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The month is still packed and busy as the fall leaves and colors start to show more and temps can swing by 40-50 degrees by the day-- it must be mid-October in the Midwest! Taylor Swift has become a regular at Chiefs games, and haunted houses are open for business everywhere, especially in the West Bottoms.
Let’s take look at the Kansas City / Lawrence KS metro musical happenings for the upcoming week, from October 23rd-26th.
MONDAY OCTOBER 23
Sevendust, Static-X, dope, Lines of Loyalty The Midland, $35-$41.50
For the first time since 1999, the three hard rock acts will be hitting the road together for a 21-date fall U.S. tour with openers Lines of Loyalty. Dubbed the "Machine Killer" tour, the run features Static-X and Sevendust as co-headliners, each with a new album to promote.
Static-X will release Project: Regeneration Vol. 2, the final album to feature recordings of the late Wayne Static, on Nov. 3.
Sevendust, dropped their 14th studio album, Truth Killer, on July 28, featuring new singles "Fence" and "Everything." and is a hometown show for singer LaJon Witherspoon who has lived in the KC metro for a decade or so.
Dope released Blood Money Part Zer0, their first new album since 2016, and newcomers Lines of Loyalty, who have three singles out, will get a chance to make a name for themselves.
Rod Wave, T-Mobile Center, $94-$500
It’s the much-hyped Nostalgia Tour, with support from Ari Lennox, Toosii, and Eelmatic celebrating the St. Petersburg native’s fourth studio album, Nostalgia, recently released. It’s the follow up to his chart-topping, platinum-certified Beautiful Mind album, which was also the fourth consecutive platinum-certified project of his career.
Ruben Studdard / Clay Aiken, Uptown, $35-$99
“Twenty | The Tour,” highlights personal samples from both Studdard and Aiken, in addition to hits that helped the former American Idols (Season 2) gain popularity over the last twenty years. Studdard and Aiken have recorded a combined 12 albums, sold more than eight million albums worldwide, toured the country 14 times, starred together on Broadway, won four Billboard Music Awards, an American Music Award, and have been nominated for two Grammys.
Their Season Two finale remains the most-watched episode in “Idol” history and the highest-rated regularly scheduled, live, non-sporting television episode of the 21st century with 38.1 million viewers and was where Studdard prevailed by a margin of 134,000 votes of the 24 million total.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 24
To Kill a Mockingbird (Broadway), Oct 24-29, Music Hall, $46-$126
All rise for Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. With direction by Tony Award® winner Bartlett Sher, the play should put a fresh take on one of the most heralded modern novels, and features star of stage and screen Richard (The Waltons) Thomas. Arrive early, or risk being subjected to a 24min seating hold, if you’re late!
The Brian Jonestown Massacre, recordBar, $30
The psychedelic rock legends return to the road, led by the singular visioned drive of Anton Newcombe and revolving cohorts. The band has a recorded output of 20 studio albums, 14 EPs, five live albums, six compilation albums and 22 singles, most independently via the band’s self-sustaining A Records.
The BJM released The Future is Your Past back in February and the band is on their way to Austin’s Levitation Festival on Halloween weekend, and we’re lucky enough they scheduled a KC stop.
Johnnyswim, Truman, $30-$60
Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano Ramirez met in Nashville in 2005, instituting a songwriting partnership not long afterward. They clicked together musically and personally, beginning a romantic relationship along with their creative connection. The couple married in 2009 and relocated to Los Angeles. In addition to their 2014 debut full-length Diamonds, they’ve released three EPs as well as a Christmas EP and a live album.
Georgica Pond was produced by Abner and recorded at the couple’s home studio in Los Angeles, with bass and drum added in Nashville, TN. The Stories Tour promises a musical journey that will transport you through emotions and memories, leaving you wanting more.
Eric Nam, Midland, $39.50-$45
The Asian sensation is out on his ‘House on a Hill’ world tour, featuring 72 dates, with even more to come. In February, he’ll be drawing large crowds in Thailand, Singapore, South Korea and more. Plans for The Philippines, India, and Indonesia are coming soon, so this is a true worldwide star and catch him here while you can.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25
The 1975, T-Mobile Center, $39-$99
One of our favorites over the last decade and still out on their Still … At Their Very Best Tour in case you missed them previously out in Independence as the tour got underway. They're returned to our shores after some European Festival dates, Uk and Asia tours (not without controversy) and back again here. It started last year in support of album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language and is the band's biggest North American tour to date.
Wilco w Nina Nastasia, The Midland, $39.50-$69.50.
One of the biggest alternative bands are on a fall tour following stops in Europe and the UK, before ending the year with Sky Blue Sky in Mexico. Singer Jeff Tweedy is releasing a new book in November called World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music. Last year, Wilco released Cruel Country and also a very expanded reissue of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
The National Parks w Zach Seabaugh, recordBar, $20-$65
The indie-folk band are out on their 8th Wonder Tour and consistent with their name, taking inspiration from the beauty of the natural world. A news release from the band asks, “You know the feeling when the clouds part and the sun shines down on you, the rush you get when you run and jump into a lake at full speed, or the moment a gust of morning air brings new life as you step outside and look at the world around you? The National Parks translate these sensations into songs.”
Zach Seabaugh is a rising star in the Nashville indie-pop scene, with recent track “Maybe We Do." Co-written by Seabaugh, Melissa Fuller, and Brett Truitt, the song explores the uncertainty and excitement of a new relationship.
BabyJake, Encore at Uptown, $18
Aren't We Ever Gonna Be More Than Friends? BabyJake is bringing the glamour of the '70s to modern day. He broke through to listeners in 2019, when his “Cigarettes on Patios” went gold and the Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s loudest influence is his own personality. After his debut album in 2021 (SB Projects / Republic Records), he brings a true rock album, from an iconic cover of “Best of Burden” to an original freedom anthem, “We Got To Get Together To Be Free.” His independent album, Aren’t We Ever Gonna Be More Than Friends?, was out in July.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 26
Lauren Daigle, T-Mobile Center, $34.50-$124.50
The two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning singer-songwriter is out on her The Kaleidoscope Tour, a 30-city run in support of her self-titled album which will include 20 songs released in two parts- this spring and later this year. Daigle’s #1s include hit “You Say,” “Rescue,” “Look Up Child,” her new single “Thank God I Do.”
Mikaela Davis, Knuckleheads, $20
The indie singer-songwriter and harpist is out in support of her highly anticipated LP, titled And Southern Star, which came out in August via label Kill Rock Stars. Fans can look forward to hearing her recently released singles, “Promise,” and “Far From You.” among other tracks and we caught her live, just as the album was coming out, in August in St. Paul.
Iration, Uptown, $29-$55
The alternative/reggae group formed in Isla Vista, CA. “We’re all about luv”, states the band. The group is made up of members Micah Pueschel (Guitar/Lead Vocals), Adam Taylor (Bass), Joseph Dickens (Drums), Cayson Peterson (Keyboard/Synth), and Micah Brown (Guitar/Vocals). Most of the members met while growing up in Hawaii but they reconnected in Santa Barbara in 2004 and they’ve toured nationally since 2008. Feel their live “Aloha Spirit.”
The Cadillac Three, Knuckleheads, $30
Members include native Nashvillians Jaren Johnston, Neil Mason and Kelby Ray, who have been friends and musical co-conspirators since they were kids. They've weathered their wild teenage years and even wilder tours, weathered major label letdowns and major league triumphs. Johnston co-wrote Keith Urban's #1 single “You Gonna Fly” and the group is formidable in their own right.
Ashley McBryde, Prairie Band Casino- Mayetta, Sold Out
The still-rising singer is out on the Devil I Know Tour, named for her album of the same title, which released in early September. Her fourth studio album and its lead single, "Light on in the Kitchen," is already a Top 25 hit at country radio. She's also previewed the LP with other early tracks, including "Learned to Lie," and title track, "The Devil I Know."
Most recently, she dropped "Cool Little Bars," a Lainey Wilson co-write that McBryde says shows her "huge appreciation for bars that have stood the test of time and have a lot of character.".
National Touring act coming to Kansas City, Lawrence, KS, Topeka, KS, or vicinity? Let us know so we can spotlight the appearance-email [email protected]
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