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“The place just exploded. The band’s fans tore the place apart and became just a mess of mop-topped rockers thrashing all over the dance area.”
Photo by Fally Afani, I Heart Local Music.
More about the Replay’s Spring Into Summer Fest here.
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The Replay’s Spring Into Summer Fest, with Y[our] Fri[end].
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More photos here.
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Someone described Spring Into Summer Fest as “the storm before the calm” on Saturday.
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Interviewing The Regrets left me in stitches. This was just one of those photo shoots and interviews where you could not stop giggling. But every now and then, they’d say something that gave you the “warm fuzzies.”
“We’ve been doing this since 1988, and there’s nothing else I’ve done this long in my life. It’s like a second nature sort of thing that we’ve always done. We get together, we piss each other off, we play a kickass show.”
Read more about The Regrets (and see more of their hot tub photos) here on I Heart Local Music.
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“Cowboy Indian Bear is a band that is important to Lawrence because they lead by example. A few months ago, they played a packed show at a local venue, and put a brand new band on the lineup. Giving a new band a slot on such a big show is a grand gesture of generosity, and as I was leaving the Arts Center on Friday, I spotted the guitarist for that band in the corner, quietly singing all the lyrics to himself. This is the new generation, the new crop of musicians, and they’re in good hands when a band like Cowboy Indian Bear takes them under their wing.”
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More on Cowboy Indian Bear’s record release show here.
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Cowboy Indian Bear at the Lawrence Arts Center. Photo by Fally Afani. More photos and a video of their hauntingly-good performance of “Seventeen” here.
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Soft Reeds busts out a Bowie cover at the Replay, and suddenly everybody’s an incredible dancer. The place just erupted with energy.
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More on the exciting night here.
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“What’s kind of a separate thing for me is the relational side of this, connecting back and forth with people. I love the connection. I feel far more awkward than people could imagine, but that musical thing is perfect.”
How Soft Reeds NAILED IT with their new record, and why you should see them in Lawrence this weekend. Read all about it here.
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“With Skating Polly, we get exposed. We get treated older. We get treated like musicians and not like kids,” she confided. “If it weren’t for Skating Polly, I would still be writing music or making art, but we can’t not create things, and one of our favorite things to create is music. That’s probably the main reason we’re in Skating Polly, because I feel like we have to create something.”
Read more about Skating Polly here, and see them at the Replay tomorrow.
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“To say it left the audience in a tizzy would be an understatement.”
Read more about Many Moods of Dad’s album release show at the Replay in Lawrence, Kansas, here.
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