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Kickin' it with the Wrong Crowd

Thu Jan 8, 4:18 PM

Good garage bands don't die, they just rename themselves. Formerly known as the Black Tarantulas, the moppy-headed foursome will be opening for Vampire Hands at the Caverns in Minneapolis next Friday. If you can't get your punk ass up... More >>

SXSW Partial Band List Announced. NEXT.

Thu Jan 8, 2:03 PM

And, as usual, no one from Kansas City is on it. Yet. (You will be glad to know, however, that Dananananaykroyd, from Glasgow, is.) A coworker was wondering aloud today whether the festival would be as big this year... More >>

Ballas Hough Band, the band from Dancing with the Stars, brings MILFs to Record Bar

Thu Jan 8, 9:30 AM

Through the haze, these fans can see their TV/musical idols. People from the TV show Dancing with the Stars danced at Sprint Center last night. I don't know anything about Dancing with the Stars other than it's a reality TV... More >>

The Download: New Ladyfinger (ne) MP3

Thu Jan 8, 9:00 AM

Ladyfinger seems to be Omaha's answer to Queens of the Stone Age and quite possibly the most rockingest outfit to emerge from the Saddle Creek Records imprint. The band, which often shows love to its home state by adding... More >>

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Features

Florida’s T-Pain reveals his pop secret

By Christopher Lopez

Thursday, January 08

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe that they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years... More >>
Scholar Wit Attitude KU professor Iain Ellis’ new book schools us on subversive rock humorists

By Jason Harper

Thursday, January 08

For Iain Ellis, Ph.D., the best show of 2008 was the Slits in Lawrence. "It was one of those bands that I didn't see back in the day, and they... More >>
Elite
Black and White
(self-released)

By Kyle Koch

Thursday, January 08

Much of Black and White, the December release from Park Hill product Dakota LaTier (aka Elite), ventriloquizes the lyrical strategy of another,... More >>
Black Gasoline

By Richard Gintowt

Thursday, January 08

If you had to find one Kansas band for putting your David Cook-worshipping baby brother through rock-and-roll boot camp, Black Gasoline would... More >>
Marc Broussard

By Jordan Edwards

Thursday, January 08

It's been seven years since Marc Broussard's debut EP, Momentary Setback, hinted at a promising career to come. But Broussard quickly became a... More >>
F-Stop Rocks
2008 in Kansas City music through the lens of Forester Michael

By Jason Harper

Thursday, January 01

Do people go to shows anymore? Of course — well, sometimes. In Kansas City, your band can pack out the club one weekend, then the next... More >>
The Livers

By JAIME LEES

Thursday, January 01

The Livers have managed to invent something brand-new: a four-person rock band with just two members. Multi-instrumentalists Scott Freeman and... More >>
James Intveld

By Ernest Barteldes

Thursday, January 01

In the 1990 rock parody Cry-Baby, Johnny Depp played a rebellious rocker named Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker. Walker's singing voice, however, was... More >>
The Blacks

By Richard Gintowt

Thursday, January 01

Rock-show faux pas No. 121: Attending with a percussion device and playing it from the seats without the band's consent. Rock-show awesome trick... More >>
El Paso Hot Button

By Berry Anderson

Thursday, January 01

Hailing from Norman, Oklahoma, Mickey Reece, the man behind El Paso Hot Button, combines dirty guitar riffs, pulsing kick-drum action and searing... More >>
The Sham

By Annie Zaleski

Thursday, January 01

Although the Sham is from St. Louis, the band sounds like it honed its dreamy indie rock in the Pacific Northwest. The young quartet's debut EP,... More >>
Ratted out: Catching up with local musicians, club owners and a DJ or two to talk about what went down for them in ’08

Thursday, December 25

That'll be quite enough from you, 2008. The collapsing economy, the escalating wars, the rise of Sarah Palin, the virulent spread of Auto-Tune... More >>
Chuck Mead

By Richard Gintowt

Thursday, December 25

Along with Freedy Johnston and Mates of State, Chuck Mead may well be known as the one who got away from Lawrence's music scene. Mead's band, the... More >>
Chris Schutz and the Tourists

By Jordan Edwards

Thursday, December 25

Though born in Kansas City, Chris Schutz cut his musical teeth in his current home of Philadelphia. But don't expect to hear any hints of the... More >>
Justin Ripley

By Richard Gintowt

Thursday, December 25

Lawrence lost one of its finest artisans of brainy indie pop when songwriter Justin Ripley moved to Seattle a year ago, effectively ending the... More >>
Chickenhoof

By Jason Harper

Thursday, December 25

Chicken hoof [Slang] n. — "barbecued chicken wing." According to Mark Southerland, award-winning Kansas City saxophonist, the term also... More >>
Max Justus brings the electro heat and the 808 beats

By Richard Gintowt

Thursday, December 18

At age 10, Max Spransy gave MC Hammer an awesome gift. It was at the Cornerstone Festival in Bushnell, Illinois, where Spransy had scored a... More >>
Ebonics: As Ebon, Justin Lake Whedon and his wife, Melinda, are making a name for themselves in the language of the remix

By Crystal K. Wiebe

Thursday, December 18

Justin Lake Whedon doesn't get out on the scene much these days. He and his wife, Melinda Anne Whedon, who perform together in the duo Ebon,... More >>
Colourmusic

By Elliott Johnston

Thursday, December 18

Stillwater, Oklahoma's Colourmusic combines over-the-top absurdity, science obsession as pyschedelia, inspirational DIY arena rock, and... More >>
Pontiak

By Jason Harper

Thursday, December 18

The Louvins, the Allmans, the Followills of Leon — the South has a long history of brother bands. Wielders of cold, droning trance rock... More >>