Oklahoma Rock Show
Fridays from 7-9 p.m.
Oklahoma Rock Show is a weekly two-hour show of Oklahoma music, from across the state. The show opens a window of Oklahoma music to the rest of the world.
Artists heard on the show: Bartees Strange, Samantha Crain, John Moreland, Husbands, Broncho, Jason Scott, Kaitlin Butts, Jabee & more
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Jason Scott and the High Heat are an Oklahoma band fronted by singer-songwriter Jason Scott. He grew up Pentecostal and was once a youth and worship pastor. Now as a musician, he is writing songs while his bandmates joke about him once never having heard songs like 'Stairway to Heaven'. -
Louisiana isn't known for earthquakes. But during Brooks' Saturday night concert at LSU's Tiger Stadium, over a 100,000 fans danced and sang so hard, a seismograph on campus registered a small quake.
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Norman Music Festival is returning this week after two years of a pandemic-spurred hiatus. Hear the festival's executive director talk about planning what she calls the 'best annual party in the state' in about 90 days.
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We received entries from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, from Maine and California and every state in between.
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Early rock recording executive Art Rupe has died at 104. He founded Specialty Records, which launched the careers of Little Richard and Sam Cooke, and helped make R&B popular with white audiences.
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Albums from Oklahoma country singer Kaitlin Butts and thematically ambitious cross-genre polymath Samora Pinderhughes are just a couple featured on this week's New Music Friday from NPR Music.
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The album, ᎠᏅᏛᏁᎵᏍᎩ (Anvdvnelisgi), is sung entirely in the Cherokee language and features metal, hip hop and folk artists. Its creators want to get more people speaking the language while jamming out.
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This is our tribute to Jimmy Karstein, a drummer who toured and recorded with JJ Cale, Gary Lewis and the Playboys and the Red Dirt Rangers. He died in Tulsa on March 27 at the age of 78.
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The episode features reports on the history of school choice, a study looking into the long term effects of COVID-19 and the escalation in anti-Asian language, violence, and hate crimes in the country.
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Sun Deep has only been making music for three years. But he has already produced songs for numerous hip hop artists in Oklahoma and is also part of the bilingual hip hop duo Finite Galaxy.
