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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.