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Feature
These stereo geeks turned Bartle Hall into the citys biggest boombox.
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We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.
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Interview
The albums that sent our threat advisory levels to red. Or was it orange?
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Interview
Nary a space on the dance floor was empty when the needle dropped on these club bangers.
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Night Ranger
2004 may have been the Year of the Monkey for some, but we beg to differ.
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Interview
The albums that came up roses for legends pushing up daisies.
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Interview
White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.
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Interview
The songs that sent our threat advisory levels to yellow. Or was it blue?
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Interview
The local full-length albums that kicked Kansas City and environs into high gear.
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Interview
The best EPs for locals with short attention spans. The best EPs for locals with short attention spans. The best ...
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Interview
Homegrown songs that burrowed inside our skulls like a herd of ravenous earwigs.
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Interview
Taking the piss out of some of the year's most universally beloved albums.
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Interview
Taking aim at the songs that captured 2004's collective imagination -- and shouldn't have.
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Interview
At least we got these songs out of the futile push to end the Fourth Reich.
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Interview
These red-blooded releases were the year's best indication that the terrorists have won, y'all.
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Critics' Choices
Saturday, January 1, at Liberty Hall.
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Critics' Choices
Tuesday, January 4, at the Beaumont Club.
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Critics' Choices
Wednesday, January 5, at the Grand Emporium.
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Critics' Choices
Friday, December 31, at the Beaumont Club.
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Critics' Choices
Friday, December 31, at The Brick.
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Critics' Choices
Friday, December 31, at the Lucky Brewgrille.
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Critics' Choices
Friday, December 31, at the Jackpot Saloon.
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Restaurant Reviews
Our food critic earned some culinary Capital, and now he intends to spend it.
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Fat Mouth
For some affordable luxury, make the commute up to The Sour Octopus.
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Film
Kevin Spacey honors a man who did it all, and somehow nothing much happens.
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Art Capsules
Our critics recommend these shows.
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Night & Day
Bar Natasha celebrates a successful first year.
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Night & Day
Week of December 30, 2004
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Urban Experience
Celebrate New Year's without the upper crust.
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Sports/Outdoors
Shes a lumberjack, and shes OK.
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See/Be Seen
Consider not-so-great expectations this year.
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Performance
Weve resolved to listen to some blues this New Years.
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Letters
Letters from the week of
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Yearend: Yearend
In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote.
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Yearend: Yearend
Music that made the world safe for the word "alternative" again.
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Yearend: Yearend
Sassy Brits, hoochie mamas and a dude named Beans attempted to invigorate a stagnant year for hip-hop.
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Yearend: Yearend
White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.
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Yearend: Yearend
This was the year electronic dance music got its head -- and its ass -- out of the past.
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Yearend: Yearend
Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming and dig this year's buried black-music treasures.
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Yearend: Yearend
This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.
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Yearend: Yearend
Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.