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Photo Gallery: Bully / Heat / Fake Limbs

To quote Diana Vreeland, I loathe nostalgia. I can’t stand the way the entertainment industry preys on my generation’s unwillingness to move forward and observe

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Unspoken Community: Stiff Middle Fingers to play four shows in four cities on Saturday

The first time we saw Stiff Middle Fingers, the punk band’s frontman was stuck the to the tinted glass windows of the Replay, like a

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Photo Gallery: Ghost at Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall was filled to the brim on Monday when Ghost brought their visually stunning and highly theatrical show to Lawrence. The masked Swedish rockers,

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Album Review: Sugar Britches – “Quit Yer Britchin'”

If you like mild mannered women, this album isn’t for you. If you enjoy damsels with an adventurous sense of humor, then kindly make your

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Listen: Westerners release music on the Record Machine

This is sort of an interesting time for Westerners. The Lawrence band known for guitar-heavy rock songs rich with harmonies has just posted some music

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Radkey returns to Lawrence, immediately melts faces

Friday was one for the books at the Bottleneck. Radkey, a band of brothers that got their start years ago in Lawrence when they couldn’t

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Photo Gallery: Chuck Mead / Truckstop Honeymoon

“Here’s a gospel song for all your heathens out there,” Chuck Mead announced to a crowd full of local heathens before diving into a song

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Drummer Diligence: Why Mark Osman could be the busiest drummer you know

Never has there been a more admired drummer in the current local music scene than Mark Osman. All the drummers here are top notch, but