>NEW THIS WEEK
Dream Supreme boils that dust speck
by Jedd Beaudoin
Gooding, Gooding gumdrop
The Gooding Band returns to the road with stunning new songs.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Take a dip into Nickel Creek
by Jedd Beaudoin
Brooklyn's Barbez has art and rock
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Appleseed Cast bursts into blossom
by Jedd Beaudoin
Adrian and the Sickness will make you well
by Jedd Beaudoin
Ad Astra Per Aspera eases into Wichita
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Time to Dream — Listing Ship
Red Letter Day — The Gibson Brothers
Ten Years In Hell (DVD) — Annihilator
Plague Dogs — Heros Severum
>MARCH 9, 2006
Brace yourself for monster rock
This weekend will bring more tunes than you can shake a tailfeather at.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Vaudeville ain't no joke, kids
by Jedd Beaudoin
Lying In States is burning for you
by Jedd Beaudoin
Brief Candles get ready to light up Kirby's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Branigan brings his high energy show to Wichita fans
by Jedd Beaudoin
Across Tundras are the kings of the ice age
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead Nor Alive — Minsk
The Humbucking Coil — B. Fleischmann
Pay the Devil — Van Morrison
Ian Love — Ian Love
>MARCH 2, 2006
The Travesty is ready to move forward
by Jedd Beaudoin
Country Money Band steps on the steel peddle
After a short hiatus, Steve Barnes' revivalist country band is ready for hot licks in '06.
by Jedd Beaudoin
The weekend in rock
Where's the music? All over town.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Saturday night offers a glimpse of rock's future
Thunder Le' Boom shows that its got chops.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Starving Winter Report — Deadstring Brothers
Rocket Ride — Edguy
Haywire — Frog Holler
Live — Ritual
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not — Arctic Monkeys
>FEBRUARY 23, 2006
Street Survivor commits ultimate Skyn
by Jedd Beaudoin
A man battles his guitar, and you win
Bryan Masters isn't just another folk singer.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Lions ready to roar into Air Capital
by Jedd Beaudoin
Survival training in the Delano district
The Man shuts things down, forcing an ambling reassessment.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Eight Below good despite human involvement
by Jeremy Webster
Album reviews
Live In Canada 2005: The Dark Secret — Rhapsody
Live 2002: The Franco-Italian Tour — The Psychic Paramount
All the Young Dudes (Reissue) — Mott The Hoople
Mott (Reissue) — Mott The Hoople
Dogs of War (Reissue) — Saxon
>FEBRUARY 16, 2006
The Last of the V8s are here/back
by Jedd Beaudoin
Cat Scientist brings electric to the people
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Mostly average white bands invade Headway
'Perfunctory' is the word of the day.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Diatribe prepares for a full-throttle assault
by Jedd Beaudoin
Anberlin continues climb to the top
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Everyone Is Everyone — Magicicada
Live In Hamburg (DVD/CD) — Molly Hatchet
Black Eyes and White Lies — The Witnesses
>FEBRUARY 9, 2006
Barleycorn's must die for eternal life
Weekend shows at both the new and old Barleycorn's locations set the pace.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Traindodge celebrates its first decade of rock
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Love Arcade earns its money, one quarter at a time
by Jedd Beaudoin
For Hunt there's no place like home
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
To: Elliott From: Portland — Various Artists
The Greatest — Cat Power
Come Clarity — In Flames
Age of Winters — The Sword
>FEBRUARY 2, 2006
Gulch cuts through mainstream
But does Gulch own the sound, or does the sound own Gulch?
by Jedd Beaudoin
Portugal The Man hopes album puts it on the map
by Jedd Beaudoin
Death by Sluggos
Wichita's best pop band knocks 'em down again.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Aimee Mann in fine voice at tight Liberty Hall
by Jason Bailey
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
The Men Album — Jarboe
Dan Israel — Dan Israel
TunnelVision Brilliance — Scott Reeder
Live In California '74 (DVD) — Deep Purple
Stormblast — Dimmu Borgir
The Garden of Unearthly Delights — Cathedral
Grand Illusion — Nocturnal Rites
Black Wings of Destiny — Dragonlord
>JANUARY 26, 2006
Allele makes its home on the road
by Jedd Beaudoin
Soup On Sundays good on Saturdays
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
The Wait of Glory — Proto-Kaw
Turn on, Tune in, Drone out — The Black Angels
Vol. 4 — Lullacry
Like You Were Never There — Moonlight Towers
Nous Non Plus — Nous Non Plus
Be Careful What You Call Home — Paul Duncan
All the hits … reissued again
Rock 'n' Soul Part One — Daryl Hall and John Oates
Everything is Possible: The Very Best of Living Colour — Living Colour
The Best of the Guess Who — The Guess Who
>JANUARY 19, 2006
This Great October demurs for debut
by Jedd Beaudoin
Close encounters of the Septinomicon kind
The Terrible Airplane comes on strong but gets up-stranged.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Anthrax show shines in its opening acts
by Jedd Beaudoin
Get in Davan and get on with it
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
To The Heavens — Grain and Demise
First Impressions of Earth — The Strokes
Within — Six Stigma
Bush says: Rock 'n' roll is America's No. 1 Defense Against Terrorism — Basin Street
Rock On — Bishop
Ham 1 — Ham 1
Imaginational Anthem: A Guitar Anthology — Various Artists
Wall Street Vodoo — Roine Stolt
>JANUARY 12, 2006
20 years later, Anthrax is still the law
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Esoteric brings heavy rock smorgasbord
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
In The Wake jaw-dropping at Headway show
Meryll, Whitley, and NXNW put up a good fight too.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Rock and Roll is Dead — The Hellacopters
All Shook Up (Reissue) — Cheap Trick
Dream Police (Reissue) — Cheap Trick
The 21st Century Guide To King Crimson: Volume II 1981-2003 — King Crimson
>JANUARY 5, 2006
SLR brings it home for 2006
Split Lip Rayfield's redneck American dream ushers in New Year
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Hackensaw Boys ain't no bluegrass band
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Esoteric to celebrate a year of Sureness
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Solid Gold Hits — Beastie Boys
R30 (DVD/CD) — Rush
Saw Mill Man — Cast King
Over the Years and Through the Woods (DVD/CD) — Queens of the Stone Age
Give Me The Fear — Tokyo Dragons
>DECEMBER 29, 2005
The best live shows of 2005
As well as we can recall, anyway.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Flush the fashion
Jon Eaton talks about Softie's latest last show ever.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Getting in touch with my inner Nutsnack
by Jedd Beaudoin
In The Wake to provide entertaining New Year's Eve
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Black Christmas — Black Christmas
With The Sureness of Sleepwalking — The Esoteric
Chinese Democracy — The Ants/Ole Mossy Face (12" vinyl)
>DECEMBER 22, 2005
The best of the ICT (and more)
Nevermind the fanfare, here's the best in this year's albums.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Saturday snow doesn't mean no show
Local venues remain live and well in the cold.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Accelerated evolution
Spirit of the Stairs grows up and into a new set of tunes.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Words — DJ-oe
Independent, 2005
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Texas Battle Land — The Empress
The World Palestine/The Royal Palestine — The World Palestine/The Royal Palestine
Grumpyland — Fast Food Junkies
A Rope For The Hopeless — Mesa Falls To Mephisto
Medicine Finger — Medicine Finger
Dirty Bomb — No Dogsbody
>DECEMBER 15, 2005
Attic Ted will give you the creeps
by Jedd Beaudoin
Ed Gein kills conformity, amongst things
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Catharsis for Christmas
Making out in the vestibule and the cul-de-sac.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
The Curse of Candlemass: Live in Stockholm 2003 — Candlemass
Escapi, 2005
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Rock the Nation — KISS
Rising in the East — Judas Priest
Concerto Suite for Guitar and Orchestra in E Flat Minor — Yngwie Johann Malmsteen
The Gathering — Magenta
Live in Athens — Fates Warming
>DECEMBER 8, 2005
(Black) Christmas time is here
by Jedd Beaudoin
KAAA benefit Friday night for kids, guitars
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Christmas with the devil's music
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
A Blessing to the Ages — The Gunning System
Of Women & Whiskey — Troy Hutson
Universum — C
The Jaws of Life — Fine China
Homebrew 3 — Steve Howe
>DECEMBER 1, 2005
Ricky Fitts' brutality grows up (a bit)
by Jedd Beaudoin
Meat Purveyors return with Pain
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Terms to play Port of Wichita
by Jedd Beaudoin
Thunder Le' Boom tries to kick the beardog blues
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Sprawl debuts new line-up Saturday night
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Organik — Niacin
Magna Carta, 2005
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Wizard Lisp — Ricky Fitts
Gates of Fire — Manilla Road
Cluster & Eno(Reissue) — Cluster & Eno
>NOVEMBER 24, 2005
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Old faces, new bands
Diatribe and Baddist are fresh lineups for veteran rockers.
by Jedd Beaudoin
C'mon get (Happy) with Askeleton
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Seven Year Ache — Rosanne Cash
King's Record Shop — Rosanne Cash
Interiors — Rosanne Cash
The Very Best Of Rosanne Cash — Rosanne Cash
>NOVEMBER 17, 2005
White Ghost Shivers will make you quake
by Jedd Beaudoin
Roma 79 makes Dying come alive
by Jedd Beaudoin
Eberly and Klyde break out
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Moot Davis' power not debatable
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Kings Of Damnation — Black Label Society
Rapture Of The Deep — Deep Purple
Minute Man For The Moment — Look What I Did
The Mechanical Hand — Horse The Band
It's Time To Decide — At All Cost
>NOVEMBER 10, 2005
Klyde Konnor is back in front of some people
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Reverend and fam keep it real
by Jedd Beaudoin
Shiny Around The Edges gets intimate with fans
by Jedd Beaudoin
Ole Mossy Face whips out its big 12"
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Critter Creole — Dewayn Brothers
Five Years Apart — The Cool Concern
Emotional Animal — Dug Pinnick
Saturnalia — Shorn
>NOVEMBER 3, 2005
Helvisween show a hallowed event
DIY, multi-band gig came off as polished as the pros.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Oh, yes, it's Sluggos!
Good music never dies, and neither does a good band name.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Travesty's Joel Brown is dead at age 24
by Jedd Beaudoin
Terminus Victor drums to the beat of a different marcher
by Jedd Beaudoin
Le bruit et la fureur
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Odd Hour Work Week — Lanky
Dark End Road — Lowlights
Death On The Road — Iron Maiden
Get Some! — Nashville Pussy
Listen Through The Static — The Nadas
>OCTOBER 27, 2005
Helvisween is Saturday
And that's all you need to know
by Jedd Beaudoin
Tuna Helpers first, then puppet show
by Jedd Beaudoin
Monday night party is fun, forgettable
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Gravity — Adora Rising
Our Lady of the Broken Spine — Reverend Glasseye
Souls — The Gunshy
Sing Along With — Acid House Kings
>OCTOBER 20, 2005
Floyd The Barber ready to cut heads
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Midgetmen stand tall
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Mesa Falls packs the house for good reason
by James Dean
Album reviews
Split 7" — Eyes Of Verotika/Ricky Fitts
Wicked Savior (Reissue) — Kirk Rundstrom
Tension And Release — Sad Panda
Epode — Valina
Disembowelment — Disembowelment
Big Noise from Springfield: Four bands from MO get heard
Some Kind of Sign — Domino Kings
Walk Through Walls — Brian Capps
Think About It — The Morells
Got Love — The Bel Airs
>OCTOBER 13, 2005
Katrina benefit a natural disaster
While not without its highlights, low attendance and random progaming made for a long day.
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Horror is still in it for the fun
by Jedd Beaudoin
Mesa Falls extends A Rope for the Hopeless
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Toward a new constellation with Thirteen Stars
by Jedd Beaudoin
Border Band stays stubborn
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Weight Of Gold — The Doxies
Baby — The Detroit Cobras
Extreme Guitar Shred (DVD) — The Great Kat
Human Waste (Reissue) — Suffocation
A Decade In The Grave (Boxed set) — Six Feet Under
>OCTOBER 6, 2005
Black Christmas, gimme your Hands
Black X-mas delivers two great shows, Hands of Fallen Brethren stands up.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Dear Augustine is ready to pop/rock
by Linda Selick-Stockmaster
KISS tribute band scares at Haunted Island
Maybe we can all just go back to a good old fashioned boo in the future.
by James Dean
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Feel Good Tunes — Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkillers
Hello Hello Hello — Mike Coykendall
The Woman That Ended The World — Hillstomp
I Was Born At Night — Meneguar
>SEPTEMBER 29, 2005
Les Hell On Heels is dressed to kill
by Jedd Beaudoin
A Thursday night on the outside
by Jedd Beaudoin
Guitar legend Adrian Belew chooses sides
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Fly 92.7 Top 20
by Joe Roach
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
A Drug For All Seasons — F5
Holiday Machine — Bottom Of The Hudson
Stratovarius — Stratovarius
Shovel Headed Kill Machine — Exodus
Piece Of Time — Atheist
Unquestionable Presence — Atheist
Elements — Atheist
>SEPTEMBER 22, 2005
The Rounders ready to debauch ICT
by Jedd Beaudoin
Truckstop Honeymoon hauls to the end
Power bluegrass duo follows week of music festival with energetic performance.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Mixed genres doesn't add up to mixed bag
by Jedd Beaudoin
King's X is full of Ogre achievers
by Jedd Beaudoin
Monterey Jack keeps its cheese-head together
by James Dean
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Suburbia Bomb — Green Day (DVD)
No Direction Home — Bob Dylan
Out Of The Loop — Metallica (DVD)
Wikka — Asguard
Occlused In Ottusity — Balatonizer
>SEPTEMBER 15, 2005
Story Of The Year's time is now
by Jedd Beaudoin
Catching the Planes show was no mistake
Indie rockers get labor intensive the night before Labor Day and prove, once more, that you can't kill rock 'n' roll, that, really, nothing can.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Exhaustive live show good but, well, exhaustive
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Tom Chapin aims high in children's music
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Fly 92.7 Top 20
by Joe Roach
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Arms For Hands (Black) — Arms For Hands
Wetnurse — Wetnurse
Unleash The Fury — Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force
>SEPTEMBER 8, 2005
All-male band, The Empress, rules
by Jedd Beaudoin
Thrift Store Cowboys has a touch of high class, spirit
by Jedd Beaudoin
In The Wake leaves its mark at Barleycorn's
Top-notch rockers paired with blusey King Snakes to show some soul.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Order 66 — Order 66
May 23rd 2007 — The Kallikak Family
When Pigs Fly — The Chicharones
Back Against The Wall — Various Artists
Guess What — Mikki James
>SEPTEMBER 1, 2005
Woodshed just got a little emptier
Jon Eaton's departure leaves band looking for a drummer.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Super Heavy Goat Ass is super heavy
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Snapback proves water proof, not repellant
by James Dean
Album reviews
Amber Headlights — Greg Dulli
Freak Guitar: The Road Less Traveled — Mattias IA Eklundh
Porchlight — Inchworm
We're Already There — Mazarin
Torch +2 (Reissue) — Traindodge
>AUGUST 25, 2005
Watermelon Slim has faith-based initiative
by Jedd Beaudoin
Some Ants and an Elephant walk into a bar…
Two-band night at the Anchor proved to be both strange and wonderful.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Burke Hilburn is not normal
by Jedd Beaudoin
Sunday night benefit scheduled for tragedy in ICT metal family
by Jedd Beaudoin
Borst birthday bash a blast
by James Dean
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Revolution (Split) — The Horror/Angels Among Us
When We Break — Criteria
Inside/Absent — Broken Spindles
Daikaiju — Daikaiju
Force The Sunrise — Half Of Reason
>AUGUST 18, 2005
The Gunning System makes holes in trends
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Killers: file under 'Hootie and the Blowfish'
Red hot Vegas band gives its all, and it ain't much.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Never mind the forebrain here's Channing Cope
by Jedd Beaudoin
Model Down gets serious
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Empty — Hollow Inside
Greenjeans, 2005
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Lost In Motion — Fortitude
Insects With Angel Wings — Dropsonic
I Thought I Was Over That: Rare, Remixed and B-Sides — Lali Puna
>AUGUST 11, 2005
Bob Mould's bodywork
Love it or leave it, just don't steal his Body Of Song.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Hüsker who?
Everything you wanted to know about the '80s most influential punk rock band but were afraid to ask.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Seether sees good karma shining through
by Jedd Beaudoin
Georgia weekend offers glimpse at the future of music
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
My Very Special Guests (Legacy Edition) — George Jones
Black Sheep Boy — Okkervil River
Discomfort — Antigama
The Outsider — Rodney Crowell
You Ain't Talkin' to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music — Charlie Poole
>AUGUST 4, 2005
Spot's watching time has come
by Jedd Beaudoin
Feelin' groovy: Judith Owen invites fans to be moved
by Jedd Beaudoin
Satan's Jeweled Crown delivers hot rails to hell
by Jedd Beaudoin
Musician Pat McElmurry is dead at 52
Grandpa's .38 member died from cancer.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
New York's Chiba-Ken was rough but rockin'
by James Dean
Album reviews
Gimme Fiction — Spoon
The Difference Between Houses and Homes: Lost Songs and Loose Ends — Cursive
Touched By The Crimson King — Demons & Wizards
Split CD — Nortt/Xasthur
Pearl — Janis Joplin
>JULY 28, 2005
Manilla Road opens Gates Of Fire
by Jedd Beaudoin
SJC in the ICT
Satan's Jeweled Crown returns Saturday
by Jedd Beaudoin
Monsters of rock
Surprising Headway gig and a couple of nights at Kirby's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Fused — Iommi
Surrogate Emotions Of The Silverscreen — Isobella
Black Empire — Force Of Evil
Live In Tokyo (DVD) — Niacin
Foggy Mountain Jamboree and Foggy Mountain Gospel — Flatt and Scruggs
>JULY 21, 2005
On your feet or on your knees
Sprawl/Helvis/Addictions bill makes for perfect Saturday night.
by Jedd Beaudoin
I Wish I Wrote That was about history, respect
No Coast musicians shake things up with new and old tunes of fellow Wichitans.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Black Angels fly in from Austin
by Jedd Beaudoin
Glasseye, Sad Panda pack Kirby's with fans
by Jedd Beaudoin
Dead Letter Diaries a living, breathing document
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Body Of Song — Bob Mould
Live At Wacken: The Reunion (DVD/CD) — Twisted Sister
Slik Helvetika — Slik Helvetika
I, Monarch — Hate Eternal
Discover A Lovelier You — The Pernice Brothers
>JULY 14, 2005
Gooding works for the unexpected
by Jedd Beaudoin
The song, not the singer
Wichita songwriter show hits the Murdock Theatre
by Jedd Beaudoin
Tiger Bear Wolf is as wild as its name
by Jedd Beaudoin
Burnin' for you
John-Alex Mason releases Live Fire
by Jedd Beaudoin
Consafos brings persuasive set to Lawrence
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Greatest Hits: Back To The Start — Megadeth
The Metapolitan — Blusom
The Imbuing — Gizmachi
Tools Of Destruction — Thunderstone
Slow Dance In The Kitchen — Jackhead
What The Mind Perceives — Beyond The Flesh
>JULY 7, 2005
Arms For Hands is finding its grip
by Jedd Beaudoin
Black Ale Sinners bring honky tonk salvation
by Jedd Beaudoin
Split Lip Rayfield will not play Barleycorn's, yet
by Jedd Beaudoin
Tailgunner shoots blanks
by Jedd Beaudoin
New Dead Radio is very much alive
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Awaken The Guardian (Reissue) — Fates Warning
The Funeral Album — Sentenced
Live At Continental: Best of NYC Vol. 1 & 2 — Various Artists
Side Two — Adrian Belew
>JUNE 30, 2005
Doobie Brothers to light up Saturday
by Jedd Beaudoin
Parker and 50 Peso Reward a great payoff
Kelly's gig a night full of country, money.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Drakkar Sauna ready to maul
by Jedd Beaudoin
Paperboy Jack wants its three dollars
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Get Hit — The Unbearables
In Your Honor — Foo Fighters
Shove The Sun Aside — Dave Weiner
Lunar Strain/Subterranean (Reissues) — In Flames
A Night To Remember (DVD) — Evergrey
>JUNE 23, 2005
Wakarusa more than ass deep
Four-day music festival held all kinds of surprises.
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Sound and the Fury makes Wichita debut
by Jedd Beaudoin
FlipSide founder dies
by Mike Marlett
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Through Thick Fog Til Death — Urgehal
Southern Lord, 2005
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Metal Roundup
Alien — Strapping Young Lad
Warriors Of The Rainbow Bridge — Molly Hatchet
In The Arms Of God — Corrosion Of Conformity
Plague Angel — Marduk
Candlemass — Candlemass
The Code Is Red … Long Live The Code — Napalm Death
Ohmwork — GZR
In Disgust We Trust — Mistress
Eulogy — Nachtmystium
>JUNE 16, 2005
Opiate For The Masses a great live band
Cotillion show reveals rare ferocity in up-and-coming band.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Kit Craig's old school
He's done the learning, doesn't want to teach
by Jedd Beaudoin
Tightly chaotic The Press delivers frenetic pop
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Crowd full of psychedelia, bits of pop
by Jedd Beaudoin
Dropsonic, trio of locals play all-ages show
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Love Many Trust Few — Ricky Warwick
Bloom — Eric Johnson
My Kung Fu Is Good — The Duke
Liquid Cheese — Liquid Cheese
>JUNE 9, 2005
Wakarusa is for squares, too
Jam bands are only a part of the multi-day music festival
by Jedd Beaudoin
ICTFest represents the 316 and more
by Jedd Beaudoin
And Academy keeps it together for the kids
by Jedd Beaudoin
Tainted ain't noise pollution
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Songs For Silverman — Ben Folds
Rise Up — Disciple
Free Hand: 35th Anniversary Edition (reissue) — Gentle Giant
In A Glass House: 35th Anniversary Edition (reissue) — Gentle Giant
>JUNE 2, 2005
Crazy from the Amplified Heat
Austin band defies trends.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Places, everyone: Amy Annelle prepares for ICT
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Sprawl finds its focus
by Jedd Beaudoin
The secret lives of hardcore bands revealed!
by Jedd Beaudoin
Bodo Ensemble ready for European trek
by Jedd Beaudoin
Harp guitarist Bennett to play Orpheum on Saturday
by Jedd Beaudoin
7/8 Quick to play final show
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Martha Wainwright — Martha Wainwright
The Outcasts — The Outcasts
With Teeth — Nine Inch Nails
Club Date: Live In Memphis (DVD) — Elvis Costello and the Imposters
>MAY 26, 2005
The beat goes on and on
When there's too much to do, why not do it all?
by Jedd Beaudoin
New label is for tight-knit, upward bands
Label focuses on world-class local band.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Boyhood — Paper Airplanes
Me and Otto — Kissinger
>MAY 19, 2005
Martians at the crossroads
Seattle band is on its way to the big time
by Jedd Beaudoin
Rodney Parker and 50 Peso Reward offer listeners great dividends
by Jedd Beaudoin
Mem's the word for funky blues
by Jedd Beaudoin
Indie summer begins at The Cedar
by Jedd Beaudoin
Downtown Singapore hits downtown ICT
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Red Scare — Amazing Larry
Happy End and Begin — Reverend Glasseye
Manilla Road reissues
Invasion — Manilla Road
Metal — Manilla Road
Live Roadkill — Manilla Road
Out Of The Abyss — Manilla Road
>MAY 12, 2005
Oh, it was a day for mothers alright
The Air Capital Punks' Flying Drinking and Music Festival was 12 hours of marathon punk (and more).
by Jedd Beaudoin
John Eberly steps back into the spotlight
by Jedd Beaudoin
Drew Emmitt readies his bluegrass wall of sound
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
The Dirty Old One Man Band — Scott H. Biram
Smolder — Smolder
Devils and Dust — Bruce Springsteen
Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (DVD) — Jethro Tull
>MAY 5, 2005
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Blues Crawl a good time
by Jedd Beaudoin
Classical, jazz — whatever
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
The Delivery — Solagget
Devil's Playground — Billy Idol
Got This Feelin' — Riddle Of Steel
The Duhks — The Duhks
>APRIL 28, 2005
Local Band: generic name, rich history
by Jedd Beaudoin
Down Under guitarist finds 2nd home in Doo-dah
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Ramalamas want you to shingaling, ding dong
by Jedd Beaudoin
Joe West honky tonk is a unique, fiery blend
by Jedd Beaudoin
Hognose is a pick to hit
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Make it Through This World — Greg Trooper
View From The Top — Bruce Huss
Friends and Lovers: Songs Of Bread — Various artists
The Carlton Chronicles: Not Until The Operation's Through — South San Gabriel
>APRIL 21, 2005
Condition critical
This Is My Condition is raw, important
by Jedd Beaudoin
Gutbucket rains down on Kirby's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Black Label Society recruits members for Wichita chapter
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jeff and Vida stop in to catch up with friends
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
Blues Crawl; 1964: The Tribute
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Route 23 — Chatham County Line
Metric — Spanish For 100
The Shape of Hope — Spirit of the Stairs
Angel/Devil — Gooding
>APRIL 14, 2005
How much Money for that Grass?
GrassCats, Steve Barnes and the Country Money Band battle worth catching.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Paper Airplanes cleared for take off
by Jedd Beaudoin
Joey DeFrancesco set to organ-ize Wichita
by Jedd Beaudoin
Walking tall: Thousand Foot Krutch rocks the House
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
The Shallow Deep — Darlin Maudie
Raydean (Reissue) — The Mumbles
Upriver — Yo Miles! (Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith)
What Is All This Sweet Work Worth — Milton and the Devils Party
>APRIL 7, 2005
Wichita in The Gunshy's crosshairs
by Jedd Beaudoin
Show to benefit newish all-ages venue
by Jedd Beaudoin
The World Palestine is otherworldly divine
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
In For Sin — Amplified Heat
Are You With Me — Paul Thorn
Cosmic Troubadour — Billy Sheehan
Happy Doing What We're Doing — Elizabeth McQueen and the Firebrands
>MARCH 31, 2005
No Dogsbody's labo(u)r party
by Jedd Beaudoin
Hillstomp bridges punk, Delta Blues
by Jedd Beaudoin
Riddle of Steel's power not really puzzling, just kinda inexplicable
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
A Night To Remember — Evergrey
Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out — Petra Haden
Key — Son, Ambulance
Live At Last (DVD) — Enchant
>MARCH 24, 2005
Rundstrom is a work in progress
by Jedd Beaudoin
Riddle Of Steel is for those with a clue
by Jedd Beaudoin
Blues, punk, metal all at your fingertips this week
by Jedd Beaudoin
Lotus is good enough to eat
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Prince Of Darkness (Box Set) — Ozzy Osbourne
Blow The Soot Out — Rodney Parker
Dark Snack — The Moaners
City Of Dis — The Mass
>MARCH 17, 2005
Ricky Fitts gets little pay, big rock
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Eagles have landed and they walk among us
by Jedd Beaudoin
Eagles Lodge four-way reminds us that rock is alive
by Jedd Beaudoin
When the devil came down Division Street
Devil In A Woodpile to make Wichita debut
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Beautiful Noise — Six Hung Sprung
Anhendoniac (Reissue) — Jarboe
The Slow Decay — Jumbo's Killcrane
World Through My Eyes — RPWL
>MARCH 10, 2005
Spring fling for the Visqueen
by Jedd Beaudoin
Solägget set to release The Delivery
by Jedd Beaudoin
Sad Panda makes us happy
by Jedd Beaudoin
Keep on the grass
Perseverance and passion pay off for the GrassCats
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Design — Into The Moat
Sans Napoleon/The Gunning System (Split EP) — Sans Napoleon/The Gunning System
Real Illusions: Reflections — Steve Vai
Side One — Adrian Belew
>MARCH 3, 2005
The first two years of rock 'n' roll
This manages to be the only thing in the paper acknowledging that this is the paper's two-year anniversary. Damn that BTK.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Kissinger, Kirby's like peanut butter, chocolate
by Jedd Beaudoin
Proto-Kaw gives Kerry Livgren a second wind
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Smoke In The Shadows — Lydia Lunch
Octane — Spock's Beard
Fix It If You Hate It — The Riffbrokers
The X Tracks — Andy Summers
>FEBRUARY 24, 2005
The Ants come marching home
by Jedd Beaudoin
Mi fin de semana loco
Last weekend saw a whole lotta smokin' going on. Little and otherwise.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Ashes To Dust — William Elliott Whitmore
Character — Dark Tranquility
Saurian Meditation — Karl Sanders
One — Neal Morse
>FEBRUARY 17, 2005
The Bright Young Hopefuls almost have punk rock tragedy
by Jedd Beaudoin
Elicit, Dropsonic charged with brutal aural assault
Hi-volume rock show leaves crowd screaming, wanting more.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Gov't Mule jams captivate Cotillion crowd
by Dustin Arbuckle
Alabama Thunderpsussy to rattle Wichita
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Now-a-Day Songs — The Rounders
Ampeuty — Pungent Stench
The Essential Rodney Crowell — Rodney Crowell
Reckoning Night — Sonata Arctica
>FEBRUARY 10, 2005
Dropsonic's 21st Century blues delight
by Jedd Beaudoin
Kit Craig makes Haus music
by Jedd Beaudoin
Thachuk comes alive
by Jedd Beaudoin
Dusty in Memphis
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
You Might Have Three Friends — Ricky Fitts
Only A Glance — Wayne Long
Love Songs — Various artists
Don't Think For Me — Jeremiah Johnsen
>FEBRUARY 3, 2005
Warren's peace
Gov't Mule guitarist is happy, humble
by Jedd Beaudoin
Helmet straps it on again
'90s metal pioneers retake the stage at SnoCore.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Voodoo Organist brings Ghost Town to our town
by Jedd Beaudoin
Friday night's alright, not great
by Jedd Beaudoin
McMurtry returns to Barleycorn's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 20
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
No Galore — Faith Kleppinger
Absolutely A Fir-Ju Well — A Fir-Ju Well
A Question Of Temperature — The Chris Stamey Experience
Scheissmessiah — Hanzel Und Gretyl
>JANUARY 27, 2005
The Travesty will make you think
by Jedd Beaudoin
Rundstrom and friends a worthwhile risk
Split Lip Rayfield guitarist's solo and side projects shine.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Blood of the Sun has good but murky Doo-dah debut
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Caney Valley Blues — Moreland and Arbuckle
Out Of Every Nation — Jorn
Trashed, Lost and Strung Out — Children Of Bodom
A Guitar Supreme: Giant Steps In Fusion Guitar — Various Artists
>JANUARY 20, 2005
Pulpit Red preaches rock 'n' roll
by Jedd Beaudoin
Split Lip gets Olympian on your ass
The sold-out Barleycorn's gig had folks lined up down the street to get in to hear the topnotch performance by ICT's favorite sons.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Hahn brings jazz where he goes
by Jedd Beaudoin
Dark Matter, Grain, 4 King Stud vie for metal crown at Champs
by Jedd Beaudoin
Ethan Daniel Davidson and Darlin' Maudie a strong combination
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Bloodshed — Krisiun
Vivacitas: Live At Glasgow 2002 — Keith Emerson and the Nice
Mythology — Derek Sherinian
Cryptobeast — Usurper
Live All Over The Place — King's X
>JANUARY 13, 2005
Home again: Split Lip Rayfield hasn't lost touch with its roots
by Jedd Beaudoin
Lisa Blake Band's songs of experience
by Jedd Beaudoin
Spirit of the Stairs says goodbye
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Terrifyer — Pig Destroyer
At The Organ — The Minus 5
1 + Dog Days (Reissue) — Goatsnake
Demigod — Behemoth
Grudge — Mortiis
The Delores Lesion — Lilitu
>JANUARY 6, 2005
The best ICT rock of 2004
2004 only had 12 months with 365 days, but it still sparked millions of musical memories.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
The Little Boy's Heavy Mental Shadow Opera About The Inhabitants Of His Diary — Abydos
Azrael Block — Greg Rappaport
Imaginations Through The Looking Glass (DVD) — Blind Guardian
Revolution, — Crematory
Tearing Down Your Blue Skies — Diecast
The War Within — Shadows Fall
Graveyard Classics 2 — Six Feet Under
>DECEMBER 30, 2004
Black Tie Affair eschews formalities
by Jedd Beaudoin
By The End Of Tonight will be here soon enough
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
2 — Jelly Jam
Double Negative — The Muffins
Chain.Exe — Chain
Shadowlands — Glass Hammer
A Different Point Of You — Alias Eye
Wheel Of Life — Karmakanic
Frogg Cafe — Frogg Cafe (Reissue)
The Hideous Sun Demons — The Hideous Sun Demons
>DECEMBER 23, 2004
Meat Fest goes to the bone
Meat Festival V brought together 14 bands in one 12-hour haul. That's more music than you can shake a clean femur at, folks.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
The History Of Iron Maiden — Part One: The Early Years — Iron Maiden
The Way I Were — Freedy Johnston
Raw (DVD) — Ramones
Be — Pain Of Salvation
>DECEMBER 16, 2004
The Sprawl mixes volume, tenderness
by Jedd Beaudoin
Moreland is a not-to-be missed duo
by Jedd Beaudoin
Songwriter Circle gives away guitars
Album reviews
From a Basement On The Hill — Elliott Smith
London Calling 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition — The Clash
Futures — Jimmy Eat World
With The Lights Out (Boxed set) — Nirvana
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb — U2
From the End of Your Leash — Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals' Starvation League
Blood on the Ram — The Gourds
Universal United House of Prayer — Buddy Miller
>DECEMBER 9, 2004
Dropsonic makes indie meet classic
by Jedd Beaudoin
Live music heats up wintery weather
Weekend music sees PoDank sharpen, Helvis falter.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Wichita, Kansas — The Cobra Movement
FWX — Fates Warning
Rhythm Of Time — Jordan Rudess
>DECEMBER 2, 2004
Moore to illuminate Barleycorn's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Keep your hams to yourself
Turkey Day week full of desserts, not stuffing
by Jedd Beaudoin
Istanbullies shine at Chrome CD release
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Shifting Gears — Terry Quiett Band
The Wall Against Our Back — Two Cow Garage
>NOVEMBER 25, 2004
Killed By Robots is dead
Long live KBR
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Von Ehrics want to expand your mind
by Jedd Beaudoin
>NOVEMBER 18, 2004
Messin' with the Kid
Helvis is back with a new guitarist and a whole new set of "goals"
by Jedd Beaudoin
Punk rock as participation sport
The Cups may be the worst band ever — and it's still a lot of fun
by Jedd Beaudoin
Bassist killed in roadside accident
Wichita music community saddened by death of Chad "Smurf" Lee
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Same Ugly Town — Kirk Rundstrom
Chrome — Istanbullies
All-Star Bluegrass Celebration (CD/DVD) — Various artists
>NOVEMBER 11, 2004
Americana's sweethearts
Kirk Rundstrom and William Elliott Whitmore move the Anchor.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Blues for Christmas
Area stompers and howlers sing the blues to benefit kids
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 10
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Goin' Back South — Matt Walsh
Static Until Sunrise — Volante
Testimony Live (DVD) — Neal Morse
>NOVEMBER 4, 2004
Edge of the world
William Elliott Whitmore takes rural roots to the big city
by Jedd Beaudoin
The song remains (more or less) the same
Malachi Constant has longevity, passion.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Sans prog and busted amps, it all Fitts
by Jedd Beaudoin
All the young dudes
Rockin' Daddy's comes alive with music from days of yore
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
I Think Of You — The Solace Bros.
Hosty Duo — Hosty Duo
No Man's Blues — The Gunshy
>OCTOBER 28, 2004
Let them speak
Mesa Falls To Mephisto doesn't want to tell you about its music — it wants to show you.
by Jedd Beaudoin
New voices, old voices
A slenderer Darlin' Maudie emerges, Stars Go Cold heats up Kirby's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Right in the nuts
Maudie, GoodKid, Ricky Fitts duke it out at The Cedar
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Politics of dancing
Leaders Not Followers: Part II — Napalm Death
rEVOLVEr — The Haunted
Casting The Stones — Jag Panzer
Mercifully short
>OCTOBER 21, 2004
The Safes find winning combination
by Jedd Beaudoin
Safety in numbers?
Device 1461, Six Stigma earnest but not yet pyrotechnic
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Leviathan — Mastodon
Transformation — Alex Skolnick Trio
Live Wires — Joe Deninzon and Stratospheerius
>OCTOBER 14, 2004
Ain't no dispute: Hatfield's a winner
by Jedd Beaudoin
Snapback, uh, well, snaps back
by Jedd Beaudoin
Reverend Glasseye offers up songs of sin
by Jedd Beaudoin
Cattle Decapitation brings complicated message with complicated music
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Should Have Seen It Coming — Split Lip Rayfield
Wringer — Steve Barnes and the Country Money Band
Live At Budakon (DVD and CD) — Dream Theater
>OCTOBER 7, 2004
Against The Grain is entertaining, fun
by Jedd Beaudoin
Sì, se puedo
Seattle's Spanish For 100 makes headway on tour and radio airplay with no help from the man
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Astral Glamour (boxed set) — The Homosexuals
Sit Down For Staying — Charmparticles
Songs Of Love and Loss — Sharron Kraus
>SEPTEMBER 30, 2004
A Major crush
Rockin' Daddy's is pure, lovely
by Jedd Beaudoin
Bacon isn't playing his swine song
Billy Bacon and the Forbidden Pigs celebrate 20 years of music.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Artichoke group wants to help kids and make new friends
by Jedd Beaudoin
Mandarin speaks the language of rock
by Jedd Beaudoin
Wading through the middle
Eagle Lodge gig offered an uneven but worthwhile show.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Friday a 3-way disappointment
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Folker — Paul Westerberg
Good Times — Charlie Robison
Fiendish Regression — Grave
>SEPTEMBER 23, 2004
Musicians encourage voter registration
by Teri Mott
Silvermen deliver surf gold
by Jedd Beaudoin
Play smart: put your money on Betts
by Jedd Beaudoin
Moreland rises to Blues Challenge
by Jedd Beaudoin
Fall Blues Crawl hits Old Town Sunday
by Dustin Arbuckle
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Metal roundup
>SEPTEMBER 16, 2004
Mr. J-Beau yawning
Moonlight Drive interesting but inauthentic to the Doors
by Jedd Beaudoin
BoySkout's gonna send ya back to schoolin'
by Jedd Beaudoin
Wandering the campgrounds
A Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival preview…
by Kate Hutchens
Pillar works up a sweat at near-home show
by James Dean
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Looking Sideways — Quiett and Walker
Love Songs For Soccer Moms — Ophil
Iah — The Mess
>SEPTEMBER 9, 2004
Random-mix bill still a great show
A lineup of bands that ranged from grunge to metal to straight out rock 'n' roll didn't distract the crowd one bit.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Otis Gibbs prepared to make the night bleed hope
by Jedd Beaudoin
Traindodge: Can you handle The Truth?
Oklahoma band releases two-CD set, tours.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Country artist with local ties travels from Air Capital to Fair capital
by Jedd Beaudoin
Blues bands up for Blues Challenge
Jazz top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
The Essential REO Speedwagon — REO Speedwagon
The Whole Enchilada — Burrito Deluxe
The January Tree — Dead Soul Tribe
The Revolution Starts Now — Steve Earle
Maggie Brown — Maggie Brown
>SEPTEMBER 2, 2004
Proto-Kaw a stunning show
I was a "limping toward middle age" Proto-Kaw zombie
by Jedd Beaudoin
Ophil's future is in your hands
by Jedd Beaudoin
Pitchin' a fit(ts)
by Jedd Beaudoin
Bloodshot Bill overcomes mishaps to rock for y'all
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Sail On: The 30th Anniversary Collection — Kansas
Five Guys Walk Into A Bar ... (boxed set) — Faces
Grace (Legacy Edition) — Jeff Buckley
>AUGUST 26, 2004
Gimme three bands
Vyreal, Oddzar, N.Y.C. played for no one. And rocked.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Quiett and Walker a musical odd couple
by Jedd Beaudoin
Volante sees the bright edge
by Jedd Beaudoin
Keen farm fresh at the Orpheum
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Still time to enter WBS Blues Challenge
Album reviews
Doin' It For Karl, Doin' It On Purpose — Desperately Waiting
Threshold — John Novello
The Troublemaker — Willie Nelson
>AUGUST 19, 2004
Music coverage? I'm gonna s'plain it all now
Do you think you're one of the disenfranchised who can't seem to get no love from F5? Listen up.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Woodstock tribute was OK
Like the real Woodstock, local benefit had its hits and misses.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
The Mess offers rock 'n' roll salvation
by Jedd Beaudoin
CD roundup
Seven new albums reviewed
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
>AUGUST 12, 2004
Former punk producer has got a Celtic jones
by Jedd Beaudoin
Lacuna Coil, Zerocell no empty set
by Jedd Beaudoin
Metal machine music II
Afinke Machine brings good vibes to John Barleycorn's
by Jed Beaudoin
The King Snakes make music with bite
But real-world bass player blues really do get in the way
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Silent Nation — Asia
Death By Salt: A Slug Magazine Compilation —
...In All Their Splendor — Li'l Cap'n Travis
>AUGUST 5, 2004
Proto-Kaw steps up
by Jedd Beaudoin
Lacuna Coil's Comalies spirals into perpetuity
by Jedd Beaudoin
Vans Warped still chugging along just fine
by Jedd Beaudoin
Interesting stuff at Vans Warped isn't on the main stage
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Slam Dunk Contest — Awesome Cool Dudes
South Austin Jug Band — South Austin Jug Band
New Shade Of Blue — Kelley Hunt
>JULY 29, 2004
Wheatland Jam long on OK music, short on great
by Jedd Beaudoin
Wheatland Jam a mixed bag
Why expose the crowd to crappy, washed up national acts when the local talent there was the best thing going on?
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jazz Top 30
by Barry Gaston
Jet flies, lands as No Dogsbody
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Stripping Cane — Jeffrey Foucault
Grain and Demise — Grain and Demise
Hip Honk Hooray — Nutsnack
>JULY 22, 2004
Sparta delivers resilient Porcelain
by Jedd Beaudoin
Agents of the Sun set to bathe ICT in light
by Jedd Beaudoin
Klatch stumbles on the beach
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Dos Machos — Sugar Free Allstars
Feedback — Rush
Tumblers and Grit — Chris Richards
The Next Best Thing — Ray Wilson
Stand Fall Repeat — Michelle Anthony
>JULY 15, 2004
Fivehead kicks out the kinks
In a rocky start early in its tour, the Austin-based band strugles to find its groove.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Skynyrd scheduled to play some Skynyrd
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family — Various artists
Sonic Nurse — Sonic Youth
Uh Huh Her — PJ Harvey
Boxers, Painters and Snappers — The Torch Marauder
Little Queen, Dog and Butterfly and Bebe Le Strange — Heart
>JULY 8, 2004
It ain't over until it's over
Kittie prepares new album, tour
by Jedd Beaudoin
Guitarist without borders
Beppe Gambetta links music from around the globe and across time
by Jedd Beaudoin
Barleycorn's goes to hell
Hellcat Trio reunites and pops in for a night of strutting and wailing.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Keep The Flame Alive — 7 Shot Screamers
Deuce — Helvis
The Art Of Live — Queensryche
Fulton Hill — Alabama Thunderpussy
Dog — Mike Keneally Band
>JULY 1, 2004
No need for fear of a Red Planet
Bay Area rockers dive headlong into the sea of grass
by Jedd Beaudoin
Oh, yeah: Johnny A. brings melodic music to the Zoo
by Jedd Beaudoin
Die a little with the Necro Tonz on Independence Day
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Plastic Constellations come to play
by Jedd Beaudoin
Random Houses frightens; Golden Boy shines
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Kansas — Kansas
Soccermom — Soccermom
Song For America — Kansas
Madness Opaque — Cathryn Gamble
>JUNE 24, 2004
Falling for Mesa Falls To Mephisto
by Jedd Beaudoin
Slobberbone leaves us dry
by Jed Beaudoin
McFarland overcomes difficulty to deliver Given
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Orchard makes Kirby's part of its research
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Van Lear Rose — Loretta Lynn
A Ghost Is Born — Wilco
Contraband — Velvet Revolver
>JUNE 17, 2004
Killing me, Softie
Local boys do dynamite covers with the right blend of sincerity, irony and oomph.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Feelin' the Spirit (of the Stairs)
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
JAZZ TOP 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Imagination — John Eberly
Ghost Book — Kevin Moore
Musica En Flagrante — Dreadnaught
Lost In Reverie — Peccatum
Mercifully short
>JUNE 10, 2004
A Perfect Circle is closing, for now
by Jedd Beaudoin
Finnigan brings Phantoms to the Orpheum
by Jedd Beaudoin
The name of the band is The Good Looks
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Cedar turns into hotbed of international music
by Jedd Beaudoin
Also played: So many shows, so little time
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Trans Mission — Virbralux
Send Us A Signal — Brandtson
In The Pyramid — Ariel Kill Him
The Inner Circle — Evergrey
>JUNE 3, 2004
Metamorphosis: Ultrafix transforms itself, audience
by Jedd Beaudoin
Rock comes in threes
Cedar trippleheader was an unusual but rewarding mix.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Phish finally out of water
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in Brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
JAZZ TOP 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Full Contact Folk Music (DVD) — Rodney Branigan
Come Somewhere — Jerry Gaskill
Home Of The Brave — Sin City Six
Looks So Innocent — Nadafinga
>MAY 27, 2004
Oscilate doesn't waver on music
by Jedd Beaudoin
Going for Country Money
Steve Barnes and the Country Money Band dress nice, play real good
by Jedd Beaudoin
Polyplush Cats puss out
by Jedd Beaudoin
Beyond The Embrace brings three-axe attack to Wichita
by Jedd Beaudoin
JAZZ TOP 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Broke — King Wilkie
John and the Sisters — John and the Sisters
Me and Mr. Johnson — Eric Clapton
Brave Yester Days — Katatonia
>MAY 20, 2004
4 King Stud, Pillage share sonic youth
The kids are all right. Not outstanding, yet, but all right.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Scorpio Rising has Prong upward bound again
by Jedd Beaudoin
JAZZ TOP 30
by Barry Gaston
Album reviews
Contamination Festival 2003 (DVD) — Various Artists
An Evening With ... — John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess
The Music Remains The Same — Various artists
All Access Tonight (DVD) — Foreigner
Mercifully short
>MAY 13, 2004
Half Of Reason is halfway there
A too-long set causes a decent band to run out of gas.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Norway's Extol seek secular audience
by Jedd Beaudoin
What's all this Euro-black metal stuff about?
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Nattfodd — Finntroll
Red Album — This Great October
Circo — Darden Smith
>MAY 6, 2004
Boss Martians attack, again
by Jedd Beaudoin
Calloused displays its yawning angst
Calloused isn't bad, per se, but it doesn't bring a lot to the table, either.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Judas Priest's Metalology box set reveals the band's deep and restless history
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Rips The Covers Off — L.A. Guns
The Art Of Live (DVD) — Queensryche
Coldness — Kotipelto
>APRIL 29, 2004
Zerofixx is coming up
by Jedd Beaudoin
John Prine: Too cool to die
by Jedd Beaudoin
Solägget shines, Scenery blurs at The Cedar
by Jedd Beaudoin
Lacuna Coil works hard for its money
by Jedd Beaudoin
Earle, Stuart to play Cabaret Old Town
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Hate, Fear, Love, Lust — Zerofixx
Mercifully short: Girls Talk
'Til The Living End — Zeke
Tempo Of The Damned — Exodus
Gone Forever — God Forbid
>APRIL 22, 2004
White Knuckle Driver: The kids say, "I want my WKD!"
by Jedd Beaudoin
Sugar Free All-Stars finally tasting sweets
by Jedd Beaudoin
Foster, King Snakes a winning combination
by Jedd Beaudoin
Two KC-based bands roll into the Shamrock
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music in brief
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
G3 Live In Denver (DVD) — Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen
Frustration Plantation — Rasputina
Soundtrack To Your Escape — In Flames
>APRIL 15, 2004
Hoppin' down the beaster trail
by Jedd Beaudoin
Balance to play benefit for accident victim
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Fleetwood Mac reissues
Does Humor Belong In Music? (DVD/Reissue) — Frank Zappa
Controlling The Users — David Emmets
>APRIL 8, 2004
The Kind is still finding its voice
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Gooding family feeling
by Jedd Beaudoin
Pat McJimsey leaves legacy of music, friendship
by Jedd Beaudoin
White Knuckle Driver at full throttle
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Sissyfoot — Furious Billy
Guest House — Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum
Honking On Bobo — Aerosmith
11 Days — Never Heard Of It
>APRIL 1, 2004
Tornado Bait sucks you in for a blast
by Kristin Strole
Licked by Deathtöngue
by Jeff Beaudoin
Album reviews
The Very Best of Jackson Browne — Jackson Browne
All The Best (Box Set) — Carmody, Bush, Sharpton and Rumsfeld
No Sleep 'Till Leavenworth — Ründström
Thick Bricks: Live at Bricktown 54 — Paul Kroeker
>MARCH 25, 2004
Choking Ahogo has plenty of spring reverb
by Jedd Beaudoin
Why I believe in metal
"and a freeing, at the end,
of the final beast inside
and of the final note"
— Albert Goldbarth, "Why I Believe In Ghosts"
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Life (DVD Audio) — Johnny Cash
Halloween (DVD Audio) — Frank Zappa
Probot — Probot
>MARCH 18, 2004
The Apes swing with imagination
by Jedd Beaudoin
Lying In States: GPAs down, popularity up
by Jedd Beaudoin
The good, the bands and the ugly
by Jedd Beaudoin
Pseudosix is weird but moving
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Baby Snakes (DVD) — Frank Zappa
Predator (EP) — Modey Lemon
Before Became After — Proto-Kaw
>MARCH 11, 2004
Rex's jaw-dropping country palette
by Jedd Beaudoin
Gooding soldiers forth at Loft 150
by Jedd Beaudoin
WichitaBandScene suffers drive failure
by Mike Marlett
Piper Leigh to lead benefit for Skin Cancer Foundation
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Ambulance — Killed By Robots
Wound Up! — Matt Walsh and the Maddogs
Tangled In The Pines — BR549
>MARCH 4, 2004
Killed By Robotsí balancing act
by Jedd Beaudoin
And then thereís Maudie
Front man Nick Evancho speaks
by Jedd Beaudoin
Squint set to paint the town tinsel
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Cedarís posthaste Thursday
by Jedd Beaudoin
Satanís Jeweled Crown goes on display
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Blowing The Clambake — Scenery
No Depression: What It Sounds Like (Vol. 1) — Various artists
You're Only Making It Worse — Reno Divorce
You're Only Making It Worse — Reno Divorce
>FEBRUARY 26, 2004
Suck harder
The Mess aren't; Sucky and the Suckaholics don't
by Jedd Beaudoin
Forty Twenty bring both kinds of music
by Jedd Beaudoin
Truckstop Honeymoon debuts its new hillbilly makout record
by Jedd Beaudoin
Asylum Street Spankers gets its mojo workin'
by Jedd Beaudoin
Don't dog the Doxies
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music briefs
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Thirty-Year Retrospective — Mark O'Connor
Cold Light of Monday — Wolverine
Hoot Your Belly — Jimmy Lee Williams
>FEBRUARY 19, 2004
Machines of Industry are human
by Jedd Beaudoin
Hosty Duo are freakin' awesome
by Jedd Beaudoin
Up-and-comers in for doubleheader
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music briefs
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Biomechanichrist Rides Again — White Knuckle Driver
Lamentations (DVD) — Opeth
>FEBRUARY 12, 2004
Which one's Phil?
Alex Thomas, singer for the elder-statesman band Ophil, discusses the band's special sauce of longevity
by Jedd Beaudoin
Full moon fever breaks out at Kirby's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Delbert McClinton: Something special
by Jedd Beaudoin
Doyle Lawson brings music with a message
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Soldiermaking — Gooding
Love Songs — Various artists
Bessie's Last Stand — Crystal Brandt
>FEBRUARY 5, 2004
Larkin totes luck into Cabaret Oldtown
by Jedd Beaudoin
Oooga chaka waka Friday
by Jedd Beaudoin
Murder By Death to play all-ages show at the Citivan
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Contaminated VI— Various artists
Blues Guy Now— P.K. Dwyer
Born With A Tail — Woodbox Gang
>JANUARY 29, 2004
TGO is about more than words
by Jedd Beaudoin
7/8 Quick is up to speed
by Jedd Beaudoin
Sweden's Opeth: Damnation, deliverance and a U.S. tour
by Jedd Beaudoin
Kirby's hosts benefit for atypically burned-out musician
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
So Damn Happy — Loudon Wainwright III
The Antidote — Moonspell
Good Times — Weary Boys
>JANUARY 22, 2004
PoDank to play the Shamrock Lounge
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Pristine In Bondage — Amaran
Lambhouse—Unsane
Decade of the Nail-Spiked Bat—Jag Panzer
Mercifully short
Big Fat Fun ties this mother down
>JANUARY 15, 2004
Proto-Kaw: It moves you
by Jedd Beaudoin
Agents of the Sun to play The Club
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
AM — AM
Pop-O-Anthology 1984-1993 — Pop-O-Pies
Slow Down Quick — Mike Reis
>JANUARY 8, 2004
Proto-Kaw to play K.C.
by Jedd Beaudoin
7/8 Quick to celebrate CD release at The Cedar
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
The Brown Mountain Lights — Late Show at the Cave
Temple Of Fire — The Deformed
Odessa Chen — One Room Palace
>JANUARY 1, 2004
Forum reunion a nod to folk music tradition, good times
by Bill Jenkins
A year end music review
Rare and recorded or local and live, we've got it
by Jedd Beaudoin
>DECEMBER 25, 2003
Thanks for the music so far
by Jedd Beaudoin
Lower Level ready to take Kirby's higher
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
ReCollection: Relapse Video Collection — Various artists
Letting Go Of Strings — Gina Noell
Busking For Karma — Fellaheen
>DECEMBER 18, 2003
Skid Marx wrong in all the right ways
by Jedd Beaudoin
Beauty Pageant: Liquor up, relax and get ready for the hot jam
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Live At The Astoria London — Steve Vai
The Cryingness of Your Crying When You Cry — Terese Taylor
Francesca Lee — Francesca Lee
>DECEMBER 11, 2003
Istanbullies: Brave words and black I's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Podank String Band puts up a pretty good fight
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Heartwash Hotel — Grey Star Morning
Possessed 13 — The Crown
Red — Wendy Colonna
>DECEMBER 4, 2003
A sort of homecoming
by Jedd Beaudoin
Meat your friends at Kirby's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Device 1461 uneven, but working on it
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Radars and Maps—Choking Ahogo
It Hurts To Be Seen—The Shut-Ups
Moonraker — The Wes Hollywood Show
>NOVEMBER 27, 2003
The Boss Martians wanna be your addiction
by Jedd Beaudoin
Metalheads unite for kids
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Eyes Wide Open (DVD) — King Crimson
>NOVEMBER 20, 2003
Songs of heroes and zeroes
Bryan Masters and James McMurtry create a night of impeccable music.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jars of Clay makes new music with old methods
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Heart of a Traveling Wind — Gypsy
Remission — Mastodon
Thirst — Maria Lithell
Mercifully Short
>NOVEMBER 13, 2003
OPhil knows its fans and friends
by Jedd Beaudoin
Trans-Siberian Orchestra helps spread the Gioia
by Jedd Beaudoin
Voodoo Organist to cast a spell on Wichita
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Pass The Flask—The Bled
Tug of War—Enchant
Heart of a Woman—Julie Powell
>NOVEMBER 6, 2003
Wayne Kramer enters the Adult World
by Jedd Beaudoin
Mark O'Connor: Swing when you're winnin'
by Jedd Beaudoin
Jonny Lang to play The Cotillion
by Jedd Beaudoin
Houston comes alive
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Shaft — Shaft
Haunt — Jed's A Millionaire
Le Main Drag — The Bon Mots
>OCTOBER 30, 2003
Gravy: A mystery no more
by Jedd Beaudoin
Smell the van
Houston is on tour and ready to play John Barleycorn's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Get twisted with Tendril
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Come Feel Me Tremble (DVD) — Paul Westerberg
Come Feel Me Tremble (CD) — Paul Westerberg
Dead Man Shake — Grandpaboy
Warmth & Beauty — Thad Cockrell
Theatre of the Unheard — Darrell Scott
>OCTOBER 23, 2003
Berry Harris: Why I sing the blues
by Jedd Beaudoin
Kansas: Got to rock on
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
The First Decade — California Guitar Trio
Change — Richie Kotzen
Blues To Die For — Leslie West
>OCTOBER 16, 2003
Rock & Roam ... oh, the Pathos
by Jedd Beaudoin
Surphace really satisphies
by Jenni Alonso
A glimpse of home
Kansas wins award, plays a show for its hometown
by Jedd Beaudoin
Wheatfest: For prog rock champions
by Jedd Beaudoin
Kansas to receive Distinguished Arts Award
KNOB Fest promises 3 nights of new music
by Michael Carmody
Album reviews
Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot — Various Artists
Theorems and Compositions of the Last Action Rocker — Hum Machine
View — Bryan Beller
>OCTOBER 9, 2003
The Orpheum ascends
Gooding Band and Split Lip Rayfield are ready for their hometown crowds
by Jedd Beaudoin
The lamb (doesnÌt) lie down on Broadway
by Jedd Beaudoin
Ian Moore is ready to illuminate Wichita
by Jedd Beaudoin
Show pauses over liquor license trouble
Police made minors leave Cruxshadows show in bar that didn't sell food
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Willie Nelson
Columbia/Legacy, (Reissues 2003)
Living the Good Life—Rodney Hayden
Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton—Various Artists
Earth-quake Glue—Guided by Voices
Hope is a Thing With Feathers—Trailer Bride
>OCTOBER 2, 2003
Arrowhead: Perfectly good guitar in a perfectly good place
by Jedd Beaudoin
Shout unto the Nickel
One-man band Stickey Nickel to play Kirbys
by Jedd Beaudoin
S.O.R.E. at The Game
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Prey On Life — Burst
Carthage — Euclid
Litty Bitty Can of Worms — The Rounders
>SEPTEMBER 25, 2003
Helvis: rock 'n' roll animals
by Jedd Beaudoin
Muriel Anderson to perform Saturday
by Jedd Beaudoin
Sunday Spartan sports Sticks
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
When We Were Big—Boris McCutcheon
Lost Diamond Angel—Jimmy Ryan
Mystery Tracks: Archives Vol. 3— Steve Vai
>SEPTEMBER 18, 2003
Man in black left long shadow
by Michael Carmody
Gooding robbed in Texas
by Mike Marlett
In the back
7/8 Quick and Drunken Monkey Technique play John Barleycorn's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Walnut Valley a pickers heaven
by Michael Carmody
Get Juberlant!
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
The Jealous Kind—Chris Night
Ode To Joy—Thanks To Gravity
Wire and Wood—Glamour Puss
Mercifully short
>SEPTEMBER 11, 2003
Gooding to the last drop
by Jedd Beaudoin
Hard travelinÌ made easy
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Prelude To Apocalypse—Jerry Dowell
Sulaco—Sulaco
Compilation Club Sampler (Songs from the First Five Discs)—Various Artists
>SEPTEMBER 4, 2003
Cover me, IÌm going in
by Jedd Beaudoin
Three is a magic number
California Guitar Trio are ready to embrace Wichita
by Jedd Beaudoin
Yo La Tengo spreads Summer Sun through autumn
by Michael Carmody
Album reviews
Turn on the Bright Lights—Interpol
Anatomy Is Destiny—Exhumed
Daisies In My Hand—Mary Alice Wood
>AUGUST 28, 2003
The second most important show of my life (so far)
by Jedd Beaudoin
Sluggomania (Slight return)
Once defunct Wichita favorites are at it again
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Shout, Sister, Shout!—Various artists
Go For It ... Live!—Fu Manchu
The Gathering Of Spirits—Carrie Newcomer
It's Just the Night—Del McCoury Band
>AUGUST 21, 2003
Poor sound mars Lacuna Coil's KC debut
by Jedd Beaudoin
Brazil nuts invade Botanica
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Dark Side of the Moon (DVD)—Pink Floyd
Eagle Vision, 2003
by Jedd Beaudoin
>AUGUST 14, 2003
Quiett riot at the Artichoke
by Jedd Beaudoin
The King Snakes slither into John Barleycorn's
by Jedd Beaudoin
Singer-songwriter Greg Tamblyn to perform benefit for Trees For Life
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Something to Crow About—The Riverboat Gamblers
Chatham County Line—Chatham County Line
Lost Legends of Surf Guitar I - III—Various artists
Mastul—Devil Music
Twang On A Wire—Kate Campbell
The Secret's Out—Jen Elliot
>AUGUST 7, 2003
Hopefuls ready for a bright future
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Yes New York—Various Artists
Applause Of The Rain—Christopher Jak
Run for Cover—Pro-Pain
Turn In Your Friends and Neighbors—Living Things
>JULY 31, 2003
Everyday I sing the blues
Matt Walsh on the state of the blues in Wichita
by Jedd Beaudoin
Bringing down The House
Wichita Center for the Arts reaches out to rave culture with a DJ and a silent film this weekend
by Jedd Beaudoin
Metal machine music
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Train Home—Chris Smither
Austral Alien—Alchemist
Untitled (The Black Album)—Istanbullies
>JULY 24, 2003
Strange and lovely
An interview with Dutch guitar master Jan Akkerman
by Jedd Beaudoin
Too old to rock and roll, too young to die
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Spitalfield—Remember Right Now
Bumblefoot—Forgotten Anthology 1995-2002
Antimatter—Lights Out
>JULY 17, 2003
Razor Wire Halo cuts heads
by Jedd Beaudoin
The Sharp Ease leave a mark
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Don Quixote de Suburbia—Ethan Daniel Davidson
Sunday Afternoon—Rebecca Hall
Shapeshifter—Tempest
>JULY 10, 2003
Fellowship ... to the max!!!
Extreme Tour mixes rock & Christian ministry for the Warped generation
by Kate Hutchens
Sarcoma won't kill ya'
by Jedd Beaudoin
Tish Hinojosa to perform at Botanica
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
One Nation Under a Re-Groove—The Clinton Administration
Bloodshot EP—The New Gold Standard
Give 'Em Some—Bruce Arnold
>JULY 3, 2003
Revolution rock
Tour keeps punk's social activism alive
by Jedd Beaudoin
Rockin' the skate park
Ohio rockers roll into Wichita and roll all over you, baby
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
The Sharp Ease—The Sharp Ease
Lookin' for Trouble—Kim Wilson
Southern Comfort—E.G. Kight
Radio Free Gristle—Greg Koch
Diamond Dave—David Lee Roth
>JUNE 26, 2003
Being there
Vans Warped Tour is as much about the experience as the music
by Jedd Beaudoin
Favored Nations Tour filled with grace(ful) notes
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
The Executioner's Last Songs, Vols. 2 & 3—Pine Valley Cosmonauts
From Sacrifice To Survival—Skinless
Dandelion—Claire Holley
Ambition—Aviary
High Dive—Maria McKee
>JUNE 19, 2003
Friday the 13th runaround
by Jedd Beaudoin
Finger Pickin' Good
Favored Nations Tour takes a shine to Wichita
by Jedd Beaudoin
Snapback snapped up for Warped Tour
by Michael Carmody
Album reviews
Upside Downside—Scott Miller and the Commonwealth
Decoration Day—Drive-By Truckers
B-Sides And Confessions Volume One—Jeff Black
My Turn to Howl—Penny Jo Pullus
Synergy—Extol
>JUNE 12, 2003
Hold the Carmex
Split Lip Rayfield returns after a year's hiatus
by Michael Carmody
Jet: Everybody falls apart together some time
by Jedd Beaudoin
April's Fool go where angels fear to tread
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Willie and Family Live, San Antonio Rose, To Lefty from Willie, Honeysuckle Rose — Willie Nelson
Soul Journey — Gillian Welch
>JUNE 5, 2003
Clarity and expression
An interview with Piu Mosso Guitar Duo's Excier Rodriguez
by Jedd Beaudoin
Broadway had Barbra, 17th Street's got Disco Macabre
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Comalies
How We Handle Our Midnights—Glossary
Baby I'm Bored—Evan Dando
We Got This!—The New Christs
What Was I Thinkin'?—Deadnecks
>MAY 29, 2003
Ethan Daniel Davidson's two-night stand
by Jedd Beaudoin
Rockin' out for kids' sake
Heartspring's "Rock & Roll for Kids" is good fun for a good cause
by Kristin Strole
That's Darlin' Fauker, fauker
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Manufactured Hate — True Illusion
Bluestring — Bluestring
Near and Dear - Ho-Hum
Frozen Thought — Michael Lee Hill
>MAY 22, 2003
Permanent record: Local studios are open, eager for business
by Jedd Beaudoin
Killed by Killed by Robots
by Jedd Beaudoin
Gaylord Fauker Band celebrates CD release
by Michael Carmody
Album reviews
Beneath This Gruff Exterior — John Hiatt and The Goners
Floating — Greg Trooper
Pierce My Brain — Rubber City Rebels
It'll Come to You ... The Songs of John Hiatt — Various artists
>MAY 15, 2003
Helvis: Power. Mystique. Stachybotrys.
by Jedd Beaudoin
Rodney Branigan: An axis bold as love
by Jedd Beaudoin
Kissinger: Crusaders of the Rock
by Michael Carmody
Driving Mr. Yoakam('s dinner)
by Julie Ann Baker
Album reviews
Time And Water—Last Train Home
Cockadoodledon't—Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers
Naysayers and Yesmen—Reno Divorce
I'm Staying Out—Caitlin Cary
Just Another Place—Chris Wall
Thickfreakness—The Black Keys
>MAY 8, 2003
The Gooding Band: Relaxing into a new tour
Working out the sounds of a new album after a winter break, the Gooding Band has never been happier.
by Mike Marlett
Oh, where have you been, Darlin' Maudie?
by Jedd Beaudoin
The golden age of melody
A conversation with flautist / saxophonist Joseph Vincelli
by Jedd Beaudoin
Sometimes the spirit overtakes ya'
Supreme Unaltered, Spirit of the Staircase and Solgget tear up The Shamrock Lounge (again)
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Live at Loft 150 — The Gooding Band
Til the Wheels Fall Off—Amy Rigby
Full Circle—Marty Raybon
Healer of Hearts—Danny Wright
>MAY 1, 2003
Blues Crawl an odyssey for the ears
The annual Spring Blues Crawl brings the best of Wichita's blues musicians into the public eye (and ear).
by Jedd Beaudoin
Music as a pillow fight
Music as a Weapon concert long on rock schtick, short on originality.
by Jessy Clonts
7/8 Quick finally clicks
by Michael Carmody
Forming a more perfect union
A conversation with Society 1 head honcho Matt Zane
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Recreation Day — Evergrey
Dragging Wonder Lake—Janet Bean and Concertina Wire
Music For Umbrellas—The Stellas
So Many Rivers—Marcia Ball
>APRIL 24, 2003
Picky fans
Fingerstyle guitarist Pat Kirtley clicks with Wichita, audiences
by Jedd Beaudoin
Supreme Unaltered rocks the mic right
by Jedd Beaudoin
The American Standard
Peter Mulvey is about American — not folk — music
by Jedd Beaudoin
Big beautiful smell made Friday good
by Jedd Beaudoin
Supermodel
Mark Insley Rustic Records, 2003
by Brian Whepley
Her and Hurt, HeartsAnd Academy
Best Kept Secret (Italy), 2003
by Jessy Clonts
Poised on the brink
Interview with Unloco's Joey Duenas
by Jessy Clonts
Haggard brings true country to Cotillion
by Brian Whepley
Album reviews
In The Beginning—Townes Van Zandt
Tomorrow The World—The Shazam
>APRIL 17, 2003
The kids are all right again
All-ages shows have local support
by Jedd Beaudoin
That's "Lord Fauker" to you
The Gaylord Fauker Band clings to small but appreciative crowd
by Jedd Beaudoin
Friend or Foe—Erica Smith
Listen Here, 2002
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
World Without Tears—Lucinda Williams
The Ascending Masquerade—Jerry Dowell
Altered States of America —Agoraphobic Nosebleed
What's Meant to Be—Benna
Rainy Day Music—The Jayhawks
>APRIL 10, 2003
Coming home: Proto-Kaw recalls roots of Kansas
by Jedd Beaudoin
And Academy, Raygun Administration loud but persuasive
by Jedd Beaudoin
Blazing guitars at Roadhouse Blues
by Randy Crump
Album reviews
Lonesome, On'ry and Mean: A Tribute To Waylon Jennings
I'm Back in Therapy and It's All Your Fault — Roberta Piket & Alternating Current
Gypsies & Drifters—Jackson Taylor Band
Growing Up In Kansas—Grandpa's .38
>APRIL 3, 2003
Block party to circle planet B.B.
Wichita Festivals Inc. and B98 put the River Festival's block party and B.B. King together for the buzz.
by Kristin Strole
The Now still searching for its moment
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Used Country Female—Tammy Faye Starlite and the Angels of Mercy
Fitchburg Street—Doyle Bramhall
Red = Luck—Patty Larkin
Caress the Mess—The Mess
Full-Time Work—Rockin' Jake
Memory Girls—Warren Zanes
100th Window—Massive Attack
Your Superhero In That Bar
Transient
>MARCH 27, 2003
They got Brass
A few moments with Jeremiah Nichols of The Joe Fund
by Jedd Beaudoin
(New) South by West
by Michael Carmody
Cotillion to be Roomful of Blues Friday
by Randy Crump
Not just for boot-scootin' anymore
by Kristin Strole
Album reviews
Details—Frou Frou
Love Songs From The Apocalypse—Mars Arizona
The Size of Planets—Haley Bonar
The Heavils—The Heavils
That's Right—Roomful Of Blues
Jubilee—Harry Manx & Kevin Breit
>MARCH 20, 2003
Matt Walsh brings blues to life
by Jedd Beaudoin
Mouth of the South
by Kristin Strole
Raygun Administration evolves backward
by Jessy Clonts
The Esoteric rips
Barleycorn's a new one
by Jedd Beaudoin
Album reviews
Offering — Human Ritual
Shrangri-La West—Jesse DeNatale
Over Now—Snowdonnas
Bill Perry,—Crazy Kind of Life
Little Charlie & the Nightcats—That's Big
Little Hatch—Rock With Me Baby
>MARCH 13, 2003
Tales of the sun egg
by Mike Marlett
Eivy grows on local music scene
by Randy Crump
Kotte takes the Orpheum
by Randy Crump
Leadhead Lockout promotes local heavies
by Deb Anderson
Album reviews
Crucify My Heart—Lullacry
Big Fun—Bill Evans
The Road We're On—Sonny Landreth
Nothing To Remember—40 Grit
Phrenology—The Roots
Scratching At The Surface—Event
>MARCH 6, 2003
Strummin' for Joe
Local punks raise money for charity in fallen Clash hero's name.
by Michael Carmody
Live in Lawrence, the Roots rock the house
by Jessy Clonts
Pickin' on Wichita
by Michael Carmody
Still playing the blues
by Randy Crump
Amazing Rhythm Aces ridin' into Wichita
by Randy Crump
Joan Baez comes to Wichita
by Randy Crump
Album reviews
Live ... Late ... Loud—Reeves Gabrels
Perfection In Pain—Corporation 187
Stingray—Kenny Brown