When I first came across Audra Mae a couple of years ago, the first thing that impressed was the voice — powerful and expansive as the plains in her native Oklahoma. Then, of course, there was the fact she could use "jeepers" in a song and get away with it . Her backstory — the great-great-niece of Judy Garland, she arrived in L.A. in 2004 with 20 bucks in her pocket — continues to grow: After gaining notoriety for her cover of "Forever Young" on TV's "Sons of Anarchy;" she contributed a song to Susan Boyle's 2009 album, released [...]
On Tuesday, Audra Mae released her latest EP, debuting her new band The Almighty Sound! You can pick it up on iTunes for $4.95! Since the release of Audra Mae's acclaimed debut album, The Happiest Lamb, on SideOneDummy Records in May of 2010, the Oklahoma-born singer/songwriter has undergone an exciting transformation. The most obvious change [...]
Since the release of Audra Mae's acclaimed debut album, The Happiest Lamb, on SideOneDummy Records in May of 2010, the Oklahoma-born singer/songwriter has undergone an exciting transformation. The most obvious change is the presence of her brand new band, aptly named The Almighty Sound. The Almighty Sound is a group of Audra's close and talented [...]
The Blogophilia repost project continues... We've been busy with a lot of good submissions, and that's a good thing. It's time to take a breather. Today, we move forward with our goal of re-posting past volumes of Blogophilia due to demand. Remember, we're doing this all the way to volume 22, and then phhffttt! We're stopping there. Volumes 23-28 are currently active (zip format only for volumes 23-27), and we're making re-posted volumes available for about a week. Get 'em while you can. Blogophilia 15 [...]
Tig : And we blame the angry black man. Clarence 'Clay' Morrow : It's the American way. After giving up TV for weeks to get work done on an important project, I anxiously set about shutting myself in so that I could reclaim my throne (couch) and prepare the jesters (Netflix Instant Queue) for my weekend ahead of me. [...]
Audra Mae is featured in the newest episode of Fowler VW of Norman & TheSpyFM.com 's video series, "VDub Sessions" . Audra performs "Smoking the Boys" in a green 1977 Vanagon in the middle of Main Street in Norman, during Norman Music Festival . The video was shot by Nathan Poppe and produced by Jonathan Fowler.
The South by Southwest Music Conference gets underway this week and more than 40 Oklahoma bands will be playing. Seventeen Oklahoma acts will take part in official showcases: The Boom Bang , Broncho , Cody Canada , Colourmusic , Graham Colton , Grooms , Hanson , Horse Thief , Jimmy LaFave , Johnny Polygon , MOON , OK Sweetheart , Other Lives , The Pretty Black Chains , Shiny Toy Guns (DJ set), Taddy [...]
The Oklahoma Film & Music Office (OF&MO) has officially announced its plans for the 2011 South By Southwest Conference and Festival (SXSW) that will take place in Austin, Texas March 11-20. Branded as Oklahoma's Buffalo Lounge , the state will have its own venue to host four-days of film, interactive, and music events, March 14-17. The goal is to provide exposure for participating Oklahoma companies and talent to an international audience. Oklahoma has seen significant growth in all three of these emerging industries in recent years. SXSW is the premiere [...]
Several Oklahomans were nominated, but only one musician came away a winner at The 53rd Grammy Awards last night. Oklahoma transplant Miranda Lambert won her fourth Grammy: Best Female Country Vocal Performance - "The House That Built Me" She was also nominated for Best Country Album for Revolution and Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for "Bad Angel" (with Dierks Bentley & Jamey Johnson). Her performance of "The House That Built Me" also earned songwriters Tom Douglas [...]
Nominees for The 53rd Grammy Awards were announced Wednesday night by The Recording Academy. Oklahoma transplant and three-time Grammy nominee Miranda Lambert earned three nominations: Best Female Country Vocal Performance - "The House That Built Me" Best Country Album - Revolution Best Country Collaboration With Vocals - "Bad Angel" (with Dierks Bentley & Jamey Johnson) Her performance of [...]
Yeah ok so i may be two or three years late with this one but who gives a shit really? Well, i say two or three years late but who's to tell these days when something is self-released, then perhaps released on a small label in their own country and then re-re-released when it's picked up in the UK and europe? There is no official release date as such and as I say, does it really matter? As long as you are hearing about it is what's important right? At the moment there seems to be a few [...]
A new music festival, FreeTulsa! , is filling the gap left behind by DFest . The festival will take place on July 30 & July 31 in downtown Tulsa's Brady Arts District. Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door Recently announced acts: 8bit Cynics, Able the Allies, Algebra, Another Monday, Apollo, Audra Mae, Baron Von Swagger, Beneath, Benjamin Lyman, Brandon Clark Band, Brother Rabbit, The Calamities, Campus on Fire, Cavedoll, Chris Lee Becker [...]
Photo: Samantha Lamb Audra Mae is today's Paste Magazine 's Artist of the Day . Best of What's Next: Audra Mae By Liana Aghajanian Audra Mae is the grand-niece of Judy Garland and wrote "Who I Was Born to Be," the only original song on I Dreamed a Dream_, the first album from infamous Britain's Got Talent_ contestant Susan Boyle. But with a guitar slung around her neck, Mae is an artist [...]
Jun 9, 2010, 6:18pm
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Good Old War ~ "My Own Sinking Ship"(mp3 via mfr ) With their indie/folk sound, Good Old War , sounds more like they hail from the Northwest than Philadelphia. Good Old War is playing the Troubadour on Friday with Yukon Blonde and Audra Mae . Bonus: Audra Mae ~ "The River"(mp3 via muzorama ) Yukon Blonde ~ "Rather Be With You" ( mp3 [...]
L.A.'s Audra Mae is not your average folk singer-songwriter. Rating: 5.0/ 5 (2 votes cast) Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for contests and links that don't make it onto the blog.
Audra Mae releases her debut full-length, The Happiest Lamb , today on SideOneDummy Records . The album was produced by Ted Hutt (The Gaslight Anthem, Lucero). Purchase: iTunes Audra Mae, the great-grandniece of Judy Garland, grew up in Edmond and attended P.C. North in Oklahoma City. Since then, the 25-year-old singer-songwriter has moved on to Los Angeles where she landed a television placement singing Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" on the FX series "Sons of Anarchy". In late 2009, Audra [...]
Oklahoma City-native Audra Mae performed three songs for World Cafe on NPR yesterday. Audra talks about her Oklahoma upbringing and how signing with a smaller label is a good idea. Audra Mae has a compelling natural sweetness to her style that simply calls for attention. With a smooth, quietly subtle voice and an interesting mix of jazz, country twang and pop sensibilities, she describes her music as "a cross between Patsy Cline and Janis Joplin, but maybe more like Bonnie Raitt." As the [...]
Photo: Jeremy Charles More bands playing this year's Norman Music Festival (April 24 & April 25) were announced yesterday. This is only a partial list. More bands will be announced in the coming weeks. Oklahoma bands are in bold . You can view the previously announced bands here , here , here and here . Eagle Claw [...]
Austin, TX - Victoria room is a quaint sitting room in the historic Driskill hotel on 6th and Brazos, where LBJ loved to stay. Compare to the rest of the hotel, its furnishings are sparse and, contrary to the insane streams of hot bodies (I don't mean it in the beauty sense), the population of the room was sporadic when I strode in. Having misunderstood that Vandaveer plays at an amphitheater across the river and not 5 min from our hotel, I did what every Asian person would - stayed back and ate spicy beef donair kebab. 3 [...]
My assignment for SPIN.com kept me tied up at the SPIN 25 party at Stubb's all afternoon for nonstop music capped by Hole's first North American concert in more than a decade. The highlight of the support bands that day was the indoors set from Harlem [above], whose crackling garage rock made me wish I could just stay in the small rooms for all of SXSW. Later in the evening: ☛ Admiral Radley — the new quartet marrying members of Grandaddy and Earlimart — gave a great show [...]
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