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A look at what’s happening in the local music scene in April.
April 12 — Death Cab for Cutie, Cold War Kids and Ra Ra Riot Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Brady Theater, 105 W. Brady St., www.bradytheater.com
Dear God! The indie power, if harnessed, at this show could levitate Morrissey — nay, a bloated Morrissey.
I saw that 70 percent of the tickets sold within 3.2 seconds and not many more have sold since then. Asking around, I hear (in a Fran Drescher nasally whine), “It’s too expensive.”
Seriously? It’s $30. It’s three incredible bands.
Still too expensive?
ZLB Plasma Donation Services is a few miles away on 800 S. Cheyenne Ave. Sure, you may be a bit lightheaded, but the Brady’s great acoustics will make it OK.
Do whatever you have to do to see this show.
For tickets, call 866-443-8849 or visit www.GetTix.net.
Pop quiz! What do you get when you mix the band dynamic from the White Stripes plus the high drama of Queen (minus Freddie Mercury’s castrato) plus a dude with spandex, striped nylons and a top hat times 1/2 Ziggy Stardust?
Answer: April 17 — Lollipop Factory 10 p.m. Soundpony Lounge, 409 N. Main St., www.myspace.com/soundponylounge
Remember when Apple was the David to Microsoft’s Goliath?
Now they are both Goliaths. Apple has made it hard for the working men and women (but let’s be honest — it’s mostly dudes) of your local music emporium to sling discs and vinyl. For one day at least, try to avoid giving your 99 cents to Apple. National Record Store Day is April 18. Ride your bike over and say “Hi” to your favorite record store — before Apple makes those proprietary as well. Bart Ford at Under the Mooch (1423 S. Harvard Ave., www.underthemooch.com) may have a band or two.
Also on National Record Store Day, I Said Stop! has its CD release party for “Save the Dinosaurs” at 8 p.m. at The Marquee (222 N. Main St., www.myspace.com/themarqueetulsa), along with P.D.A. and Callupsie. I tried to play the CD while I was doing other things, hoping it would be easy to describe. It sounds like …
To the band’s credit, one has to shut up and listen to this disc to get it. It is not an esoteric Radiohead production, but the group forges a fun path into a sonic room of its own. There is an earnest, frantic sweetness to the music, along with sprinkles of bi-polar disorder.
From the first song’s message of love (“Born to be Great”) to the last song’s homage to Tulsa’s indie scene (“Save the Dinosaurs”), these guys can’t help but see the beauty of this life. The only problem they seem to have is with the contradictions of organized religion (“Jesus’ beard”).
I Said Stop!, true to its indie-cred, made this on its own and released it on Tulsa’s Hard Work Records.
Says I Said Stop!: “We live in Tulsa, where every synth’s an altar; we’ll play for you!”
April 29 — National Fiddler’s Hall of Fame Gala
7 p.m. VanTrease Performing Arts Center for Education, 10300 E. 81st St.
You’ll be a grinnin’ when they start a fiddlin’. (But something doesn’t sound right: “Fiddling” and “gala”? “Barbecue,” sure, but “gala”?) Inductees include Johnnie Lee Wills, Layna Hafer, Vasser Clements and two-time Grammy Award winner Mark O’Connor, who is scheduled to perform with Shelby Eicher, Rick Morton, Jana Jae and Eric Dysart, whose other gig is …
April 9 — Rockin’ Acoustic Circus Ida Red, 3346 S. Peoria Ave. Ida Red, aka the Cain’s on Brookside, plans to record RAC that night for promotion of Oklahoma music and plans to put the performance on iTunes.
Just don’t buy it on National Record Store Day, huh?
