November 1–5, 2026- Upcoming concerts / shows (Kansas City, MO / Lawrence KS)

Bots win!

We told you last time about Garth Brooks trying to add a third and matinee show for Saturday afternoon at T-Mobile Center, but there was a noticeable uptick in automated activity, forcing sales to stop. Eventually, the show was canceled- thanks, robo-scalpers!

Look for a mini-Sphere to start construction near Washington DC, soon. This one only plans to hold about 6000 (versus the full Vegas version which holds 20,000) so will be more intimate and have the same giganto-dome graphics and visuals of the original mothership. Might be a better experience in the end, and gives more reason to visit the Capitol area.

Aerosmith played its first of two guest-star filled return concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. Much like the Black Sabbath-Back to the Beginning show last year in Birmingham (where Steven Tyler looked and sounded good), most of the shows was in tribute, with the band coming together at the end for a six-song, 35 min performance. Final shows?- maybe…

Let’s look through the first Week of the month ahead in Kansas City / Lawrence KS metro musical happenings from November 1^st to November 5^th.

(official ticket hyperlinks are embedded in each show’s headline)

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1

MONDAY NOVEMBER 2

WHM favorites, the Minneapolis band she’s green describe themselves as “moss music”, inspired as much by Tolkien and Miyazaki as by Slowdive and the Cocteau Twins.

The dreamy five-piece is composed of vocalist Zofia Smith, guitarists Liam Armstrong and Raines Lucas, bassist Teddy Nordvold, and drummer Kevin Seebeck who aim to create their own musical world defined by dreamy fantasy, emotional openness, and sonic depth. Following their Chrysalis EP, they returned this year with their third EP, swallowtail, via Photo Finish Records.

Arrive early for Starling, a four-piece alternative band born and based in Los Angeles, creating music with a soft heaviness that moves from grunge to songwriter to shoegaze. Lead singer and guitarist Kasha Souter Willett started the project alone in 2023 and full-length, Forgive Me, arrived via Sunday Drive Records in 2025.

Starling’s new EP, Plexus (out now via broke Records) is another entirely self-made record, produced by the band and mixed by drummer Erik Sathrum Johnson. It was previewed across four singles over the course of the year.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3

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Goose, Nov 3 AND 4, Midland,$58-$121

Goose is the rock and jam band formed in Wilton, CT in 2014 who blend indie rock, funk, psychedelic rock, and progressive grooves with heavy live improvisation. Their sixth studio album, BIG MODERN! is out now and the indie-jam band is on a tour featuring multi-nights in cities, including this two-night residency at The Midland.

Rick Mitarotonda, Peter Anspach, Trevor Weekz, and Cotter Ellis wil next head to Milwaukee, Nashville and a few other stops before a return to its home state of Connecticut for a pair of shows at Mohegan Sun Arena, their first trip back playing there since with Trey Anastasio Band in 2022. The tour plans to wrap November 21st in Rochester, NY.

Daughtry unplugged, Ryan Perdz, Nov 3, Uptown,$62.15

Multi-Grammy Award-nominated, multi-platinum rock band Daughtry are on the second leg of their 20 Years Unplugged tour, with 22 additional dates, including here in KC. The run opened October 12 in Troy, NY and continues through November 14 in Dallas, TX, with support from Buffalo, NY singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Perdz.

Perdz is a 25-year-old singer, raised on his grandparents’ family farm, who began teaching himself guitar at age ten and expanded into bass, violin, and mandolin, developing a hands-on approach to songwriting and arrangement. In 2025, he signed with Big Machine Rock and began recording his debut full-length album.

Jonas Brothers w Franklin Jonas, Nov 3, T-Mobile Center,$66-$328+

JoBros return! Jonas Brothers announced that The Burning Up Tour All Over Again was set for another leg, which makes a downtown KC stop. This began as a one-of-a-kind event honoring the iconic “Burning Up Tour,” but has since hit the road, bringing its live experience to fans across the country.

The 45-city tour rotates openers, but KC gets a Bonus Jonas– fourth brother Franklin Jonas!

“Our last tour reminded us just how much this music means to us and to the fans who’ve been with us from the start,” said the Jonas Brothers. “The response was so overwhelming announcing the MSG shows that we knew we couldn’t stop at New York. We’re taking The Burning Up Tour All Over Again on the road so we can relive it with all of you, city by city. We can’t wait to run it back with all of you.”

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4

Wage War, We Came as Romans, Varials, Nov 4, Uptown, $46.15-$74.75

From the swamp to the stage, ever-ready Florida metallers Wage War are on a headline tour supported by fellow heavy acts We Came as Romans, Varials and Cane Hill.

It’s the band’s second round of headlining tour dates to support this year’s It Calls Me By Name EP. Dubbed the “Emergency Broadcast” tour, it kicked off October 25th at San Antonio, TX and will conclude November 27^th at Orlando’s Hard Rock Live venue.

Briton Bond [lead vocals], Cody Quistad [rhythm guitar, clean vocals], Seth Blake [lead guitar], Chris Gaylord [bass], and Stephen Kluesener [drums] also released their new album Landfall, out digitally via Fearless Records.

Michigan-born five-piece We Came As Romans (Dave Stephens, Joshua Moore, Lou Cotton, Andy Glass and David Puckett), first broke through with Tracing Back Roots in 2013. The album cracked the Billboard 200 Top 10 and reached No. 1 on both the Independent Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts.

The band also recently released “where did you go? O”, a reimagined version of the track from their 2025 album All Is Beautiful… Because We’re Doomed, now in collaboration with Headwreck.

L7, Nov 4, Warehouse on Broadway,$46.89

Influential band L7 are on their The Last Hurrah Tour, their final world tour which began on October 9. The legendary feminist rockers with their blend of punk ethos, heavy grunge, melody, socio-political anthems and humor are connecting with fans globally one last time!

Donita Sparks shares, “When L7 decided to release a documentary in 2015, we thought maybe we would take one last victory lap around the sun by playing some shows. Instead, that lap turned into eleven more years of touring, sweat, new music, and reconnecting with the fans who made this all possible in the first place.”

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5

Margaret Glaspy, Nov 5, Bottleneck-Lawrence, $22-$25

Known for her emotional honesty and distinctive guitar work, Margaret Glaspy recently released her fourth studio album, I Am Both, in August. Produced by Joe Henry), Glaspy stepped away from social media and returned to a slower, more intentional creative process, writing much of it by hand before refining it on a typewriter. The result is a deeply personal album that embraces the complexity and contradictions of being human. We caught her live last month in Minneapolis.

Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, Nov 5, Uptown, $32.45

Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country is back on the road and in support of their first live album, Ryman To Robert’s, released in late August via Retrace Music. The album documents the group’s sold-out, debut headlining performance at Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium on August 22 of last year, the same day as the release of their third album Horizons.

It was a full-circle moment for the singer, songwriter and guitar virtuoso, who performed on Nashville’s Lower Broadway as a young teen, playing up to eight hours a day on weekends. One day at 17, an opportunity came when he was asked to audition with one of Robert’s amazing house bands, The Don Kelley Band.

Oso Oso, Nov 5, recordBar,$32.81

Oso Oso, the long-running project of ex-State Lines Long Island NY songwriter Jade Lilitri, makes a KC stop, ahead of their sixth full-length album, an exchange of information out November 6, (via l Feral Twin, the new label started by Hop Along drummer Mark Quinlan) and led by first single “know you know me better.”

The album’s indie-rock songwriting is said to reconnect with the emo and punk energy at its roots and their sound takes influence from fellow Strong Island bands, Brand New and Taking Back Sunday.

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.