I chatted with Riley Downing of The Deslondes about how the band crossed paths in Oklahoma before forming.
Q&A here.
Archive for Long Read – Page 4
Photo by Sarah Phipps
I visited another movie set this year, and “The Scent of Rain and Lightning” was probably the most high-profile visit yet.
Check out my story here.
I enjoyed this heartbreaking feature on the singer-songwriter.
It includes cameos from the Flaming Lips, David Lynch and Steve Albini.
Illustration by Todd Pendleton
“Being waist-deep is an ominous half-commitment…”
Check out Becky Carman’s excellent story here. It’ll hit the cover of LOOKatOKC real soon.
“When Jim Inhofe threw a snowball onto the Senate chamber floor to dispel global warming, a wiseguy was there to catch it and throw it right back.”
Here’s my farewell to one of the funniest dudes on TV I’ve ever seen.
“With tragedies and celebrations of race, class and religion happening with alarming frequency around the world, the complex mirror of music fandom reflects as meaningfully as ever, with listeners searching for their own directives in the art of other people, and with those artists often becoming unwitting spokespeople for their beliefs”
Read Becky Carman’s new story on Samantha Crain here.
“Two minutes before joining the Rolling Stones onstage, and Grace Potter’s clothes are falling off.”
Read my feature here.
On the Diamond Ballroom: “Holy shit. Holy SHIT. No one had let us know that this would be a wide-open rock n’ roll bar from way back, the size of an airplane hangar, one of its walls covered with signed portraits of Nashville greats, country stars, Willie Nelson, even ICP. Some of the pages were older than we are, the ink of the signature almost gone, its author long dead and buried.”
“Think about the two most serious relationships in your life so far, and then experiencing them simultaneously,” he tells me. “It makes you wonder: How much can a human being deal with emotionally? How well-adjusted are you?”
Read this feature about Unknown Mortal Orchestra here.
Photo by Travis Tindell
Question: Why did Lorna Dixon travel more than 4,000 miles to see JD McPherson?
I caught up with Ra Ra Riot via bassist Mathieu Santos before NMF8. We talked Bjork, lineup changes and learning how to have fun again.
Story here.
A big chuck of the biggest little album of 2015 was recorded in a studio tucked behind Main Street in downtown Norman. Here’s how Blackwatch Studios worked alongside Sufjan Stevens on what’s being called the folk artist’s masterpiece.
“John Moreland isn’t a traditional front man and doesn’t seem terribly interested in putting on a show. Instead, he’s a heartbreaker of a different color, possessed of the gift of articulation — whittling the weight of despair, lost love or homesickness into a few choice words.”
Read Becky Carman’s great story here.
I spent three days figuring out how Cheap Rent turns a house into a home business.
Story and photos here.
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