Like peanut butter and chocolate, banjo and slide guitar, or a shot of tequila with lime, She and Him prove that sometimes, putting two good things together can make one great thing. Singer-songwriter M. Ward and actress Zooey Deschanel have paired up since 2008 to make sunny, California coast tunes inspired by 70’s AM radio. M. Ward, musician, songwriter, producer and…
We’ve got a profile of the band coming out in this week’s Pitch, so be on the lookout for that. In the meantime, here’s a video 4OJ just filmed for “Self Sabotage,” one of the tracks off Explode! Categories: Music Tags: Fourth of July
Around midnight on Saturday night, reader Kristin Russ Tweeted at @pitchplog that she’d heard about a DUI checkpoint near 77th and Wornall. Guess we should have retweeted that. The Star reports that 20 drivers were nabbed for driving drunk at the checkpoint. Police usually manage to pull over 600-700 drivers at those stops. That means about 3 percent of cars…
Slayer is the only band in thrash metal’s founding elite that never wavered from its creative mission. Thanks to its dogged, almost pathological single-mindedness, Slayer stayed the course while the genre imploded in the early ’90s. (The band also boasts a secret weapon in Dave Lombardo, a drumming giant with an uncanny ability to swing at breakneck speeds.) Slayer’s presence…
Another bloody weekend in Kansas City: KCTV reports that a young man was shot to death around 3 a.m. on Sunday near 8th and Van Brunt. No details have emerged so far, except that the man’s friend delivered him to a nearby police service station, where officers called an ambulance. To no avail: He was later pronounced dead. Categories: News
Update #2 (9:51 p.m. August 23): Whitlock told Nick Wright that his contract with FOX is worth “a little less” than $2.1 million. Also: Deadspin posted a recap of “The Explanation” here. Update (3:17 p.m. August 20): Whitlock just said he’s not leaving Kansas City. Guess he found out the barbecue in Los Angeles sucks. Original Story (12 p.m. August…
Xavier Henry is still waiting to get paid. The Memphis Grizzlies drafted the former Kansas Jayhawk gunner with the 12th pick of this year’s NBA Draft, but the team hasn’t signed him. The notoriously cheap Grizzlies are low-balling Henry, which is pretty ridiculous given that the NBA has a scale for rookie salaries. Categories: News Tags: Kansas Jayhawks, Memphis Grizzlies,…
SF Weekly’s music blog, All Shook Down, reports that a man jumped from a roof onto the stage during a Swell Season concert at Mountain Winery in Saratoga Thursday night in an apparent suicide, according to news reports and witnesses. Santa Clara County Sheriff Sgt. Rick Sung reports that the man who jumped was not alone at the concert: “The…
Royals fans don’t get nearly as much credit as they should for their undivided love and support of an often disappointing team. You don’t hear us blaming crappy performances on curses like those foolhardy Cubs fans (though we have our fair share of them). No, we diligently stream into the K, cheering and shouting invectives to the sky, only to…
Update (1:33 p.m. August 20): The story of the 6-year-old boy found in an attic just gets more depressing the more we find out. The Star reports that neighbors who talked with the malnourished boy’s mother say that Rachel Perez told them that “the boy had Down syndrome and lived with his father. Not true considering authorities found the boy…
Gibson, the company that makes awesome guitars, recently made a list of the Top 50 Guitar Albums of All Time, Ever. And I feel like discussing it. Guess how many of those albums were made after the year 2000? What about after the year 1990? The answer WON’T SURPRISE YOU AT ALL. Categories: Music
Remember last month when Captain Buzzcut Jack Harry was all “juiced up” over the rumors that the Kansas City Royals were for sale? Yeah, I tried to forget too. “I have never ever talked to anyone about selling the club,” Royals owner David Glass told The Kansas City Star’s Bob Dutton. “Period. I have never had a discussion with anyone…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. It’s a small world, and cuisines from around the globe will be dished up at the annual Kansas City Ethnic Enrichment Festival at Swope Park. For the next three days, you can enjoy samosas and plantains and kebabs, for example,…
Ah! New Sufjan Stevens songs! Can’t breathe! I love Sufjan Stevens. That is why, like most of his song-starved die-hard fans, I am fucking stoked that he has a new EP, All Delighted People, that’s streaming over at his band camp as we speak. Whoa! And it even has actual songs, not sprawling compositions about highways and other inanimate objects!…
It’s easy to ignore the rotating advertisements that play above the luggage carousel at Kansas City International Airport. But when your flight is the last of the night, sometimes you can be waiting awhile. And that’s when I noticed the couple in their mid-twenties next to me, who were running a play-by-play of the ads that appeared that would have…
