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→ October 4, 2011
For local funky brass band Beans & Cornbread, the answer is always YES. Formed around the middle of the last decade, Topeka based Beans & Cornbread is a big ol’ brass band that lays down some serious funkiness, that you can sit, listen, and enjoy; but after hearing a few of their upbeat horn driven [...]
→ June 22, 2011
Performing the music from their youth, Tejano band Paradize is celebrating 35 years of music-making this year. Growing up in the Oakland neighborhood, with a career older than most of the upstarts usually featured in the pages of seveneightfive, the members of Paradize can keep you entertained for hours with stories from the road. Featuring [...]
→ May 3, 2011
Take a jigger of jazz and a dash of pop, stir together, garnish with just the right amount of witty acerbic lyrics, then sit back and enjoy the sweet savory sounds of Monk’s Wine. Getting their name from an unusual source, Monk’s Wine populate their upbeat, lyric driven, piano based songs with an unusual assortment [...]
→ April 27, 2011
N.O.C.C., AKA Travis Jenkins, hip-hop artist from Topeka, is offering a free download of his album, Cold Winter / Cold World. The album is thoughtful, introspective and has killer beats. It was produced by Dream Killer University’s Spoken Thought, who is also featured on a few of the tracks. seveneightfive thought this would be a [...]
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