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Is Steve Tulipana the Charlie Parker of post-everything electro-noise? Well, he is an established and uncompromising Kansas City musical force, having put in more than 20 years of playing, recording, and touring. And he’s a known innovator, a pillar of pioneering KC legends Season to Risk (“They don’t sound like any other band, and when [...]


Probably the best thing about assembling this column is hopefully the best thing about reading it: Getting to know a little more about the people you’ve seen and heard for maybe years. Keenan Nichols is a great example. You know he’s a hard working rocker, guitarist for the always moving Architects. But did you know [...]


Guitar heroes are alive and well and roaming the Midwest. For every niche and substrata of music, there are players who those in the know consider a cut above. In the surprisingly robust metal segment of Kansas City music, Patrick Renk is one of those guys. The poll-winning guitarist took KC juggernaut Moire to a [...]


Fans of good music and multiple aliases should be fans of Mike Doss. A man of many musical personalities, he also goes by various names: Many know him as “Galactic Celt” from his days in the melodic hard rock trio Boomstick, but he also trades under the moniker “Rusty Peters” in the hair rock tribute [...]