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Dance Magic, Dance: Soft Reeds ignites the Replay with dance party

“When pretty girls dance, you dance,” proclaimed Ben Grimes, frontman for Soft Reeds. The band had ignited a high-energy dance party at the Replay during

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Raw Rockers Skating Polly Coming to the Replay

Music surrounds the lives of the girls behind the righteous rock group Skating Polly. When we talked to stepsisters Kelli Mayo, 13, and Peyton Bighorse,

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Many Moods of Dad astonishes audience with bombshell performance

When your local music-loving self needs a solid ass kicking, the Replay is the place to be. On Friday, Many Moods of Dad delivered that

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Watch: Country Mice at the Replay

Country Mice are from New York, but they’re well-loved in Lawrence. The familiar faces returned to the Replay on Thursday for a night of solid

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Many Moods of Dad – “The Consequence of Trying”

by Nathan Cardiff The Consequence of Trying has this sort of psychotic pop; it’s catchy, it’s fun, but it’s a little insane. The opening track

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Album Review: Black on Black – “Let’s Get Cynical”

by Nathan Cardiff After the brief feedback subsides at the beginning of the record, we plunge into Black on Black’s newest EP Let’s Get Cynical.

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Photo Gallery: Radkey Release Show with Stiff Middle Fingers / Ponyboy.

In what felt like a preview for Record Store Day (don’t forget to check out your local record store Saturday!) Radkey had a release party

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SW/MM/NG is your Summer escape

The last of the SXSW bands are trickling through the area, and one of those bands finishing out their tours was SW/MM/NG, out of Arkansas.

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The Mutations get up in your space

On Saturday night mother nature was playing yet another cruel joke on Kansas by dumping a snow storm across the state, but the Replay fought

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Matt Pryor gives major Lawrence shout-out at SXSW

Saturday ended on a very special note for this local gal: I had the privilege of seeing my favorite local musician, Matt Pryor, when I