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Music Forecast: City and Colour, Yes You Are, Half Moon Run, Whitey Morgan
City and Colour Dallas Green begins his latest album, October's If I Should Go Before You, with an epic nine-minute jam called "Woman."…
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Your Friend delivers its long-awaited debut, Gumption — and, soon, a side...
There are moments on Gumption, the debut full-length album (released January 29 on Domino Records) from Lawrence's Taryn Miller — who performs as Your Friend — that seem suspended in space and time....
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Music Forecast: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Darlingside, Joe...
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats Everybody likes a good underdog story, and Nathaniel Rateliff has one for the books. Last August, the Hermann, Missouri, native — along with his band, the...
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Jazz Beat: Broadway Jazz Orchestra and Prohibition Hall Jazz Quartet, at...
Prohibition Hall, in downtown's Louis Curtiss Building, bears the perfect name for a jazz club, and jazz gets featured billing Wednesday nights. It starts with drummer Jim Lower's Broadway Jazz...
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Katlyn Conroy and Matt Pryor write made-to-order love songs for Valentine's Day
Flowers die. Lingerie fades.…
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The Buhs prep for Mardi Gras at the new Prohibition Hall
Strings of lights hang just inside 1118 McGee, and I hear a few strands clink together like crystals as I brush past them into the handsome space. To my right, a long bar stretches nearly to the...
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Music Forecast: Seven Lions, Marrow, Sky Smeed, Midcoast Takeover
Seven Lions Jeff Montalvo is here to prove that EDM can offer a full concert experience.…
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Intelligent Sound's Peter Anthony juggles real-life responsibilities and...
Peter Anthony's biggest obstacle right now is his full-time job. It's your average weekday gig, he tells me, not wanting to go into details.…
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The Deborah Brown Quartet, featuring the Polish All-Stars at the Blue Room
Deborah Brown calls Kansas City home, but the vocal great performs around world, having toured and recorded with legends such as Clark Terry, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Johnny Griffin. In March, she...
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Lawrence's Ovaries-Eez finds a comfortable home with Whatever Forever
Someone once told us they would have beautiful nightmares after listening to us," Johni Lacore says of her band, the Ovaries-Eez, "and we thought that was a wonderful summary for us." Indeed, on...
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The Greeting Committee has youth on its side
There's a quiet confidence on It's Not All That Bad, the October-released debut EP from the Greeting Committee. It shines in the tender, polished confessions that guitarist and lead singer Addie...
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Music Forecast: Vance Joy, Black Sabbath, Metric
Vance Joy, Elle King, Jamie Lawson It would take considerable effort to dislike Vance Joy, the same kind of effort it would take to dislike fresh-baked cookies and puppies.…
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Your guide to this year's Folk Alliance International Conference
On Wednesday, February 17, the 28th annual Folk Alliance International Conference kicks off at the Westin Crown Center: hundreds of artists from around the world, here to conquer Kansas City, one...
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Jazz Beat: The Nate nall quintet at the westport coffeehouse
Kansas City jazz continues to evolve, thanks in large part to Bobby Watson's program at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance. One of the next generation's more promising names: trumpeter Nate Nall.…
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Cheptoo Kositany-Buckner, the American Jazz Museum's new director, is eager...
Next year will mark two decades since the American Jazz Museum opened. And 2017 contains plenty of other milestones, as the museum's new executive director, Cheptoo Kositany-Buckner notes.…
View ArticleNicholas St. James expands his band and gets aggressive
At one point in our interview, Nicholas St. James calls his singing "aggressive." If you've had the good fortune of seeing the Lawrence folk singer live, you'd have no problem agreeing with him.…
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Jazz Beat: Ambrose Akinmusire plays the Blue Room on Thursday
Listen to the last track on Kendrick Lamar's Grammy-winning To Pimp a Butterfly and you'll hear a trumpet ascend and then soar under the song's rap. That's Ambrose Akinmusire, a rising star of the...
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Music Forecast: Mass Gothic, Chris Young, Galactic, Rayland Baxter
Chris Young with Cassadee Pope Chris Young has come a long way since his 2006 Nashville Star win.…
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The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra's "British Invasion" plays the Kauffman Center...
Under artistic director Clint Ashlock, the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is venturing into new old territory. Big bands have long played Top 40 — the Count Basie Orchestra recorded an album of Beatles...
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Fullbloods' latest makes barely getting by sound impossibly fun
Warm, warped synths and eccentric guitar lines float happily around Mild West, the terrific new album from Fullbloods. Together, the album's 11 songs — written by lead singer and guitarist Ross Brown,...
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Music Forecast: Waaves and Best coast, st. lucia, dwight yoakam, AC/DC
St. Lucia St. Lucia's latest album, Matter, finds the group in a swirling vortex of '80s-inspired synth-pop highs, each song reaching higher than the one before it. South African–born frontman...
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Matt Otto Quintet with Walter Smith III, at the Blue Room
Houston native Walter Smith III is part of a fresh generation of jazz musicians gaining national acclaim. On his 2014 album, Still Casual, saxophone solos pull you in with crisp vigor wrapped in...
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DJ Spooky brings his art-music-and-science mashup to JCCC Saturday
I can barely hear Paul D. Miller when he answers his cell phone. When I reach him, he's in the middle of a mountain hike near Boulder, Colorado, seemingly enveloped by wind.…
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Hot 103 Jamz kicks off an ambitious talent search
This weekend, radio station KPRS 103.3 — the FM staple known as Hot 103 Jamz — holds the first of three new music showcases, hosted by morning show co-anchor Brian B. Shynin'. The station's music...
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Music Forecast: Carly Rae Jepsen, Kacey Musgraves, Ben Rector
Kacey Musgraves Kacey Musgraves has a playful, tongue-in-cheek approach to modern country.…
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