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PHOTOS AND REVIEW BY NICK SPACEK The last "young country" show I saw was about 10 years ago, and when Tracy Lawrence suggested that the crowd turn Sandstone into a roadhouse, five fistfights broke ou... Continue reading "Concert Review: Kenny Chesney at Sprint Center, May 9, 2009" >

BY DANNY ALEXANDER Fleetwood Mac gave precisely the kind of show everyone wanted to see Friday night, which was its strength and weakness. Without a new album to support, the band played most fan fav... Continue reading "Concert Review: Fleetwood Mac at Sprint Center" >

Most of the bands this photographer sees could learn a thing or ten from veteran rocker Neil Young . While the crowd inside was smaller than expected, Young put on an energetic and emotional performance mixing work from his decades-long career, including tracks from his new album, Fork in the Road . [...]

To hell with you -- Neil Young's guitar is like a damn hurricane. Photos by Scott Spychalski That black, shorn Les Paul, looking like it was pulled out from a den of berserk tigers, plugged into a ... Continue reading "Concert Review: Neil Young at Sprint Center, April 30, 2009" >

Guitar Hero, in addition to turning completely around boring grown-up mingling houseparties where no one has anything to talk about but their kids and food, has also given weathered old classic rocker... Continue reading "Incoming: Aerosmith and ZZ Top to Sprint Center" >

We were unable to get a reviewer into Britney Spears' Circus Tour stop yesterday at Sprint Center, but we did get photos (for the first three songs, at least). Click on the hot pole action below for i... Continue reading "Photos: Britney Spears at Sprint Center, 4/2/09" >

Roadies for Britney Spears' "Circus" tour are loading equipment into the Sprint Center at this very moment! Shani Tate Ross, the director of communications and marketing at the Sprint Center, says ... Continue reading "Britney's coming! In related news, metro reports Cheetos shortage" >

All-singin', all-rappin' Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are all-not-comin' after all to the Granada on April 24, apparently. We have as yet received no explanation for the cancellation. Refunds at point of purc... Continue reading "Incoming Concert Updates: Bone Thugs canceled, Crue on the way" >

I'ma' comin', y'all!Grandpa hasn't forgotten us. Neil Young is coming to Kansas City on April 30, making up for the Election Night 2008 date he reschudeled back in October. Previously purchased ticket... Continue reading "Neil Young Announces Rescheduled Sprint Center Date" >

This July, if you want your Rick Neilsen and your Bun E. Carlos and your dream police and your want-you-to-want-me, you're gonna have to pour some sugar and take a little Poison to get it. Just annou... Continue reading "Incoming: Def Leppard, Poison and ... Cheap Trick" >

It's fitting that AC/DC's show opens with a bawdy cartoon playing up the band's lewd legacy. AC/DC is cartoonish. Not KISS cartoonish. But c'mon, Angus Young plays an impish, devil-possessed schoolboy... Continue reading "Concert Review: AC/DC at Sprint Center, 1/21/09" >

"I wouldn't care if you was a prostitute," Lil' Wayne assured the many ladies of the sold-out crowd at the Sprint Center Friday night. As the rapper delivered a brief but heartfelt defense of a love t... Continue reading "Concert Review: Lil Wayne at Sprint Center, 1/09/09" >

"There's only one rule," Neil Diamond announces, in that diamond-hard, late Neil Diamond voice of his, that croak you could sharpen knives against. "There are no rules," he continued. Crowd goes... Continue reading "Concert Review: Neil Diamond at Sprint Center. Tuesday, December 16, 2008." >

Coldplay November 13, 2008 Sprint Center By JASON HARPER Photos by SCOTT SPYCHALSKI To the question at hand: is Coldplay cool? Cool enough, that is, for a discerning, punk-bred, 45-collecting, unco... Continue reading "Concert Review: Coldplay at Sprint Center" >

Tina Turner October 1, 2008 Sprint Center By C.J. JANOVY Which visiting septuagenarian put on the better show in Kansas City yesterday? John McCain, who campaigned at the Truman Library and filmed remote TV interviews from a Crossroads production studio -- or Tina Turner , opening her tour at the Sprint Arena? Alright, unfair question. Turner isn't yet 70 (she'll be 69 next month). Turner opened her first live [...]

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By C.J. JANOVY Photo by Scott Spychalski. Click here for slide show. It was the last night of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's Magic Tour and so, the Boss proclaimed, anything could happen. And it did. Taking requests via handmade signs from the pit, he spread out the fluorescent posterboards and notes scrawled on the backs of printed-out tickets on the floor and chose one he said was very important. "This has [...]

Brad Paisley with Jewel August 1, 2008 Sprint Center Better Than : Brad Paisley without Jewel, surprisingly enough By ALAN SCHERSTUHL Click to view slideshow. Ninety seconds after storming the stage, current pop country king Brad Paisley was already on his second guitar. Or maybe it was his first. Reality gets tricky during the Paisley Party Tour, a four artist, three-and-a-half hour, Hersheys-sponsored crash-course in just how weird-- and [...]