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Middle of the Map Fest Announces 2017 Lineup

Middle of the Map Fest has just released their lineup for their 2017 event, and once again their emphasis is on local. The festival, now

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Photo Gallery: Keef Mountain / Macemouth / Red Kate / The Sluts

It was one of those nights where the smell of leather jackets, soaked with late winter humidity, filled the air. There was enough hair grease
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Watch: Jessica Paige covers Ernie Ford

With this year’s theme at Folk Alliance being “Forbidden Folk,” there were protest songs aplenty. Musicians from across the globe gave renditions of famous protest

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Sting brings worldly charm to Kansas City

Naturally, a show of this nature was stuffed to the gills. It was pretty surprising to see Sting not at a venue like the Sprint
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Watch: Victor & Penny at Folk Alliance International

What year is it?? Doesn’t matter. Victor & Penny are timeless. They are perhaps the only retro-jazz-folk act in Kansas City you should be paying

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Kansas City crushes hard on Calvin Arsenia

Wednesday marked the start of Folk Alliance International, a music festival that brings diverse folk acts from across the globe together at the Westin in

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Photo Gallery: Run the Jewels at The Midland

Walking out to an eager crowd and chants of “R-T-J,” Run the Jewels dropped a mountain of energy on an already hyped-up audience. With such
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Radkey’s Naughty and Nice Xmas Night

Editor's note: Rather than staying snug in his bed with visions of sugar plums in his head, Photographer Leroy Pristach spent Christmas at recordBar for
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MilkDrop releases “Season of Moments”

There are so many good hip-hop albums dropping at the end of the year, we can barely keep up. One of those albums is MilkDrop’s

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They Call Me Sauce releases A Dedication to Black Women

One of the top hip hop albums of the year is just now coming out, and it arrives via They Call Me Sauce in Kansas