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 Store Day.
St. Vincent returns to her native Oklahoma to play a hometown show at 8 tonight at historic Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N Main. And here’s what she has to say in the interview that should have Oklahoma fans amped up to see in concert:
“As we’ve been playing these songs live and really kind of developing the show, I kind of don’t even pay that much attention to the space anymore,” she tells the Dessner twins in the video. “I just try to make like each show kind of stand out and be kind of wilder than the one before.”
Considering the crowd-surfing mood she’s been in this spring, get ready, Tulsa.
For more information on tonight’s show, go to www.cainsballroom.com.
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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.
“I come back here all the time,” she told Jennifer. “I used to listen to the contemporary country stations in Tulsa. I think that music is genetically engineered to make me cry.”
She said she’s pulled over more than one car “while crying to Reba McEntire songs.”
For more information on tonight’s show, go to www.cainsballroom.com.
For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.
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Best Bets for May 11-15, 2012: “Sense and Sensibility,” Song Swap, LIVE on the Plaza & St. Vincent
St. Vincent
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 Thunder gear, participate in Horse and Rock Paper Scissors contests and donate to the Regional Food Bank during the monthly LIVE on the Plaza block party from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday in the Plaza District, NW 16 between Indiana and Blackwelder. Information: www.plazadistrict.org.
4. TULSA — Hear Tulsa-born singer/songwriter/guitarist Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N Main. Doors open at 7 p.m. Information: www.cainsballroom.com.
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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 the city of her birth: at the historic Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa. For more information, go to www.cainsballroom.
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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 radical way of helping the crowd deal with the sweltering California temperatures.
On the last song of her set, St. Vincent, AKA Annie Clark, got down from the stage, grabbed the water hose and began spraying the crowd, getting herself wet at the same time, reports the San Jose Mercury News. And she once again ended up jumping into the crowd.
During the festival, St. Vincent shared with Rolling Stone her philosophy on playing live:
“Go bigger with everything you do onstage,” she said. “Subtlety goes out the door. You just have to be a monolith onstage. All of the quiet, sensitive numbers, we’re like, ‘X through that. Nope. Not gonna do that one.’”
She also told Rolling Stone that fans can expect more new music out from her in the fall: She has completed her collaboration album with the Talking Heads’ David Byrne, which was inspired by the Dirty Projectors and Bjork’s “Mount Wittenberg Orca” album. She and Byrne then plan to hit the road together for a set of tour dates.
“David Byrne is the coolest person on the planet,” she told Rolling Stone.
St. Vincent will bring her spring tour to the city of her birth when she plays May 15 at Cain’s Ballroom. For more information on the Tulsa show, go to www.cainsballroom.com.
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Video: Record Store Day 2012! Flaming Lips ready to release “Heady Fwends,” Guestroom Records to showcase local music
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 early; they’re open at their usual 11 a.m.) Here is the lineup:
Guestroom Bricktown, 25 S Oklahoma, Suite 101
12:15 p.m. – Student Film
1:15 – Crown Imperial
Guestroom OKC, 3701 N Western
2:45 p.m. – Jacob Abello
3:45 – Deerpeople
Guestroom Norman, 125 E Main Street
6:30 p.m. – Locust Avenue
7:30 – Beau Jennings
8:30 – Brother Bear
According to RecordStoreDay.com, other Oklahoma outlets participating in Record Store Day include The Beat Goes On, Claremore; Randy’s M&M’s, Edmond; size records, OKC; Reggie’s Records, Ponca City; CD Warehouse, Shawnee; Blue Moon Discs and Starship Records & Tapes, Tulsa; and various Vintage Stock location around the state.
A wide array of bands and artists are planning exclusive vinyl, CD and single releases especially for Record Store Day, including Tulsa native St. Vincent, ABBA, Arcade Fire, David Bowie, Metallica, Bruno Mars, Michael Buble with Ray Charles, Carolina Chocolate Drops with Run DMC, The Civil Wars, Coldplay, Florence + The Machine, Jimmy Fallon, Paul McCartney, the Woody Guthrie tribute quartet behind “New Multitudes” and many, many more. For a full list of RSD releases, click here.
Perhaps no RSD 2012 release is more eagerly anticipated than The Flaming Lips’ much-buzzed-about collection of collaborations, “The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends.” Warner Bros. Records is only pressing 10,000 copies of the album, which features the Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers partnering with Ke$ha and Biz Markie, Bon Iver, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Prefuse 73, Tame Impala, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Nick Cave, Lightning Bolt, Yoko Ono, Neon Indian, Erykah Badu, New Fumes and Coldplay’s Chris Martin.
I got to take a listen to a preview copy of “Heady Fwends” – on CD, not on the special vinyl that has vials of the contributors’ blood mixed in with it, mind you – and for Lips devotees, it lives up the considerable hype. It’s a star-studded trip through the band’s personal spacey, otherworldly, noisy-in-a-good-way cosmos. To read The Oklahoman Entertainment Editor Gene Triplett’s review of “Heady Fwends,” click here.
Lips frontman Wayne Coyne talks about “Heady Fwends” in this video:
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Video: Miranda Lambert and Chris Brown continue their Twitter feud
The feud that sparked between country music star Miranda Lambert, who lives in Tishomingo, and R&B star Chris Brown after the Feb. 12 Grammy Awards continues.
During her concert Thursday, in Amherst, Mass., Lambert pulled out hand-lettered poster emblazoned with the words “Take Notes Chris Brown,” reports ABC News.
“Listen, I just need to speak my mind. Where I come from, beating up on a women is never OK,” Lambert is heard saying in the ABC News video posted above.
“So that’s why my daddy taught me early on in life how to use a shotgun.”
She used the words as the lead-in to her hit “Gunpowder & Lead,” about a wife who plans to gun down her abusive husband once he is released from jail on bail.
Brown beat up then-girlfriend Rihanna the night before the Grammys in 2009. He pled guilty to an assault charge and was sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community labor.
As previously reported, the feud started when Lambert, who was a presenter at the Feb. 12 Grammy Awards, objected on Twitter to Brown performing not once but twice on the music industry’s most high-profile awards show. He performed his “Turn Up the Music” early in the show and then returned later as part of the Grammys’ much-hyped first dance music performance, throwing down with Lil Wayne and David Guetta. In between, Brown took the stage to accept the best R&B album Grammy.
“Chris Brown twice? I don’t get it. He beat on a girl…” Lambert tweeted the day after the show.
“Not cool that we act like that didn’t happen. He needs to listen to Gunpowder and lead and be put back in his place. Not at the Grammys.”
In a tweet that has since been removed, Brown fired back “Hate all you want because I got a grammy now! That’s the ultimate f*** off.”
On Wednesday Lambert tweeted back, “I’m done for now. But not for good:) nite love bugs & remember… Be who you are an stand for what u believe in. NO MATTER WHAT!” She later added, “Oh and one more thing for all who are asking….I have a Grammy too:)”
In a series of tweets over the weekend, Brown responded to Lambert calling him out during her concert:
“Using my name to get publicity? I love it! Perform your heart out! … Go buy @miranda_lambert! So motivational and “PERFECT.” … Goodnight to all the people who live life and who aren’t stuck in the past!”
Lambert has posted in the past few days about her tour stops and tonight’s episode of NBC’s reality show “The Voice,” which features her husband Blake Shelton as a celebrity coach, but she has yet to respond to Brown on Twitter.
Lambert was just one of several celebrities who tweeted their disapproval at Brown’s Grammy performances. Others who took to Twitter to voice their protests include Tulsa-born singer-songwriter St. Vincent, “Star Trek: The Next Generation” actor Wil Wheaton, singer-songwriter Michelle Branch, “Modern Family” actor Eric Stonestreet and English media personality Jack Osbourne.
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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 many more.
Bonnaroo will feature about 125 music acts and 30 comedians. Tickets go on sale Saturday. For more information, go to www.bonnaroo.com.
St. Vincent also will play the acclaimed Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April in Indio, Calif.
On May 15, St. Vincent – born Annie Clark Sept. 28, 1982, in Tulsa – will play a hometown show at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa. For more information, go to www.cainsballroom.com.
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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’s 2010 video for “Laughing with a Mouth of Blood.”
By the way, I’m no mayor or Kyle MacLachlan, but if someone wanted to make me a super-journalist cape, I would proudly wear it at least once.
BTW again, St. Vincent is playing a show in the city of her birth May 15 at Cain’s Ballroom, and if you want more information, you can go to www.cainsballroom.com.
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St. Vincent to appear on tonight’s “Portlandia”
Tulsa-born singer-songwriter St. Vincent will appear on tonight’s episode of the sketch show “Portlandia,” airing at 9 p.m. on IFC.
After the episode, St. Vincent, who is playing in concert May 15 at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, will premiere a “lost” cut of her track “Cheerleader” on the Portlandia website, www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia.
Here is the episode summary:
This Friday at 10/9c, everyone’s favorite openly reggae mayor returns to “Portlandia.” That’s right, Kyle MacLachlan is back and he has a job for Fred Armisen’s and Carrie Brownstein’s alter egos, who helpfully also go by the names Fred and Carrie, but are very different from the real Fred and Carrie. You got that? Good. So on Friday’s brand new episode of “Portlandia,” the Mayor of Portland (Kyle MacLachlan) tasks Fred and Carrie to redesign the Portland Police Department’s uniforms and along with their clothes, their image. Sounds like a reasonable request, right?
We are very excited for Kyle to return to the show, but he isn’t the only special guest star this episode. Annie Clark a.k.a. singer songwriter St. Vincent will also be appearing. Fans of Fred and Carrie’s early sketch comedy work in Thunderant will recognize Annie from her performance in a feminist bookstore that looks strangely familiar.
Back in 2010, Armisen and Brownstein starred in the music video for St. Vincent’s “Laughing with a Mouth of Blood”:
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