Monday, Oct. 8th, Ha Ha Tonka brought their self-proclaimed "foot stompin' indie rock" to Riverview Lounge, and they did not disappoint. Hailing from Springfield, Mo., the four-piece band is touring in support of their Bloodshot Records debut album, ***Buckle in the Bible Belt***, which came out Sept.
I called Janet Planet as she was settling down for a nap in California, where she sang in a concert that evening. "You caught me just in time," she said cheerfully. Planet, a new part-time instructor in jazz vocal technique, comes to Lawrence with an impressive musical background.
Ayse Adanali became involved with photography four years ago, when she picked up her first digital camera and started taking pictures while traveling. While she doesn't consider herself an "artist," she certainly has credentials suggesting otherwise, including honors awards for her photography, and an exhibition in Spain, where she explored photographing "people and light" in a show called "Illuminations.
Radiohead: "In Rainbows" Rating: 9.8/10.0 Radiohead has released a new album. There it is. The six words that only come around once every few years, and bring with them a world of frenzy that can't even be described. This is the album review I've been waiting to write for a long time.
October 9 was the first cold day of fall. During the day, high winds flew through peoples' hair and subtly bestowed kisses upon the tips of their noses. But when Wilco took the stage in Milwaukee, nobody minded the cold. The three-part song "You Are My Face" opened the set gently as frontman Jeff Tweedy, bassist John Stirratt, and multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone sang in harmony, "But I've turned to rust as we've discussed/though I must have let you down too many times/in the dirt and the dust.