Sour Babies Morning Star (L’il Horn) On their debut, the Sour Babies — great name — sounded a bit like Rufus Wainwright trying his hand at singing gothic folk. On Morning Star, their new EP, the seven-piece has upped the drama and moved into something more like Queen doing spaghetti-Western themes. With violins, accordions and guitars ringing out in the…
When Brody Buster was 7 years old, he picked up one of his mother’s old harmonicas and taught himself how to play it. A year later, he was jamming on Beale Street. When he was 9, B.B. King referred to him as “one of the greatest harmonica players of our time.” He appeared on The Tonight Show at the age…
The West 18th Street Fashion brought its “Summer in Spain,” runway to 18th Street on Saturday, June 11. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Street Eaters hail from the same Berkeley scene that birthed the likes of Operation Ivy and Green Day, yet the bass-and-drums duo has more in common with angular English punk acts such as the Fall or Wire. The pair of Megan March and John No are touring in support of their debut full-length, Rusty Eyes and Hydrocarbons, due out July…
Check out episode one of One Arrowhead Drive above. It’s pretty badass stuff, especially seeing cartoon Scott Pioli dressed up as Superman. Via DJsixCMStudios’s YouTube channel (h/t: Arrowhead Pride.) Categories: News Tags: kansas city chiefs, Scott Pioli
UPDATE (2:58 p.m.): Kansas City police arrested Eric Yeager without incident around 1:30 p.m. Yeager, who allegedly cut his girlfriend’s throat and fled with their 4-month-old son, was taken to a hospital because there were indications he’d tried to hurt himself. His injuries were non-life threatening. His girlfriend is also expected to recover from her injuries. Original Story (8:24 a.m.):…
The Kansas City Chiefs could once again be Missouri’s lone NFL franchise if there’s any truth to a recent OC Register report that the St. Louis Rams are one of five relocation candidates for Los Angeles. AEG president Tim Leiweke (the biggest of big shots in charge of Kansas City’s Sprint Center) told the Register that AEG is interested in…
The Jackpot will play host to no-wave, post-punk (oh, that’s so nondescript — pre-avant-garde, even) act Iceage on August 3. Pitchfork says the Copenhagen band sometimes puts on violent shows. Suggestion: Bring helmets. Categories: Music Tags: iceage
Harold Camping must have thought he was finally getting raptured. The 89-year-old evangelical preacher who bought billboards promising that May 21 would be the rapture suffered a stroke last Thursday and was hospitalized over the weekend. News of Camping’s stroke was posted on the Family Radio Yahoo message board with followers asking for the true believers to “please pray for…
As we gear up for the Beach Boys tribute coming up in a few weeks here, Sonic Spectrum’s Robert Moore today announced the themes of the two remaining tribute shows this summer. Categories: Music Tags: robert moore, sonic spectrum
By Jesse Banion Mother Nature tried in vain to ruin the patio show at the Riot Room on Friday. But our local heroes prevailed. Categories: Music Tags: Be/Non, Ghosty, minden
Last week, we heard the story of the 5-year-old girl accused of drowning her 18-month-old cousin in a bathtub because he wouldn’t stop crying. Police considered the girl a “homicide suspect.” But in an interview with a St. Louis television station, Nicole Curry, the mother of victim Jermane Johnson Jr., called the drowning an accident. “I just want people to…
Poston Donuts & Bakery (2131 South 34th Street) will stop selling doughnuts on July 2, a year after the doughnut shop and bakery opened in Kansas City, Kansas. The mom-and-pop shop isn’t closing, just changing directions, according to a post on its Facebook page this past Saturday: We would like to make an announcement about the DONUTS at Poston Donuts……Shari…
A deal to kiss a pig is a deal until there are complications with the pig. The Kansas City, Missouri, School District issued a press release last night saying Primitivo Garcia Elementary School principal Joe Marlow would kiss a pig this afternoon as part of a deal to reward students for reaching full participation in the public library system. But…
In my career as a journalist, I’ve willingly ridden along with the police department, but I never sat shotgun in a health inspector’s car. It’s one thing to see a kitchen or dining room with your eyes; it’s another to see them through the inspector’s clipboard. Obviously, there are different levels of violations — the water turned off in a…
A civilian member of the Kansas City Police Department was seriously injured Saturday morning after being struck by a driver attempting to flee a DUI checkpoint at 76th Street and Troost. The worker, an eight-year employee with the KCPD, clung to the speeding car’s hood before falling off several blocks later. Biting the DUI bullet would be better than the…
These days, chef Marshall Roth is having fun in the kitchen, shown by the whimsical sausages coming out of the narrow galley space at Dog Nuvo: the fine-dining hot-dog shop that he manages with partner Harry Blasco. On Friday, Roth talked about his first job in the kitchen (which chipped his black nail polish). Tomorrow, he’ll reveal a new business…
Photographer Forester Michael shot portraits at Smiths night Friday at the Union. Click through for the fun. Categories: Music Tags: louder than bombs, the union
Lil Wayne is bringing his juggernaut of a tour, I Am Still Music, to the Sprint Center on August 23. The bill includes my boy Rick Ross, plus Keri Hilson, Lloyd and Far East Movement. We now know that tickets go on sale this Friday, June 17. Categories: Music Tags: lil wayne, Lil’ Wayne
