The Weekend Starts Today

With St. Patrick’s Day on Thursday, and all the debauchery that goes along with it, you could be excused for spending the whole weekend hungover at home. Assuming that you recover, however, and that you don’t want to spend the next four days watching NCAA basketball, we’ve got a ton of events to see around…

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How Kansas City Is | Grammy Awards

How Kansas City is the 58th Annual Grammy Awards

We’re asking the question: How “Kansas City” is… for all the good stuff going on in our world. Up today? The genre-mixing celebration of all things music, the 58th annual Grammy Awards. We’ll see a few Kansas Citians walk the red carpet at the Los Angeles Staples Center on Monday evening, and a few more hidden local gems throughout the show. Check out…

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Sympathetic Vibrations | The Right Way Through Wrong Turns

Taryn Miller, who performs as Your Friend, delivered a set at the RecordBar just before it closed its doors for good in December. Your Friend just released a full-length. (Photo: Dan Calderon | Flatland)

Taryn Miller has enjoyed a speedy rise to national recognition in the last three years, due in large part to simply not overthinking things. And to hear her describe the sequence of events that led her from Winfield, Kansas to a major label release, you almost feel sorry for all the bands out there meticulously…

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Music | 7 Questions With…

Self-described as a "loud, three piece, power punk band from KCMO," Hipshot Killer's lead guitarist Mike Alexander, left, answers our "Seven Questions". (Photo: Hipshot Killer)

Every Tuesday at 6pm on The Bridge, local music writer and Middle of the Map Fest organizer Chris Haghirian and The Bridge’s Sarah Bradshaw shine a light on the people, music, and events in the 816 area code during “Eight One Sixty”. One regular feature, 7 Questions, gets to the heart of a guest’s passions, past, and… purchase history. On the heels of Hipshot Killer’s full-length release, “They Will…

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Sympathetic Vibrations | It’s A Groove Thing

Vinyl record on turntable

We are currently living in a music consumer utopia. Services like, Tidal, Apple Music, Spotify, and Google Play offer more than 30 million tracks, available on-demand and anywhere you have a data connection – all in exchange for a monthly subscription price that is less than what you would have paid for a single album…

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