http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2014/mar/05/270004/ **Shy Boys** Kansas City brothers Collin and Kyle Rausch, along with their roommate Konnor Ervin make up Shy Boys, a band that started playing together promptly after switching to unfamiliar instruments. Ervin, a guitarist, took up ...

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2014/feb/24/269547/ **Fox and the Bird** Based on the band name alone, if I said this was a folk group, would you really be surprised? Combining rich harmonies and layers of instrumentals Fox and the Bird just released latest barebones album Darkest ...

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2014/feb/24/269544/ If you’ve listened to Truckstop Honeymoon’s 2011 album Steamboat in a Cornfield, you know that Katie and Mike West’s arrival in Kansas had everything to do with the floods that chased them here. Fleeing from Hurricane Katrina in ...

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2014/feb/25/269599/ KJHK 90.7 FM, student-run radio at Kansas University, is getting ready for its 20th annual Farmers’ Ball battle of the bands, and is in its final days of accepting submissions from local (Lawrence and greater KC) musicians. ...

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2014/feb/20/269360/ **Gee Watts** One of Kansas City’s hottest rappers, Gee Watts owes some of the limelight to the prominent Kendrick Lamar. Sending a quick tweet to Lamar before the Compton rapper had gained the attention he’s living up right ...

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2014/feb/19/269338/ The Bottleneck is about to be transformed into an opera house. The cause: electronic dance music by the melodic stylings of MartyParty. Coined “purple opera” by fans, South African DJ Martin Folb (aka MartyParty) produces a ...