Secret Cities is a sweeping electronic act made up of two North Dakota kids, Charlie Gokey and Marie Parker, and KC’s own Alexander Abnos. So far, the band has scored accolades from Paste, Nylon, Pitchfork, Tiny Mixtapes and Filter. And now, Paste has deemed the fast up-and-coming band as ‘Best of What’s Next.’ Categories: Music Tags: Press, Secret Cities
Long-running pop-punk act Yellowcard recently returned from a hiatus with a new album, When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes. It’s the band’s first since 2007’s Paper Walls. In addition, the band is embarking on its first tour since a set of acoustic dates in 2008 and is playing the Beaumont Club on Tuesday, April 5, with All Time Low, Hey…
You can have your coffee and eat it, too. The Kansas City Star’s Joyce Smith reports that the Roasterie and Original Juan have collaborated on a new coffee barbecue sauce. Super Tuscan Barbeque Sauce apparently took eight months of development to perfect. The sauce will be available at the Roasterie’s locations in Leawood and Brookside on Friday. It retails for…
We have to admit, when Bazooka’s Showgirls invited us to a dress rehearsal of their new burlesque show, “Frivolitease,” we had low expectations. The word “burlesque” has been bandied about so often with so many performers in the last few years, we didn’t expect more than a halfhearted fan dance and a few limp tassels attached to titties that didn’t…
Das Racist entered the collective consciousness through the Trojan horse of “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,” but the songs on critically lauded mixtapes Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man are smarter and richer than that stoner-rap number lets on. The songs on the wisecracking mixtapes convey a smart wackiness, irreverence rooted in intelligence. Since the moment that Das…
A Kansas City Police Department undercover squad won the Law Enforcement Unit of the Year award. Chief James Corwin made the announcement on his blog. He doesn’t say where the ceremony took place, so we’re imagining it happened at a pool hall that’s really a command center. Or in a motel room that smells like Paul Giamatti’s feet. Or in…
Some stories just make you sick at how shitty humans can be to one another. For example, Monday night an 18-year-old man was shot in the abdomen after asking for 50 cents in the parking lot of the Blue Valley Market at 43rd Street and Cleveland Avenue. The Kansas City Star reported that the guy had life-threatening injuries. How depressing…
Neighborhood Cafe is a revival of a neighborhood classic in Lee’s Summit. Photos by Sabrina Staires.
Chad Ochocinco is hoping to switch from the gridiron to the soccer pitch. And we caught all his moves. Photos by Chris Mullins.
Midtown will have another record store in its midst come April 16. Record Store Day 2011 will mark the opening of Vinyl Renaissance at 39th Street and Wyoming, according to The Kansas City Star. Instead of moving to the old Streetside store on Broadway, the Shawnee store chose to move its second location to the bustling center of 39th Street….
In the next 24 hours, we could (should? maybe?) know whether Matt Painter is leaving his alma mater to become the next basketball coach at the University of Missouri. Here’s what we do know (via the Columbia Daily Tribune): Mizzou athletic director Mike Alden flew to Florida to meet with Painter about the job vacated by Mike Anderson, who bolted…
Kansas City, get your air guitars ready to rock. After a one-year hiatus, the U.S. Air Guitar Championships are coming back to Kansas City to crown a regional champion to send to nationals. U.S. Air Guitar made the announcement on Twitter: the date, Thursday, May 19, at Crosstown Station in downtown Kansas City. Of course, this wouldn’t be air guitar…
Here’s some breaking news to spice up your afternoon: The May 28 double bill from radio pop-star Bruno Mars and local hero Janelle Monae — originally set for the Uptown — is moving to the Independence Events Center. Categories: Music Tags: bruno mars, janelle monae
Kansas City, get your air guitars ready to rock. After a one-year hiatus, the U.S. Air Guitar Championships are coming back to Kansas City to crown a regional champion to send to nationals. U.S. Air Guitar made the announcement on Twitter: The date, Thursday, May 19 at Crosstown Station in downtown Kansas City. Categories: News Tags: crosstown station, eric melin,…
It turns out that four days of working out with a Major League Soccer team will not make you a pro-caliber player. Cincinnati Bengals soccer-obsessed wide receiver Chad Ochocinco learned that the hard way this morning. After a four-day tryout with Sporting Kansas City, the team informed Ochocinco today that they will not offer him a contract. Instead, he has…
We have to admit, when Bazooka’s Show Girls invited us to a dress rehearsal of their new burlesque review, “Frivolitease,” we had low expectations. Holy shit, were we wrong. This show rocks. It only plays April 1 and 2. Catch it while you can.
You might think about picking up a six-pack of Goose Island beer. Anheuser-Busch was thinking more like the whole brewery. The company announced yesterday that it had acquired the craft brewer based out of Chicago, a relationship that began with Anheuser-Busch serving as the company’s distribution partner. Anheuser-Busch purchased the rights to Fulton Street Brewery LLC, the legal name of…
I’m not sure that people care about Charlie Sheen’s every utterance anymore. But you may recall that Sheen put out a call for a social-media intern earlier this month — #TigerBloodIntern. Well, Mizzou grad Austin Huff is in the running for the eight-week paid internship, KMBC Channel 9 reported. Huff, an unpaid intern at a Tennessee sports-radio station, is one…
Attention, narcissists! There’s a new contest to win a bundle of the Get Up Kids swag — and it involves plastering your mug on the Lawrence band’s new album, There Are Rules. The Get Up Kids are back with their first full-length album since 2004. There Are Rules features original line-up — Matthew Pryor on vocals and guitar, Rob Pope…
A jury found Gevante Anderson guilty Monday of killing his ex-girlfriend, her nephews and her new boyfriend in March 2009. The Kansas City Star reported that the verdict came after just 90 minutes of deliberations. The bodies of 33-year-old Andre Jones, 21-year-old Precious Triplett and her nephews, 10-year-old Amir Clemons and 7-year-old Gerard Clemons were found in a Raytown apartment…
Superman had kryptonite. Average men and women have onions and Sriracha and all manners of condiments that don’t agree with us. I know Tabasco is going to bowling-ball its way through my insides, but my chili doesn’t taste right without a splash of hot sauce. So I just tell my middle workings to deal with it, and I later pay…
A man in eastern Missouri has turned his appreciation for women’s underpants into a quilt to keep warm all through the night. Louis Garrett, of Louisiana, Missouri, told the Hannibal Courier-Post about his bizarre hobby, explaining that he only started quilting with unmentionables after he began dressing his mannequin collection in lingerie. That makes sense. See a video after the…
