Returning to the scene of their very first show, former Okies Skating Polly played to a sold-out house at OPOLIS on Saturday. The show was the first stop in a 15-city tour promoting the release of their fifth full-length album The Make It All Show. Vice Magazine calls it “rip-roaring,” […]
Tea with Tyson Meade (Interview & Gallery)
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 […]
Walter
Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, my friend Mark Campbell lost custody of his therapy dog, a cairn terrier named Okra. He later adopted a new therapy dog, Walter, a rescue Pekingese. Walter sat for me last year after Mark asked me to take his portrait. I had […]
Wanette, Oklahoma
This past Independence Day, my best friend and photographic conspirator Joe Crumley and I drove to see the abandoned Gandini Circus camp in Edmond. It was a great dissapointment — most of the structures are gone, and overgrown greenery obscured the rest, making it unsuitable to photograph. We decided to go south to a ghost… Read More …
Tuttle, Cordell, Mountain View, & Anadarko
On the same weekend that Joe and I travelled to Roosevelt, we stopped to photograph several other small towns. Our first stop was Tuttle, where I saw this granary next to the railroad tracks. I also took a shot of it with a Leica IIIf, but forgot to pull out the collapsible lens, so it’s… Read More …
Who Is Evan Jarvicks? An Interview & Gallery
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 […]
Benefit Concert for Sprint4Sarcoma 5K & 1M Fun Run
The Benefit Friends and family of 25 year-old Norman resident Dayna Cannon gathered at the Deli on Thursday for a benefit concert featuring the Tequila Songbirds. The event raised over 300 dollars to fund the Sprint4Sarcoma 5K & 1M Fun Run, to be held next Saturday at Stars and Stripes Park in Oklahoma City. The… Read More …
The Wurly Birds Present: A David Bowie Tribute
The Show Unless you’ve been trapped at the bottom of a well for the past 2 weeks, you know the great David Bowie is dead. Musicians all over the country, including Bruce Springsteen (whom Bowie twice covered), have paid tribute to him in the intervening days. So it’s fitting that Oklahoma City’s own Wurly Birds,… Read More …
The King of Queen
Featuring the music of the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Friday and Saturday’s performances of The King of Queen played to sold out houses at Oklahoma City’s The Boom.
J. J. Cale Tribute at the Power House Bar
Continuing on the heels of his successful Roger Miller, John Prine, and Smiths tribute shows, last month musician Jerrod Beck presented another great show with the help of many talented local musicians […]