After helping promote Bowie by Keenan Duffty, Kansas Citian Harley Sears became manager for St. Louis musician Kristeen Young, who toured with Morrissey earlier this year. Here’s what homeboy dug in ’07, which is ABOUT TO BE OVER WOOO!!!. Harley (center) with Kristeen Young (right) and Baby Jeff White. Nicholas Megalis, The Holder Semi Precious Weapons, Time Zones Mary Cigarettes,…
Annie Zaleski, music critic at the Riverfront Times in St. Louis, had this to contribute to our year-end discussions. Ten Albums I Liked This Year, in No Particular Order maximo park, our earthly pleasures idlewild, make another world the national, boxer the twilight sad, fourteen autumns and fifteen winters lcd soundsystem, sound of silver airiel, the battle of sealand jon…
By ERIC BARTON Christmas is long over, but there’s still one more gift: this video of KMBC Channel 9’s Larry Moore reading to a bunch of kids who couldn’t care less. Only two of the collected brood of children make it through the story. The one on Moore’s left looks like he might have had a bit too much Benadryl…
Split Lip Rayfield Saturday, 12-29-07 The Bottleneck Better than: Ezra By RICHARD GINTOWT Is there any band that means more to Kansas than Split Lip Rayfield? Oh yeah – Kansas. But since Kerry Livgren long ago traded in his long hair and axe for a pastor’s robe, I’m gonna have to go with Split Lip Rayfield. For twelve years, these…
Mr. Grant Snider’s list, comments … and portrait. I don’t want my Best of 2007 list to imply that I’ve heard every single album and formed my own unbiased opinion about it. Therefore, I’ve included two categories: a list of albums I’ve listened to completely, thoroughly, and repeatedly, and a list of albums I’ve heard very promising pieces of, e.g.,…
Andrew Miller is the archbishop of Kansas City music critics. His cat is the duke. Here’s what they liked this year. METAL-ONLY BIN 10. Dillinger Escape Plan, Ire Works (Relapse) 9. Death Breath, Let It Stink (Relapse) 8. Pig Destroyer, Phantom Limb (Relapse) 7. Xasthur, Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head) 6. Machine Head, The Blackening (Roadrunner) 5. Baroness, Red Album (Relapse)…
By CHRIS PACKHAM Well met, O people of Earth’s past few days! It is I, Lord Magnus, time traveler from SEVERAL DAYS IN THE FUTURE! I greet you as a fellow traveler — OF TIME! Though you shall live to see the FUTURISTIC YEAR 2008, I say to you, the world is a very different place — far stranger than…
Gotten enough Tigers yet? Yes? No? Well here’s a belayed review of their latest show in Los Angeleeeeeeees. The Republic Tigers Monday, December 17 Spaceland, Los Angeles Photo & Review by BERRY ANDERSON Just east of Hollywood, Silver Lake is a hotbed of indie-rock goings-on. It has been called home at some point or another to the likes of Karen…
Oz McGuire was one of KC’s most popular eclectic-spinning DJs before moving to San Francisco last year. Tonight, Dec. 27, Oz returns with his brother Joe, aka Pleasuremaker, to drop the grooves at Nara (1617 Main St) from 10 p.m. to close as guests of DJ Kiko De Gallo. Oz and Joe are also playing tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 28, at…
Usually on nights of the big game, your TV choices consist of repeats and the over-shown — how many times can you really sing along to The Sound of Music? So if you’re not into KU football — the school plays tonight in some big game in Miami, by the way — check out the work of two Kansas…
The Harlem Globetrotters are a franchise in crisis. Not since the Globetrotters’ disastrous first-half performance against a team of robots on Gilligan’s Island have Harlem’s favorites been in such disarray. After an 8,829-game winning streak compiled against the Boston Shamrocks, the New Jersey Reds and the Washington Generals, the Globetrotters have fallen on hard times, losing two games in the…
With an exhibition of ancient Chinese art and a display of some vital contemporary art from across the African continent, it’s not as though the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art isn’t moving people through the “lensed” gallery spaces of its Bloch Building (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278). So what’s your story, exactly? Been a little too busy? In violation of a Pitch…
JANUARY The Wallflower Candidate January 20: Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback announces his campaign for president, promising to out-right-wing everyone else. FEBRUARY Death Is Always a Drag February 1: After a decade of decadence and drowning in debt, Ron Megee closes Late Night Theatre. No more drag-queen Valley of the Dolls. No more all-male Stepford Wives. No more tears. Enough is…
Recreational vehicles appeal to three major constituencies: children, obsessive-compulsives and retirees. For kids, the appeal is obvious: It’s a house on wheels! Though not exactly a robot that transforms into a submarine, it’s still a satisfying aggregation of elements. Obsessive-compulsive personalities, preoccupied with rules, organization and detail, can find their condition soothed by the ordered conformity of the space-efficient storage…
No one gets excited about the word plaid except Welshmen seeking independence from the European Union. And the phrase forever plaid? Sounds like a hell created by your grandma where an endless strip of gutters needs cleaning and the Glenn Miller Orchestra plays until your ears bleed. But Forever Plaid is actually an Off Broadway musical that eulogizes the all-male…
Take this one time class to give you the fundamental to playing this 3 time Olympic sport. Sundays, 10:45 a.m. & 12:15 p.m., 2007 Tags: Night & Day
There was a time when America needed Carson Kressley. Nick Barron thinks that time has passed. A local writer and editor, Barron advocates moving the push for gay rights into a post-sexuality mindset. Kressley and other gay pop-culture icons served an important purpose, he says, but he hopes that the nation has transcended those stereotypes. In a 1 p.m. presentation…
Kansas City culinary mainstay The Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634) is both the cause of and the solution to area hangovers this first bright morn of 2008, opening at 11 a.m. for the eighth-annual Hair of the Dog Day. Treat such symptoms as headache, nausea, hypersalivation and impaired cognition with $1 Bloody Mary specials, all-day comfort-food specials — including meat loaf…
Now that Dancing With the Stars has sparked a ballroom-dancing renaissance, top-notch dancers are touring the country like the skating pros of the Ice Capades. Kansas City’s Louis Bar and Laura Cantu are striking while the dance floor is hot. They headline today’s Ballroom Fever at the Lyric Theatre (1029 Central), where, along with other numbers, they’ll show off the…
Missouri musicians and artists were practicing their own version of Behind the Music long before VH1 ever made it a franchise. The traditional art of luthiery — the craft and restoration of stringed instruments — is the painstaking engine that powers music’s most glamorous audible machines.You can see the manufacture behind the music at Work Is Art and Art…
Experience a different sort of ball drop tonight at The Legends when Pin-Up Bowl (1859 Village West Parkway) hosts its bowl-a-rama of a New Year’s Eve party. Starting at 1 p.m., the chic martini lounge-slash-bowling alley offers all-day champagne specials and festive party favors. After 9 p.m., the party becomes 21-and-older, and late-night bowling specials kick in. Best of all,…
When a good chunk of the money is blown and the sparkling wine is gone, a new party for the New Year will just be springing up. After the ball drops, Jardine’s (4536 Main, 816-561-6480) showcases Kansas City Afro-Latin-soul ensemble Luz D’Sol. Led by Pablo Sanhueza (of local 10-piece Makuza), Luz D’Sol is made up of players from Chile, Colombia…
A couple years ago, Paul Malinowski (ex-bassist for Shiner) and Sam Hoskins (ex-drummer for Elevator Division) spent a weekend in Champaign, Illinois, tracking three songs at Matt Talbot’s Great Western Record Recordings. Upon returning to Kansas, the duo put their project on hold while they developed their own Black Page studio – until a recent invitation to open for Riddle…
(1924 Main, 816-472-1924). Hit this upscale eatery tonight for a price that’s a little more downscale: three courses of such fancy fare as crispy rock shrimp or a panko-crusted catfish BLT for $25. The same deal applies on Sundays, too. Mondays, Sundays, 2008 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
