MusicOn the heels of his band’s fifth album, Thursday’s Geoff Rickly gets a lesson in perseverance from the Flaming Lips Michael Alan Goldberg, October 1, 2009
MusicFormer Elevator Division operators Sam and Joe Hoskins start up the Slowdown Hugh Welsh, September 24, 2009
MusicAs the Get Up Kids prepare for a reunion tour, Matt Pryor struggles with the fact that he’s happy Elke Mermis, September 10, 2009
MusicKansas City’s most dexterous hip-hop duo wants to meet you on The Playground Hugh Welsh, September 3, 2009
MusicDoby Watson emerges from his early life crisis with a resolute new album Richard Gintowt, August 27, 2009
MusicThe sixth-annual North vs. South Music Festival brings middle America’s best unknown indie-rock heroes to Kansas City Richard Gintowt, August 20, 2009
MusicWith a growing international following, local experimenters Expo ’70, Plante and Sounding the Deep climb atop the drone throne Richard Gintowt, July 30, 2009
MusicSonic Youth and Kim Gordon continue to age gracefully with a new LP, The Eternal JAIME LEES, July 16, 2009
MusicSt. Louis’ post-everything rockers So Many Dynamos fight complacency and boring music with The Loud Wars Annie Zaleski, July 9, 2009
MusicElectro-poppers London Transit aim to sell high with their Digital Kid Richard Gintowt, July 2, 2009
MusicVincent Galicia aims to teach Kansas City how to speak Spanish, one hot, Latin-flavored club jam at a time Hugh Welsh, June 25, 2009
MusicThe Architects prepare to work their fourth release, The Hard Way, all summer on Warped Tour Peter Rugg, June 18, 2009
MusicWith a solo album, a Brannock Device reunion and three Wild Chipmunk and the Cuddly Poos releases, Jason Beers is one busy guy Danny Alexander, June 11, 2009
MusicTroglodyte reps KC – and Sasquatch – at this weekend’s American Waste festival Hugh Welsh, June 4, 2009
MusicThe Yeah Yeah Yeahs mix electronics with emotion on It’s Blitz! Michael Alan Goldberg, May 28, 2009
MusicBlack Lodgers Ed Rose and Ryan Pope talk about the past and the prospective future of their storied Eudora studio Richard Gintowt, May 21, 2009
MusicBe/Non unearths a proggy, picaresque Mountain of Yeses in a valley of nos Richard Gintowt, May 14, 2009
MusicAfter a wild youth on Kansas City’s East Side and run-ins with the law, Ronald White reinvents himself as the lyrically brilliant Ron Ron Kyle Koch, May 7, 2009
MusicBrad Cox and the People’s Liberation Big Band aim a jazz warhead at classic film Battleship Potemkin Hugh Welsh, April 30, 2009
MusicKansas City singer-songwriter Barclay Martin braved separatist violence and deadly snakes to make a documentary about putting on a concert in the Philippines Kyle Koch, April 16, 2009
