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Kansas City parties with local bands at the Crossroads Summer Block Party

Summers are hardly lazy in these parts. It seems you can’t throw a rock without hitting a local music festival; and lucky for us every

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The xx, Hundred Waters seduce the Uptown with intimate dance music

When The xx came out for their first show in Kansas City, their fans responded with bold liveliness. They filled the Uptown to the brim

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Review: Hidden Pictures – “Sister Wife” EP

by Nathan Cardiff Three short tracks are what we get from the always wonderful Hidden Pictures on their new EP, and they pack a powerful

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Photo Gallery: Torche / KEN Mode / Cherokee Rock Rifle

This photographer took a field trip out of Larryville Thursday night to see a band we covered at the Brooklyn Vegan showcase in Austin at

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Something really beautiful: Hundred Waters to bring heartwarming friendship to the stage

You won’t find a band closer than Hundred Waters. That trait was noticed immediately when we sat down with the five musicians at SXSW in

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Watch: Bloodbirds / Nature Boys at Love Garden

Love Garden was the noisiest place on the block on Saturday evening. The beloved record store hosted two of Kansas City’s loudest bands early in

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Dance Magic, Dance: Soft Reeds ignites the Replay with dance party

“When pretty girls dance, you dance,” proclaimed Ben Grimes, frontman for Soft Reeds. The band had ignited a high-energy dance party at the Replay during

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Soft Reeds nails it with Blank City

Ben Grims is finally in the place where he wants to be. After a couple of different musical projects and moves, the Soft Reeds frontman

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Take A Ride With The Cocaine Gypsies: The Devil

“We’re going to try a new one that we wrote last night. It’s called cocaine gypsies,” announced the vixen who sings for Kansas City’s The

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A Reason To Be Proud: Fourth of July celebrates record release with The ACBs

“Would you guys mind if we played our album all the way through?” Fourth of July frontman Brendan Hangauer asked a packed room at the