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Electric Six, the Gay Blades, Millions of Brazilians, Antennas Up! The Riot Room	Sat., November 21	Westport	Music
This Detroit-based band’s reputation as a comedy act was forever cemented with its video for a cover of Queen’s “Radio Ga Ga,” but that’s not how Electric Six frontman (and sole remaining founding member) Dick Valentine sees it. After all, the band had been solidly... More >>

Tech N9ne, Kutt Calhoun, Krizz Kaliko, Big Scoob, Stevie Stone, Glasses Malone, Slaughter House Independence Events Center	Sat., November 21	Independence	Music
It's not often that a hip-hop album begins with a tortured plea to a higher power. Yet such is the anomalous case on "Show Me a God," the first track on K.O.D., Tech N9ne's newest album. Not that the opening song, or any of the 23 tracks on the darkly visceral album, will surprise Tech's... More >>

The Get Up Kids, Kevin Devine, Mansions RecordBar	Sat., November 21 more dates/times	Westport	Music
Jim Suptic of the Get Up Kids inadvertently caused a media firestorm back in July when he jokingly apologized for his band’s role in creating emo music — the interview with Drowned in Sound was seized upon by Rolling Stone and the UK’s Guardian. If you’ve logged on to... More >>

Sons of Great Dane, Scratch Track, Modoc Jerry's Bait Shop	Sun., November 22	Lenexa	Music
The story of Sons of Great Dane began about four years ago, when guitarist Brent Windler got off a tour with the Kansas City band Scratch Track and crashed on his buddy Nolle Bond's couch. The environment was far more welcoming than when Scratch Track opened for alt-rock heavyweights O.A.R. on... More >>

Hatebreed, Cannibal Corpse, Unearth, Born of Osiris, Hate Eternal The Beaumont Club	Sun., November 22	Westport	Music
Hatebreed gained fans beyond its hardcore niche by touring with Slayer and the Deftones, leading to big sales for The Rise of Brutality in 2003. But the album was a step away from the Connecticut band's original mission statement: to create old-school hardcore music in the face of the... More >>

Russian Circles, Young Widows, Git Some The Riot Room	Mon., November 23	Westport	Music
It's no small feat that this instrumental trio from Chicago works the spaces between indie rock and metal with enough individuality so that both sound fresh. Russian Circles describes its sound as "epic" yet its music is remarkably unpretentious. Midway between busy freakouts that recall Tera... More >>

Super Nerd Night Jackpot Music Hall	Mon., November 23, 8:00pm	Lawrence	Music
Many people think that once they leave high school, worlds of new opportunity and acceptance will open before them. Sadly, these nerds have spent years avoiding human interaction and lack the skills necessary to maintain even the most rudimentary exchanges. But there's hope yet for these pale... More >>

Trivia Bowl Flying Saucer	Every week Tuesday, 10:00pm more dates/times	Downtown	Games Music
Playing trivia in a bar has the potential to be an emotional affair. There's the frustration of players and noncompetitors who shout out answers, but there's also the delicious tingle of excitement felt for a teammate who knows that the Riddler's henchwomen are Echo and Query and the glow of... More >>

Buttwiser's Bash with king and queen drag shows JR's Place	Every week Tuesday, 10:00pm	South Johnson County	Music
Seventeen years ago, performing to the tune of Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me," sporting a goatee, wearing leather chaps and a do-rag, and smoking Marlboro Red, the drag king known as Buttwiser made his debut. Since then, the 38-year-old Independence native has made huge strides for women... More >>

The Hearers, the Afterparty The Brick	Wed., November 25	Downtown	Music
Never heard of the Hearers? Well, they haven't heard of you, either. They were too busy holed up in basements, figuring out how best to pervert the formula for classic Americana in ways that would still yield songs. Released on Anodyne Records, the Hearers' second album, Don't Make the Captain... More >>

Summer Breeze: A Yacht Rock Tribute RecordBar	Wed., November 25	Westport	Music
Between the years 2005 and 2008, the masterful, low-budget viral video series Yacht Rock, made by a bunch of 20-something dudes out in California, had music geeks glued to their Channel 101 bookmark hoping for a new episode like farmers praying for rain for their thirsty crops. Beginning with... More >>

Mark Mallman Replay Lounge	Thu., November 26	Lawrence	Music
Minneapolis songwriter Mark Mallman has tackled themes ranging from prostitution to alcoholism during the course of his decade-long journey, and his upcoming LP, Invincible Criminal, applies the same grandiose treatment to Father Time. Mallman sings about 100-year-olds waking up with... More >>

Danny Pound CD-release show with Helping Hands The Eighth Street Tap Room	Fri., November 27	Lawrence	Music
When Danny Pound releases a record, it’s a bit like the Olympics or a lunar eclipse, minus the need for binoculars. The Lawrence songwriter has been on a steady two-record-a-decade pace since the early ’90s (during which he played for indie-rockers Vitreous Humor and the Regrets)... More >>

Season to Risk, Iron Rite Mangle, New Franklin Panthers, Little Murders RecordBar	Fri., November 27	Westport	Music
Talk about influence. For a time there in the ’90s, it seemed that people in the Midwest were even sneezing differently — louder, more dissonant, more staccato — because of bands such as the Jesus Lizard, Shiner and Molly McGuire. Classrooms were disrupted, and relationships were... More >>

The Good Foot The Levee	Fri., November 27 more dates/times	Westport	Music
On the whole, the seven members of the Good Foot, who have converged on Kansas City from Midwestern states such as Nebraska and Iowa, are laid-back. At rehearsals, members casually straggle in. Collectively, they emit a self-effacing sense of humor. And they're taking their recent success with... More >>

The Hearers Replay Lounge	Sat., November 28	Lawrence	Music
Never heard of the Hearers? Well, they haven't heard of you, either. They were too busy holed up in basements, figuring out how best to pervert the formula for classic Americana in ways that would still yield songs. Released on Anodyne Records, the Hearers' second album, Don't Make the Captain... More >>

Hearts of Darkness RecordBar	Sat., November 28	Westport	Music
Afrobeat is not for the faint of spirit. Pioneered by the mercurial Nigerian Fela Kuti in the '70s, the genre is a Yoruba spin on James Brown-style funk. It's loaded with horn breakdowns, improv jazz solos, call-and-response vocals, and rhythmic figures woven as tightly as clay-dipped braids.... More >>

The Cranberries, Griffin House The Midland	Sun., November 29	Downtown	Music
The challenge is less about having success than managing to repeat it. Even though the Cranberries topped their 1993 debut, and its hit single, “Linger,” with an even bigger album and hit single (No Need to Argue and “Zombie,” respectively), the well had run dry by... More >>

Gary Hoey Knuckleheads Saloon	Sun., November 29	North	Music
It’s been two decades since Boston-born guitarist Gary Hoey left his hometown for Los Angeles in a U-Haul truck to pursue a full-time musical career — a move, strangely enough, motivated by an unsuccessful audition for Ozzy Osbourne. (Zakk Wylde got the part.) After embracing the... More >>

The Slowdown, Wild Tiger Jerry's Bait Shop	Mon., November 30	Lee's Summit	Music
In western Blue Springs, there is an ordinary home with an ordinary yard. And in that yard is a shed. With its rust-hued exterior, it seems no different from any other shed. But step inside and ye shall enter the Slowdown's studio. Thrust within walls spattered red, green and brown are all the... More >>

Folk Revolution with Mati Mat The News Room	Every week Tuesday, 10:00pm	Westport	Music
From the 2008 Buckle Bunny Chronicles: It is supposed to be Warrensburg punk night at the Brick. On the menu: the sibling rebel yells of Kosher and Super Black Market. But first, a skinny guy in a white wifebeater and ripped blue jeans steps up with an acoustic guitar. Matthew Alvarado knows... More >>

Gospel Lounge with Carl Butler and friends Knuckleheads Saloon	Every week Wednesday, 7:30pm	North	Music
In the back of the biker-friendly blues venue in the East Bottoms, there is third stage, back behind the bathroom. In this small, intimate, three-room area, Reverend Carl Butler hosts Gospel Lounge every Wednesday from 7:30 to about 8:45 p.m. "We play some Jesus music, we play some other... More >>

Yeeeah Buddy! with DJ Sku and Brent Tactic Czar Bar	First Friday of every month	Downtown	Music
Corey Aguilar can't keep his hands off records. Between the time he spends in record stores and the hours he spins vinyl on the ones and twos, DJ Sku's thumb has been on just about every good hip-hop, soul, funk or rock record in existence. Born in El Paso, Texas, Sku (say it skew) has been... More >>

Best Museum Tour Guide 2008: Dennis Winslett American Jazz Museum	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday	Midtown	Museum Exhibits & Events Music
One day this past spring, the American Jazz Museum was filled with a couple of busloads of tourists. One group was aging baby boomers, maybe in town for some convention; the other group looked like European teenagers paying homage to the classic American art form that doesn't get enough love in... More >>

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12th Street Heritage Jazz Series Gates Barbecue	Every week Saturday, 8:00pm-12:00am	East	Music Nightlife