Recent Stories
Miss Allison
Songwriter brings her old-country charms to local stages
There’s something enviable about Allison Olassa’s folksy lifestyle. She plays a sort of timeless music that’s as free and loose as Gillian Welch, and she pays the bills by cleaning houses (with all-natural products, of course)...
Irie All the Time
The Irietions mellow out Lawrence with 4:20-friendly reggae
The Irietions stop by to share some new tunes and their thoughts on legalization, local reggae, and gettin' the hell outta Dodge (City).
Blue Genes
Brody Buster has the blues in his blood, but that doesn’t mean he has to play it
Most kids would kill for the kind of whirlwind notoriety Brody Buster experienced between the ages of 8 and 12. From Beale Street to Jay Leno to befriending B.B. King, Buster lived the dream before he was old enough to know it...
Then We Take Berlin
Alacartoona performs modern cabaret with the flair of post-WWI Germany
Alacartoona sings in boisterous voices and plays accordions and seduces their audiences with a combination of hard liquor and woozy gypsy waltzes. They get bitten, jeered, and stabbed at with dinner knives, but other than that their audiences generally seem to have a good time.
All In: Chuck Mead returns to Lawrence playing a 'Journeyman’s Wager' as a solo artist
After many years as a Lawrence townie, Chuck Mead jumped ship for Nashville. His hillbilly outfit BR-549 signed to Arista Records in 1995 and spent the next decade touring the world and becoming a minor superstar. Mead caught up with us via phone from the road. Included in the podcast are portions of tracks from the new album...
All Roads Lead Left
Left on Northwood releases debut album, avoids numerous debacles involving pain and litigation
Great Scott
Rusty Scott pulls record "out of his ass," polishes it up into quite a dandy
Scott’s down-home songs toe the line between folk, rock, and bluegrass, working their way into your subconscious with easygoing melodies and old-fashioned instrumentation...
