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Theatrics and surprises erupt at Psychic Heat album release show

Nothing gets on our good side like a band that goes beyond their duties as entertainers to make a night special, and Saturday night’s show
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Album Review: Psychic Heat – “Sunshower”

Psychic Heat From the crunching buzz of opener “Anxiety Eater” you can safely assume that Psychic Heat’s debut album Sunshower is oozing with the psychedelic
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Photo Gallery: Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Now that finals are mostly over, students are ready to party. They started their weekend early Thursday night and hit the town with a packed
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Photo Gallery: Guided By Voices / Schwervon!

You could say that Robert Pollard has a love/hate relationship with everyone around him. When the head honcho behind Guided By Voices toured through Lawrence
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We went to six shows in one night to prove a point

Anymore, Friday nights in Lawrence are pretty outrageous. There are just so many events happening at once. This wasn’t even a Final Fridays art walk,

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Lawrence bids farewell to local legend with musical supergroup

The Bottleneck quickly turned into a who’s who of the local music scene when an instrumental player threw himself an epic going away party. Onstage,

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Photo Gallery: Ultimate Fakebook / Podstar / The Touchdowns

If you’ve ever experienced a meaningful moment in the Lawrence music scene, a man named Cameron Hawk was likely involved in some fashion. The musician

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Photo Gallery: Split Lip Rayfield / Julian Davis and the Hay-Burners / Chicago Farmer

Words and photos by Leroy Pristach The venerable Split lip Rayfield played to a packed house at the Bottleneck Saturday night, but that’s nothing out

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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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Photo Gallery: Yo La Tengo

“It’s been a while since we’ve been back to Lawrence,” Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan told a Bottleneck audience within the first few minutes of