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Album review: Khrystal – “The Awkward Muva”

Khrystal’s excellent The Awkward Muva kicks off with a glowing guitar on “Badu;” a cloud that her vocals drift on. Autobiographical lyrics delivered without irony,

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Watch: HighWesthus releases new music video

One of the most danceable acts in the area just released a new music video of his Field Day Fest set. HighWesthus both directed and

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How to rock Lawrence Field Day Fest, 2018 edition

The local music’s most exciting moment of the Summer kicks off this July. Lawrence Field Day Fest, now in its seventh year, runs July 19th

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Kadesh Flow and the Marcus Lewis band will (still) floor you

Months after Kadesh Flow and the Marcus Lewis band took the Granada stage for Brass and Boujee, we’ve just barely caught our breaths and the

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Watch: The Big Sky at Love Garden

The Big Sky brought their bewitching brand of bluegrass and love for tardigrades to Love Garden on Saturday when they hit up the record store

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Photo Gallery: Youngblood Supercult / Nature Boys / KD Kuro

Topeka rockers Youngblood Supercult brought a gratifying dose of sludgy, headbang-worthy metal to the Replay on Friday night, and were joined by Kansas City rockers
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Photo Gallery: Live on Mass with Split Lip Rayfield / Billy Strings / Opal Agafia & The Sweet Nothings

A lively downtown affair brought Bluegrass to Mass as the Granada hosted a free outdoor concert that drew thousands of revelers to the streets. Live
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Review: Carswell & Hope – “Exit Plan” EP

Carswell & Hope’s latest EP opens with the locomotive chug of “Cordelia,” a song so thick with tension you could cut it with… well Nick

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Review: Bloom – “Hot Knives” EP

Grit and grime are all over the hard rock ’n’ roll of Bloom’s Hot Knives. The slow-burn opener “Everything Golden” starts with a menacing (but

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Review: Kensington Gardens & Sunshine – “Rain On My Parade” Split

Twangy and salty are the vibes on Rain On My Parade, a split from folkies Sunshine and Kensington Gardens (a project of Lawrence’s Folklore Suburbia).