… in which music from the Midwest takes the lead once again, with Kansas City, Lawrence, and Wichita well-represented. Ink Magazine’s Chris Haghirian shares sounds from worth-seeing shows that are coming soon, and a new video provides treats for the eyes as well as the ears.
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Ghosty – You Shut Me Out
Antennas Up – Coming On
Flashbulb Fires – Serious Way
Folie Adieu – Tent
Active Child – You Are All I See
Joe Pug – Hymn #76
The Quivers – Keep Your Socks On
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Here are a few random photos from random gigs featuring not-so-random bands that you may be hearing right this very second:
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- Ghosty @Vinyl Renaissance on 39th Street
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- Ghosty @Vinyl Renaissance on 39th Street
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- Flashbulb Fires @Riot Room
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- Flashbulb Fires @Riot Room
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- Active Child @recordBar, September 2010
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- Active Child @recordBar, September 2010
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- The Quivers @FOKL
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The Sexy Accident have released this cimenatic interpretation of their song “What We’d Do” from their new album Ninja Ninja Fight Darth Vader – have a look:
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Time to start a new month of concert calendar planning, and as you can see, with warmer weather upon us, May is shaping up to be a pretty busy few weeks:
Monday, April 30
- Peelander Z/Drop A Grand/Radkey at recordBar
- Portugal. The Man/The Lonely Forest at The Beaumont Club
- Chad Elliott/Bonita Crowe at Davey’s
- Country Mice/Doubleplus at Replay
- Green River Ordinance/Graham Colton at Riot Room
- Lotus Plaza/Caveman/Frankie Boyles at recordBar
- Not A Planet/Dead Sevens/Monster at The Bottleneck
- Augustana at Granada
- Pocket Vinyl/Opossum Trot/Oils/Shadow Paint at Riot Room
- Skyline Aurora/Kahldera/My Marionette at The Bottleneck
- 200 West/Last Chance Casanova/Cold Forty Three at recordBar
- The Wombats/Static Jacks/Flagship at Beaumont
- Devil Television CD release show/Low Horse/Long Shadows at Replay
- En Masse/The Coventry/Decimation at Riot Room
- New Riddim/The Right Now at recordBar
- Quiet Corral at Granada
- Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy/Blue Boot Heelers at Davey’s
- Civil Twilight/We Are Voices at Beaumont
- Claire Adams/Genessee/Doctor Wizards/Low Standards at recordBar
- Cowboy Indian Bear at FOKL
- Deadman Flats/Tragic Prelude at The Bottleneck
- The Spring Invitational at Riot Room
- Alice Sweet Alice at Riot Room
- The Bonas Brothers/Smile High Club at The Bottleneck
- The Cave Girls/Stonebelly/Outlaw Jake and the Chain Gang/2Twenty2 at Davey’s
- Fast Food Junkies/Get Jonny at Replay
- Rock N Fashion Show with Supermassive Black Holes/Cherokee Rock Rifle/The Beautiful Bodies at Beaumont
- Root and Stem/Mime Game/Jared Bond and the Tornados/We Make Noise/Jib Jab Jones and the Indigo Circus at The Brick
- Son Venezuela at Granada
- The Depth and Whisper/The INwards/Chaotic Goods at recordBar
- 2nd Annual Spring Dance with The Grisly Hand/The Goodfoot/Hearts of Darkness at Crossroads KC behind Grinder’s
- Alan Evans Trio/Humans at Riot Room
- Leeches of Lore (ex-Filthy Jim)/Major Games/Ask An Adult at Replay
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