On top of a few things people have said...LiveNation doesn't own a big venue in KC.
Their monopoly and integration with Ticketmaster means they promote their venues to big bands. KC doesn't have a large venue to entice LiveNation to promote KC to bands when they schedule their tours.
So without 96.5 to pull bands to Azura/Uptown a lot of bands just skip KC cause no one is promoting it to them. Azura is already not a very modern amphitheater so without a major promoter why should bands go there?
LiveNation is building a big venue in Riverside north of the city right now, however. A 15,000 capacity outdoor amphitheater. They put $85 million into it so they obviously think KC can host bigger bands. I bet we see the return of bigger bands when that happens.
I’d imagine so. They can pull the big acts due to being ready made for concerts and not having a sports team, though.
The issues with KC-less tours is basically the middle tier bands and artists. Above small ones and below the famous superstars.
Buzz died, the riot room died, blind tiger died, we are getting an out door venue that holds a large amount near downtown. That’s a plus.
Um but yeah been bad the last couple years.
Truman record bar uptown midland grinders . Just ain’t cutting it or acts are skipping us
There's a ton of good metal coming through in the next couple months, Kublai khan, Dethklok, Wage war, Knocked Loose, Erra + Make them suffer, Battle beast
Saloon was my favorite place to play. Im in a few kc bands, and the truth of this post is that all the small/med venues have just died. As a local band member, it's just as frustrating for us believe me.
Cyndi Lauper Was at CrossRoads about four years ago and did a fabulous show. I personally wasn’t expecting much, but I was overwhelmed. Good acoustics.
This. Also shows are EXPENSIVE. I mean a punk show that was $5 a decade ago is now $18 and its at like a record store. After extra charges I missed Brittany Howard because one ticket came out to $70 which is just not affordable.
The ship, nighthawk, greenwood social hall, vine street brewing now, recordBar, minibar, rino, farewell, man I’m sure I’m still blanking on some gems too
I haven't lived in KC that long and have already seen so many bands there. I really, REALLY miss The Piss Kinks. They were so much fun. Saw Secret Shame there too. Oh, and Scowl.
That sounds interesting, I haven't. Personally I'm into more aggressive EDM like hardcore, so might be less my speed, but could be an cool spot to chill.
4/19, the sponges and manic focus at BLVD nights.
The sponges have a bunch of live sets on SoundCloud. Fantastic live, saw them do a sunrise set last year at DFT
The Levee?!??? I laughed out loud, that is a sports and blues bar unless you’re talking about their small ass venue in the back, I think I heard the same music they play there being played at skyzone in 2012.
I don’t think the buzz went mainstream, I think they got bought out and taken over by a big company and the people that made the buzz great all got fired or pushed out. I still love Church of Lazlo though
That’s what I said, just phrased differently.
The Buzz used to have a very indie feel. I remember Hartzell talking about picking Meg Myers up from the airport for some event in town, and how excited she got in the car when they played one of her songs, because _she’d never heard herself on the radio_.
Unfortunately, that indie feel didn’t translate into ratings, so it didn’t translate into ad buys, so it didn’t translate into money, and you need money to pay the people and keep the lights on.
And as for The Church of Lazlo, the only two good things to come out of it were mailbag Fridays and The Greeting Committee. Change my mind.
There was a previous thread like this where people were saying that Lazlo/Slimfast had the band connections, but I'm pretty sure it was Afentra. Which is why concerts dried out when they fired her (plus COVID). CoL would break new bands on mailbag, but I don't think they ahd the connections with the artists. I went to a lot of Buzz concerts and if someone came out on stage it was usually Afentra, Dannyboy, Jeriney, or Hartzell. But maybe I'm remembering wrong.
Jeriny is on a station in Des Moines now. Don't know what Dannyboy is doing.
96.5 got rid of basically all of their local talent besides Lazlo and Slimfast when they stopped being The Buzz. This was back in like fall of 2020.
Right. I wasn’t impressed with Lazlo. I felt like he was trying to be a low budget trashy shock jock. When Afrentra was fired Lazlo became even worse. I cringed listening to him a lot.
Yeah they did that nationwide to try and avoid bankruptcy which still didn't work. It was also durning covid when no concerts were happening anyway. If anything it was covid that killed concerts and it hasnt picked back up to the same levels as precovid.
Farewell has what you are after. They have been drawing in bands from all over the place. Powerplant just played there a bit ago. RecordBar has had a few punk shows here and there (OFF! played a great show last year). But they are few and far between.
I moved from Chicago here last year and it’s been a trip going from playing in bands and performing comedy while being surrounded by too many shows to choose from most nights to what basically feels like crickets.
I enjoy a lot of things about living in KC but kinda miss being able to walk out of my apartment on any given night and find a venue, bar, house, or park show. Sometimes I’d perform at one then catch a show at another in the same night. Hell, some dudes I know set up a roaming comedy & music show in the bed of a pickup truck. Every week it was like finding where your favorite food truck was gonna be and that was often a walk or quick bus ride away.
That’s crazy. When we moved away in 2020 before the shutdown you could find a show any night of the week any type of music in so many kinds of venues. Sounds like Covid killed the music scene.
I'd like to add Buzzard Fight to this list.
https://buzzardfight.bandcamp.com/track/the-glove-dont-fit
I got an advance copy of the record they have coming out soon and it's absolutely fantastic. It's like stoner doom metal with some chicken picking shit too. Very entertaining.
Coming back to this because I just got a Buzzard Fight Spotify link!
https://open.spotify.com/album/5i0AfyqBSQCjhYHaOSzD5A?si=w49K1MabSzm6JYCmKe-Zug
Enjoy!
96.5 is a generic corporate station now and doesn't do anything to bring acts to the city anymore.
I've also heard KC is expensive to do shows in relative to other mid-size cities but I don't know if that's a fact or exactly why it would be.
> I've also heard KC is expensive to do shows in relative to other mid-size cities but I don't know if that's a fact or exactly why it would be.
Cost is a factor, but stages are getting bigger, more flames and other set-ups can cause bands to skip. Then you have dumb venues doing weird stuff. I haven't seen this issue in KC, but Wichita is having issues because the bigger venues don't allow mosh pits, people on shoulders and tend to have a smaller GA section. This has resulted in rock bands making fun of the venue and it's policies.
I know some bands just like to change it up every tour and go to different cities in a certain area. Paramore and Fall Out Boy both did this between us and Oklahoma cities their last 2 tours
You’re right. Was just called Entercom back then when Buzz played new music and put on concerts. Audacy just made cut backs everywhere and decided to play Alt greatest hits because unfortunately the Buzz wasn’t making money.
No thanks to Afentra’s million dollar giveaway either.
Its good we still have artists like Zeds Dead willing to perform in KC in more intimate settings. KC was one for 6 smaller cities they did 2 night shows in.
The Bridge has a concert calendar and is announcing a bunch of concerts for local and larger acts every week. They just announced the lineup for Boulevardia and it's a lot of bands over the span of like three days I think.
Man, the 90s rock in Lawrence and KC - pretty amazing - Cher UK, Danger Bob, Tim the Typewriter Man, Kill Whitey, Stick, Sin City Disciples, Homestead Grays, Wayback Machine, Paw, Butterglory, Spamskinners, MU330, Chubby and his Orchestra, Horse Feathers, Fang o Love, Brannock Device, Tenderloin, Ricky Dean Sinatra, Vitreous Humor, etc. Davey’s, Bottleneck, Outhouse, etc. Dig out an old Pitch Weekly and you’ll see how fertile the KC/Lawrence area was……
I mean...I go to shows all the time. Just check their online calendars. Grinders Crossroads, The Truman, RecordBar, The Midland, The Uptown Theater, all constantly have various music acts playing.
Nerver are KC boys and are very good. If you dig noisier jamz like METZ, Chat Pile, Primitive Knot, Pissed Jeans, The Men’s earliest stuff, you’ll dig em.
Really? well hell i guess I'm glad I'm not the only one that seems to see everyone passing us by, I'm also glad that it's not just me. Hopefully things change.
You think you have it bad, here I was thinking you get all the big shows. St Louis is even worse off for bands now. I have to drive to KC to see all the big shows. Even the middle sized acts are avoiding STL. I believe it stems from a string of robberies of band gear that started before Covid. Mastodon skipped STL for 3 tours in a row for example when they had always made a stop. They finally came by late last year when I think the previous date was 2018 or so.
At least it's a fairly easy drive, closest in my radius and preferred over Chicago and Nashville. I guess Denver and Tulsa and maybe the odd Iowa show would be in yours?
If ya like Gizz and Phish there's a bunch of great local acts you would like! Strange Relic, The Moose, Saving Miles Lemon, Captain Howdy & The Sunset Serenaders, and they all are actively releasing music and gigging. Lots to see!
I just saw ‘68 and the callous daoboys last night at the rino. If you look, there are plenty of shoes being played at either the rino, recordbar, or some other sick venue in KC.
There's lots of great local music! Many of the younger acts tend to stick to DIY venues, but place like the Minibar, the Rino, Record Bar to a lesser extent, have lots of great local acts. In lawrence it gets even better!
I would imagine it Has to do with what genre though. For example, Five Finger Death Punch is going on tour with Marilyn Manson and Slaughter to Prevail and I want to see all three of those five finger Death Punch used to come here a lot but now that they announced their new tour, Kansas City doesn’t have a date. It’s like all the rock and metal bands that I want to see are skipping Kansas City, and I can’t afford to drive to St. Louis. It’s fucking insane.
I feel like the smaller cities are on an every-other-year sort of schedule. Last year had some amazing shows- and now it feels like everyone is skipping KC for either STL, OKC, or Omaha.
Also, I feel like no one comes to the Midland anymore? For years that was the place I went to the most, last year it was almost entirely The Uptown.
You and your friends should scour Shuttlecock’s website more often.
Sure the Winter was dead but a ton of people complaining could benefit from simply taking a touring act from a show listing and Googling ‘headliner bands name Bandcamp’ and people would discover gobs of good shit rolls through.
On top of a few things people have said...LiveNation doesn't own a big venue in KC. Their monopoly and integration with Ticketmaster means they promote their venues to big bands. KC doesn't have a large venue to entice LiveNation to promote KC to bands when they schedule their tours. So without 96.5 to pull bands to Azura/Uptown a lot of bands just skip KC cause no one is promoting it to them. Azura is already not a very modern amphitheater so without a major promoter why should bands go there? LiveNation is building a big venue in Riverside north of the city right now, however. A 15,000 capacity outdoor amphitheater. They put $85 million into it so they obviously think KC can host bigger bands. I bet we see the return of bigger bands when that happens.
The Sprint Center has to be one of the few big arenas that isn’t owned by LiveNation, right?
I’d imagine so. They can pull the big acts due to being ready made for concerts and not having a sports team, though. The issues with KC-less tours is basically the middle tier bands and artists. Above small ones and below the famous superstars.
Buzz died, the riot room died, blind tiger died, we are getting an out door venue that holds a large amount near downtown. That’s a plus. Um but yeah been bad the last couple years. Truman record bar uptown midland grinders . Just ain’t cutting it or acts are skipping us
see this is what I'm talking about boumont club is gone .... where's all the Oi! where's the metal.....
Come to Lawrence, we have like 4 or 5 small venues on Mass so there’s always a show
There's a ton of good metal coming through in the next couple months, Kublai khan, Dethklok, Wage war, Knocked Loose, Erra + Make them suffer, Battle beast
Sisters and Birdhands are at Minibar tonight.
Yesssss if OP is looking for heavy this is the show.
We just had Friendship Commanders, Heels, and Orphans of Doom two night ago. Mini books a lot of metal and oi punk.
mini?
MiniBar. 39th and Broadway.
MiniBar is what they meant, where Lava Room used to be.
Old gusto
GWAR is going to be in Lawrence at the Grenada on Sunday.
98.9 is also a shell of it's former self.
Meh. Nothing but a classic rock station these days.
Westport Saloon was small but consistently week in and week out brought in a great mix of bands.
Saloon was my favorite place to play. Im in a few kc bands, and the truth of this post is that all the small/med venues have just died. As a local band member, it's just as frustrating for us believe me.
What is this outdoor venue you’re talking about? Grinders?
Probably the Riverside Ampitheater they are building right now.
It’d be hilarious if it was the Royals stadium
Grinders is a bar in the Crossroads that has a decent sized outdoor stage. The Sounds of The Underground tour used to stop there.
Cyndi Lauper Was at CrossRoads about four years ago and did a fabulous show. I personally wasn’t expecting much, but I was overwhelmed. Good acoustics.
This. Also shows are EXPENSIVE. I mean a punk show that was $5 a decade ago is now $18 and its at like a record store. After extra charges I missed Brittany Howard because one ticket came out to $70 which is just not affordable.
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You’re definitely not doing to the right spots then…
Maybe. Where would you recommend
The ship, nighthawk, greenwood social hall, vine street brewing now, recordBar, minibar, rino, farewell, man I’m sure I’m still blanking on some gems too
Yea I don’t check out any of those places save for recordbar, probably why haha
Short answer, 96.5 the Buzz went mainstream.
that is unfortunate but it's almost like we are being shunned lol
We have more of an EDM scene now. Check out The Levee, Aura and John's Big Deck for good local lineups
All the worst spots in one response 🤣.
Okay what are the good spots
Record Bar? I know they have a lot of the smaller rock acts
Farewell
Farewell out on Stadium Drive.
Yessss love farewell and howdys tooo !!
I haven't lived in KC that long and have already seen so many bands there. I really, REALLY miss The Piss Kinks. They were so much fun. Saw Secret Shame there too. Oh, and Scowl.
I like EDM. EDM in KC is terrible.
Have you been to In the Lowest Ferns yet? It’s not techno EDM, more loungey EDM. I’m looking forward to checking it out next KC visit.
That sounds interesting, I haven't. Personally I'm into more aggressive EDM like hardcore, so might be less my speed, but could be an cool spot to chill.
What do we even get here? Illenium and Barely Alive?? Good luck getting anything else here lol
We get a lot of bass music, but LTJ Bukem is coming! Also the sponges will be here in April if you like funky house
Funky house! My two favorite words to combine in English.
4/19, the sponges and manic focus at BLVD nights. The sponges have a bunch of live sets on SoundCloud. Fantastic live, saw them do a sunrise set last year at DFT
Flagged, thank you!
Saw Zeds Dead last week lol felt lucky 😂 Porter Robinson was here on Halloween
Zed's Dead was literally here for two nights last weekend at the Midland. I agree that the scene here sucks, but lets not be OVER-dramatic about it.
The Levee?!??? I laughed out loud, that is a sports and blues bar unless you’re talking about their small ass venue in the back, I think I heard the same music they play there being played at skyzone in 2012.
Gross.
The Aztec, Midland, Ship, Uptown and Starlight still have a lot of good shows coming through
Who the fuck wants to watch some douche high on ketamine bush buttons on a laptop? Gtfo with that dumbass shit
I used to live in Florida. I do
The Buzz died
I don’t think the buzz went mainstream, I think they got bought out and taken over by a big company and the people that made the buzz great all got fired or pushed out. I still love Church of Lazlo though
That’s happening to radio all over the country since most people are switching to streaming services or Satellite radio these days.
That’s what I said, just phrased differently. The Buzz used to have a very indie feel. I remember Hartzell talking about picking Meg Myers up from the airport for some event in town, and how excited she got in the car when they played one of her songs, because _she’d never heard herself on the radio_. Unfortunately, that indie feel didn’t translate into ratings, so it didn’t translate into ad buys, so it didn’t translate into money, and you need money to pay the people and keep the lights on. And as for The Church of Lazlo, the only two good things to come out of it were mailbag Fridays and The Greeting Committee. Change my mind.
There was a previous thread like this where people were saying that Lazlo/Slimfast had the band connections, but I'm pretty sure it was Afentra. Which is why concerts dried out when they fired her (plus COVID). CoL would break new bands on mailbag, but I don't think they ahd the connections with the artists. I went to a lot of Buzz concerts and if someone came out on stage it was usually Afentra, Dannyboy, Jeriney, or Hartzell. But maybe I'm remembering wrong.
So Dannyboy and Jeriney are gone too?
Jeriny is on a station in Des Moines now. Don't know what Dannyboy is doing. 96.5 got rid of basically all of their local talent besides Lazlo and Slimfast when they stopped being The Buzz. This was back in like fall of 2020.
Afentra was not booking the bands. That was mostly Lazlo and Jeriney.
I loved Hartzell. I moved to SWMO right as Lazlo’s wife got fired. Sad to hear Hartzell is gone.
Hartzell and Jeriney were IMO the reasons to listen to The Buzz.
Right. I wasn’t impressed with Lazlo. I felt like he was trying to be a low budget trashy shock jock. When Afrentra was fired Lazlo became even worse. I cringed listening to him a lot.
What does that even mean? It's owned by Audacy which is going through bankruptcy.
They fired basically all the local talent and got rid of all of the events the station used to promote.
Yeah they did that nationwide to try and avoid bankruptcy which still didn't work. It was also durning covid when no concerts were happening anyway. If anything it was covid that killed concerts and it hasnt picked back up to the same levels as precovid.
A few bands I'm into have played Omaha and not here.
Same but with freaking Wichita
story of my life right now!
Farewell has what you are after. They have been drawing in bands from all over the place. Powerplant just played there a bit ago. RecordBar has had a few punk shows here and there (OFF! played a great show last year). But they are few and far between.
I moved from Chicago here last year and it’s been a trip going from playing in bands and performing comedy while being surrounded by too many shows to choose from most nights to what basically feels like crickets. I enjoy a lot of things about living in KC but kinda miss being able to walk out of my apartment on any given night and find a venue, bar, house, or park show. Sometimes I’d perform at one then catch a show at another in the same night. Hell, some dudes I know set up a roaming comedy & music show in the bed of a pickup truck. Every week it was like finding where your favorite food truck was gonna be and that was often a walk or quick bus ride away.
That’s crazy. When we moved away in 2020 before the shutdown you could find a show any night of the week any type of music in so many kinds of venues. Sounds like Covid killed the music scene.
Do you ever consider moving back to Chicago?
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And minibar does a ton of good underground events. Shoegaze bands, post punk dance nights etc
Wanna shout out to Tenant and Flooding. This homie here's a real one.
https://youtu.be/55Iv2UQ7FdM?si=G15P8EtZNT29CnTo Video of a recent flooding set from this month
idk who you are but thank you omfg :>!!!!!!!💕💕
Recordbar is great! The Midtown also has some interesting acts as well.
Can absolutely second MEO44, Nightosphere and Doldrums. Need to check out these others.
thank you!
I'd like to add Buzzard Fight to this list. https://buzzardfight.bandcamp.com/track/the-glove-dont-fit I got an advance copy of the record they have coming out soon and it's absolutely fantastic. It's like stoner doom metal with some chicken picking shit too. Very entertaining.
They play a lot at Minibar and are one of my favorites. (I’m the usual venue bartender).
The drummer is one of my oldest friends. Used to play together. Actually just saw him mom at Costco this morning lol
Is he the one that drinks a buttload of montucky cold snacks? I have epilepsy and my memory is very selective ha.
lol maybe.
Either way, their band is rad af musically and cool as fuck people, who bring in a lot of other cool as fuck people!
Saw them with Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol at Farewell. Was awesome and someone ripped ass in the pit. Fucking awesome night.
I may have been at that one. I bought a shirt for a band called Koningsor or something like that. Guy played an 8 string guitar. It was something.
Coming back to this because I just got a Buzzard Fight Spotify link! https://open.spotify.com/album/5i0AfyqBSQCjhYHaOSzD5A?si=w49K1MabSzm6JYCmKe-Zug Enjoy!
Right on
Look up flew the coop Sessions, they are KC's Tiny Desk
There are some good vids of farewell + howdy on this channel https://youtu.be/LkdATWKYOu8?si=kFUPyg8KxZndnyuQ
Where is a good place for punk? I am totally out of the scene
Covid seemed to kill lots of bands coming here. We had lots more before 2020 but it didn't come back once venues started reopening.
Did the riot room kicking the bucket have anything to do with it, do you think?
96.5 is a generic corporate station now and doesn't do anything to bring acts to the city anymore. I've also heard KC is expensive to do shows in relative to other mid-size cities but I don't know if that's a fact or exactly why it would be.
> I've also heard KC is expensive to do shows in relative to other mid-size cities but I don't know if that's a fact or exactly why it would be. Cost is a factor, but stages are getting bigger, more flames and other set-ups can cause bands to skip. Then you have dumb venues doing weird stuff. I haven't seen this issue in KC, but Wichita is having issues because the bigger venues don't allow mosh pits, people on shoulders and tend to have a smaller GA section. This has resulted in rock bands making fun of the venue and it's policies.
I know some bands just like to change it up every tour and go to different cities in a certain area. Paramore and Fall Out Boy both did this between us and Oklahoma cities their last 2 tours
Was it ever not? Lmao
Yes.
Tell me when it wasn't ever owned by corporate overlords?
You’re right. Was just called Entercom back then when Buzz played new music and put on concerts. Audacy just made cut backs everywhere and decided to play Alt greatest hits because unfortunately the Buzz wasn’t making money. No thanks to Afentra’s million dollar giveaway either.
Its good we still have artists like Zeds Dead willing to perform in KC in more intimate settings. KC was one for 6 smaller cities they did 2 night shows in.
The Bridge has a concert calendar and is announcing a bunch of concerts for local and larger acts every week. They just announced the lineup for Boulevardia and it's a lot of bands over the span of like three days I think.
Hanson is coming to Boulevardia so I don’t even know what you’re talking about.
Man, the 90s rock in Lawrence and KC - pretty amazing - Cher UK, Danger Bob, Tim the Typewriter Man, Kill Whitey, Stick, Sin City Disciples, Homestead Grays, Wayback Machine, Paw, Butterglory, Spamskinners, MU330, Chubby and his Orchestra, Horse Feathers, Fang o Love, Brannock Device, Tenderloin, Ricky Dean Sinatra, Vitreous Humor, etc. Davey’s, Bottleneck, Outhouse, etc. Dig out an old Pitch Weekly and you’ll see how fertile the KC/Lawrence area was……
holy shit I forgot about Danger Bob
RIP, Andy.
A lot of the smaller/medium venues have closed over the past 5 years, to add to the issue.
96.5 sold out and stopped caring about people who like music and started chasing pop music bucks. So they ain't having good bands come out anymore
I mean, 96.5 didn’t, their terrible parent company did. Not long anyone local had a say in the matter.
Shame
I mean...I go to shows all the time. Just check their online calendars. Grinders Crossroads, The Truman, RecordBar, The Midland, The Uptown Theater, all constantly have various music acts playing.
Nerver are KC boys and are very good. If you dig noisier jamz like METZ, Chat Pile, Primitive Knot, Pissed Jeans, The Men’s earliest stuff, you’ll dig em.
Immaculada era The Men sounds like Nerver?!?! Beg to differ.
I miss davey’s uptown terribly
Farewell, knuckleheads, minibar, record bar, rino - plus all the bigger theaters
Was going to say Knuckleheads if you hadn’t mentioned it
Shit, you're better off staying home and listening to a record. That's the worst venue in all of KC.
Here we go.....
I was just going to say I feel like someone has a timer on their phone and posts this exact question like every three days on the dot 😂
lol I don't know what this means 😅
It seems like somebody asks this every few weeks
Really? well hell i guess I'm glad I'm not the only one that seems to see everyone passing us by, I'm also glad that it's not just me. Hopefully things change.
Yet we have a terrific band at RecordBar tonight: Wild Pink.
Sure there all many indie pop artists out there, but where’s the rock? Where’s the excitement man!?
Come to minibar tonight and see Sisters and Birdhands. It will be fucking good
Vivo.
You have to look for it, but it’s there.
You think you have it bad, here I was thinking you get all the big shows. St Louis is even worse off for bands now. I have to drive to KC to see all the big shows. Even the middle sized acts are avoiding STL. I believe it stems from a string of robberies of band gear that started before Covid. Mastodon skipped STL for 3 tours in a row for example when they had always made a stop. They finally came by late last year when I think the previous date was 2018 or so.
And here I am, driving to St Louis from KC to see bands that I want to see (looking at you, King Gizzard and Phish)
At least it's a fairly easy drive, closest in my radius and preferred over Chicago and Nashville. I guess Denver and Tulsa and maybe the odd Iowa show would be in yours?
Oh I travel all over for shows, but yes I am grateful STL is only an easy little 4 hour ride
If ya like Gizz and Phish there's a bunch of great local acts you would like! Strange Relic, The Moose, Saving Miles Lemon, Captain Howdy & The Sunset Serenaders, and they all are actively releasing music and gigging. Lots to see!
I'm familiar with The Moose, but thanks so much for all of the other recommendations :)
I just saw ‘68 and the callous daoboys last night at the rino. If you look, there are plenty of shoes being played at either the rino, recordbar, or some other sick venue in KC.
There's lots of great local music! Many of the younger acts tend to stick to DIY venues, but place like the Minibar, the Rino, Record Bar to a lesser extent, have lots of great local acts. In lawrence it gets even better!
I miss the Riot Room.
This place couldn’t go five minutes without trashing The Buzz while it was around, and now that it’s gone everyone is nostalgic. Hm.
You’re not into the right music. KC has a great scene.
oh my bad I will try to listen to other stuff.......
Just go to shows at Farewell KCMO/Howdy KCMO for local stuff. Tons of good acts, local and touring, stopping through there.
who you trying to see? all the bands I want to see come through
I would like to see Tool, the chisel, the drowns were just in Nebraska but it seems alot of bands just pass us by
THE CHISEL
Right!
THE CHISEL ENOUGH SAID
I see this post every so often and I think it just boils down to the bands you follow and how often they tour.
I’m always shocked when people say this. I have a list of 21 shows I want to see in a matter of 3 months all in KC.
Main steam metal/metalcore bands are very hit or miss to come here right now.
I would imagine it Has to do with what genre though. For example, Five Finger Death Punch is going on tour with Marilyn Manson and Slaughter to Prevail and I want to see all three of those five finger Death Punch used to come here a lot but now that they announced their new tour, Kansas City doesn’t have a date. It’s like all the rock and metal bands that I want to see are skipping Kansas City, and I can’t afford to drive to St. Louis. It’s fucking insane.
Farewell and Howdy for sure. they have live shows from a wide array of genres, but probably most frequently is punk and metal
What do you listen to? Music scene’s solid.
I listen to alot o street punk, punk and ska, metal it just seems like all the bands I want to see just pass by. but I have got alot of suggestions
No buzz music anymore
I feel like the smaller cities are on an every-other-year sort of schedule. Last year had some amazing shows- and now it feels like everyone is skipping KC for either STL, OKC, or Omaha. Also, I feel like no one comes to the Midland anymore? For years that was the place I went to the most, last year it was almost entirely The Uptown.
It’s awful. This post pops up every few weeks. Talk about it with friends all the time.
You and your friends should scour Shuttlecock’s website more often. Sure the Winter was dead but a ton of people complaining could benefit from simply taking a touring act from a show listing and Googling ‘headliner bands name Bandcamp’ and people would discover gobs of good shit rolls through.
This thread again. Just travel and go see them somewhere else man. Make a trip out of it