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I Heart Local Music’s “SXSW Bound” Festival scheduled for February

Get pumped, I Heart Local Music’s “SXSW Bound” is coming to the Jackpot! The annual, two-day event draws hundreds of attendees every year and helps

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Something and the Whatevers to release songs on local punk comp

Something and the Whatevers have been pretty busy lately. The rockers have been plugging away in the studio recording loads of new music, and you’ll

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The library’s free studio now comes with a highly-skilled engineer

As if you needed another reason to visit the Lawrence Public Library’s Sound + Vision studio. In addition to allowing musicians to use the studio

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Local music roundup: January 6th

Instead of our usual feature stories, we’ve got a lot of little pieces of information to go over this week. A new year means new

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Lawrence rings in 2015 with aggressive performances from Hammerlord / Psychic Heat

Lawrence was more than ready to kick 2014 to the curb, and rang the new year in pretty aggressively on Wednesday thanks to unique and

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Bands to look forward to in 2015

We don’t believe in making year-end “best of” lists because, quite frankly, they’re rude. It’s rude to compare bands against one another, because achievements come

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Lusty Flowers releases local cover album

How was your holiday? Lusty Flowers spent the occasion recording a new album featuring covers of songs by local musicians. Semi-appropriately titled I Have No

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Twas the Night Before Christmas, Lawrence Edition (A Visit From St. Nicholas St. James)

Editor’s note: As you take off for the holiday (or if you’re soldiering through it), please enjoy this Lawrence version of “Twas the Night Before

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Watch: Hidden Planets at the Replay

We caught a rare glimpse of Hidden Planets when they hit up the Replay over the weekend. Those who were suffering that pre-holiday rush quickly

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Helen Kelter Skelter is everything that’s cool about rock and roll

You know, we were supposed to have the night off on Saturday. But we experienced a band so superb, we really can’t keep this secret