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The holdouts on streaming audio are falling away rapidly. Just two weeks ago, Metallica uploaded its catalog onto Spotify, and now the entire Frank Zappa discography, which was re-released on Universal this fall, is on both Rdio and Spotify. From “Freak Out” through “The Yellow...

Steve Jones directed the visuals for Oklahoma City rapper Jabee’s latest. Kudos to all, and Mr. Williams gets a particular nod for superb outerwear — we should all adopt the fuzzy reptile look this season. – Lang Jabee "Stephanie" (Super Ugly) ft. Carlitta Durand from Steve Jones on...

This year’s “Static Christmas,” recorded on Dec. 1 at Kamps and debuting today, builds on what has become a great holiday tradition for the series: bringing local artists together to pool their talents and create new Christmas memories rooted in Oklahoma City’s music scene. In the last...

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At last night’s 12/12/12 benefit for victims of Hurricane Sandy, Paul McCartney brought Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear on stage for a new song titled “Cut Me Some Slack.” It was the centerpiece of a set dominated by Macca’s more hard-edged Beatles, Wings and solo material such...

Guillermo Del Toro is “canceling the apocalypse,” as Idris Elba announces in this impressive first look at “Pacific Rim,” an alien apocalypse movie to end all alien apocalypse movies — well, not end them exactly, since we’ve got “Oblivion” with which to content. Del Toro never...

“Don’t Deny Your Heart” features Alexis Taylor at his absolute poppiest, the point where Taylor and Hot Chip start to sound like Paul McCartney fronting “Brotherhood”-era New Order, and the video, in which the Chippies engage in Xbox futbol and get sucked into another level of play...

Finding that sweet spot between zombies and adoring music fans, bidding went live today for Why Hunger’s annual Hungerthon drive, with a goal of raising $850,000 through online bidding. Initial items include: Carrie Underwood signed guitar and CD Mumford & Sons signed guitar Jason...

Eventually, you will be sorry for party rocking.

Nik Harper and Jesse Lamar High shot this superb video around Oklahoma City, crafting each word by hand using cardboard, hot glue guns and paint pens. This is a must-see. – Lang VIDEO: Lushlife, “Magnolia.

Elizabeth Harper of Class Actress wobbles through a 1980s-vintage luxury hotel in a video fueled by callbacks to mid-1980s thrillers — not of the Adrian Lyne tier, but the ones that aspired to Adrian Lyne-ness and wound up on low shelves at Blockbuster and late nights on premium cable.

Stansberry brings a lot of Oklahoma City into focus in this energetic new video for the title track from his superb classic soul-influenced 2012 album, “Brighten It Up.

Teen favorite Harvey Keitel performs his ubiquitous Summer 2012 pop sensation with “Mean Streets” star Carly Rae Jepsen. From Comedy Central’s “Night of Too Many Stars.

Stars moved up to the major-indie ATO for “The North,” which was released this summer and is one of the best efforts by this Canadian band led by Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell since their early 00s halcyon days. The video itself calls to mind a late-1980s visual aesthetic, the kind of...

This is the best Tumblr I’ve seen in weeks, thanks to Matt Price at Nerdage for the heads-up. I think subconsciously I always thought there was a level at which both Kanye West and Wes Anderson could be appreciated simultaneously, but the operator of this Tumblr boiled it down. Nice work —...

Fans of “Community,” the long-suffering kind, learned a few weeks ago that, in fact, their favorite sit-com would not be debuting in its scheduled, totally prime Friday Oct. 19 start-up date. Now, “Troy and Abed in the Morning” make a statement on when “October 19″ might be. It turns...

This weekend, Coldplay debuts its “Mylo Xyloto” comic at New York Comic-Con, and this latest clip from the year-old album features illustrations and motifs from the book.

Beyonce’s indie-minded, Of Montreal-collaborating, Dirty Projectors-covering little sister puts forward her best single so far. Chord progression recalls New Order’s more wistful moments (“Thieves Like Us,” “The Perfect Kiss”) and is accompanied by a cool and stylish video shot in...

Morrissey, our contentious and prickly leader, has been covering this 1967 Frankie Valli chestnut for some time, a Mancunian finding his inner Jersey Boy. This performance took me back to Mozza’s unforgettable show at the Coca-Cola Bricktown Events Center, and it restates why SPM is one of the...