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Mitch Gilliam

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28 posts
After Thirty Years, Dropkick Murphys’ Anti-Authoritarian Flag Still Flies Tulsa

After Thirty Years, Dropkick Murphys’ Anti-Authoritarian Flag Still Flies

The Irish punk veterans sold out Cain’s for a massive, Guinness-soaked celebration of class solidarity

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Mitch Gilliam
13 Mar 2026 · 4 min read
Is Nine Inch Nails The Greatest American Rock Band? Tulsa

Is Nine Inch Nails The Greatest American Rock Band?

Salvation by synth with Reznor & Co. at the BOK Center

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Mitch Gilliam
9 Mar 2026 · 4 min read
Psych Rock In The Possum House Tulsa

Psych Rock In The Possum House

Japanese legends Acid Mothers Temple took an interplanetary trip at Mercury Lounge

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Mitch Gilliam
13 Nov 2025 · 3 min read
The Worldwide Music Community Is Helping Me Tend My Own Garden Tulsa

The Worldwide Music Community Is Helping Me Tend My Own Garden

How I stopped spiraling and found the key to spiritual resistance through musical friendships and a psych rock show

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Mitch Gilliam
7 Nov 2025 · 5 min read
Mdou Moctar Knows What He’s Doing Tulsa

Mdou Moctar Knows What He’s Doing

Niger’s Sultan of Shred brought his Tuareg rock to Guthrie Green

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Mitch Gilliam
25 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
Nu Metal Is Bigger Than White Boy Butt Rock Tulsa

Nu Metal Is Bigger Than White Boy Butt Rock

A Nu Metal night at Vanguard was diverse and rapturous, with genuinely touching moments

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Mitch Gilliam
29 Aug 2025 · 3 min read
Apparently We’re All Nostalgic For ’90s Country Tulsa

Apparently We’re All Nostalgic For ’90s Country

Boot-scooting to the songs that were burned into our Okie DNA

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Mitch Gilliam
18 Aug 2025 · 7 min read
They Don't Call Him Trombone Shorty For Nothing Tulsa

They Don't Call Him Trombone Shorty For Nothing

In a world currently defined in measures of cruelty, Cain’s on this night contained only cheer.

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Mitch Gilliam
28 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
Burgin’ Out with Bad Mitch: Finding Tulsa’s Best Okie Burger Tulsa

Burgin’ Out with Bad Mitch: Finding Tulsa’s Best Okie Burger

Tulsa’s burger scene is massive, rich with lore, and worth exploring.

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Mitch Gilliam
12 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
Friends In Unknown Places Tulsa

Friends In Unknown Places

"The Dose: A Psychedelic Comedy Experience" made good on at least one promise: people onstage were definitely tripping balls.

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Mitch Gilliam
24 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
tulsa, music, goth, whittier bar Tulsa

Welcome To The Goth Gae Grief Dance

Under a looming autocracy, this dark dance and goth night brought the medieval Danse Macabre to the top of my mind.

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Mitch Gilliam
24 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
tulsa, movies, circle cinema, film, horror Tulsa

Godzilla Really Is That Big

The tone of the film offered a stark contrast to the rock ‘em sock ‘em Godzilla who’s come to fight the likes of King Kong in multi-million-dollar spectacles.

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Mitch Gilliam
22 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
tulsa, oklahoma, rodeo, cowboy, queer, LGBTQ+ Tulsa

It's Giving Rodeo

Oklahoma, even at its most “country,” is more than just angry white men in MAGA hats.

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Mitch Gilliam
1 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck Tulsa

Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck

What do you call a gay cowboy? Until recently, your uncle might have said ​“a jolly rancher,” but the collective pop culture mind now turns immediately to THE gay cowboy: Orville Peck.

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Mitch Gilliam
20 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Lot-A-Burger Staves Off Extinction Tulsa

Lot-A-Burger Staves Off Extinction

Lot-A-Burger 928 W. 23rd St. Tulsa Sept. 5, 2024 I just know a burger hate to see me comin’. Though not on the level of a George Motz, I consider

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Mitch Gilliam
8 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
“Latch Is Love”: Beloved Bar Cat Honored With Second Annual Bar Fest Tulsa

“Latch Is Love”: Beloved Bar Cat Honored With Second Annual Bar Fest

Latch Fest 2024 Whittier Bar Tulsa Aug. 9 & 10, 2024 Sitting side by side at Whittier Bar on a slow afternoon, Latch Fest organizers Laura Voth and Bradley Metcalf

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Mitch Gilliam
16 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
Car Troubles, An Ill-Fated Tour & Not That Kind Of Swim Meet Tulsa

Car Troubles, An Ill-Fated Tour & Not That Kind Of Swim Meet

First Annual Swim Meet Chimera Tulsa July 27, 2024 I’m writing this at noon on a 95° Thursday from an Iron Skillet in Weatherford, Texas. AAA should be here

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Mitch Gilliam
6 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Thunderwof’s Hip-Hop Is No Joke Tulsa

Thunderwof’s Hip-Hop Is No Joke

Thunderwof Mixtape Release: “Boys Don’t Cry But, Wofs Shed Tears.” Heirloom Rustic Ales Tulsa July 19, 2024 If you’ve been to a comedy show in Tulsa in the

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Mitch Gilliam
26 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
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