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Monday, February 25, 2013

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David Byrne and St. Vincent coming to Kansas City

Posted by on Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:13 AM

A mere five months away!
  • A mere five months away!
Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and impossibly cute indie songstress St. Vincent teamed up last year for an album, Love This Giant. They're touring together, and stopping at Crossroads KC at Grinders this summer, on Friday, July 12. Imagine how warm it will be that day!

Tickets on sale this Friday, March 1, at 10 a.m.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

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Making Movies' new mixtape, Conciencia Colectiva, features a bunch of other rad KC musicians

Posted by on Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:57 AM

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Making Movies has a new LP, the Steve Berlin-produced A La Deriva. It won't be released to the rest of the world until March, but we Kansas Citians can grab it already - just head to La Fonda El Taquito, Vinyl Renaissance, It's a Beautiful Day, or Kief's, and get yourself a physical copy. I will write probably a long-ish piece about A La Deriva soon because it is a pretty fucking awesome record. But in the meantime, you can head over to Making Movies' Bandcamp page and pick up the band's new mixtape, Conciencia Colectiva, for free. It's a nine-song collection that's a little mellower and jazzier than A La Deriva, due in part to local guest spots by Hermon Mehari, Javier Mendoza, Mark Lowrey, Julia Haile, and others. Get it here. And peep Making Movies live later this month at RecordBar, on Friday, December 21.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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OFF is set to scare the fuck out of you tonight

Posted by on Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:36 AM

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Hammy comedian-actor Jack Black tears an organ of some kind (a heart? balls?) out of another man's body in OFF's recent video for "Wrong." It's a bloody scene and an appropriate prelude to the band's show here in Kansas City, which falls on Halloween. That's tonight! OFF is a group of middle-aged vets from old hardcore bands — Keith Morris (Circle Jerks, Black Flag), Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides), Steven Shane McDonald (Redd Kross) and Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket From the Crypt, Hot Snakes) — but sounds far more vital than some dime-store nostalgia act. Which is to say, they are still roaring loud and pissed as hell. OFF's self-titled debut, released back in the spring, has an almost perverse immediacy: It's 16 songs in 16 minutes. Some of the songs are only 45 seconds long.

OFF. Wednesday, October 31, at RecordBar.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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What do Gwar and the Wayward Blog have in common?

Posted by on Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:45 PM


I'm pretty impressed with the quality control on the AV Club's Undercover series. Hospitality covering Steely Dan? The Mountain Goats covering Jawbreaker? The Walkmen covering R.E.M.? The Low Anthem covering Wilco? Those are all things I want to watch. Today, it was brought to my attention that Gwar recently did a version of Kansas' "Carry On Wayward Son" — the namesake of this very blog. (Although to be fair, I didn't name it and I often think about changing its name.) Also! Gwar is in town next Tuesday, October 30, at the Beaumont Club. Video above. Gwar tickets here. Gwar, dude! Fuckin' Gwar, man!

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Monday, September 17, 2012

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Scenes from the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival, this past weekend in Winfield, KS (Photos)

A photo tour of the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival.

Posted by on Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM

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This year's Winfield bluegrass festival was as dirty, boozy and joyful as ever. Over 10,000 attendees show up every year to partake in the competitions, camping, festival food-ing and pervasive sense of musical community. Happy to have gone, but my liver might need the year to recuperate. Click through for some photos by Zach Bauman.

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Monday, May 21, 2012

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Lil Wayne was apparently hanging out and skateboarding in Kansas City this weekend

Posted by on Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:47 AM

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According to some Hot 103 chatter and the above photo (posted on the Street League Facebook page), Lil Wayne was in Kansas City this weekend for the Street League DC Pro Tour competition at Sprint Center. He also shouted out KC skateboarder Sean Malto on Twitter on Sunday: "Props 2all da sk8rs in SLS!! Dey kilt it! Props to Nyjah 4 doin it AGAIN!! Dat kid is 2dam good. Luv 2 Sean & Justin Malto! & PRod & Shane O".

Any other Weezy sightings around town? Extremely curious over here.

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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The Flaming Lips to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Liberty Hall with two shows in Lawrence this summer

Posted by on Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:29 AM

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Liberty Hall turns 100 years old this June, which is pretty incredible. To celebrate the past century, the Lawrence venue has invited the Flaming Lips to come perform for two nights: Thursday, June 21, and Friday, June 22. Super rad! Fuck yeah!

Tickets on sale this Saturday, May 12, at noon.

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Monday, April 30, 2012

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My Morning Jacket and Band of Horses are playing Starlight in August

Posted by on Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:33 AM

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Big fat Monday-morning tour announcement: My Morning Jacket rolls into Starlight on Monday, August 6. But wait, there's more: Band of Horses is opening. That's a hot summer show. Tickets on sale this weekend.

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Monday, March 12, 2012

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A solution for SXSW social-media envy

Posted by on Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:04 AM

For those of us stuck here in the Midwest, watching our friends post about South By Southwest this week is something akin to torture. Facebook and Twitter are about to become a daily slog of seething jealousy toward people for whom we normally have nothing but love and affection. For this week, however — being as we're stuck here while they're sucking down free Lone Star and eating food from taco trucks — fuck those guys. (Ed. note: Fuck all those guys, EXCEPT for The Pitch's music editor, who will be reporting from Austin and posting here on Wayward.) Thankfully, Lanyrd has developed a plugin for your Web browser that will eliminate that problem:
"The Lanyrd 'Not At SXSW' browser extension hides tweets from people we know are attending SXSW, along with any tweets mentioning SXSW, leaving you with tweets from people who are having the same not-at-SXSW experience as yourself."

Download that sucker for Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera and save yourself a lot of misery this week.

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

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Three new Ghosty tracks streaming; new LP out digitally and on vinyl in April

Posted by on Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:54 AM

Hell yeah.
  • Hell yeah.
A few months back, I wormed my way into a Ghosty recording session at Westend and got to hear some tracks from the band's upcoming album. They were rough cuts but they already sounded immaculate — those dudes are pros in the studio. Yesterday, the band threw up streams of three songs from the new LP, which you can buy digitally or on vinyl as of April 17. (Cool album art, too, via Jim Button of Continents.)

The thumping, jangly "Take" was already pretty much my new jam 10 seconds in, and that's before I heard its delicious Zombies-style bridge. "Joy in My Sorrow" has this amazing vocal soar halfway through and on the fadeout. I could go on, but that would be way more boring than just listening to it and buying it, which you can do by pushing the arrow thing in this space right here.

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