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Americana Music Academy spreads holiday cheer in Lawrence

Folks who hurried downtown for last minute holiday shopping, meetings with old friends, and festive gatherings got an extra little treat this year when some

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“You Can Always Give” Christmas compilation features various local musicians

by Nathan Cardiff I love Christmas music. I give credit to my mom, an avid Christmas music fan, who starts listening to it in October.

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Album Review: Danny Pound – “Hobby Howl”

by Nathan Cardiff “Connecticut Raindrop” may be the most beautiful track of the year. There, I said it. I realize this is a bold statement

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Photo Gallery: Stiff Middle Fingers / All Blood / Kind Horse

On a cold and blustery night, one Lawrence business was alive with ear-piercing activity. Local punk rockers Stiff Middle Fingers were celebrating the tape release

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Yes, Muscle Worship. You can turn it up.

Muscle Worship is really a considerate band. Anybody familiar with their work knows they’re one of the loudest local acts of the past decade. When

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Album Review: Stiff Middle Fingers – “At The Scene of The Crime”

by Nathan Cardiff “You can just get up in my face and scream anyway, it doesn’t even matter. Let’s just do this shit.” These are

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Momma’s Gotta Rock: 40 Watt Dreams indulges Katie West’s angsty side

You could say over the last couple of years, Katie West has been bursting with ideas. At some point in her thriving musical career, the

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Watch: Max Fields at Love Garden

On Saturday night, local label (and talent goldmine) Whatever Forever celebrated the release of their compilation cassette with a show at Love Garden. The event

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Album Review: Destroy Nate Allen – “Glow In The Dark”

by Nathan Cardiff With Glow In The Dark, Destroy Nate Allen gives us twelve tracks of greatest hits. The anti-folk punks spend the first half

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Lawrence Loves Skating Polly

Lawrence has a new crush, and her name is Skating Polly. Lawrence has actually been crushing on the garage duo for a while, but audiences