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Photo Gallery: KC Psych Fest

RecordBar celebrated 10 years of vibrant musical activity with a weekend of Kansas City’s best psych rock. Psych Fest took over the popular Kansas City

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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

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Album Review: Mammoth Life – “Baycation”

It’s about time Mammoth Life put out some new music, and it was worth the wait. The bubbly ex-pats just released Baycation, an album full

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Photo Gallery: Wavves / Twin Peaks / SWMRS

If you’ve been missing high-paced, high-energy, and highly thrilling guitar rock, the Granada was the place to be Sunday night. The venue saw an explosion

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No Cave / Toughies / SONA hypnotize the Replay

A trio of diverse Lawrence bands got the Replay worked into a frenzy Friday night, when three very different genres meshed together for a fairly