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Album review: Khrystal – “The Awkward Muva”
- By Nathan Cardiff
- . July 18, 2018
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,

Watch: HighWesthus releases new music video
- By Fally Afani
- . July 17, 2018
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

How to rock Lawrence Field Day Fest, 2018 edition
- By Fally Afani
- . July 16, 2018
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

Kadesh Flow and the Marcus Lewis band will (still) floor you
- By Fally Afani
- . July 11, 2018
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

Watch: The Big Sky at Love Garden
- By Fally Afani
- . July 9, 2018
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

Photo Gallery: Youngblood Supercult / Nature Boys / KD Kuro
- By Fally Afani
- . July 7, 2018

Photo Gallery: Live on Mass with Split Lip Rayfield / Billy Strings / Opal Agafia & The Sweet Nothings
- By Fally Afani
- . July 4, 2018

Review: Carswell & Hope – “Exit Plan” EP
- By Nathan Cardiff
- . July 3, 2018
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

Review: Bloom – “Hot Knives” EP
- By Nathan Cardiff
- . July 2, 2018
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

Review: Kensington Gardens & Sunshine – “Rain On My Parade” Split
- By Nathan Cardiff
- . July 1, 2018
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).