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Album Review: All Blood – “The Kids Have No Taste”

by Nathan Cardiff All Blood growl and howl their way through their awesome album The Kids Have No Taste. The quartet push guitars and vocal

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Celebrating the regional scene: Lawrence Field Day Fest’s new approach

At the end of the month, Downtown Lawrence will become rock and roll heaven when Lawrence Field Day Fest erupts and takes over the scene.

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Review: Red Kate & The Bad Ideas – “Red Kate/The Bad Ideas Split 7-Inch”

by Nathan Cardiff I’m always a fan of collaborations and split albums between excellent artists. Here we get the socially conscious punks of Red Kate

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Something Worth A Damn: local musician plotting Kid Congo commotion in Lawrence

You could call Ron Miller the busiest musician in Lawrence. Spewing a fountain of endless ideas and talents, the Up the Academy frontman and drummer

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Radkey returns to the Replay and rocks the fuck out

If you’ve ever thought the Replay felt like family, you’re right. Friday night’s show featured two sets of siblings rocking the venue to its very

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Rowdy roughhousing: White Fang / Skating Polly

On Friday night, some new bad boys made their way into town. So naturally, they ended up at the Replay. White Fang’s tour brought them,

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Photo Gallery: 2014 Middle of the Map Fest, Day 2

If the first day of Middle of the Map Fest left your ears ringing, Friday’s lineup turned it up to eleven. The cold weather was

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Photo Gallery: Diarrhea Planet / Broncho at SXSW

Words and photos by Mitch Jones When a band begins a set by offering free shirts to anyone who crowd surfs, you know things are

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Residual Kid brings roaring, grimey rock to SXSW

If there’s one thing kids are best at, it’s keeping it simple. Sometimes I find myself trying to create something and I just end up

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Lazy wrecks The Replay

“Play the drums as loud as possible. As loud as humanly possible. If they fuck up, even better.” That was Lazy’s charmingly lanky frontman, announcing