Music
As A Dream Gets Reimagined, The Dreamland Festival Levels Up
The festival felt like a Summer Jam or a SXSW, with panel discussions and multi-venue community activations that celebrated hip-hop through art, music and film.
The Filth and the Fury
A firsthand account of the night in 1978 when the Sex Pistols came to town.
Descend Into The Sonic Abyss That Happens To Be In The Heart Of Midtown Tulsa
This is, quite literally, underground music. Spatially engaged composition at its finest from local string weirdos Snobug.
Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck
What do you call a gay cowboy? Until recently, your uncle might have said “a jolly rancher,” but the collective pop culture mind now turns immediately to THE gay cowboy: Orville Peck.
The Perks Of Being The Wallflowers
I don’t think “ordinary” is pejorative. Without at least some artists finding contentment as part of a greater tradition, what would happen to jazz or ballet or opera?
And the Charlotte Bumgarner Quiet Audience Award Goes to…
Where "broken love songs to feed your misery" feel nice, actually.
Working the Early Shift
A profoundly weird and enjoyable happy hour pedal steel residency
Willi Carlisle Hits A Little Too Close To Home
Think Pete Seeger if he grew up listening to punk in the internet age.
