As a courtesy to fans, band managers, radio personalities, members of the clergy, Mennonite farmers, door-to-door vacuum cleaner salespeople and others who were shocked and appalled to read of the sordid misadventures of New York, New York, popular music recording artist Matt Pond on the night of March 29, 2008, at the Record Bar, in Kansas City, Missouri, the…
Just in from LiveNation… YES RETURNS TO THE CONCERT STAGE TO CELEBRATE THEIR 40th ANNIVERSARY Wednesday, August 6 Live at Starlight Theatre Tickets on sale this Saturday, April 5 at 10 am! Reserved Tickets*: $39.50, $59.50, $75 and $150 (price does not include Ticketmaster service charge) This begs the question: What kind of Yes fan are you? Are you a…
Anyone recognize these Kings of Leon-lookin’ motherfuckers? They crashed Saturday night with Pitch cartoonist Josh Ziegler’s upstairs neighbor and stayed up until 4 a.m. jamming on the Who and the Beatles. In the morning, Ziegler sniped ’em. (Three more shots after the jump.) Categories: Music Tags: just passin’ thru, sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll
Back to the Block Sunday, March 31 The Record Bar by NADIA PFLAUM Last night, Vert from the Record Bar hosted a bear of a hip-hop show, featuring the Bluez Brothers (aka Deuce and Lou of the Soul Servers), the Soul Providers (Reach, D/Will, Hozey-T, Les Izmore), James Christos with Gunn Jakc and the True Spittaz, Heet Mob and…
By ANDY VIHSTADT D.C. Cab Death Cab for Cutie returns with Narrow Stairs on May 13. Listen to the first single “I Will Possess Your Heart” at the group’s MySpace page, and check out a live acoustic version of another new one below. Death Cab for Cutie: “Cath…(acoustic live)” MP3 courtesy of Pretty Much Amazing On the Side Alex Turner…
Carbon/Silicon Saturday, March 29 The Record Bar Photos by SCOTT SPYCHALSKI Words by CRYSTAL K. WIEBE Ha ha, Chicago! Kansas City got to play host to a pair of honest-to-God punk grandpas last Saturday night. Mick Jones (the Clash) and Tony James (Generation X) stopped at the Record Bar with Carbon/Silicon. The tour was supposed to stop in Chicago tonight,…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Yesterday’s Million Fag March against Topeka’s gay-hating preacher Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church didn’t draw a million protesters, but 418 people did show up at Gage Park to march against the Phelps family. In an e-mail to supporters, organizer Chris Love promises “next year will be bigger and better!” Below, check out a video from…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Free Mumia for the first 10 callers: Mumia Abu Jamal, dulcet-voiced radio commentator and convicted murderer, got his death sentence overturned on what a right-wing antihero cop from the 1970s would call a “technicality,” but which new Pitch mascot the Gene Simmons Sex Tape would call a ROCKNICALITY! The Gene Simmons Sex Tape is an outspoken…
By ERIC BARTON Ah spring, that time of year when fountains fire up, tulips bloom along Troost and Royals fans ready themselves for three digits of losses once again. Pitch freelancer Chris Rasmussen, however, has come up with a plan on how to prevent a lifetime of pain for his daughter by bribing her, immersing her in all things…
BY DAVID MARTIN How to succeed in business without really succeeding. Failed telecom executive-turned-university president Gary Forsee will %{}%make $84,325 a month for the rest of his life as part of the pension agreement he negotiated when he took the reins at Sprint. That’s pretty sweet action for a CEO who ran a business that that shed customers and…
School of Language, with Riddle of Steel and OK Jones Thursday, March 27 The Record Bar Review by JASON HARPER Photos by KEANON LIGGATT Bird Illustration by JOHN JAMES AUDUBON For the lead singer and guitarist in a challenging, sonically adventurous post-hardcore rock band, it must be more than deflating to be in the bathroom of a bar after playing…
I was rooting around for Spoon videos to post with our preview of the band online (found a rad Paul Simon cover), and I found these beguiling videos of a Japanese robot dancing to a couple of recent Spoon hits. The robot is called Keepon, and it consists of two conjoined yellow spheres, with perky, rudimentary eyes and a…
By NADIA PFLAUM When I was in high school, video cameras were still large, heavy and required Dad’s permission to borrow. But since digital video cameras became affordable and cuter than shit, every bored, suburban teenager seems to have one. And while there are undoubtedly thousands of budding Kubricks out there making mind-blowing films, there are also thousands of kids…
By CRYSTAL K. WIEBE If I were a more scientifically-minded person, I would have conducted an experiment last night at the Mission Bowl. During the 10 p.m. to midnight Rock ‘n’ Bowl session, I would have written down the name and title of each music video playing as I tossed the ball down the lane and then made a…
Aloha, with Anathallo Wednesday, March 26, 2008 The Jackpot Saloon Better than: Slim Goodbody’s upcoming appearance at the Folly Theater By RICHARD GINTOWT Great drummers have a way of making ok bands into great bands. Aloha has two of them, but the veteran indie band’s music has always been more about sublime post-rock melodies than showy sticksmanship. The quartet…
Mike Doughty Wednesday, March 26, 2008 The Beaumont Club By JOHN KREICBERGS Maybe it was the casual, small-bar rockiness of evening’s opening act, the Panderers. Or maybe it was the soothing aroma of nag champa drifting from the stage area. Whatever it was, the atmosphere at the Beaumont for Mike Doughty’s Kansas City stop on his Golden Delicious tour…
%{}% By JUSTIN KENDALL Nobody puts baby in a corner: Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline doesn’t give a shit what those abortion-lovin’ fat cats on the Johnson County Board of Commissioners think. The rebel with one cause is no showing a meeting today after the Commission demanded he defend his hiring of a special prosecutor to investigate criminal charges…
R.E.M. Accelerate (Warner Brothers) By ANNIE ZALESKI R.E.M.’s Jackknife Lee-produced fourteenth studio album, Accelerate, lives up to its speedy title. It’s loud, quick and dirty, spinning by so fast that it takes multiple listens to absorb. It’s full of buzzing guitars and stream-of-conscious discontent, along with an abundance of Mike Mills’ choir-boy harmonies and sinewy bass. And naturally, it hints…
Art-house films are great in theory, but the execution can sometimes leave the viewer longing for the screwball genius of Will Ferrell. That’s why the best place to view artsy flicks is in an actual house of art like the Spencer Museum of Art (1301 Mississippi in Lawrence, 785-864-4710). With sparse crowds and free admission, you and your beret-wearing date…
If your weekend attire consists of clothes with a big red N on them, do not go see Daniel Tosh. He’s the Florida-born comedian who likes to bag on Nebraska, saying we should move the Iraq War closer so our soldiers can commute. “We could have it in Nebraska,” Tosh says in the bit. “We don’t need that horrible…
No, I’m not one of them posin’ pretty boys/I’m an everyday, all-the-way, 100 percent cowboy. That’s what country crooner Jason Meadows insists on title track and first single off his album 100% Cowboy. The Oklahoma farmboy does seem to have some right to the claim. He was an active member of the Future Farmers of America in high school…
Editor’s note: This column has been updated since it originally appeared on the Web on March 28. It’s an election year. But Molly Korth Williams hasn’t taken the time to plant a sign in the front yard of her Brookside home. This is a little strange. Because Williams is running as a Democrat for attorney general. In filing the…
Many DJs wish they had as much creative freedom as DJ Cyan, who spins at Karma every Monday night. She has so much freedom that the bartenders allow her to play avant-garde films on the screens around the bar. Underground and lesser-known jazz, blues, punk and foreign artists are in heavy rotation in her eclectic repertoire, and she says…
As the spawn of horror novelist Anne Rice and poet Stan Rice, Christopher Rice had some big shoes to fill when he embarked on his own writing career. That loaded last name may have helped him snag curious readers in the beginning, but it was up to the young author to keep them interested. So far, it seems that he…
