Dystopeka and 785 Magazine zip their calendars together: Bob Log III, Foul Play Fest, Kontravoid, blues in NOTO and free music at the mall. Topeka, Lawrence and KC.

The MTAA has been talking about a data center near Forbes Field, despite the moratorium. Here's what to ask at the Oct. 6 and Oct. 13 Topeka City Council meetings, and how to speak up.

Dystopeka and 785 Magazine zip their calendars together: Bob Log III, Foul Play Fest, Kontravoid, blues in NOTO and free music at the mall. Topeka, Lawrence and KC.

Dystopeka and 785 Magazine zip their calendars together: Bob Log III, Foul Play Fest, Kontravoid, blues in NOTO and free music at the mall. Topeka, Lawrence and KC.

Northeast Kansas Show List serving Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka, and surrounding areas. Find local concerts happening near you.

The group fighting the Shawnee County data center proposal takes on GoTopeka's 40 acres, property taxes, and how Compass's plan compares to the data center Topeka already has.

A man was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after an apparent fall from the US-24 bridge onto NW Topeka Boulevard Wednesday morning, Topeka police say.

Full moon Saturday, cool fall nights, and 76 shows Sept 24–27. Gogol Bordello, Chelsea Wolfe, Digable Planets, a Swingin' NOTO double-header and a punk art show on Mass Street.

Got an old flyer, poster or ticket stub with a day and date but no year? Plug them in and the TunaTronic finds every year they line up, from the '70s to today.

Full moon Saturday, cool fall nights, and 76 shows Sept 24–27. Gogol Bordello, Chelsea Wolfe, Digable Planets, a Swingin' NOTO double-header and a punk art show on Mass Street.

Music venue bar sales are declining as alcohol use hits a 90-year low. Here's why cannabis can't fill that revenue gap the same way.

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Northeast Kansas weekend concerts for Sept 17-20, 2026: our picks for Topeka, Lawrence, and Kansas City live music, plus every show on the NEKS.show calendar.

Northeast Kansas weekend concerts for Sept 17-20, 2026: our picks for Topeka, Lawrence, and Kansas City live music, plus every show on the NEKS.show calendar.

A breakdown of the GO Topeka data center land at the center of the Compass Datacenters fight in Shawnee County — what checks out and what doesn't.

Opinion: why the Nashville and Kansas City cancellations might be about more than laryngitis — with Riot Fest, and John Lydon's PiL, just three days away.

A breakdown of the GO Topeka data center land at the center of the Compass Datacenters fight in Shawnee County — what checks out and what doesn't.

Static Arcana — a modern tarot chrometuna.com presents Static Arcana All 78 cards, the old astrology and elements intact — translated for a life lived mostly through a screen. Hold your hand to the gl...

Cheetah Chrome, Dead Boys guitarist and co-writer of "Sonic Reducer," has died at 71. A look back at his life and legacy.

HBO put Topeka's name in the title. The city's own newsrooms haven't said a word. Here's the blackout nobody local wants to talk about.

Topeka Police have identified both victims and arrested a suspect in the NOTO double homicide. Here's what's known about the case so far.

A shooting in Topeka's NOTO Arts District left two men dead. Police have released photos of a person of interest, described as armed and dangerous, and are asking anyone with information to call 911

Power metal at The Truman, The Queers at The Bottleneck, a drag bingo fundraiser, roller derby energy, and a genuine "Dammit Lawrence, two shows one night" problem. Your full Topeka/Lawrence/KC live m...

Power metal at The Truman, The Queers at The Bottleneck, a drag bingo fundraiser, roller derby energy, and a genuine "Dammit Lawrence, two shows one night" problem. Your full Topeka/Lawrence/KC live m...

Power metal at The Truman, The Queers at The Bottleneck, a drag bingo fundraiser, roller derby energy, and a genuine "Dammit Lawrence, two shows one night" problem. Your full Topeka/Lawrence/KC live m...

Democrats win at 60% turnout, sweep at 80%. Republicans hold power because you let them. Here's the "both sides" argument, dismantled — and why voting and burning it all down were never mutually exclu...

Your TV has a microphone, and it's not a secret — it's in the privacy policy. ACR tracking, the CIA's "Weeping Angel," Amazon's $25M fine for hoarding kids' voice data, and how the data pipeline ends ...

A squatted 19th-century fort in Rome, running as a punk music venue since 1986, still standing, still fighting eviction. First in "It Don't Mean Squat!" — Dystopeka's new series on venues that refused...

Concert insurers routinely deny coverage for hip-hop, rap, and EDM shows -- but the biggest insurance payout in live-music history happened at a country festival. We looked at who actually files the c...

54 shows across Topeka, Lawrence, Kansas City, Ozawkie & Burlingame — plus a Labor Day biker rally, a small-town BBQ send-off, and picks from Secret Shopper and ChromeTuna.

54 shows across Topeka, Lawrence, Kansas City, Ozawkie & Burlingame — plus a Labor Day biker rally, a small-town BBQ send-off, and picks from Secret Shopper and ChromeTuna.

HBO's new docuseries reexamines the Dana Chandler case starting Sept 10 — including the alternate suspect Eileen Umbehr has been naming to police for over a decade. Dystopeka's been covering this case...

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A deep partial lunar eclipse kicks off Soul Fire Sabbath Festival this weekend at Truckhenge Farm — plus 49+ live shows across Kansas City, Lawrence & Topeka.

A deep partial lunar eclipse kicks off Soul Fire Sabbath Festival this weekend at Truckhenge Farm — plus 49+ live shows across Kansas City, Lawrence & Topeka.

A deep partial lunar eclipse kicks off Soul Fire Sabbath Festival this weekend at Truckhenge Farm — plus 49+ live shows across Kansas City, Lawrence & Topeka.

A deep partial lunar eclipse turns the sky blood-red right before gates open at Soul Fire Sabbath Festival — 3 days of music, art, camping & fire at Truckhenge Farm, Aug 28–30.

Thirty years after his original piece, the author goes looking for why music venues are closing — and finds developers, politicians, and insurance companies on one end of the rope, and musicians and f...

Rising rents, hedge fund landlords, and a broken grant program are quietly killing music venues. Here's the slumlord-to-Starbucks pipeline nobody's talking about.

A Topeka shooting sent one man to the hospital Saturday. TPD is investigating the SE Illinois Avenue incident; the victim has been stabilized.

Join Topeka Pride on Aug. 19 at Blackbird Espresso Bar to help shape upcoming events. Volunteers and community members welcome — bring your ideas and Pride!

This week's live music calendar for Topeka, Lawrence & Kansas City — from NEKS.show & Dystopeka.com.

Topeka's music scene has a pulse problem. We built an anonymous 15-minute survey to find out why — take it, and tell us what you actually think about going out here.