Lawrence All Ages Noise Destination is excited to welcome Lowertown and Micah Preite to the White Schoolhouse.

Tickets on sale Feb 13th at 10am.

Lowertown finally caught their breath. Over the last few years, the New York-based duo of Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg was teetering on the brink. From constant touring and a separation from their label to creative frustrations and an unhealthy attachment to one another, their artistic partnership and, more importantly, their friendship were on shaky ground—especially since these experiences were colored by the disorienting intensity of their late teens and early 20s. It became clear that the two had to revisit their roots.

Those roots sprung in Atlanta, Georgia, in the forests, in the soon-to-be abandoned venues, in makeshift punk communities, but their roots also strengthened somewhere else entirely: on the internet. The band grew up on Tumblr fanpages, Reddit forums, digital spaces that had not yet been corporatized. They were able to observe and take part in music, anime, and film fandoms that grew stronger in these ungoverned places. So much so, that the fandoms leapt from the virtual to the physical, bringing people together to meet at concerts, coffee shops, and conventions to discuss their obsessions and connect over shared interests. During the pandemic, they watched these spaces change, become commodified, and disappear; people no longer had these physical spaces to be solely amongst friends with shared interests where communities and fandoms could strengthen. Out of this vacuum, the Ugly Duckling Union was born. 

Inspired by the conceptual creativity of bands like Gorillaz and the emphasis on the communal concert experience of Fugazi, Lowertown’s new album, fittingly titled Ugly Duckling Union, is the conceptual world of Dale the duckling protagonist and his companions as they attempt to band together to defeat LBH, a tyrannical media corporation set on separating and isolating in their pursuit of control.

Through the band’s online connection with fans, their Discord server with channels for their community to share their own art and talk to the band, and their Instagram and Youtube pages, where they have built a cult following, they have already begun to bridge the gap between the digital and physical. Lowertown shows are often giddily attended by those who have met through their web of online fandom. Ugly Duckling Union, accompanied by a conceptual story, a playable Minecraft world, a handbook, plush dolls, and drawn comics by Doctor Nowhere (Silas Orion), is creating the space to be obsessed together again.

The tumultuous beginnings are in the rearview mirror for Lowertown, as we hear in the first seconds of the opening track, “Mice Protection”, Osby’s composed exhale, a symbolic moment that sets the scene for their most thoughtful, uninhibited, catchy, and eccentric collection of songs.

Songs like “Big Thumb” epitomize just how far Lowertown has come. In an unkempt folk-jazz murmur, Weinberg slurs his words with palpable heart, while Osby’s lush vocal melodies and harmonica encircle to haunting effect. The song was written after an hour-plus jam on 12-string guitar and harmonica, and its impressionistic lyrics came from newspaper clippings. The funny, country-tinged “Worst Friend” was also the result of a playful writing style, arising from a spur-of-the-moment decision to trade bars about a Malcolm in the Middle episode, wherein a character goes to AA to make his family think he’s working on himself, despite never having a drinking problem. Then, there’s “Cover You,” a gorgeous, pastoral, and largely instrumental number with intricate fingerpicked guitar and mournful flute—a teaser of the LP’s more ambitious second half.

Lowertown are perhaps best known for their affecting musings on the melancholia of youth, always captured with biting honesty. But on Ugly Duckling Union, that anguish is funneled through a more mature, detached, and humorous lens. Weinberg describes their previous lyrics as “knee-jerk reactions,” compared to the more considered and self-aware writing of this LP. “Mice Protection” pokes fun at Osby’s tortured inability to make decisions, “Forgive Yourself” is a blunt yet compassionate meditation on shame, and “I Like You a Lot” is a rare Lowertown love song, detailing the physical sensations of infatuation.

While working on the album, Osby read a lot of Carl Jung, the famed psychologist who wrote extensively about the “shadow self,” and in a similar spirit, they describe the album’s back half as “the witch half.” It’s a more zoomed out, existential, and dreamlike Lowertown.

Ugly Duckling Union was fully written, recorded, produced, and mixed by Osby and Weinberg, and that insular, hands-on ethic is something they cherish—and has never waned. Although Lowertown are the sole caretakers of their art, their new album title is a celebration of the meaningful community they’ve built. “Our home has been the people who make us feel understood, and the music that makes us feel understood,” Osby explains. “I feel like Avsha and I have just been two misfits doing stuff together, and I feel like this music is for people like us—it’s for the misfit toys.” There’s a lot of freedom in being an outsider, and that’s ultimately what Ugly Duckling Union is about—finding and freeing yourself through community. And what could be more freeing, self-confronting, and funny than making a beautiful record with your ride-or-die, misfit-toy best friend?

Micah Preite is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, jazz guitarist, and producer. Inspired by Daniel Rossen, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonious Monk, Elliott Smith, and 20th- century classical music, he blends cinematic arrangements with intimate, electronically processed acoustic layers. In September 2022, he self-released his debut album, producing and performing every instrument. A prolific collaborator, Preite produced Kate Davis's 2024 Anti Records singles, played guitar on Mustafa’s 2024 Dunya (Live) video featuring Daniel Caesar, co-produced and co-wrote several songs on Ralph Castello’s 2025 album Hope, Alaska, and contributed guitar to Quinine’s 2025 Paper Doll. In 2025, he released several singles and is working on his sophomore album.

Currently based in Lawrence, Kansas, independent, singer-songwriter Audrey Chopin signs her indie folk/rock debut as Aud Whitson.

Drawing inspiration from diverse influences, Aud channels a sound that is timeless and deeply personal. Her debut EP, A House That Can’t Get Quieter, explores grief, imposter syndrome, and acceptance; themes that find their way into most of Aud’s writing.

https://linktr.ee/Audwhitson

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lowertown.bandcamp.com

micahpreite.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/mnpreite

Tickets $20

Doors at 7, music at 7:30.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

LAAND is thrilled to welcome The Hobknobs (from the Netherlands) to the White Schoolhouse with Eggs on Mars and Figure Model!

We're thrilled to welcome The Hobknobs to Lawrence, Kansas as they make their way Stateside for the very first time!

Coming to us all the way from the Netherlands as part of a 16-date US tour, this enchanting duo, comprised of Yaël Dekker of the vibrant Dutch post-punk band The Klittens and Arie van Vliet of the beloved Lewsburg (who played the Schoolhouse in 2023!), make the kind of gently playful, sweetly cerebral music that is intimate, unhurried, and free from unnecessary adornment. With a tour-exclusive tape out on the venerable 12xurecs and a debut full-length arriving later this year, you definitely don’t want to miss this exceptional band!!!

Local support from Eggs on Mars (KC psych-tinged garage pop) and Figure Model (LFK folk rock).

Friday, April 24, 2025
$15 adv/$18 DOS
Doors at 7:00, music at 7:30.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

LAAND is thrilled to welcome Gladie to the White Schoolhouse with toasterbath and Party Helmet.

We're thrilled to be hosting Gladie in Lawrence, Kansas as they tour in support of their new Jeff Rosenstock-produced full length on Get Better Records.

Gladie is serene, but only for a moment. Their sound often begins as a swirling dream, like paper dancing in the wind, with Augusta Koch’s voice filtering in calm, measured, and carrying words that crack at the surface of the heart. And then comes the snap: incandescent rhythms arriving like wolves at the gate, guitars and drums forming a whirling storm, widening that initial crack until it becomes an ocean.

Each moment in their music feels like a memory carried on the nerves of the body, unshakable melodies that move like blood through the veins. What has long been the core of Gladie’s power is Koch’s indelible strength as a songwriter—a craft honed over time, creating melodies and lyrics that burrow in and stay, becoming part of the listener’s own internal landscape.

Their work has always explored the balance of contrasting ideas and the beauty found in challenging times: how to find life growing from unlikely soil, how to carry both love and pain in the same hand, how to hold hope even on days that feel unbearably heavy. Their songs often linger in that tension between light and shadow, between stillness and eruption, creating moments that feel weathered by time yet sharpened by it.

It might be easy to frame their emotional landscape as “sad,” but that word is far too narrow. Their work embraces sadness as a spectrum, one that includes beauty, defiance, humor, fear, and the stubborn commitment to keep moving forward. Gladie never asks listeners to abandon their vulnerability. Instead, they invite us to grow within the cracks, to sit inside the tender places, and to recognize the oceans that can form when something inside us breaks open just enough to let something new take shape.

Local support from toasterbath (KC dreampop) and Party Helmet (LFK bummercore).

gladie.net
gladie.bandcamp.com

toasterbathband.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/toasterbathband

partyhelmetband.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/party.helmet

Friday, April 10, 2026
$15
Doors at 7:00, music at 7:30.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

LAAND is thrilled to welcome Australia’s Belair Lip Bombs and dust to the White Schoolhouse with support from Lavenda + MellowPhobia.

Melbourne, Australia’s THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS bring their exuberant and undeniably hook-filled strain of indie power-pop to the Schoolhouse!

From the band’s new label, the illustrious Third Man Records: “Melbourne's The Belair Lip Bombs announce their endlessly listenable new album, Again, out October 31st via Third Man Records (the first Australian release on the label). Again is the follow-up to the four-piece's 2023 debut, Lush Life, a “punchy, hook-laden rock record…straightforward in sound but borderline unassailable in its construction” (The Guardian). Again marks a new chapter for Australia’s best-kept secret, who have been building a loyal local following since they first formed eight years ago with their earnestness and ultra-sticky power-pop song structures.

”As the next decade rolled in, the Belair Lip Bombs fine-tuned their “limerence-rock” (as singer/guitarist Maisie puts it) aesthetic across impassioned and snappy singles. In mapping out what would become Again, the band merged their individual influences more than ever to craft a no-skips collection of indie-rock anthems. It gives the group’s DIY indie-rock style a fresh coat of polish across 10 rollicking new tracks. Again was produced by the band, Nao Anzai (The Teskey Brothers), and Joe White (Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever), marking the first time the Belair Lip Bombs worked with a producer.”

Joining The Belair Lip Bombs are fellow Aussies dust, whose urgent and impassioned strain of melodic punk recall contemporary luminaries Fontaines DC and Lifeguard.

Local support on the night from MellowPhobia.

thebelairlipbombs.com
instagram.com/lipbombs

dust-band.com
dustdustdust.bandcamp.com

instagram.com/lavedamusic
lavedamusic.bandcamp.com

instagram.com/mellowphobia_official
mellowphobia.bandcamp.com

Doors at 7, music at 7:30.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

It is LAAND’s privilege to welcome A Mourning In Heaven all the way from Houston for an evening of ROCK at the White Schoolhouse1

LAAND is proud to present for your listening pleasure on this St. Patrick's Day a true treat for the ears in the form of Houston, Texas' A Mourning In Heaven! With only a handful of EPs released and their first 8 track LP having come out last December; AMIH have crafted a very cohesive sound through each of these projects that bring perfect blends of the melancholic with the upbeat, moments of tenderness that explode into massive walls of sound, and chilling ambient landscapes that flow right into some big fat RIFFS. You would be a fool to miss out on this performance as they make their trek across the Midwest!

Additional support for the evening comes from an all local lineup of Nightosphere, Charmaine, and Drastic Plastic.

https://amourninginheaven.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-2

https://nightosphere.bandcamp.com/album/katabasis

https://charmaine1.bandcamp.com/album/loves-violent-lullaby

Doors at 7, music at 8

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ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

A ll LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

Doors at 7, music at 8.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

Lawrence All Ages Noise Destination is excited to welcome Night Moves for a special night at White Schoolhouse.

Night Moves

https://nightmovesmpls.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nightmovesmpls/

Bless its battered body, but the Night Moves tour van is a piece of shit. It is your standard-issue blue Ford E-350 now months away from its 25th birthday, the sort of vehicle that occasionally prompts so-called normal folks to give the grimy musicians inside suspect stares. The catalytic converter has been stolen three times, so it’s now permanently straight-piped; the exhaust leaks through the holes and cracks in the sides, slowly gassing anyone inside. The wheel wells are shambles. And while John Pelant was writing Double Life, Night Moves’ fourth LP and first in six years, someone swiped the license plates just after he had paid for new tags. God fucking dammit, he remembers thinking. Who the hell steals a license plate?

But Pelant soon sublimated his frustration, turning his vision of a thief who had “borrowed” the plate in order to commit more crimes elsewhere into one of the most winning tunes in Night Moves’ country-soul-psych-rock catalogue, “Daytona.” As sun-swept synthesizers and pedal steel curl around stuttering drums, Pelant offers an empathetic portrait of someone doing whatever is necessary to reinvent their lives. “Daytona, you only wanted a win,” he opens the final verse. “Daytona, no chance I’ll see you again.” There’s irritation in his voice, sure, but mostly there’s acceptance, an understanding that he cannot comprehend someone else’s difficulties and that he has plenty of his own.

That is the spirit that animates and enlivens Double Life, a cozy and cool LP built largely from a string of very rough breaks that Pelant and Night Moves have navigated in recent years. There was the unexpected death of a father-in-law, then a drummer whose skin sloughed off during recording due to contact dermatitis. There were friends arrested for making mistakes in troubled times and assorted pals struggling with sobriety and sanity. And there was, once again, the ever-vexing question for artists about when they’re supposed to step into the responsibilities of adulthood and maybe away from the lifelong compulsion to create, especially as Pelant started thinking seriously about marriage for the first time in his life. Pelant is the sort of songwriter who starts with the music—inspired of late by Glen Campbell and Bobby Caldwell, Cleaners from Venus and early ’90s country, Panda Bear and (as ever) Gram Parsons—and then writes lyrics only after he’s sat with the tune a spell. But this time, these songs are direct documents of Pelant’s life as he searches for silver linings or at least valuable meanings during a moment when very little seemed golden. Double Life is about moving through, not moving on.

Pelant started writing Double Life in the Minneapolis duplex he shares with his fiancée, Tasha. But those early and sometimes-forlorn drafts rightfully bummed her out, especially since some of it spoke of her own woes. So Pelant started treating Night Moves’ little rehearsal room—stuck in a grim industrial zone of the city, surrounded by garbage dumps and foundry fumes—as an office, showing up with workmanlike diligence to keep crafting demos.

That proved to be a tough hang, too: Separated by paper-thin walls, Pelant soon figured out his drug-addled neighbor not only lived there but would also erupt into near-daily shouting matches with his partner. He’d spill Big Gulp cups of piss in their shared hallway. It was worrying, but Pelant kept at it, anyway. He’d drive around, delivering hard liquor and wine at his new day job, where Def Leppard’s “Photograph” seemed to play always, the hit hammering through his hangovers. He pondered cycles of addiction and thought a lot about death, apt since that gig was next to another warehouse that sold funeral supplies. He listened to works in progress as he jockeyed the booze, working until he and the band felt they had the core of a record ready.

Again, not as easy as it sounds: Night Moves cycled through two producers who had first sounded like dream collaborators but just didn’t fit their vibe. Once again, Night Moves opted to return to their own practice space, recording the bulk of the album there after capturing basic tracks at Minnesota’s legendary Pachyderm. The decision afforded the band, for the first time, the challenge and luxury of producing themselves, of making every decision about tone and arrangement and timing before passing the songs to Woods sonic mastermind Jarvis Taveniere for mixing and co-production.

Those travails were, turns out, worth it. Double Life is at once the most candid and impressionistic Night Moves album yet, built on personal experiences but written so that you can map your own life onto these songs, too. Witness, for instance, “Hold On To Tonight,” a kaleidoscopic soul tune that was inspired by that death in the family; it’s a snapshot from a boozy night alone, when you stumble into the realization that the only thing you’re holding onto is fading memories. “Ring My Bell” is its musical and emotional counterpart, with Pelant extending an invitation to be asked for help whenever times get inevitably tough, all above the spring-loaded rhythm of drummer Mark Hanson and bassist Micky Alfano. “You’ve got a sadness hanging in your eyes,” Pelant sings, slipping into a bridge that Steely Dan would have loved. “Well, I just wish that I could change your mind.” This song, at least, offers a fighting chance to do just that.

Night Moves has a repeated joke when they’re on the road, driving from town to town in their bruised van: “I can’t believe I have to do this again,” they say, a reference to the surrealist repetition of shows, parties, hangovers, and long hauls that define touring. That line shows up during “This Time Tomorrow,” a could-have-been Petty hit updated with the malaise and wanderlust of modern life. “I can’t believe I have to do this again, oh this again, this time tomorrow,” Pelant sings alongside Charles Murlowski’s mocking riff. “Laughing at the joke, but the joke’s my life.” It can feel that way for all of us sometimes, right? But on Double Life, Night Moves does not retreat from the struggles and complexities of life. They, instead, double down with songs that stare them in the face and turn forward on their own terms.

LFK faves Discotek Mama open the show.

Doors at 7, music at 8.

Tickets $20 in advance, $23 Day-of-show

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

LAAND is thrilled to welcome Ekko Astral to the White Schoolhouse!
Support from Yae (Wichita) and Vicar Amelia (Lawrence)

Washington, DC’s Ekko Astral — Jael Holzman, Liam Hughes, and Miri Tyler — present a complex mesh of bubblegum noise punk and no-wave art rock that holds an elastic space for the knotty, tangled horrors of living in the imperial core. Their songs thrash with intense, necessary defiance against codified gender-based violence, their distortion and sibilance a direct response to the dangers outside our front doors. It’s blistering. It’s frightening. It’s Ekko fucking Astral.

pink balloons, the band’s debut LP, was widely acclaimed, garnering fawning coverage from the likes of Pitchfork (#1 Rock Album of 2024), Stereogum, Washington Post, The Line of Best Fit and Paste Magazine, and was recently nominated for “Best Punk Album” for the 2025 Libera Awards. The band has also joined forces with Gender Liberation Movement to host “Liberation Weekend,” a two-day music and arts festival that took place in late May in the nation’s capital. Their visit to Lawrence arrives at the end of a month-long stint opening for PUP and Jeff Rosenstock.

instagram.com/ekkoastral
ekkoastral.bandcamp.com

With support from Wichita’s Yae and Lawrence’s Vicar Amelia.

Tickets and flyer design by Claire Monroe.

$15

Balloon tickets available for sale at Wonder Fair and Love Garden Sounds.

Doors at 7, music at 7:30.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

LAAND is thrilled to welcome Jason Anderson to the White Schoolhouse!
With support from Brendan Mott and Futchdog.

Jason Anderson is coming back to Lawrence!

We hosted Jason at the ECM back in March and, let me tell ya, that was something special. It’s the kind of show that reminds you about the power of music and the joys of gathering together in community to experience it.  

After the gig, one attendee wrote, ”Man, that Jason Anderson show was transcendent! I've listened to his music for years, but the live show... it's something else. Completely medicinal. Like an anarcho punk Springsteen meets Mister Rogers. Felt very special. I will never miss one of his shows after that. Very transformative.”

So please join us on September 20th for another memorable evening with Jason out at the White Schoolhouse. Local troubadours Brendan Mott and Futchdog open the show. 

instagram.com/jasonandersonmusic

jasonanderson.bandcamp.com

$12

7pm doors, 7:30pm show

All Ages Always

Tickets on sale now via the internet and in-stores at Love Garden and Wonder Fair in a few weeks. 

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

Join us Saturday, September 13th, as we unleash a rogue wave of gut-wrenching, bone-rattling post-hardcore/screamo/Good Loud Sounds outta the depths of @whiteschoolhouse and straight into your beckoning (but properly plugged) eardrums!

🎭The Players🎭
@bandcalledwashed (AZ)
@mildredbegetsmildred (CA)
@urataloss (LFK)
@figure8s_kchc (KCMO)

🎭The Stage🎭
White Schoolhouse
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Doors at 7, music at 7:30
$12-$15 PWYC
ALL-AGES, AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

LAAND is thrilled to host The Whiffs and Drastic Plastic at The Bottleneck, with a special guest that is sure to delight.

Pre-sale scratch off tickets are available now at Love Garden and Wonder Fair — pick yours up and scratch to reveal the surprise headliner!

Monday, September 8 @ The Bottleneck
7pm Doors, 8pm Show
$5

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

LAAND is excited to welcome Guiding Light to the White Schoolhouse!
Support from Desire Path (KCMO) and Drastic Plastic (LFK)

Austin’s GUIDING LIGHT is one of the most exciting art-punk bands playing today!

There, we’ve said it!

They’ve got it all: groovy earwormy basslines with hooks for days, a jangly guitar played lightning-fast, pogo-tastic drums hellbent on preventing your body from standing still, and on top of it all, Elise Cook’s mesmeric, icy cool vocals casting a spell in lyrics alternating between German and English. A little bit Minutemen, a little bit Malaria!, and a whole lotta their own thrilling thing. Trust us when we say you don’t want to miss this one!

$12

Doors at 7, music at 7:30.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

LAAND is thrilled to welcome Squirrel Flower to the White Schoolhouse!
Support from Free Range and LFK’s own Virga.

Ella Williams, aka Squirrel Flower, is that rare songwriter who can traverse the thin space between rapturous joy and cataclysmic fury…and live to tell the tale. With meticulously crafted yet intuitive songwriting and an expressive, powerful voice that is at once tender and world-weary, wise and wondrous, it’s easy to understand why she is lauded as one of the most important artists working today.

$15

Doors at 7, music at 7:30.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

LAAND is thrilled to welcome Suroor to the White Schoolhouse!
Support from Drey DK (MPLS), Mickey Mouse Slaughterhouse (LFK), and Violet Approach. (KCMO)

Karachi-born, Memphis-based musician and scholar SUROOR brings her panoramic strain of hyperpop to the White Schoolhouse! Blending influences as diverse as bhangra and riot grrrl, UK drill and spoken word, sufi eastern classical and vaporwave, Suroor's boundary-pushing pop is at once cathartic and confrontational -- a neon-lit rallying cry against the pop status quo. Her 2023 debut album, Lavender Showers, is out on Purgatory Press, a DIY label/artist co-op based in Memphis which aims to serve as a community hub for artists, platform underground and DIY artists through music resources and distribution, and curate and host shows both in Memphis and worldwide.

DREY DK is a Minneapolis-based musician whose expressive, soulful voice and sparse, melancholic dream pop arrangements conjure a lo-fi Mitski. RIYL early Beach House, girl in red, and alchemizing your heartache into a jewel that sparkles in the fiery light of a midwestern sunset.

$12

Doors at 7, music at 7:30.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

LAAND is thrilled to welcome The Local Honeys to the White Schoolhouse!
Support from Lauren Lovelle and MAW

Though many artists are defined by place, only a handful of artists come to define the places they’re from. The Local Honeys are Kentucky and Kentucky runs through their veins like an unbridled racehorse. When a master songsmith like Tom T Hall calls an artist “a great credit to a wonderful Kentucky tradition” it’s time to pull up a chair and pay attention. As it pertains to The Local Honeys he was right on the money. For almost a decade the duo (Montana Hobbs and Linda Jean Stokley) have been an integral part of the Kentucky musicscape. They’ve paid their dues, garnering countless accolades and accomplishments (tours with Tyler Childers, Colter Wall, praise from the New York Times) and have become the defining sound of real deal, honest-to-god Kentucky music. 

Tickets On Sale Now!

$15

Doors at 7, music at 7:30.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There are 2 stairs to enter the front doors of the White Schoolhouse. Once inside, there are half-staircases up to the bathrooms and down into the concert area.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

LAAND presents

Listen Closely 
an unamplified evening with

Jason Anderson 
Heidi Gluck
June Henry

How do I tell you that this will likely be the best show you’ll see this year without being hyperbolic? 

Whenever I book a gig, I know that there’s always a good number of folks who consider attending but probably just decide, “I’ll catch the next one.” But I’m here to tell you that there’s not a next one. It only happens once. A Jason Anderson show is about being in that moment, in a room full of people, all with the full knowledge that this gathering cannot be duplicated. This collection of people – performers and audience alike – will never be in the same room together again. And that’s why Jason goes so fucking hard and why I’d like to suggest you be in the room when it happens.  

Jason Anderson is a DIY touring legend known for his moving and memorable shows. He’s collaborated with Mount Eerie, toured with Joyce Manor, and released albums on K Records and Salinas. Personal and passionate, Jason’s music crackles with life. Seeing him play is what I imagine it was like to see Bruce Springsteen when he was 20 years old and really wanted it. 

The last time Jason played in Lawrence was at the ol’ Wonder Fair – above the Burger Stand – where he led the entire crowd downstairs and out onto the sidewalk for an encore on Mass Street. People who were there – 12+ years ago now – still ask me about the show and good news for them and for everyone else: Jason is coming back to LFK. 

Also performing are two of Lawrence’s heaviest hitters: Heidi Lynne Gluck and June Henry. Heidi is the musician in town that all the other musicians fawn over because she knocks out hit after unassuming hit like it’s NBD. A local treasure if there ever was one. June Henry is our viciously hilarious folk-punk princess. She’s been playing LAAND shows since she was 14 and now she’s fresh off her first 2-week tour of the UK. As a matter of civic pride, all dutiful Lawrencians should be familiar with these two artists and, if you’re not, then please mark your calendar for this extra-intimate opportunity to become acquainted with them. 

The music you hear on this evening will be human in scale. As tech companies have forced culture into a hustle for infinitely scaleable content, we have removed the microphones. There is no scalability beyond this one room. Listen closely to the human voice. The three artists performing this evening all make music that is meaningful and real. It will be joyful and sad. Beautiful and messy. In fact, this music will cover a wide range of human emotions, completely unfiltered by the algorithms that have come to guide our daily lives. Come prepared to feel things and to experience the wonder of music. 

-Paul DeGeorge
Lawrence, Kansas

instagram.com/jasonandersonmusic
heidilynnegluck.com
instagram.com/luckyjunehenry

March 8th
ECM (1204 Oread Ave)

$12
7pm 

Tickets available at Love Garden and Wonder Fair.

Poster and tickets designed by Grace D. Chin. Printed at KU’s ColorBar. Perforated at Andrea’s house.

ALL AGES AS ALWAYS

ACCESSIBILITY: There is 1 step to enter the front doors of the ECM. Once inside, portions of the concert may utilize part of the building that are accessed with additional stairs.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

Please join us for the special event at White Schoolhouse: the album release and final show for our beloved Commodities Exchange.

Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 7:30pm
$5

Commodities Exchange / commoditiesexchange.bandcamp.com
Virga / virgaks.bandcamp.com
Dalima Kapten / instagram.com/dalimakapten

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show.

All Ages, as always

Flyer by @ugly_privilege

LAAND is pleased to welcome Mary Lattimore in her return to Lawrence for an evening of beautiful and mesmerizing music at the White Schoolhouse.

Los Angeles-based electronic music composer, graphic designer, educator and activist Jeremiah Chiu will perform as tour support and Lawrence guitarist Bradley McKellip will open the night with some lush and dreamy Kansas soundscapes.

Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 7:30pm
$20 / Printed tickets available at Wonder Fair and Love Garden / Online tickets at the link below

Mary Lattimore / marylattimore.net
Jeremiah Chiu / jeremiahchiu.bandcamp.com
Bradley McKellip / bradleymckellip.bandcamp.com

Weather-permitting, this event will be outdoors at the White Schoolhouse. Feel free to bring blankets, lawn chairs, and smores fixins' (hopefully we'll have a fire pit going).

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show. For our outdoor shows, the audience is mainly on a grassy field. Bathrooms are located inside the Schoolhouse and are accessible by a staircase in the front of the building.

More about the coolest harpist we know:

Through evocative, emotionally resonant music, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, the new LP from American harpist and composer Mary Lattimore, speaks not just for its beloved namesake — a hotel in Croatia facing renovation — but for a universal loss that is shared. Six sprawling pieces shaped by change; nothing will ever be the same, and here, the artist, evolving in synthesis, celebrates and mourns the tragedy and beauty of the ephemeral, all that is lived and lost to time. Documented and edited in uncharacteristically measured sessions over the course of two years, the material remains rooted in improvisation while glistening as the most refined and robust in Lattimore’s decade-long catalog. It finds her communing with friends, contemporaries, and longtime influences, in full stride yet slowing down to nurture songs in new ways. The cast includes Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Meg Baird, Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Roy Montgomery, Samara Lubelski, and Walt McClements.

“When I think of these songs, I think about fading flowers in vases, melted candles, getting older, being on tour and having things change while you're away, not realizing how ephemeral experiences are until they don't happen anymore, fear for a planet we're losing because of greed, an ode to art and music that's really shaped your life that can transport you back in time, longing to maintain sensitivity and to not sink into hollow despondency.”

Memories, scenes, and split-second impressions have long filled Lattimore’s musical universe. As one of today’s preeminent instrumental storytellers, she has “the uncanny ability to pluck a string in a way that will instantly make someone remember the taste of their fifth birthday cake," writes Pitchfork's Jemima Skala. Lattimore's impulse to record life as it happens matches her drive to travel and perform, as profiled by Grayson Haver Currin for The New York Times: "Lattimore recognized that being in motion shook loose strands of inspiration, moods she wanted to express with melody. She needed, then, to remain on the go." That sense of fluidity has also made her a prolific collaborator outside of solo work. 2020's Silver Ladders, recorded with Slowdive's Neil Halstead, opened the door for Lattimore to widen the vision of her primary project as well, and its proper follow-up is the natural next scale. “All of these people I asked to contribute have deeply affected and inspired my life.”

For the title and inspiration, Lattimore’s mind returns to the island of Hvar in Croatia, where she first saw those silver ladders at the water’s edge. “There's a big old hotel there called the Hotel Arkada, and you could tell it had been hosting holiday-goers for decades in a great way. I walked around the lobby and the empty ballrooms and it looked like a well-worn, well-loved place. My friend Stacey who lives there told me to ‘say goodbye to Hotel Arkada, it might not be here when you get back’ and I heard soon after that it was actually going to be renovated in a very crisp, modern way.” Lattimore became fixated on the ingredients that make a place special — for Hotel Arkada, the patinaed chandeliers, the patternedbedspreads, the echoes of its intangible charm — and how when those leave this world, as they inevitably always will, it feels important to memorialize them, “to bottle it for a brief second.”

All Ages, as always

Making their US debut all the way from the Netherlands, LAAND is thrilled to welcome Lewsberg to Lawrence!

Doors 6:30pm / Show 7:00pm
$15 / advanced tickets available online or at Love Garden and Wonder Fair

Lewsberg / https://lewsberg.bandcamp.com/album/out-and-about
Daysleeper / https://www.instagram.com/daysleeperband/
Perfect Lovers / https://www.instagram.com/perfectlovers4ever/

LEWSBERG from Rotterdam are a four-piece rock group, named after writer and fellow Rotterdammer Robert Loesberg, famous for his dangerous novel Enige Defecten from 1974. This is one of the band’s main sources of inspiration: the counterculture and big-city cynicism of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet there is also a softer side to Lewsberg’s music and lyrics. On their upcoming, fourth album, Out and About (to be released on Sept. 15th on 12XU), this side is more present than ever. Rudimentary pop and rock songs are deliberately kept bare, only occasionally embellished with a violin or organ part. In the lyrics, the tendency towards existentialism and black humour is nuanced with an almost naive openness and engagement. Lewsberg are: Shalita Dietrich (vocals, bass guitar), Michiel Klein (guitar), Marrit Meinema (vocals, drums) and Arie van Vliet (vocals, guitar, violin).

DAYSLEEPER are the purveyors of fine rock n’ roll of the dark and mysterious variety — like the aural version of Grant Wood’s American Gothic. Featuring some familiar faces of the LFK music multiverse.

PERFECT LOVERS (imagined here as a PERFECT SOLO SHOW) is one of KCMO’s most exciting musical exports, featuring the smart and tender songwriting of Cassandra Gillig (who you’ve also seen playing perfect bass guitar in Thee Silicone Prairie Live Band).

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show. For our outdoor shows, the audience is mainly on a grassy field. Bathrooms are located inside the Schoolhouse and are accessible by a staircase in the front of the building.

All Ages, as always

LAAND is thrilled to welcome Strawberry Runners to Lawrence!

Doors 7:00pm / Show 7:30pm
$12 / advanced tickets available at Love Garden and Wonder Fair

Strawberry Runners / strawberryrunners.bandcamp.com
Dalima Kapten / instagram.com/dalimakapten
June Henry / aughen.bandcamp.com

Strawberry Runners is the musical project of Hudson Valley-based songwriter, Emi Night (they/them). Night writes folk and pop songs with lyricism exploring topics of grief, trauma, and growth, on the terrain of pop, folk, and country-reminiscent instrumentation. A survivor of childhood abuse, Night is committed to destigmatizing conversations about the complex entanglement of love, power, and control within relationships, as well as the lasting effects of trauma. Night wields the heavy lyrical material of failure, grief, and uncertainty with grace and disarming candor. This summer sees the release of a long-awaited debut full-length, arriving into the world lush and fully realized in ways earlier incarnations of the band only hinted at.

All LAAND events are all ages and we do not permit outside alcohol to be brought to the show. For our outdoor shows, the audience is mainly on a grassy field. Bathrooms are located inside the Schoolhouse and are accessible by a staircase in the front of the building.

All Ages, as always