OK, people, this thick meat patty needs something explained. Why the hell isn’t anyone busting his butt to save the Mutual Musicians Foundation? One of the coolest goddamned things about this city faces extinction. A brief recap: One night in September, with no shortage of real crime to investigate, two Kansas City, Missouri, vice detectives called on the Mutual Musicians…
As the story goes, Sam Walton drove his pickup north on U.S. Highway 71 from Arkansas to Kansas City in 1974. He had plans to expand his new Wal-Mart chain into just about any town with a traffic light. What he needed was a pitchman. Walton drove to the Plaza office of Bernstein-Rein, a small ad agency of about…
This just in from the Pitch Reader Community automated message generator: Party with Pedro @ Voodoo Lounge We’re partying with Pedro, from Napoleon Dynamite! DJ Efren Ramirez will be spinning the hottest hits at Voodoo Lounge on December 16th! All of your wildest dreams will come true! Plus, one lucky party goer will be doing sweet jumps all day long…
The idea of Pitchforkmedia.com giving more attention to a band out of Springfield, MO, than, well, anyone else, would have been inconceivable if it hadn’t already happened. Pitchfork Still Loves You, Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin. Audio-visuals fuckin’ A after the jump. Categories: Music
There’s a lot of good rock action this weekend, but I’ve heard some special buzz about two in particular. The first is tonight at the Hurricane, where locals Lovers in Transit and the Republic Tigers are joined by the Ultra Sonic Edukators. My sources have compared them with Blur, Supergrass and Teenage Fanclub — to which I say OK THEN!…
