This week: the Dead Girls
Local power-pop supergroup the Dead Girls are at the Jackpot this Friday, with Sons of Great Dane and the Sexy Accident on Friday. Doors open at 9 p.m. We recently asked them about their tastes and likes. Articulate, comprehensive answers! You should read.
This week: DJ G Train
DJ G Train spins hip-hop, funk, soul, R&B, house, top 40 — whatever keeps the party movin’. On various nights of the week, you can see G Train at the Replay Lounge and Saints (Lawrence location). What does G Train like?
This week: the Floozies
The Floozies are Matt and Mark Hill, a Lawrence duo that makes “funk for aliens.” Well, hell. We can get behind that. Step into the ethereal regions of the band’s hypnotic beats and grooves when the Floozies play the Riot Room on Friday, October 7. 9 p.m. $5. 21-plus. Evil Bastards support.
Yeah, but what do the Floozies like?
This week: Bobby Sauder from Karma Vision
Psychedelic-pop six-piece Karma Vision just returned from a tour, and on Friday Lawrence will welcome the band home at the Replay. 10 p.m. 21-plus. $3. Netherfriends and Fire in the Churchyard support. We recently asked frontman Bobby Sauder about what he likes, and stuff.
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This week: Stik Figa
Topeka rapper Stik Figa's new album (with D/Will), Crown and Coke, is now available to download. He recently won The Pitch’s 2011 award for Best Hip-Hop Artist. But what does he like?
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Locals Molly Picture Club make crisp, post-punk dance rock. You can buy the band's EP four on the floor on the band's website. It's a fine soundtrack for your pre-going-out ritual or for a post-show party, and there's promise of a full-length release this fall. Catch Molly Picture Show tonight at Press Bar (above Crosstown Station). The band will open for Dream Wolf and the Delighted. Doors 8:30 p.m. 21-plus. $7.
What does Molly Picture Club's Michael Tipton like? Let's see.
Welcome to What I Like, our weekly chat with local musicians about their favorite things.
This week: the Blackbird Revue
The Blackbird Revue plays country-inspired ballads and adrenaline-ridden, soaring anthems fueled by ear-catching harmonies. The band is currently writing new material but won't start recording for a while. Stop by one of the Revue's shows, though, and you'll most likely catch a new tune. Buy the band's album, The Whaler & Other Stories, on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby or straight from the band.
I arrived at Love Garden Sounds a smidgen before the long-loved Lawrence record store opened its doors to record-hungry music lovers. The RSD line went back about four storefronts, and people filed into the store at 10 a.m. on the dot. Once inside the store, early birds got their shot at the exclusives table.
We've caught wind of a new local music blog that has cropped up in Lawrence recently, called I Heart Local Music. It has just put up a collaboration between Cowboy Indian Bear's Katlyn Conroy and Hospital Ships' Jordan Geiger, who are both covering a Daniel Johnston song in honor of the artist's appearance at the Middle of the Map Fest this weekend. Here are the two Lawrence songbirds, singing Johnston's "Walking the Cow," off his 1983 release, Hi, How Are You -- the same release that had labels in a bidding war over Johnston after Kurt Cobain sported a T-shirt with Johnston's album cover on it at the 1992 MTV VMAs.
(Another fun Daniel Johnston fact: We've also heard that Capybara is going to be backing Johnston on several songs at his Saturday-night performance.)
Matt Dunehoo may have moved on from his former Kansas City project, Doris Henson, a while ago; but we here at Wayward like to keep tabs on what our favorite formerly local musicians are up to these days. Dunehoo's new band, Baby Teardrops, is nominated in an online poll to be the next New York City artist of the month by indie-music mag The Deli. Based out of Brooklyn, the grunge-pop trio also includes Megan Thomas on bass and Gerry White on drums.
Set to release their debut album X Is for Love on April 12, Baby Teardrops could certainly use the media support from The Deli's poll -- and you can help them out with your vote.
Wayne Coyne, of the Liberty Hall-bound Flaming Lips, just wants your full attention
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