Bomb the Music Industry! have posted a new video from their most recent album, Scrambles. It’s for the song “Wednesday Night Drinkball.” Just an FYI regarding this tune: it is way undemonstrative of the rest of Jeff Rosenstock’s (the dude behind BTMI!) other stuff. This is is pretty Neutral Milk Hotel, whereas the rest of his tuneage is very loud…
I couldn’t make it to Washington, D.C., to follow Eric “Mean” Melin through the U.S. Air Guitar Championships, so we enlisted the help of a D.C. operative, Erin Slattery, former Kansas City blogger (Erin in the Real World) and current Washingtonian, for a special guest appearance on the Plog. Here’s Erin’s field report. When Justin asked if I wanted to…
%{}% The Park Place shopping complex keeps getting closer to becoming a destination dining spot in Leawood. Today marks the opening of RA Sushi (11638 Ash Street). “There’s nothing like this out in south Kansas City. RA will be a destination point, a place to be seen,” says manager Tony Rohn, who has previously worked at the Kona Grill and…
A small group of quirky protesters took to a Bannister Road median last Friday to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Ideology and small-scale theatrics marked the event, which took place outside the National Nuclear Security Administration/Honeywell facility in 95-degree, rush-hour hotness. Protest organizer Ann Suellentrop welcomed the heat, saying it would make her face…
Our friend John Kreicbergs of Patchchord.com was kind enough to resume his role as showcase videographer. This year, he captured hot footage of six of the night’s acts. Enjoy. Categories: Music Tags: antennas up, Antennas Up!, grand marquis, kansas city bear fighters, Oriole Post, reach, SeedLove
For most folks, the Pitch Music Showcase is kinda like a baby South by Southwest. You bounce around from bar to bar all night, trying to cram in as many musical acts as possible, and maybe taking advantage of the bit of free booze offered at the sponsor tent. The night is heady and frenetic. But that’s never been my experience….
It’s safe to say that the night of the Showcase is one of the best nights of the year to go out… even better than New Year’s Eve, Irish Fest, Rock Fest, the first First Friday of the summer or your cousin from Blue Springs’ bachelor or bachelorette party at Toby Keith’s. It’s awesome. You don’t even have to be…
I’m not sure whether it was Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler arriving in their limo to a gaggle of paparazzi outside of the Riot Room or if it was seeing Kurt Loder interviewing T-Pain on the roof of McCoy’s, but somewhere between those two sightings — but two incidents within a major-media-filled, celebrity-packed evening — I realized, Man, the Pitch…
Either Hollywood is chef crazy or chefs have gone Hollywood, but the result seems to the same — every time you turn on your television or head to the movie theater, you’re going to see a story that equates food and love (just like chef Art Smith tells us on Top Chef). In honor of Julie and Julia — which…
A new young chef at The Oak Room in the InterContinental Hotel is hoping to make a lasting impression on both residents of Kansas City and travelers staying on the Plaza. “I just want us to be known for putting out consistently good food,” says Kyle Baker — the chef de cuisine at the Oak Room. Baker, 27, attended the…
Lee’s Summit hadn’t seen this much excitement since the last Sarah Palin rally. By 8 a.m. Saturday, hundreds of people were gathered outside JP Coffee, spoiling for a health-care fight. Everyone was taking pictures of everyone else — with cell phones, small digital cameras, big video setups. At least one “documentary filmmaker” roamed the crowd with his 14-year-old daughter. Lots…
%{}% Since the Power & Light District could use some sidewalk food, here’s a suggestion that Yummo morph into a street cart. Vegetable love sprouts in the garden in this ode to green beans. A downtown with no produce-carrying grocery stores (sound familiar?). Detroit is apparently experiencing a renaissance of urban farming. What’s it like to fly home after eating…
Metal! Fucking metal! Actually, not really. I can’t tell the difference between your average metal band and your average straight edge hardcore band anymore. Ever since Earth Crisis, I’ve been totally confused. So, it comes as no surprise that Eulogy Recordings is a hardcore label specializing in straight edge. If you head over to the Eulogy Sampler page, you can…
Michigan’s the Swellers had an intriguing accident at the pressing plant last week. They got their test pressing back from the plant for the Welcome Back Riders 7″ they released on Fueled By Ramen and Paper + Plastick this month, and there seemed to be a bit of a mix-up: “When you get a test pressing, you need to listen…
A two car collision led Kansas City police to the city’s 73rd homicide. Officers patrolling 67th and Monroe found 26-year-old Carleton Temple, of KCMO, suffering from a gunshot wound inside a wrecked car around 4:33 a.m. Temple was pronounced dead at the scene. View Larger Map The weekend bloodshed started Friday night with a double shooting in the 5400 block…
