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Wakarusa Festival adds donation option for Joplin, Missouri, to website
Thanks to local jazz-jam band Mouth for reposting this entry from the Wakarusa Festival's website: Please join us in aiding our neighbors in Joplin, Missouri, who have experienced a devastating...
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More national love for Lawrence's Hospital Ships, CVLTS
It's been a good year for Lawrence, Kansas' CVLTS and Hospital Ships. People outside the Midwest seem to have started to notice the great (though very different) work that both bands have been doing.…...
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Bon Iver headed to the Uptown Theater
Big week for Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver). His latest, Bon Iver, Bon Iver, was yesterday awarded what I'm pretty sure is the highest Pitchfork rating of the year.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the...
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The Barbershop Harmony Society convention is downtown all weekend
If you've found yourself downtown at all this week, you might have noticed some light poles decorated in swirling red and blue colors, or perhaps walked past a group of oddly dressed middle-aged men...
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The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is bringing Aretha Franklin,...
Construction on the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts seems to be proceeding nicely. It's almost time for that sucker to open.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Lil Wayne shouts out Todd Haley, Brandon Flowers, Jack Stack, and Tech N9ne
You read that right. More here.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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The Embarrassment to reissue debut 7-inch 'Sex Drive'
Taking another small step out of its unmarked grave, the Embarrassment will reissue a 7-inch of its 1980 single, Sex Drive, within the next month. The American punk reissue label Last Laugh Records...
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F'd up Fashion returns to the Replay next month
How many of you have your Halloween costumes already figured out? Don't scoff, and be honest; at least half totally have thought about it.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleFoo Fighters counter-protest the Westboro Baptist Church outside Sprint Center
The fame-seeking trolls of the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the Foo Fighters' show at Sprint Center last night. Ordinarily this would not be news.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on...
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A new Tambourine Club video from Danny Gibson
We've written a bit these past few months about Danny Gibson. There was his retrospective at 1819 Central.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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NPR's All Songs Considered features Kansas City's Coalesce
Massively sweet shout-out from NPR for Kansas City hardcore act Coalesce. NPR's Lars Gotrich interviewed Sean Ingram (vocals) and asked him about both versions of Coalesce's 1997/2004 album, Give Them...
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Folk Alliance International relocating to Kansas City
Folk Alliance International, an organization and annual conference celebrating and promoting folk music, will officially make Kansas City its home base in 2014. The three-day conference attracts 2,000...
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Cowboy Indian Bear makes it to Daytrotter
Well, hot damn. Cowboy Indian Bear's Daytrotter session is finally out.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Shirtify monetizes streaming audio (and sells you bands tees)
For the music fan who has heard everything (and the attendant demo bootlegs, as well) Shirtify ought to be the hot new thing. It also appears to be the best way for you to connect financially with the...
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Cody Critcheloe of SSION in The New York Times
SSION was at RecordBar last night, as we noted in last week's paper. Also yesterday: main dude Cody Critcheloe was interviewed in The New York Times' T Magazine.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the...
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The ACBs' Daytrotter session is up
On a recent tour, the ACBs stopped in at the Horseshack, the studio in Rockford, Illinois, run by the folks at Daytrotter, and recorded four songs. Last Friday, the website posted the songs (two from...
View ArticleWatch Hermon Mehari and friends do an acoustic rendition of 'Niggas in Paris'
The 'Ye/Jay show in November really challenged my listening threshold for the Watch the Throne jam "Niggas in Paris." But here's a fresh local take on the song, courtesy of trumpeter Hermon Mehari,...
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Real Estate is coming to Lawrence in April
Probably my favorite record of 2011 was Days, by Real Estate. Super excited to see that they're stopping by the Bottleneck as part of their just-announced spring tour.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to...
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Madonna is coming! To Kansas City!
In like eight months. The date is Tuesday, October 30.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Three new Ghosty tracks streaming; new LP out digitally and on vinyl in April
A few months back, I wormed my way into a Ghosty recording session at Westend and got to hear some tracks from the band's upcoming album. They were rough cuts but they already sounded immaculate —...
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