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Hanging out in the studio w/ Joey Crofoot talking about his forthcoming album, and giving his first single Great Big Star a listen. We talk process, meaning, vulnerability, and satisfaction. Check out one of Top City’s best playing the song I’ve been enjoying all week.
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An excerpt from What Some Old People Never Tell… by Joan Koromantee. Featured in the upcoming Speak Easy Poets anthology. These particular ones know to remind you that a shit load of informationis not always true nor accurate nor usefuland a truck load of knowledge has to ripenlike plump tomatoes on a drooping vinebefore it can be…
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We are in the final stages of publishing the first Speak Easy Poets anothology. For a little “taste”, try out these first couple stanzas from Kay Duganator’s poem Food Brought to My Table. It’s delicious. Every guest brings food to my table.So I was only mildly surprisedby your offering of words. I took your poem,…
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I’m so excited about the new issue of 785 Magazine! Check out this spread about our compilation album This Machine Builds Community. 🤩 Grab you a copy and check it out! “But where can I get one?!” you ask? Read it online at seveneightfive.com or pick up a print copy at one of these local…
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It’s not just about music…Top City Records is proud to announce the publication of the first work by Topeka poet Jaedon Blocker. Maybe Someday, Maybe Someday is a body of work written at the tail end of high school and into his early years of adulthood, starting during the throws of the Covid pandemic. Dark,…
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It’s release day!! This Machine Builds Community is out wherever you listen to music. Over the coming days I’m going to share a song by each artist and tell you a bit about them. Today, we’re listening to The Treatment, by Nate In The Evening. Nate Dingman and Mark Banks are two of Topeka’s top…
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The forthcoming, This Machine Builds Community compilation is what launched the idea for Top City Records, and it was the first album I finished recording, however it’s NOT the first release. While the album was being mixed and mastered, I decided to hastily put together a short EP to test out the process of publishing…
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As work on This Machine Builds Community neared an end this past fall, I realized that I had overlooked complications in one key aspect – publishing. I’ve published my own music before, but that was as a single artist publishing my own music. This album was going to be distinctly different – multiple artists on…
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