Outer Reaches 2024 Announced
Outer Reaches Announces Three Night Festival with Headliner Negativland
KANSAS CITY, MO. – The organizers of Outer Reaches, an annual live music festival operating since 2012, have announced the official date for the 2024 events. Friday September 20 at miniBar (3810 Broadway Blvd), Saturday September 21 at recordBar (1520 Grand Blvd), and Sunday September 22 at Charlotte Street (3333 Wyoming St.) in Kansas City, Missouri will mark the date and location for the festivities of Outer Reaches 2024.
Outer Reaches is a music festival based in Kansas City that showcases ‘out there’, left-of-center artists pushing boundaries in their respective genre. Regional acts as well as national and international touring acts are a part of the festival’s spirit, celebrating the variety of freethinking music around the globe.
The marquee Saturday September 21 show at recordBar features performances by two legendary groups with their origins in the late 1970s. Experimental music ensemble Negativland headline the night, joined by live cinema artist SUE-C handling the visuals. Negativland’s self-titled sound collage debut was released out of California’s Bay Area in 1980 and over the next four decades the group have been steadily releasing uncommon concept albums combining original music with things taken from corporately owned mass culture, along the way challenging convention (and American copyright laws). Athens, Georgia’s Pylon Reenactment Society feature members of legendary 1980s post-punk jangle pop group Pylon and pop rock group Casper & The Cookies. The group tours in support of their critically acclaimed new album Magnet Factory, while also performing classic Pylon tracks.
The Friday September 20 show at miniBar presents two floors of experimental, synthesized, and psychedelic music, lights, and art. Upstairs features psychedelic rock groups The Moose and Captain Howdy & The Sunset Serenaders, electronic shoegaze four-piece Pool Culture and psychedelic pop group Saving Miles Lemon. Kansas City Synthesizer Collective presents the downstairs showcase with featured electronic artists Hautlle, Bobcat Attack, Whelmed, and John Wyss.
The Sunday September 21 show at Charlotte Street is a free viewing of the music film Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland, directed by Ryan Worsley. The event is presented by the KC Underground Film Festival and is a companion to the Saturday night Negativland show at recordBar.
Outer Reaches 2024 is a partnership between the festival and Midwest Music Foundation. Midwest Music Foundation (MMF), a nonprofit organization founded in 2008, provides health care assistance, education, and resources to the Kansas City music community. Sponsors for this year’s fest include BesaMe Wellness, Charlotte Street, Kansas City Synthesizer Collective, Records with Merritt, It’s a Beautiful Day, recordBar / miniBar, Kosmic City, Haymaker Records, The Record Machine, and Print Time.
For more information on the festival, visit www.outerreachesfest.com. Full three-day ticket is available here. Single day ticket for the Saturday recordBar show is available here. The wait list for the free Sunday film viewing is available here. The Facebook event is available here. Follow the Outer Reaches website or Facebook page for updates on Outer Reaches 2024.
Outer Reaches 2023 Announced!
Outer Reaches Announces Boundary-Pushing Music Festival Featuring Bombino & Sweeping Promises
KANSAS CITY, MO. – The organizers of Outer Reaches, an annual live music festival operating since
2012, have announced the official date for the 2023 events. Friday October 13 and Saturday October 14 at recordBar (1520 Grand
Blvd) in Kansas City, Missouri will mark the date and location for the festivities of Outer Reaches 2023.
Outer Reaches is a music festival based in Kansas City that showcases ‘out there’, left-of-center artists pushing boundaries in their
respective genre. Regional acts as well as national and international touring acts are a part of the festival’s spirit, celebrating
the variety of freethinking music around the globe.
The Friday October 13 headliner is the sound of Sahara’s next generation, Bombino. Omara “Bombino” Moctar is a Tuareg singersongwriter and guitarist from Niger. On a world tour for his new album Sahel, he continues the momentum of 2018’s Deran which
was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. Friday’s lineup also features Kansas City psychedelic rock bands
The Philistines and Saving Miles Lemon as well as indie-folk multi-instrumentalist Teri Quinn. XO Blackwater will provide the video
projection and visuals for the evening.
The Saturday October 14 show is a two-stage event. The Les BonsBons Electrique stage features a headliner of Lawrence, Kansas
post-punk / new wave duo Sweeping Promises. Their new album Good Living is Coming for You was released in June on Feel it
Records / Sub Pop Records. They are joined by Wichita, Kansas neo soul group Keo & Them, Kansas City shoegaze / new wave /
post-punk duo Static Phantoms, and Kansas City synth-tastic beat guru Alyssa Murray. The Kansas City Synthesizer Collective is a
group of local synthesizer enthusiasts who enjoy sharing and performing what they have learned from their generated audio signal
instruments. Their stage features performances by three local artists: Wrker, Agrekulture, and Bobcat Attack. A headlining slot is
reserved for Detroit, Michigan post-punk bizarro-pop group Summer Like the Season.
Outer Reaches 2023 is a partnership between the festival and Midwest Music Foundation. Midwest Music Foundation (MMF), a
nonprofit organization founded in 2008, provides health care assistance, education, and resources to the Kansas City music
community, and receive a portion of proceeds from ticket sales from the event. Sponsors for this year’s fest include Tito’s Handmade
Vodka, Boulevard Brewing Company, Kansas City Synthesizer Collective, Les BonsBons Electriques, Records with Merritt, It’s a Beautiful Day, Sister Anne’s Records and Coffee, 7th Heaven, XO Blackwater,
recordBar, Kosmic City, Haymaker Records, The Record Machine, and Print Time.
For more information on the festival, visit www.outerreachesfest.com. The show is 18+ (under 18 with a guardian). Advanced ticket
options are available at the recordBar location and website. Friday 10/13 show is $20 (advanced) / $25 (day of show), plus fees –
Friday Facebook event / ticket info. Saturday 10/14 is $15 plus fees – Facebook event / ticket info. Follow the Outer Reaches website
or Facebook page for updates on Outer Reaches 2023.
Outer Reaches 2023 Night 1 Announced
Tickets for Bombino are on sale now at www.therecordbar.comOuter Reaches 2022 Announced!
Outer Reaches Announces Boundary-Pushing Music Festival Week
KANSAS CITY, MO. – The organizers of Outer Reaches, an annual live music festival operating since 2012, have announced the official date for the 2022 events. Friday October 14 and Saturday October 15 at recordBar (1520 Grand Blvd) in Kansas City, Missouri will mark the date and location for the dual-stage festivities of the 10th edition of Outer Reaches. Two bonus Outer Reaches Presents shows will precede the festival on Sunday October 9 and Tuesday October 11 at recordBar.
Outer Reaches is a music festival based in Kansas City that showcases ‘out there’, left-of-center artists pushing boundaries in their respective genre. Regional acts as well as national and international touring acts are a part of the festival’s spirit, celebrating the variety of freethinking music around the globe.
The music of Outer Reaches 2022 will be showcased over two stages at recordBar. The Friday lineup features a night of dark electronic music. Nebraska’s leather-clad industrial noise / body music project Plack Blague headlines the night, joined by Des Moines, Iowa Halloween-themed synth duo Night Stories. A quintuple of Kansas City artists round out the night: psychedelic synth group Monta at Odds; dark electronic / witchwave project Morgue VVitch; electronic “soulgaze” / “garage disco” outfit Collidescope; queer dark-pop group Boxknife; and downtempo electropop artist Loqsa. The Saturday lineup features two warhorses of the Midwest rock music scene; Chicago’s eclectic art rock band Cheer-Accident and Kansas City post-hardcore noise-rock band Season to Risk. Joining them on the night are Los Angeles’ experimental voodoo blues group Peculiar Pretzelmen and another quintuple of Kansas City artists: psychedelic pop group The Moose; twin sister sparkly witch-rock band The Black Mariah Theater; experimental psychedelic indie songwriter Jacob E.chord; looping vocal exorcist She Speaks in Tongues; and experimental dance project Composition of Dance. XO Blackwater provides the video projection / visuals for both evenings.
Preceding the 10th Outer Reaches festival will be two bonus Outer Reaches Presents shows. Sunday October 9 at recordBar will feature MVTANT (San Antonio), Kris Baha (Berlin), New Obsessions, and Weaponize Chomsky. Tuesday October 11 at recordBar will feature Melt-Banana (Japan), HXXS, and The Bad Ideas.
Outer Reaches 2022 is made possible through backing from a variety of sponsors. Sponsors for this year’s fest include Tito’s Handmade Vodka, The Record Machine, Records with Merritt, 7th Heaven, It’s a Beautiful Day, Sister Anne’s, Midwest Music Foundation, XO Blackwater, recordBar, Kosmic City, Haymaker Records and Print Time.
For more information on the festival, visit http://www.outerreachesfest.com. Updated information will be posted on the Facebook events for October 14 and October 15. The show is 18+ (Under 18 with a guardian) and has a ticket price of $15 each day. Doors will open at 7PM each night. Advanced ticket options are available at the recordBar location and website.
Outer Reaches 2021 Show Announcement
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve had to postpone full-fledged festivals in 2020 and 2021. In spite of this, Outer Reaches is pleased to announce a show that we’ve curated for Saturday, October 16th at recordBar.
We’ll be hosting an otherworldly night of music from Texas’ WE Are The Asteroid (feat. members of Ed Hall, Pain Teens, and The Butthole Surfers), hypersonic electronic noise duo HXXS, and dark mathy jazz rock from Jorge Arana Trio. Video visuals provided by XO Blackwater. Advance tickets available now for only $10. Attendance will be capped and vaccination cards required (see recordBar‘s website for more info). Get your tickets here. See the facebook event.
Outer Reaches 2019 Announced!
Outer Reaches Announces Eighth Annual Boundary-Pushing Music Festival
KANSAS CITY, MO. – The organizers of Outer Reaches, an annual live music festival in its eighth year, have announced the official date for the 2019 event. Saturday October 19 at recordBar (1520 Grand Blvd) in Kansas City, Missouri will mark the date and location for the dual-stage festivities of Outer Reaches 2019.
Outer Reaches is a music festival based in Kansas City that showcases ‘out there’, left-of-center artists pushing boundaries in their respective genre. Regional acts as well as national and international touring acts are a part of the festival’s spirit, celebrating the variety of freethinking music around the globe.
The music of Outer Reaches 2019 will be showcased over two stages at recordBar. The eighth annual lineup features two touring acts including space rock band Lumerians (Oakland, CA) and pop duo Thunder Jackson (Oklahoma / Wales). Kansas City bands featured at the festival this year include cosmic jazz legends BCR (Black Crack Revue), synthesizer-based psychedelic rock band Monta at Odds, space rock band Be/Non, experimental hip hop duo FACEFACE, and experimental music / performance artist Unicorns in the Snow. Accompanying live video projections will be provided by XO Blackwater.
Outer Reaches 2019 is a partnership between the festival and Midwest Music Foundation and has been made possible through a grant from the Kansas City Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund. Midwest Music Foundation (MMF), a nonprofit organization founded in 2008, provides health care assistance, education, and resources to the Kansas City music community, and receive proceeds from ticket sales from the event. Sponsors for this year’s fest include Records with Merritt, 7th Heaven, It’s a Beautiful Day, recordBar, Seen Merch, XO Blackwater, Haymaker Records, Kosmic City, Crush Media, Boulevard Brewing Co., and Print Time.
For more information on the festival, visit http://www.outerreachesfest.com. The show is 18+ (Under 18 with a guardian) and has a ticket price of $15. Advanced ticket options are available at the recordBar location and through Eventbrite ticketing. Please review the Facebook event for updates on Outer Reaches 2019.
Outer Reaches Photos 2018
2018 was another great year for Outer Reaches. See Photos of Day 1 and Day 2 of Outer Reaches 2018. A big thanks to I Love KC Music for the photography and edits.
Outer Reaches 2018 MixCloud Playlist
Give a listen to this free streaming mix of the artists performing at Outer Reaches 2018