyton Bighorse and Kelli Mayo talk about meet­ing musi­cal heroes, music as a career, and bal­anc­ing life and work.