New releases for Sept. 11, 2012: St. Vincent & David Byrne and The Time Jumpers release albums

Grand Opening Benefit Concert Featuring Vince Gill Oklahoma City, OK

Oklahoma natives St. Vincent and Vince Gill are team players in two new albums released today.

Singer/songwriter/guitarist St. Vincent, who hails from Tulsa, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Byrne, best known as the former frontman for the Talking Heads, released today their collaborative album, “Love This Giant.” NPR is offering fans a chance to listen to the album; to hear “Love This Giant,” click here.

The album was recorded over two years largely at Water Music in Hoboken, N.J. and is billed as a true collaboration, with …

Video: St. Vincent performs, talks with The National at the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival prior to tonight’s hometown Tulsa show

Tulsa-born singer/songwriter/guitarist St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, is featured today in Pitchfork.tv’s latest episode of its video series “+1.”

The episode was filmed earlier this month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music during the new Crossing Brooklyn Ferry festival, which was programmed by beloved local indie rockers The National. The video features an chat between St. Vincent The National’s Aaron and Bryce Dessner, plus snippets of her festival performance, including her explosive, crowd-surfing rendition of her latest single, “Krokodil,” which she released on Record …

What to do in Oklahoma on May 15, 2012: Hear St. Vincent at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa

Today’s featured event:

TULSA – Hear Tulsa-born singer/songwriter/guitarist St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N Main.

Doors open at 7 p.m. Shearwater will be the opening act.

In a recent interview with the Tulsa World’s Jennifer Chancellor, St. Vincent said the last time she was at Cain’s Ballroom was to see Tripping Daisy play. So, it’s been awhile since she visited the historic venue, but she said she still returns to her hometown during the summers.…

Best Bets for May 11-15, 2012: “Sense and Sensibility,” Song Swap, LIVE on the Plaza & St. Vincent

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From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

1. Watch Reduxion Theatre’s world premiere production of “Sense and Sensibility,” a modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic story, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at its Broadway Theater, 1613 N Broadway Ave. Information: www.reduxiontheatre.com.

2. NORMAN — Hear Oklahoma singer-songwriters Samantha Crain, Camille Harp, Parker Millsap and John Calvin take turns performing at a Song Swap at 9 p.m. Friday at The Opolis, 113 N Crawford. Information: www.starlightmints.com/opolis.html.

3. Dress in Oklahoma City …

Video: St. Vincent and tUnE-yArDs chat in Noisey.com’s first “Back & Forth”

Tulsa-born singer/songwriter/guitarist Annie Clark of St. Vincent and Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs are the first artists chosen to participate in Noisey.com’s new series “Back & Forth.” Here’s the notion:

We had a simple idea: get two rad musicians we love to sit down and just talk, like two humans. We’re calling the result “Back & Forth,” and our first episode features St. Vincent and tUnE-yArDs.

The result is a fun, casual and occasionally crazy chat.

St. Vincent will play a May 15 show in …

Video: St. Vincent crowd surfs and hoses down fans at Coachella, releases new music for Record Store Day

It’s been a busy couple of weekends for Tulsa-born singer/songwriter/guitarist St. Vincent.

During her April 14 set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., she thrilled fans by crowd-surfing through her performance of her new single “Krokodil” (pronounced “Crocodile”).

On Saturday, she released “Krokodil” and B-side “Grot” during the big Record Store Day festivities; hear both tracks posted above, along with fan video of her crowd-surfing performance.

Then, Saturday night she played again at Coachella, and she had a rather …

Video: Record Store Day 2012! Flaming Lips ready to release “Heady Fwends,” Guestroom Records to showcase local music

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Record Store Day Oklahoma City, OK

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 …

St. Vincent to play Bonnaroo

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Tulsa-born singer/songwriter/guitarist St. Vincent is among the high-profile music stars picked to play the prestigious Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.

The eclectic four-day festival will take place June 7-10 at a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn.

The reunited Beach Boys (Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks) Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, Bon Iver, Skrillex, Foster the People, The Avett Brothers, The Shins, The Roots, Alice Cooper, The Civil Wars, Feist, Ludacris, the reunited Ben Folds Five and …

Video: St. Vincent releases music video for “Cheerleader,” models police uniforms on “Portlandia”

Tulsa-born singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist St. Vincent is huge in the new music video for “Cheerleader,” one of the tracks from her 2011 album “Strange Mercy.”

As previously reported, St. Vincent (who was born Annie Clark) made a guest appearance on Friday’s episode of the IFC sketch series “Portlandia,” and you can check out that rather funny clip of her modeling a totally impractical police uniform here as well. Her appearance on the show reunited her with “Portlandia” masterminds Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, who starred in …

St. Vincent to play May 15 show at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa

Acclaimed singer/songwriter/guitarist St. Vincent is returning to the city of her birth to play a May 15 show at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 27. They are $19-$20 in advance or $21-$22 the day of the show, which is an all-ages event.

St. Vincent – born Annie Clark Sept. 28, 1982, in Tulsa – released in 2011 her third album, “Strange Mercy,” to widespread acclaim. The album was No. 10 on my all-Oklahomans list of top 10 albums of 2011.

The Tulsa …