Area Concerts (Updated Sept. 4th)

Upcoming Concert of Note: The Flaming Lips
With next week being such a huge week for shows as bands pass through on their way to Austin, I thought I'd just go ahead and feature one of those shows now. On September 12, the Flaming Lips (with local boy Kliph Scurlock on skins!) return to Kansas City for the first time in 5 years, and their first non-festival headlining gig in the area since they played the Granada way back in 2000. By now, everyone knows that a Flaming Lips concert is more about the experience than the music, but at least they deliver the goods. Chances are that if you attend this concert you will experience one of the most bizarre yet fucking fantastic Wednesdays in your entire life.


September
4 - Far Less w/ Left on Northwood @ the Jackpot (Lawrence, KS)
7 - Approach (CD Release Party) @ the Granada (Lawrence, KS)
7 - Central Standard w/ Mad Happy, Calaveras @ the Record Bar (Kansas City, MO)
8 - Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk w/ Darling at Sea, The ACBs @ the Record Bar (Kansas City, MO)
10 - Coat Party w/ Fast Computers, Waterfowl Habitat @ the Jackpot (Lawrence, KS)
12 - Blonde Redhead @ the Blue Note (Columbia, MO)
12 - Flaming Lips w/ Black Moth Super Rainbow @ Uptown Theater (Kansas City, MO)
12 - Mobius Band w/ White Rabbits, Mason Proper @ the Jackpot (Lawrence, KS)
13 - Blonde Redhead @ Bricktown Ballroom (Oklahoma City, OK)
13 - Devendra Banhart w/ Rio En Medio @ the Granada (Lawrence, KS)
13 - Oh No! Oh My! w/ The Legendary Terrordactyls @ the Replay Lounge (Lawrence, KS)
13 - Cloud Cult @ the Bottleneck (Lawrence, KS)
13 - Paper Cities w/ Via Audio, Noise FM @ the Record Bar (Kansas City, MO)
14 - Okkervil River w/ Damien Jurardo @ the Picador (Iowa City, IA)
14 - Roman Numerals w/ Femme Fatale, The Bureau @ the Record Bar (Lawrence, KS)
14 - William Elliot Whitmore w/ Tim Barry, Josh Small @ the Jackpot (Lawrence, KS)
15 - AM Syndicate w/ Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk, Ample Branches @ the Jackpot (Lawrence, KS)
15 - Sal Retta w/ Snuff Jazz, Blackpool Lights, Life & Times, Appleseed Cast, and more @ the Record Bar (Kansas City, MO)

Read the whole list here.