By ANDY VIHSTADT Last month, Detroit rapper Royce Da 5’9” dropped the sequel to his 2007 post-incarceration mixtape, The Bar Exam. He’s following up The Bar Exam 2 with a new single, “Shake This,” which is produced by DJ Premier. Download both below. MP3: Royce Da 5’9”, “Shake This” Courtesy Spine magazine. ZIP DOWNLOAD: Royce Da 5’9” & Green Lantern,…
By OWEN MORRIS If you’re like me, you often say to yourself, “Man, I’d love to cook up some testicles right now, but I just don’t know whether to marinate or grill them.” Fear no more. For what is apparently the world’s first cookbook on testicles has recently come out. “The Testicle Cookbook” is subtitled “Cooking with Balls.” It gets…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM I posted all my stuff late yesterday, sorry, I was drunk or something? So here’s another link to my review of the excellent musical show I attended on Wednesday night. I’m trying to get the Music Editor to cover my alibi in court next week over some bullshit beef about property damage to some stupid playground…
By OWEN MORRIS Venus in the Kitchen follows her 10 Kansas City foods to eat before you die post with a 10 foods I never want to see again post. I have to say it’s a divisive list and you may be surprised to see some of your favorite foods on there like (for me) olives and nuts. Good job…
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Stereogum got to this first. Darn! Oh well, Hospital Ships, the Lawrence-based outfit fronted by Jordan Geiger of Minus Story, has a new video for the forthcoming album Oh Ramona. There are no girls in it. Or at least, not in the first three minutes, after which I stopped watching. Hospital Ships – “Baby for J” Go to that Stereogum…
By DAVID MARTIN Warning that anti-light rail TV ads were coming, Councilman Russ Johnson this afternoon stepped up criticism of James B. Nutter Sr., the mortgage banker Johnson accuses of being the “lone financier” of the opposition to the transit question on the November ballot. Citizens for Light Rail issued a press release yesterday in which Johnson, who chairs the…
By CHRIS PACKHAM %{}%What with dentists and commuting and “dropping off the kids at the pool,” I am a very busy man with an active schedule. For instance, while this post is incredibly late today, it’s also incredibly short! To make up for it, I attended a Nikka Costa concert last night, and the review I wrote this morning is…
I just got an email from Ryan Adams’ publicist that his show tonight at the Uptown has been postponed due to illness. First the economy, then Neil Young and now this? Oh my brothers and only friends, I don’t know if I can take much more! UPDATE: FLU FELLS CARDINALS & CREW Kansas City Show To Be Re-Scheduled With several…
By CHRIS PACKHAM Nikka Costa performed last night at the Record Bar, and we’ve run out of rock cliches to describe how great she was. I wish my gastroenterologist was as good at gastroenterology as Nikka Costa is at rock and roll. AND SO DOES MY DUODENUM! After the jump, a review of that amazing, sweaty concert. Click on photo…
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of entertaining a visit from Laura Boersma and John Stewart Muller, LA-based filmmakers who grew up in Kansas City. They were looking for music to add to the soundtrack of their recent film Fling, which they shot last year entirely in KC and environs. Here’s a picture of Boersma standing in Bloomsday…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Unless you pre-ordered Loyalty to Loyalty from iTunes, your copy of the Cold War Kids’ latest didn’t include the track “Bullies Always Win.” Yesterday, the band made it available to download for free courtesy of RCRD LBL. Grab it here. Categories: Music Tags: Cold War Kids, MP3
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Long before I became a professional restaurant reviewer — in fact, when I was so dead broke that I was washing clothes in my sink — I still ate at restaurants. Even if the place wasn’t fancy, eating out was a little bit of luxury that I indulged in simply to feel special in a hard-knock world….
Nikka Costa, with Pictures and Sound October 8, 2008 The Record Bar Click on photo for sexy time. Our preview: Nimble-tongued Nikka Costa’s new Stax release, Pebble to a Pearl, isn’t due until October 14, though tracks are posted at Nikkacosta.com. Elaborating on her previous excursions, these new songs make promises — funky, soulful promises — about luv and sex…
By OWEN MORRIS A KU college student with no money to go anywhere during break decides to go to Kansas City. There’s good stuff I didn’t know about and some stuff I’ve covered to death, but it’s still interesting to read about someone looking at the city for the first time. (UDK) The name of this one says it all:…
Soul firebrand Nikka Costa and her horn-endowed band shake up a capacity crowd at the Record Bar in Westport.
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Today’s American Democracy Author: John Lincoln Williams and Palmer Peckham Howard Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Date:1943 Discovered at: Maj-R-Thrift, 2844 W. 47th The Cover…
Only a truly incendiary imagination could turn a four-page puppet play into a fully choreographed multimedia performance of dance and theater. Luckily, such an explosive mind belongs to choreographer Bill T. Jones. The dance man got accolades from critics, including kudos from The New York Times, when his Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company first presented A Quarreling Pair to…
