Posts by Sarah Legg

On a hot summer evening typical of early August in Kansas City, Atmosphere and Slightly Stoopid took the stage at CrossroadsKC at Grinders. The positive aura of the First Friday crowd in the Crossroads arts district carried over into the audience at Grinders for this stop  on the “Kicking Up Dust” tour. Atmosphere took the […]

For the last two decades or so Minneapolis has been the hip hop mecca responsible for feeding artists like Atmosphere and P.O.S. to the indie music scene. Saturday night brought Dessa and Sims – two of the Twin Cities’ finest to a full Record Bar in Kansas City, Mo. Despite having spent nine hours trekking […]

After more than a decade, dozens of releases, a personal battle with cancer and touring relentlessly, Andrew McMahon should be ready to settle down as a retiree on a Florida golf course at the ripe old age of 29. But he’s not. His band, Jack’s Mannequin, brought its unrivaled energy to Kansas City’s Beaumont Club support of its latest album People and Things.

It was a bit disappointing to only hear two songs from the band’s older album Progress and the many compilations and EPs the band has recorded over the years. All in all, it was a good show. Not the best from the Bandits, but the crowd was good, the venue was good, and it’s always fun reliving the glory days through yet another band that provided the soundtrack to the drunken youth of so many.

Electric Six finally graced the Riot Room in Kansas City, Missouri with its presence after a five-month postponement of its original show date back in the fall. It was a night filled with covers, middle-aged folks dancing, and murmurs towards diverse establishments.

If ska is dead, then consider Less Than Jake Jesus, rising from the grave and rocking so hard that even hipster-laden Lawrence, Kansas was moving. For almost two decades, Less Than Jake has toured fervently delivering its unmistakable ska-pop-punk sound  to fans across the globe. Saturday night in Lawrence was no exception.