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OUR CALENDAR
February
20
Wednesday
February
23
Saturday
February
28
Thursday
March
1
Friday
March
7
Thursday
March
12
Tuesday
March
16
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737 New Hampshire St. Lawrence, KS 66044
BAR INFORMATION: (785) 841-5483
TICKETING SUPPORT: (785) 749-3434 EXT 3
2/20
Eminence Ensemble
The Iceman Special
All Ages | 8 pm
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Eminence Ensemble
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The Iceman Special
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2/21
DJ Press Play
18 & Over | 8 pm
2/22
DJ Schwasted and Friends
18 & Over | 8 pm
2/23
Cory Phillips and the Band of Light
Page 7
All Ages | 8 pm
Cory Phillips and the Band of Light
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Page 7
Reggae has been an international musical constant for decades. There have never
been so many outstanding acts from all over the world producing such high-level
output. Within this momentum, Page 7 has created a new reggae and rocksteady
sound for both classic and modern audiences.
Created in 2014 by veterans of the idiom, Page 7 has the makings of supergroup.
With players formally and informally acknowledged as some of the finest
songwriters and performers in the genre, the group’s members have built up an
impressive track record that includes a combined total of over one hundred album
credits, national and international tour dates, and sharing the stage with reggae
superstars including Burning Spear, Toots and the Maytals, The Wailers, Luciano,
Tony Rebel, Yellowman, Junior Murvin, Dean Fraser, and many more.
Combining the best traditions of reggae with a hybrid of pop and traditional
elements from around the world, Page 7 creates a powerful live music experience
that listeners from all walks can enjoy. Fans of reggae music should prepare
themselves with open ears and an eye on the horizon for the newest addition to
reggae’s international sound.
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2/28
Nick Schnebelen Band
Dust Devil Choir
All Ages | 7 pm
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Nick Schnebelen Band
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Dust Devil Choir
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3/1
Alchemic
A Gentle Echo
Witchcraft Lemonade
Brass Knuckle Boulevard
All Ages | 8 pm
Witchcraft Lemonade
Brass Knuckle Boulevard
Alchemic
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A Gentle Echo
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Witchcraft Lemonade
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Brass Knuckle Boulevard
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3/2
Spafford
All Ages | 8 pm
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Spafford
Spafford is a four piece funk rock act hailing from Phoenix, Arizona. The band is comprised of Brian Moss (Guitar), Jordan Fairless (Bass), Andrew “Red” Johnson (Keys), and Cameron Laforest (Drums). Refusing to be restricted to any musical boundaries, Spafford seamlessly blends together an eclectic mixture of all of their collective musical experience. The heart of their sound is rooted in deep sonic exploration with a focus on improvisational elements. With jams stretching well beyond the typical structures of their songs, fans have flocked to their live shows to experience the unique energy captured within each performance. A focus on blending genres with a deep foundation of patient groove building has helped craft a sound all their own. Formed in 2012 by happenstance, the band has been building an organic fanbase in the Southwestern United States through word of mouth ever since. As the secret has gotten out Spafford has moved onto national touring, sharing the stage on a coast to coast tour with jam heavyweights Umphrey’s Mcgee in 2017. Reaching the next level in their ascent in an ever changing jam band landscape, Spafford has risen to the top of the next wave of acts by providing quality improvisation and a truly unique musical experience. Spafford has hit the road full time and is bringing their high energy performances nationwide.
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3/7
The Kid Fraze
Brad Varsity
LFK Fengshui
Kid Chambz
All Ages | 7 pm
LFK Fengshui
Kid Chambz
The Kid Fraze
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Brad Varsity
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LFK Fengshui
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Kid Chambz
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3/8
M-80s
All Ages | 7 pm
3/9
Shaw Davis & the Black Ties
All Ages | 8 pm
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3/12
Backwoods Payback
Custom Black
Pit Hag
All Ages | 8 pm
Pit Hag
Backwoods Payback
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Custom Black
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Pit Hag
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3/15
Wick-It the Instigator
All Ages | 8 pm
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Wick-It the Instigator
He’s got a reputation for doing some thoughtfully fresh and mindblowingly original remixes that take him from beyond a standard dub step or mash-up artist to a DJ/producer with skills that have turned heads and caught ears all over the Southeast. In a live setting, he sends people off with his mix of humor, ingenious pop culture samples and beats that can’t be touched. While his roots are firmly planted in hip hop, there is no shortage of heavy electronic bass music at a Wick-it show.
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3/16
Ebony Tusks
Visitor
Bowlsey
Flock of Pigs
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All Ages | 7 pm
Bowlsey
Flock of Pigs
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Ebony Tusks
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Visitor
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Bowlsey
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Flock of Pigs
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Drifter
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3/17
Tyler Carter
All Ages | 7 pm
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3/22
Radkey
Drop a Grand
The Bad Ideas
Wick & the Tricks
All Ages | 7 pm
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The Bad Ideas
Wick & the Tricks
Radkey
It wouldn’t be hard to make the argument that rock and roll in its purest form is pretty much a teenage fantasy writ large. Like a blacklight poster sprung to life, the lure of picking up a guitar that will transform your adolescent bedroom into an arena filled with screaming fans and pot smoke is the myth that keeps rock and roll forever young, and it’s a kind of dream narrative that has keeps getting re-told, whether it’s The Byrds’ “So You Want To Be A Rock-N-Roll Star” or about half the tracks on Weezer’s blue album, the burning adolescent desire to nothing less than fucking rock is the very thing that makes rock music a constantly renewable resource—and it’s also what makes Radkey—a trio of power riffing brothers—such a classic kind of rock and roll phenomenon.
Formed in the quiet enclaves of St. Joseph Missouri, the trio of 20 year-old Isaiah Radke (bass), 18 year-old Solomon Radke (drums), and 22 year-old Dee Radke (vocals/guitar) began making music together in 2010. Fueled by a steady diet of Nevermind and small town boredom, Radkey’s music quickly went from a bedroom hobby into a full-time pursuit. The band opened for Fishbone in 2011 – less than a year after first playing together – and eventually headed out on the road to play shows with the likes of Red Fang, Against Me, and Touche Amore. Given that the band members were homeschooled (and thanks to their incredibly supportive parents), the idea of jumping in the family van and hitting the road gradually morphed from a kind of surreal fantasy into a much-celebrated reality. In 2013 the band unleashed two EPs (Cat And Mouse and Devil Fruit) and knocked out tons of big-ticket live appearances (including Riot Fest, Download, and, in 2015, Coachella and Japan’s Punksping) in addition to taping a memorable spot for Later with Jools Holland. Though early press on the band often focused on their unconventional backstory—a rock band comprised of three homeschooled African-American teenagers from Missouri—the band’s backstory was always eclipsed by their incendiary live sets: balls-to-the-wall garage punk that is messy, explosive, and crazy loud.
“The last couple of years have been really crazy,” says Isaiah, the group’s most outspoken member. “Traveling in England in Europe was really cool for us. It’s incredible—and such a weird feeling—that you are doing something that is actually important to people. To travel to other countries and see people singing along with us is just…it’s really strange. I never thought our music would become a thing that could take us to all of these places.”
After nearly five years of playing and touring together as a band, all of the Radkey’s hard work comes full circle on Dark Black Makeup—the band’s full-length debut. Recorded primarily in the UK alongside producer Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, The Fall, Jarvis Cocker), the album is a blistering punk opus—13 tracks that show off the band’s knack for combining stadium-sized riffs with surprising pop sensibilities. Tracks like “Love Spills” and “Evil Doer” rank among some of the best—and hookiest—songs the band has ever written, while tracks like “Le Song” and the album’s title track show just what an unstoppable live juggernaut the band has become. The songs are both tightly wound and explosively huge-sounding “We wanted to show people that you can still make a proper rock record,” explains Isaiah, “Something that is both super catchy and super heavy. We want people to hear it and think Fuck Yeah! Mostly we just try and only write songs that we love—that we love the shit out of—and that way it never gets boring and it never feels like a drag to play them live even if we’ve been playing them for years. It seems like a simple thing, but we really just want to make the music that we want to hear.”
Dark Black Makeup tackles more than a few teenage tropes—boredom, anger, girl problems, broken friendships—but does so in a way that is not only clever, but also refreshingly honest. No where is this more evident than on the record’s title track, which itself is a kind of high-decibel wake up call for young people to take ownership of their own lives: a sort of punch in the face for teen angst that is made all the more visceral coming from three musicians just barely out of their own teen years. “That song is about how much of your teenage years can just be such a waste,” says Isaiah, “If you spend all of your time not caring about anything just because you think you’re not supposed to then you’re probably leading such a boring life. You could be partying or making something, as opposed to just spending all your time worrying about what other people think. It’s like, wake up. Hang out. Do something. It’s annoying that you can’t necessarily change the fucking world at that age, but you can make your own situation better. Stop wasting time”
Five years in and the brothers Radkey are happy to be making a musical statement that will hopefully put to rest a few of the preconceptions that have followed them throughout their career thus far—namely those based around their age, their hometown, and race. “Surprisingly that—the racial thing—hasn’t been a factor for us,” says Dee. “Honestly, it’s never been about that. Mostly we get given a hard time about our age, but that’s also something we can’t really change. We might walk into a venue and feel like people are taken a little bit by surprise when they see us, but usually after we play all of that stuff kind of goes away. We get a lot of questions about being brothers—like, do we argue?—and it’s a good question I guess, but the answer is no, we don’t really argue very much. And yes, we all write the songs together—everyone writes—so it’s not a thing we really spend too much time thinking or talking about it.”
The ambition of Dark Black Makeup is evidenced by the heightened songwriting and broadened sonic palette, but the energy behind the music remains the same—visceral, urgent, and raw. It is the sound of three people doing what they love…loudly. “Our only ambitions have ever really been to make a record that people will love and to be able to play as many shows as we can,” says Isaiah, “It’s also a personal journey. We’ve been living this for years now. This is literally all that we do and the record is the evidence of that. I stop and think, man I’m 20 years old and I’ve been doing this since I was basically 14. We’re still making the same kind of music we were when we started, but we’re better at it now. Thankfully, we’ve had the opportunity to actually go out into the world and experience some real shit, which gives us something to write about now. We just want people to listen. And play it really loud.”
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Drop a Grand
TRADING WITH THE ENEMY!!!
Founded in 1975, G. Blanzden & Associates (dba DROP A GRAND) is one of the world’s largest providers of Psych and Shmooze services in the industry of face melting.
MEMBERS:
GERN BLANZDEN guitar vox phase
UNICRON bass vox fx
WHITE N SHITTY II keys keytar synth
2 DOLLA BILL skins vox
GUESTS:
DR FLASH!! shredder
SACRED HORNS OF MANITOBA (aka Brass Flag)
WHITE N SHITTY I plastic saxxx
SHEILA P digital percussives
Z phazer accordion
Drop a Grand is a Kansas City band or a performance-art ensemble. Or both.
Its members wear costumes and go by pseudonyms or noms-de-tunes. Their performances are loud, brash, dramatic and subversive. Their music is a deranged, riff-roaring clamor that clings to a steel-toed groove.
“It’s psychotropic blues-punk,” said Unicron, the band’s bassist. We recently interviewed the band’s founder, Gern Blanzden, about the band’s music and the art of costuming.
What was the concept of Drop a Grand from the beginning?
It’s very self-serving: I have $1,000 to blow with my buddies. … What should we do? Sure as hell ain’t gonna play a round of golf, now are we? Mommy always said if you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing. In DAG we’d get blurry-eyed, make some enemies and blame it on the Tiger.
Were costumes part of the concept from the start?
Complete disguise was initially the only means of getting others to join me on a stage. Kind of an afterthought, but whatever. The art of costuming has significant advantages: minimal stalkers and no unwarranted shop talk from town to town.
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The Bad Ideas
The Bad Ideas is an American punk band from Kansas City, Missouri formed in August 2011. They've written all original songs and are influenced by post-hardcore, punk, and early 80's punk. Their EP, Worse Thoughts, was recorded on January 22, 2012 and released March, 2012. Their first self-produced full length, Lesson #1 was released March 8, 2013. The Bad Ideas also released a 7" split with Red Kate on March 31, 2014. Their most recent release is a full length cassette, "Leave Me Alone." Released in June 6, 2015.
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Wick & the Tricks
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3/23
Nelli Fest featuring..
The Sluts
Vivid Zebra
All Ages | 7 pm
Vivid Zebra
Benefit for The Sexual Trauma and Abuse Care Center of Lawrence
Nelli Fest featuring..
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The Sluts
The Sluts are a two-piece garage rock/punk/grunge act from Lawrence Fucking Kansas.
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Vivid Zebra
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3/27
Dilly Dally
All Ages | 7 pm
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3/29
Moon Tooth
The Gorge
Existem
Lightbringer
All Ages | 8 pm
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Existem
Lightbringer
Moon Tooth
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The Gorge
"They're no-frills players who understand the value of restraint and dynamics, and employ meticulous arrangements that also hint at frantic mathcore and technical metal. These strengths come through loud and clear on the Gorge's most recent album, Thousand Year Fire. The album's power-drill drumming, jackhammer guitars and roaring vocals should please Baroness and Mastodon fans who aren't stoked on how those bands have evolved."-Annie Zaleski
Existem
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Lightbringer
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3/30
The Real Zebos
Essenger
Sons of Stereo
Faintheart
All Ages | 7 pm
Sons of Stereo
Faintheart
The Real Zebos
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Essenger
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Sons of Stereo
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Faintheart
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4/1
Caamp
Ona
All Ages | 7 pm
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4/5
Plini
Mestis
Dave Mackay
All Ages | 7 pm
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Dave Mackay
Plini
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Mestis
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Dave Mackay
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4/7
Mom Jeans
Mover Shaker
Sincere Engineer
All Ages | 7 pm
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Sincere Engineer
Mom Jeans
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Mover Shaker
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Sincere Engineer
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4/9
Copeland
From Indian Lakes
Many Rooms
All Ages | 7 pm
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Many Rooms
Copeland
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From Indian Lakes
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Many Rooms
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4/13
BIG SMO
18 & Over | 8 pm
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4/20
Droids Attack
Inner Alter
Snowchild
They Watch us from the Moon
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All Ages | 8 pm
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Snowchild
They Watch us from the Moon
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Droids Attack
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Inner Alter
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Snowchild
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They Watch us from the Moon
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Automatic Wolf
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4/26
Thank You Scientist
Kindo
In the Presence of Wolves
All Ages | 7 pm
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In the Presence of Wolves
Thank You Scientist
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Kindo
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In the Presence of Wolves
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5/7
Family of the Year//Lydia
All Ages | 7 pm
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5/9
Shoebox Money
Jean Claude and the Eclairs
Cavves
The Arsonist
All Ages | 7:30 pm
Cavves
The Arsonist
Shoebox Money
Returning from a 9 month hiatus in April of 2017, Shoebox Money found a lineup that really works and discovered their sound with original members Patrick and Ben W. (Bass and lead guitar/harmonica) paired with new members Ben S. and Dylan (vocals/rhythm guitar and drums). Drawing equally from classic rock and blues as well as post garage rock revival and alt punk, these indie rockers produce theory driven music and put on high energy live shows.
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Jean Claude and the Eclairs
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Cavves
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The Arsonist
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5/30
SkeletonWitch
Soft Kill
Matrtyrod
Wiegedood
All Ages | 7 pm
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Matrtyrod
Wiegedood
SkeletonWitch
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Soft Kill
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Matrtyrod
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Wiegedood
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6/14
Truck Stop Love
Godzillionaire
Headlight Rivals
All Ages | 8 pm
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Headlight Rivals
Truck Stop Love
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Godzillionaire
Heavy space rock from Lawrence, KS.
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Headlight Rivals
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THIS WEEK'S SHOWS
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- TuesdayOPEN 3p-2a
- Wednesday Eminence Ensemble
- Thursday DJ Press Play
- Friday DJ Schwasted and Friends
- Saturday Cory Phillips and the Band of Light
- SundayOPEN 3p-2a
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