ORGANIZATION | Starlight Mints

Do you patronize? Finally, a true radio alternative back in OKC November 25, 2009 A spastic Swedish screamer-singer once asked/yelled: “On what frequency will liberation be?” Those of us in Oklahoma City who give a lick about good music wondered the same while the city’s radio landscape plunged into lifeless, preprogrammed oblivion. But we wonder no longer. Liberation is here — The Spy,... Read More

Starlight Mints April 15, 2009 Allan Vest likes doing things his own way. So do his bandmates. Maybe that’s why the music of Norman-based Starlight Mints sounds like pop from another planet — earthly radio signals intercepted by an otherworldly intelligence then deconstructed, artfully reconstructed and beamed back down to us in a new sonic... Read More

The A-List: Event Calendar February 18, 2009 GARY ALLEN at Riverwind Casino, Norman 8 p.m. Feb. 20 Country crooner Gary Allen brings his good looks and good songs ("Man to Man" and "Smoke Rings in the Dark" to name a couple) to Riverwind this month. THE CARDINALS at Brady Theater, Tulsa 8:30 p.m. Feb. 28 We don’t often advocate... Read More

Local album chart June 09, 2006 Guestroom Records 125 E Main, Norman Week of May 26-June 2 1.Gnarls Barkley "St. Elsewhere" (Downtown) 2.The Starlight Mints "Drowaton" (Barsuk) 3.Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins "Rabbit Fur Coat" (Team Love) 4.Beirut "Gulag Orkestar" (Ba Da Bing!) 5.Islands "Return to the Sea" (Equator)... Read More

Band Q&A: Asleep, Audience ... Dream! June 02, 2006 Why: Asleep, Audience ... Dream! is a prime example of the psychedelic debauchery that occurs when six talented multi-instrumentalists get together and make mind-bending melodies and poetry. If psychedelic art rock in the extraterrestrial realm of the Starlight Mints, The Hex and The Flaming Lips gets you off the... Read More

Band Q&A: Little League Hero June 01, 2006 Why:Little League Hero is a treasure in our own backyard. Riding the roller coaster of successes and disappointments since its 1997 birth in Stillwater, this four-piece melodic rock group has gone through a move to Oklahoma City, lineup changes and multiple equipment thefts. Any of these things might be enough for... Read More

Good music within driving range this weekend May 26, 2006 Conventional wisdom dictates that Memorial Day is the first weekend for summer fun, but conventional wisdom is for suckers. Some of my most vivid childhood memories of Memorial Day weekends center around gale-force winds, tornado watches, hail the size of salamis and sudden cold snaps that threaten to make the... Read More

Tropiary: June 2004 June 30, 2004 Note: Some of the links referred to may no longer function. Sorry. Monday, June 28, 2004 I call the big red one "Sting-y" | Link So yesterday I'm out clipping these two monstrous, ugly, misshapen hedges in the front yard. Read More

A sad salvation June 28, 2004 Monday, June 28, 2004 A sad salvation | Link What do Starlight Mints and stellastarr have in common? They're both great bands. They make Sebadoh sound like Aldo Nova. Read More