November 24-30, 2025, Upcoming concerts / shows (Kansas City, MO /Lawrence, KS metro)

Turkey Day cometh!

As is typical, live shows start to slow down as we move into full holiday season–

Black Friday isn’t the shopping day it once was, and it’s turned into multi-weekends and become much more online (no one misses standing outside at 5am for some dumb TV).

In terms of Thanksgiving, tune to the three NFL games for their halftime shows as Jack White will play in Detroit, Post Malone will watch the Chiefs beat the Cowboys in Dallas, and Lil’ Jon will say “What?!” and “Turn down for wut” a lot, at the Ravens/Bengals game.

Earlier in the day, the musical guests for the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade include Cynthia Erivo, who will open the festivities, as well as Ciara, Busta Rhymes, Mickey Guyton, Lil Jon, Kool & the Gang, and Teyana Taylor. Other performers include the casts of Broadway shows like Buena Vista Social Club, Just in Time, and Ragtime, along with Foreigner, Debbie Gibson, Jewel, Darlene Love, and The Pretty Reckless’ Taylor Momsen.

Finishing November, let’s take look at the Kansas City / Lawrence KS metro musical happenings for this week from November 24th-30th.

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MONDAY NOVEMBER 24

Omnium Gatherum w Aether Realm, Hinayana, Nov 24, Warehouse on Broadway, $28.50-$33.50

The Omnium Gatherum 2025 tour is a 27-date North American headlining tour to support their new album, “May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way”, which released November 7. The tour runs until December 14 in NYC, with support from Aether Realm and Hinayana.

The Finnish melodic death metal band comments: “We’re thrilled and grateful to bring May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way live to our North American fans Over the years, we’ve made a lot of great friends and gained passionate fans across the continent. Touring such a vast land is always an adventure. Especially now, it feels important to give people a momentary escape from a reality that can sometimes feel overwhelming.”

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 25

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 26

Hell Night

Radkey, Nov 25, The Boobie Trap- Topeka, PWYC?

The three brothers from St. Joseph, MO are coming down to help T-Town get down at a venue they stopped at, semi-regularly. The punkers have been professionally playing together and have a recent single out now, “Falling Out of Grace” and they were last in the area in August for their own “Radfest 3” at Lemonade Park.

The band’s website also mentions a “RADVAN ROADFUND” to help them get back on the road, indicating their ongoing need to need a little support in order to be able to continue to tour.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 27

Turkey Day!

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28

Black Friday!

Motion City Soundtrack w Say Anything, Nov 28, Uptown,$54-$81

Motion City Soundtrack and Say Anything have extended their co-headlining fall tour into early next year. The additional dates come shortly after MCS released their first full-length album after a decade-long hiatus, The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World. The initial run of shows across America kicked off on November 19th in Houston and wraps up on December 9th in Phoenix. They then return to the road for the winter on January 23 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL before officially wrapping up in MCS’ home state of Minnesota on Valentine’s Day.

Say Anything- The band’s newest album is their ninth and latest, “…Is Committed”, released last year following their 2022 reunion. Bandleader Max Bemis always writes from a most personal point-of-view (sometimes to a fault) but the live show is usually energetic and inspiring.

Motion City Soundtrack– As mentioned, the band released The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World (via Epitaph Records). During their initial run from 1997 – 2016, the Minneapolis-based group released six albums, toured the world and their hit single “Everything Is Alright” went Gold. After taking a three year hiatus, the band—vocalist/guitarist Justin Pierre, guitarist Joshua Cain, bassist Matt Taylor, keyboardist Jesse Johnson and drummer Tony Thaxton—started performing live again in 2019,

Some of the new album songs were originally conceived during the making of previous record, Panic Stations, such as the first single “She Is Afraid.” “I think that if you look at a lot of our past records, it’s about ‘What’s wrong? What am I not getting right? Why do I feel crazy? Why can’t I figure this out’… and I figured it out,” Pierre admits. “It’s almost like I felt I didn’t have an identity [in the past] and now by working through the hard stuff, I know who I am.”

Thomas Dolby with Be/Non Nov 28, Warehouse on Broadway, $41.50-$46.50

Thomas Dolby‘s 2025 tour, titled “Iconic 80s Recollections,” is a musical storytelling event that combines his hits with anecdotes from his career. The tour features performances of his songs alongside Dolby’s personal stories and explanations of his creative process.

The UK singer and synthesist is best known for his hit single and MTV video “She Blinded Me With Science,” will be joined by former Bowie bassist Gail Ann Dorsey and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Lipke on guitars and vocals, but we’re unsure if they be will present for the KC date.

Dolby also wrote a bestselling memoir “The Speed of Sound,” founded a Silicon Valley tech company, co-invented the Nokia polyphonic ringtone, and is an award-winning filmmaker as well as an Endowed Professor of Music at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30

National / International act coming through the Midwest / Kansas City area? Please email details to johnc@weheartmusic.com with a good lead time to be considered for Show Preview and Show Coverage consideration.