There are only four days left to purchase Farm to Market Bread Co.’s Valentine’s Day specialty bread – chocolate cherry – a 14-ounce round sourdough loaf baked with cocoa, semisweet chocolate chunks and Michigan-grown tart dried cherries. It can be eaten as is, with cheese and wine, or with coffee, but it also makes a sensational fudgy bread pudding for…
Journalists can often use Twitter wisely to interact with their audience and spread the word about their work. But the allure of social media’s spur-of-the-moment reactions and the lack of editing or oversight on a journalist’s Twitter feed can lead to intractable missteps. Local Fox affiliate WDAF Channel 4 took to Twitter over the weekend and waded into a sports…
Ten years of THS. It has been four years since the Hold Steady last released an album – 2010’s Heaven Is Whenever. For a time, it seemed like the wordiest bar band in Brooklyn might be hanging it up. Nobody appeared to be having any fun onstage during the Heaven tour, and in early 2012, frontman Craig Finn released an…
%{}% Reggie and the Full Effect with Dads and Pentimento Record Bar, Kansas City Feb. 8, 2014 For the full slideshow, go here. A few hours before Reggie and the Full Effect played its first Kansas City show in ten years, front man James Dewees was stranded in the snow. He’d been on his way to Starbucks when his…
The International Folk Alliance Conference & Winter Music Camp comes to KC February 19-23. To get you geared up for the folk blowout, every day we’re posting a song we like by one of the event’s showcase artists. It had been three long years since Nashville’s the Farewell Drifters last released a full-length album, until late this past January, when…
Reggie and the Full Effect with Dads and Pentimento. All photos by Zach Bauman.
Back in November, when Pink was turning the Sprint Center into her own trapeze studio on her The Truth About Love Tour, Australian trio the Kin was her opening act. Brothers Isaac and Thorald Koren, along with drummer Shakerleg (really), gave an unadorned, enthusiastic performance for the scattered handful of people that might have been paying attention in the packed…
Too much trouble at Retro. A few weeks ago, a 3 a.m. shooting outside downtown club Retro ended in the death of 24-year-old Brandon Arledge. It was the second homicide to occur outside Retro in recent memory; in May 2012, 23-year-old Marcus Heilderberg was fatally shot after an altercation inside the club moved outside. In response to this most recent…
Despite divorcing from frontman Daniel Blumberg in early 2013, English alt-rock band Yuck has elected to soldier on, much to the delight of nostalgic 1990s-rock enthusiasts. In September, Yuck released its second album – and its first without Blumberg – titled Glow & Behold, with guitarist Max Bloom stepping up to take lead vocals. And though the 11 tracks on…
The Midwest Music Foundation has quite the local lineup assembled this Friday, featuring acoustic sets from Betse Ellis, Brandon Phillips, Cody Wyoming and Tommy Donoho. Betse Ellis is one of Kansas City’s go-to fiddle players, and last year’s High Moon Order was one of The Pitch’s top albums of 2013. Ellis blends an Ozark sound with her own folk sensibility,…
For those among us who are connoisseurs of old-school rap, Hammerjacks in St. Joseph offers a very special – if not slightly bizarre – concert tonight. Two of the original members of 2 Live Crew, Brother Marquis and Fresh Kid Ice, are apparently still making music together. The “As Wild As We Wanna Be” Tour is in support of an…
The International Folk Alliance Conference & Winter Music Camp comes to KC February 19-23. To get you geared up for the folk blowout, every day we’re posting a song we like by one of the event’s showcase artists. There’s something about sibling bands. Instruments and voices seem slightly more in sync when it’s a trio of blood relatives collaborating. To…
