Singer-rapper Khrystal’s music is dreamy and soulful, while some bands, like Blanky, don’t fit into a specific genre.īoard Secretary Randell says, in addition to financially supporting artists and promoting their music, they work hard to expand access to live shows by booking at locally-owned venues. There’s Catty Cline, whose bedroom pop is influenced by 90’s girl punk, or True Lions, whose up-beat music is reminiscent of ‘90s lo-fi indie pop. Most bands are from Kansas City and the surrounding area, and they span multiple genres. Manor Records represents nearly 30 bands. The team focuses strictly on management, and their work remains nonprofit. Today’s Manor Records team consists of four board members: Crowley, Skylar Rochelle, Kayla Jarrett and Connor Randell. So Crowley pivoted again, searching for a way to put money into musicians’ pockets immediately and to build a network of investors. … This is going to take me five to 10 years to ever put money back into the artist.” “Because, like, that's not what I'm in this for. “I need to get the f- out of here,” Crowley remembers thinking at the time. He closed the shop at the beginning of this year. The proceeds were supposed to go directly to Manor Record artists, but Crowley says they were barely making enough to cover the shop’s expenses. Because he couldn’t afford the expanding effort himself, Crowley opened a nonprofit record store and café in Strawberry Hill in April 2022. “It kind of turned into me supporting artists and having people on our roster and growing a team.”Ĭrowley also started a record label, and called it Manor Records. “I would kind of just, like, front my friends' releases, money-wise, and help them put it out and, like, put a campaign to it,” Crowley says. ![]() ![]() But Crowley wanted to keep supporting artists. The end of Shawnee Manor came in 2016 when the band moved. Shaun Crowley and his friends turned it into a DIY concert venue. Shaun Crowley Shawnee Manor started in an unassuming basement in a Shawnee, Kansas, home.
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