• KZUM taps The Bottle Tops’ Kerry Semrad as next general manager; Halfwit teases upcoming full-length, releases first of three new songs; Hear Nebraska, Maha Music Festival among Nebraska Tourism Commission grant awardees

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• KZUM honored with National Keeping the Blues Alive award; Crucial Changes to table at Chicago Zine Fest; Omaha busks landing in latest Omaha Stairwell Sessions

• Hear Nebraska FM for KZUM’s Fall Pledge Drive tonight; Opera Omaha’s ‘The Barber of Seville’ opens Wednesday; Live review of Eagle Seagull, The So-So Sailors and Little Brazil at O’Leaver’s