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Photo Gallery: Radkey / Wet Ones / The Bad Ideas

Sometimes the middle of the week needs a good kick in the pants from good old punk rock. Radkey delivered that ass-whoopin’ when they returned

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Middle of the Map Fest announces 2016 lineup

Kansas City will once again be roaring with live music this Spring thanks to Middle of the Map Fest. The yearly event brings big bands

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Replay launches Three-Headed Thursdays, immediately kicks ass

The Replay has fired up something new to get a jump start on their wild weekends. Three-Headed Thursdays pairs up local bands to a theme

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Review: Organized Crimes – ‘Bel Ray Flats’ 7”

by Nathan Cardiff Organized Crimes’ new seven-inch single begins with a New Wave-y dream; “Bel Ray Flats” gives us a floating synth groove and sinks

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The King and Queen of Audience Interaction: Destroy Nate Allen

Here’s the thing about Destroy Nate Allen: you can’t just watch them perform. The Kansas City-via-Portland duo are loud, boisterous, and completely unavoidable (as many

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Freight Train Rabbit Killer is the stuff of nightmares

The nice thing about the Folk Alliance is that it extended to every subgenre possible in folk music. Irish folk, Swedish folk, speed metal bluegrass

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Photo Gallery: The Fashion of Folk Alliance

This may have been a folk festival, but there was hardly a cowboy hat in sight. Folk Alliance wrapped up in Kansas City over the

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Folk Alliance kicks off in Kansas City

“Would you like a song where someone’s mean to someone else, or where someone’s dying?” That question, smirkingly posed by Curtis McMurty, is sometimes the

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Terribly Intentional: Nicholas St. James to celebrate his true form at album release show

In October of 2014, Nicholas St. James performed in front of a large crowd in the theatre of the Lawrence Arts Center. The folk artist

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Announcing: The I Heart Local Music 2016 SXSW Lineup

In just a few short weeks, rockers will migrate down to Austin, TX, for the SXSW music festival. The warm air will be filled with