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That green guy can shred. Probably the most fun that’s been had with VHS tape, papier mache and spray paint in a long, long time.

If you cannot have fun with “Superball,” you simply cannot have fun. You’re against fun. I think you’re a contra-fun. “Memphis” came out Tuesday. Buy it now and it will be your soundtrack to what’s left of summer.

Singer-songwriter Alex Schaaf was running low on ideas, so he wrote and recorded an EP based on Morgan Freeman’s Wikipedia page. Because that’s what you do. – Lang Yellow Ostrich - Morgan Freeman's Early Life from Panaframe on Vimeo.

“The Walking Dead” premieres on AMC on Halloween night, and this extended trailer indicates that the channel that plays host to “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad” and “Rubicon” is on a roll. The spook factor in this adaptation of the popular graphic novel is accentuated considerably by...

Andrew and Ben go on a tragic hike through the Tatooine desert and their cute-bizarre little dromedary friend literally falls apart. Drugs.

Ra Ra Riot Tags: Ra Ra Riot, MTV Music The Ra Ra Rioters are inundated with cats, tap dancers and illuminated balloons in this first video from “The Orchard.

The title for our latest “Mad Men” episode comes from a sociological screed about Japanese culture written by Ruth Benedict at the behest of the U.S. Government and published in 1946 at the dawn of the United States’ occupation of Japan. Considering that the bulk was written during the...

Norman recording destination Blackwatch Studios invited local acts The Boom Bang and The Pretty Black Chains to play alongside Texas band The Burning Hotels. It’s definitely not the usual concert experience at The Deli, which is known for its local blues and country acts. Regradless, it’s...

Michael Been, the founder and lead singer of The Call, died of a heart attack yesterday in Hasselt, Belgium, where he had been providing technical assistance for his son Robert Levon Been’s band, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. He was 60. The Call was the most amazing band to emerge from Tulsa...

British electro producer Joe Flory leads a line of Magrittes through a Thunderdome desert in this first video from Primary 1′s debut on Atlantic. As a side note, Atlantic is also releasing Chromeo’s new disc next month. It seems that Ahmet Ertegun’s classic label is getting a kind of...

Rating: 65 An exponent of Los Angeles’ neo-folk scene, Elisabeth “Lissie” Maurus’ full-length debut, “Catching a Tiger,” follows the still-unfolding trend (see Ra Ra Riot’s “The Orchard”) of the underground wrapping its arms around classic Fleetwood Mac. Recorded in Nashville,...

Piranha 3D: For Your Consideration from Piranha 3D

A noticeably stripped-down !!! turns in its first single in three years, from next week’s “Strange Weather, Isn’t It?” on Warp.

Today’s my wife’s birthday (Happy Birthday, Laura!) and I certainly married above my station. But this clip featuring Kristen Bell represents the far frontier of that kind of relationship. Ah, true love.

Since the beginning of this season, most viewers have been pleased with the focus on the psychology of our anti-hero, the question of “Who is Don Draper?,” but a vocal portion of the fan base has complained that simply not enough attention is being paid to the business of advertising, and...

I ganged up with the Oklahoma City kiddie band rockers Sugar Free Allstars shortly after FreeTulsa! to film a couple song off its latest release “Funky Fresh and Sugar Free.” Chris Wiser and Rob Martin invited several of their youngest fans to help out. The duo received attention from...

Three episodes into Season Four of “Mad Men,” and all three belong in the series’ pantheon, but “The Good News” is easily the high water mark for the season to-date, mainly because the spiral that became so evident in “Christmas Comes But Once a Year” is accelerating but, for most...

No, it’s not puppet week at StaticBlog, but after that Clinic video, it’s hard not to see the trend. From the New Pornographers vocalist’s “Are You My Mother?,” arriving tomorrow.

The absolute highlight of FreeTulsa! was Oklahoma native rapper Johnny Polygon. He’s been playing throughout the country lately and had a video sitting near the top of the MTV2 music video charts. He can also play guitar and kazoo at the same time. Keep your eye on...

Kelly Kerr, Jeremy Charles and several stellar Oklahomans teamed up for a musical campaign for the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice in hopes to discourage hate, racism and general nastiness that shouldn’t exist. The duo have created some pretty stunning imagery with the talent of...