Jacob Abello

It’s almost here! The fifth annual Record Store Day is Saturday.

Celebrated every third Saturday in April, Record Store Day is the one day of the year that independently owned record stores come together with recording artists to celebrate the art of music. Instead of sleeping in on Saturday, get out and support your local indie music retailer.

As part of the festivities, Guestroom Records is hosting performances by Oklahoma musicians in all three of its metro OKC locations Saturday afternoon. (They won’t make you get up too …

Woody Guthrie (AP file)

Today’s featured event:

TULSA – Hear Arlo Guthrie, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Del McCoury Band with Tim O’Brien, Rosanne Cash, The Flaming Lips, Hanson, Jimmy LaFave and Old Crow Medicine Show at “This Land Is Your Land: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert” at 7:30 tonight at the Brady Theater, 105 W Brady Street.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The show is open to all ages.

To read my new interview with Jimmy LaFave, click here.

For more information, go to www.bradytheater.com.

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As you might expect, Oklahoma City psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have some special plans for their part of Saturday’s big “This Land Is Your Land: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert” at the Brady Theater in Tulsa.

This YouTube video posted today shows the Lips rehearsing for Saturday’s show, where they plan to perform Guthrie’s “Vigilante Man” on iPads. Back in October, they covered The Beatles’ “Revolution” on Apple tablets. The video shows at least one of the tablets emblazoned with the slogan “This iPad kills fascists,” a nod …

Jimmy LaFave

From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. To read my recent story about tonight’s Red Dirt Hootenanny in Woody Guthrie’s honor, click here.

Jimmy LaFave keeps ‘Walking Woody’s Road’
The red-dirt singer-songwriter is part of the impressive lineup for Saturday’s “This Land Is Your Land: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert,” a Tulsa tribute concert also featuring Arlo Guthrie, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Del McCoury Band with Tim O’Brien, Rosanne Cash, The Flaming Lips, Hanson and Old Crow Medicine Show.

For years, Jimmy LaFave has been championing …

Jackson Browne (AP file)

Tulsa Concerts & Shows on wimgo

The Los Angeles-based Grammy Museum, in conjunction with Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. and the Woody Guthrie Archives, has announced the addition of Jackson Browne as a special guest to the “This Land Is Your Land – The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert” lineup in Tulsa.

Taking place at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 10 at The Brady Theater, the concert serves as the pinnacle of the Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration in Tulsa, and it is the first installment of the series.…

Woody Guthrie

The LA-based Grammy Museum, in conjunction with Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. and the Woody Guthrie Archives, announced today details about their plans to commemorate the life and career of Oklahoma folk music legend Woody Guthrie in Tulsa.

Designed to celebrate Guthrie’s extraordinary body of work and impact on American music, Tulsa’s Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration will take place March 5-11 and will include an exhibition, educational programming, a conference at The University of Tulsa and a tribute concert headlined by John Mellencamp and Guthrie’s son Arlo Guthrie.

Arlo

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On Wednesday, I shared video highlights of Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips’ New Year’s Eve Freakout #5, which was last weekend at the Coca Cola Bricktown Events Center. The two-night extravaganza – which included NYE and New Year’s Day shows – featured Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band.

Highlights of the show included covers of The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields” and “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” the famed holiday anthem Ono wrote and recorded with her late husband, John Lennon. Some fans who attended the show …

Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips performed their fifth annual New Year’s Eve Freakout last weekend at the Coca Cola Bricktown Events Center. The two-night extravaganza – which included NYE and New Year’s Day shows – featured Yoko Ono, Sean …

Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips performed their fifth annual New Year’s Eve Freakout last weekend at the Coca Cola Bricktown Events Center. The two-night extravaganza – which included NYE and New Year’s Day shows – featured Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band.

Highlights of the show included covers of The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields” and “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” the famed holiday anthem Ono wrote and recorded with her late husband, John Lennon. Some fans who attended the show have kindly posted videos from the …

Oklahoma City Concerts & Shows on wimgo

Since it’s the last day of 2011, this is the final installment of my “13 Days of Oklahoma Music,” a video series looking back at musical milestones reached by recording artists with state ties in the year almost past.

More than ever, Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips engaged in wild musical, visual and merchandising experimentation in 2011.

They’ve recorded six- and 24-hour-long songs, music on hard drives and USB drives encased in gummy fetuses, $5,000 real human skulls and strobe light …