The Oklahoman's George Lang
Video of the Day: Animal Collective, “Today’s Supernatural”
August 31, 2012
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Music Review: Jessie Ware, “Devotion” (Universal Island)
August 31, 2012
Rating: 85
Jessie Ware does not have a default setting for her uncommonly expressive, soulful voice, but the British singer’s full-length debut, “Devotion,” occupies a rarified sonic space. “Devotion” embodies the same sense of lush, seductive atmosphere that made Roxy Music’s “Avalon” and Bryan... Read More
August 31, 2012
Rating: 85
Jessie Ware does not have a default setting for her uncommonly expressive, soulful voice, but the British singer’s full-length debut, “Devotion,” occupies a rarified sonic space. “Devotion” embodies the same sense of lush, seductive atmosphere that made Roxy Music’s “Avalon” and Bryan... Read More
Video of the Day: Chairlift, “I Belong In Your Arms” (Japanese Version)
August 30, 2012
Singing your own lyrics in phonetic Japanese is not easy, but some of the best have done it, including the Flaming Lips for their Nihongo version of “Yoshimi.” Here, Caroline Polachek delivers a beautiful reading of “I Belong In Your Arms” to celebrate the release of “Something” in Japan.
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August 30, 2012
Singing your own lyrics in phonetic Japanese is not easy, but some of the best have done it, including the Flaming Lips for their Nihongo version of “Yoshimi.” Here, Caroline Polachek delivers a beautiful reading of “I Belong In Your Arms” to celebrate the release of “Something” in Japan.
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Music Review: Blur, “Parklive” (EMI/Parlophone)
August 29, 2012
Rating: 93
Blur is either shoring up its legacy to strengthen the band’s next chapter or capping it off for posterity — Damon Albarn’s assessment of the reunited group’s life expectancy seems to change daily. Whether Blur has no distance left to run or has hope for tomorrow, the raucously remarkable... Read More
August 29, 2012
Rating: 93
Blur is either shoring up its legacy to strengthen the band’s next chapter or capping it off for posterity — Damon Albarn’s assessment of the reunited group’s life expectancy seems to change daily. Whether Blur has no distance left to run or has hope for tomorrow, the raucously remarkable... Read More
Video of the Day: Bob Mould, “The Descent”
August 29, 2012
The man who blew out my ears in the 1980s returns with his best song since the Sugar days and, hell, maybe his best since Husker Du’s breakup. The video not only responds to current economic woes and downsizing, but displays some pretty great acting skills from Mould.
“Silver Age” comes out Sept. 4 on... Read More
August 29, 2012
The man who blew out my ears in the 1980s returns with his best song since the Sugar days and, hell, maybe his best since Husker Du’s breakup. The video not only responds to current economic woes and downsizing, but displays some pretty great acting skills from Mould.
“Silver Age” comes out Sept. 4 on... Read More
Posthuman-Palooza with Ali Harter, Modern Rock Diaries and others on Sept. 1 benefitting ‘Static’ producer Kyle Roberts’ upcoming film
August 29, 2012
Posthuman-Palooza, an all-day music festival to raise funds for the locally produced superhero movie “Posthuman,” features music from artists including Ali Harter, Mont Lyons and Modern Rock Diaries beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday at Myriad Botanical Gardens 301 W Reno.
Directed by Kyle Roberts “Posthuman”... Read More
August 29, 2012
Posthuman-Palooza, an all-day music festival to raise funds for the locally produced superhero movie “Posthuman,” features music from artists including Ali Harter, Mont Lyons and Modern Rock Diaries beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday at Myriad Botanical Gardens 301 W Reno.
Directed by Kyle Roberts “Posthuman”... Read More
Video of the Day: Heavenly Beat, “Tradition”
August 28, 2012
Classic mid-1980s electro-pop sound — think pre-Walter Becker China Crisis — is the aesthetic touchstone for John Pena’s Heavenly Beat. This is not, by the way, the song from “Fiddler on the Roof.
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August 28, 2012
Classic mid-1980s electro-pop sound — think pre-Walter Becker China Crisis — is the aesthetic touchstone for John Pena’s Heavenly Beat. This is not, by the way, the song from “Fiddler on the Roof.
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Music Review: Elle Varner, “Perfectly Imperfect” (RCA)
August 28, 2012
Rating: 84
Elle Varner’s mother sang backup for Barry White and her father was a session musician and producer in the 1980s, so it computes that a pleasing throwback aesthetic would form the foundation of Varner’s debut album, “Perfectly Imperfect.” Varner’s sweet and seductive vocal style is steeped in... Read More
August 28, 2012
Rating: 84
Elle Varner’s mother sang backup for Barry White and her father was a session musician and producer in the 1980s, so it computes that a pleasing throwback aesthetic would form the foundation of Varner’s debut album, “Perfectly Imperfect.” Varner’s sweet and seductive vocal style is steeped in... Read More
Video of the Day: Sleigh Bells, “End of the Line”
August 27, 2012
“Reign of Terror” has not been the ever-present car soundtrack that “Treats” was, but “End of the Line” is a first-rate showcase for Alexis Krauss’s breathy, multi-layered vocals.
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August 27, 2012
“Reign of Terror” has not been the ever-present car soundtrack that “Treats” was, but “End of the Line” is a first-rate showcase for Alexis Krauss’s breathy, multi-layered vocals.
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Music Review: Blur, “Blur 21″ (EMI/Parlophone)
August 27, 2012
Rating: 95
While America got bummed out, swaddled itself in flannel and turned its gaze northwesterly, Britain’s Blur was having none of that. Singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree doubled-down on their Englishness in the early 1990s and spent the next decade... Read More
Concert Review: Girl Talk, Aug. 2 at the Diamond Ballroom
August 06, 2012
Girl Talk review — Diamond Ballroom Aug. 2, 2012
I talked on the phone with Girl Talk, AKA Gregg Gillis before his December 2011 date with Opolis, and he used an interesting phrase that, only up on a recent re-read, got me thinking. It was “world of the mix.”
I’d always taken this as an innocuous way of... Read More
August 06, 2012
Girl Talk review — Diamond Ballroom Aug. 2, 2012
I talked on the phone with Girl Talk, AKA Gregg Gillis before his December 2011 date with Opolis, and he used an interesting phrase that, only up on a recent re-read, got me thinking. It was “world of the mix.”
I’d always taken this as an innocuous way of... Read More
Video of the Day: Ben Kweller, “Jealous Girl”
July 27, 2012
Ben Kweller’s “Go Fly a Kite” saw the Texas guitar marvel return to the pop-rock he does best, and the video for standout track “Jealous Girl” offers a dark counterpoint to the track’s beautiful, Big Star-like shimmer.
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July 27, 2012
Ben Kweller’s “Go Fly a Kite” saw the Texas guitar marvel return to the pop-rock he does best, and the video for standout track “Jealous Girl” offers a dark counterpoint to the track’s beautiful, Big Star-like shimmer.
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Video of the Day: Heartless Bastards, “Only For You”
July 26, 2012
Bradley Beesley, director of all your favorite Flaming Lips videos, “Okie Noodling” and “Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo,” directed this fantastic new HB video. Kids today grow up so fast.
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July 26, 2012
Bradley Beesley, director of all your favorite Flaming Lips videos, “Okie Noodling” and “Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo,” directed this fantastic new HB video. Kids today grow up so fast.
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Video of the Day: Bat for Lashes, “Laura”
July 24, 2012
Natasha Khan’s new album, “The Haunted Man,” is due Oct. 15, so it’s going to be a long two and half months, but this first video from the album will make the wait more tolerable. “Laura” premiered on Radio 1 yesterday, breaking the relatively long silence since 2009′s “Two Suns.
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July 24, 2012
Natasha Khan’s new album, “The Haunted Man,” is due Oct. 15, so it’s going to be a long two and half months, but this first video from the album will make the wait more tolerable. “Laura” premiered on Radio 1 yesterday, breaking the relatively long silence since 2009′s “Two Suns.
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Music Review: Frank Ocean, “Channel Orange”
July 19, 2012
Rating: 92
Last month, when Frank Ocean posted a December 2011 letter in which he intelligently and poetically discussed his bisexuality, the revelation touched off the expected dialogue on homophobia in the R&B and hip-hop communities and how such an announcement from a respected singer-songwriter could... Read More
July 19, 2012
Rating: 92
Last month, when Frank Ocean posted a December 2011 letter in which he intelligently and poetically discussed his bisexuality, the revelation touched off the expected dialogue on homophobia in the R&B and hip-hop communities and how such an announcement from a respected singer-songwriter could... Read More
Movie Review: “The Dark Knight Rises”
July 18, 2012
With “The Dark Knight Rises,” the final film in director Christopher Nolan’s meditative and brutal “Batman” trilogy, Nolan orchestrates an artistically brave, uncompromised conclusion. It does not top 2008′s “The Dark Knight,” but it sustains that film’s excellence, building tension throughout and... Read More
July 18, 2012
With “The Dark Knight Rises,” the final film in director Christopher Nolan’s meditative and brutal “Batman” trilogy, Nolan orchestrates an artistically brave, uncompromised conclusion. It does not top 2008′s “The Dark Knight,” but it sustains that film’s excellence, building tension throughout and... Read More
Afghan Whigs Cover Frank Ocean’s “Lovecrimes”
July 16, 2012
Greg Dulli and the reunited Afghan Whigs have been covering this standout from the 2011 mixtape “Nostalgia, Ultra” practically since it came out, but they just released their studio version of it, and in classic Afghan Whigs style, Dulli makes everything about the song much creepier. This is to be expected,... Read More
July 16, 2012
Greg Dulli and the reunited Afghan Whigs have been covering this standout from the 2011 mixtape “Nostalgia, Ultra” practically since it came out, but they just released their studio version of it, and in classic Afghan Whigs style, Dulli makes everything about the song much creepier. This is to be expected,... Read More
Beach House/Wild Nothing at Cain’s Ballroom — Monday July 9, 2012
July 10, 2012
Of all the shows I’ve attended at Cain’s Ballroom I can’t recall an opening act as well received as Blacksburg, Virginia’s Wild Nothing. It certainly helped that their wistful, chiming white-boy melodies and pedestrian tempos are cut from the same gauze as headlining Sub Pop act Beach House, but their... Read More
July 10, 2012
Of all the shows I’ve attended at Cain’s Ballroom I can’t recall an opening act as well received as Blacksburg, Virginia’s Wild Nothing. It certainly helped that their wistful, chiming white-boy melodies and pedestrian tempos are cut from the same gauze as headlining Sub Pop act Beach House, but their... Read More
Video of the Day: Frank Ocean Plays “Bad Religion” on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon”
July 10, 2012
Ocean’s new album, “Channel Orange,” releases in physical form next week, but went to digital platforms such as iTunes today. Ocean, the lead singer of Odd Future, performs the song with The Roots and a a full string section.
UPDATE: After listening to “Channel Orange” today, I’m convinced it’s... Read More
July 10, 2012
Ocean’s new album, “Channel Orange,” releases in physical form next week, but went to digital platforms such as iTunes today. Ocean, the lead singer of Odd Future, performs the song with The Roots and a a full string section.
UPDATE: After listening to “Channel Orange” today, I’m convinced it’s... Read More
Video of the Day: Father John Misty Covers The Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize??” for AV Undercover
July 05, 2012
J. Tillman, the former Fleet Foxes member who now records under the name Father John Misty and released his debut, “Fear Fun,” this spring, tackles the official Oklahoma Rock Song. It’s one of the most faithful of the AV Undercover entries this year, by far, but very nice indeed.
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July 05, 2012
J. Tillman, the former Fleet Foxes member who now records under the name Father John Misty and released his debut, “Fear Fun,” this spring, tackles the official Oklahoma Rock Song. It’s one of the most faithful of the AV Undercover entries this year, by far, but very nice indeed.
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Staticblog" is a repository for the musings and harangues of Assistant Entertainment Editor George Lang, featuring indie music videos, movie news.
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