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Review: La Guerre – “Discord: recordings from the House of Leaves” EP

Discord, Katlyn Conroy’s latest EP under her La Guerre moniker, begins with “new safe,” a sparse opener strummed softly with just hints of percussion as

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Album Review: Wick and The Tricks – “Not Enough”

Shredding and sneering command Not Enough, the four-track EP from Kansas City’s Wick and The Tricks. Opening track “Yr So Rad” slaps hypocrisy in the

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Album Review: Folklore Suburbia – “Space Ladies From Outer Space”

About two-thirds of the way through Folklore Suburbia’s album Space Ladies From Outer Space there is a drastic shift in style. The band spends the

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Album Review: Fullbloods – “Mild West”

by Nathan Cardiff Ross Brown is at it again. After years of solid solo work (full disclosure, I went to high school with the guy;

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Album Review: BUMMER – “Spank”

by Nathan Cardiff Time to headbang, motherfuckers. Olathe’s (as a former Johnson County resident I’m happy to give them this credit) BUMMER are rolling out

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Album Review: Mat Shoare – “Right As Rain”

by Nathan Cardiff I’m gonna do a little self-referencing here, so please forgive me. The first review I wrote for this site was Mat Shoare’s

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Album Review: Tyler Gregory – “Roots Below”

On any given evening in Lawrence, when the weather is warm, you’ll hear what we’ve all come to know as a comforting sound howling from

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Album Review: Black On Black – “Firebrand”

by Nathan Cardiff What is that feedback in the distance? The squeal of distortion closing in on us? That creeping sensation shaking your spine with

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Album Review: The Fog – “Darkness USA”

by Nathan Cardiff Somehow, some way, The Fog blend up a sinister mixture of pop, anthem rock, and a tremendous amount of noise into their

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Album Review: Carswell & Hope – “A Hunger”

by Nathan Cardiff It seems more and more the word “magical” has in fact lost its meaning or simply become a snarky, sarcastic word for