Naming your band after the largest rodent in the world when you hail from nowhere near the creature's South American homeland is strange but somehow endearing. There are certainly more disgusting strange mammals I could think of to grace an album cover though; a Sloth...
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When heRobust was visiting Leonard DStroy in Kansas City last summer, I was fortunate enough to meet him and bounce ideas between the three of us. As a bright individual, heRobust's beats shine similarly. Bass-driven, tastefully-eccentric compositions encased in a kind of...
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Topeka, KS-based hip hop group, The Skeptics, have only been active for about a year-and-a-half. But they nearly sold out their show at the Jackpot in Lawrence just a couple of weeks ago, according to Lawrencian, Johnny Quest. This is not a small feat, especially when...
Grammy-noted jazz composer and producer Roy Hargrove swung through the Foundation on Friday night, which turned out to be a pretty wild night in Kansas City with a lot of events going down. I first went to see Matty G at the Midland Theater downtown, and his minimal,...
Local singer-songwriter Kurt Viers (stage name, "Kurt Vee") comes from the old school of punk. He's studied at the school of hardscrabble living and has the rock and roll image down, now he just needs the fame. It might be hard to imagine anyone with just an acoustic guitar...
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As usual, the VS battle on Saturday night prompted a lot of "ooohs" and "aaahs". DRplus2, Barbaric Merits, Info Gates and Ghost competed in a beat battle royal with Ghost playing drums over his own pre-recorded tracks. Barbaric Merits left with the prize, while former Demencha...
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I'm not sure how many readers are already familiar with Archetype, the Lawrence duo of Jeremy Nesbitt and Isaac Diehl, or Nezbeat and iD. I'm not gonna get into much of a biography about these chaps, because I did some of that when I reviewed their first single from Red...
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Kansas City has seen its fair share of youthfully exuberant bands. The obvious ones that come to mind are The Get-Up Kids and The Gadjits. While The Kids are now only young at heart (one would hope) and the Gadjits are now professional Architects, both groups once displayed the...
The newest member of Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang, younger brother of Project Pat and Academy Award-winning recording artist, Juicy J, dropped one of the more anticipated hip hop mixtapes over the past few months just a couple of days ago. Of Three 6 Mafia fame, Juicy is back...
Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne tour hit Kansas City Tuesday night at the Sprint Center downtown, much to the apparent, hinted dismay of this STL Today writer who didn’t exactly diss us, but left plenty of room for the imagination of his readers down I-70. While...
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