Archives: July 2014

Ryan Adams is at the Uptown in October

To complement the release of a new, self-titled album in September, Ryan Adams has just announced a string of fall tour dates. The singer-songwriter comes through at the Uptown on Monday, October 20.  It’s been nearly three years since we heard a full-length from Adams, with 2011’s Ashes & Fire. Although, if you really can’t wait for September, Adams also released…

Cardinals Tickets 61.9% Below Average For Two Game Set vs Rays

The St. Louis Cardinals will host two games against the Tampa Bay Rays at Busch Stadium starting Tuesday. The St. Louis Cardinals schedule has the two teams meeting this week for the second and final time this season and for the first time in St. Louis. According to TiqIQ., the secondary season average for Cardinals tickets is $55.08 but both games will have an…

Can I Have a Bite is now open in south Kansas City

If you haven’t already checked out Kathy Hale’s Facebook page for her new carryout restaurant business, Can I Have a Bite, here’s what she’s offering today in her just-opened shop at 8011 Wornall (she shares a space with a new coffeehouse, Red-Headed Philosopher Coffee): chicken enchiladas (made with free-range, organic chicken), vegan lasagna, a vegetable frittata, Persian lime green beans,…

In search of a perfect summer lemonade

Sipping ice-cold lemonade — like roasting the perfect marshmallow, playing hooky to go swimming, or cussing out the Royals — is an essential ingredient of a Kansas City summer. And I don’t mean a cup of the powdered stuff you buy for a dollar from a cute child sweating in a driveway — you do that to be nice, not…

Trace Beats’ ‘Sub Lust’ is your Pitch Music Awards song of the day

This year, the 2014 Pitch Music Awards Showcase is split over two nights: This Saturday, July 19, at the Riot Room and Friday, July 25, at Knuckleheads Saloon (lineup details and tickets here.) The PMA Awards Show is at the Uptown Theater, held this year on Sunday, August 3, and hosted by World Air Guitar Champion Eric “Mean” Melin and Mills Record Co.’s Judy…

Jerry Seinfeld returns to the Midland this fall

Still got it? It sometimes seems as though Jerry Seinfeld is in the midst of a Springsteen-like freefall that has caused him to lose touch with his own greatness. (Jason Alexander may also be afflicted.) But we can pretend The Marriage Ref never happened, right? Why dwell? I caught Seinfeld his last time through KC, back in 2012, and there…

Panic at the Disco preached equality at Crossroads KC last night

Panic at the Disco with Walk the Moon and Magic Man Crossroads KC, Kansas City Sunday, July 21, 2014 Panic at the Disco lives in the hearts of all millennials. It’s our first breakup music, our angsty middle school drama music, our first rebellion. The only question in my mind at the show last night at Crossroads KC was if…

Recapping The Pitch Music Showcase Night 1: Bummer, the Bad Ideas, Josh Berwanger Band, Approach and more

Pitch Music Showcase Night 1: Bummer, Rev Gusto, the Bad Ideas, Josh Berwanger Band, the New Riddim, Approach, the Abnorm, Sheppa Riot Room, Kansas City Saturday, July 19, 2014 For the full slideshow from last night, go here.  Sunlight was still streaming into the Riot Room when Bummer took the stage last night for The Pitch Music Showcase. It made for a…

Adventure Club delivered a sublime set at the Midland last night

Adventure Club with Cookie Monstah, Savant, and Zomboy The Midland Theater, Kansas City Saturday, July 19, 2014 Last night, the Midland was transformed into smokey, trippy wonderland filled with what can only be described as characters. Wolves, foxes, masked men and neon ballerinas flocked to the stage to trade bracelets and rave. Bodies thrummed with bass to Adventure Club’s two…

Notre Dame, Georgia & Ohio State Lead The Nation In Secondary Market Ticket Prices

Forbes recently published an article breaking down data college football ticket prices using data from TiqIQ. Topping the list are powerhouses Notre Dame, Georgia and Ohio State. Here’s some of that article: With a little over a month before the college football season kicks off its first game, there’s full steam ahead towards the season’s start. A few major conferences held…

The Donkeys are at RecordBar on Sunday

San Diego dream team the Donkeys’ latest album, Ride the Black Wave, is full of wistful guitars and reverb-drenched haze. It’s the perfect soundtrack for a summer day at the beach — or a tipsy afternoon pretending you live in a state with a beach. Fans of U.K. psych-rock dignitaries Temples will likely find the Donkeys to be a laid-back,…

KC firefighters union drops $200,000 in effort to renew fire department sales tax

One of the biggest single expenditures for the crowded August 5 ballot arrived on Friday from the International Association of Fire Fighters Local No. 42, which wants the city to continue the quarter-cent sales tax supporting the Kansas City Fire Department. The union that represents Kansas City fire personnel sent a $200,000 check to KC Citizens for Safety, the campaign committee supporting the…

Cardinals Tickets Start At $9 For Series Vs Dodgers

Fans are in for quite a treat for the start of the second half. The St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers meet for a three-game set in St. Louis to kick off the stretch run. The two teams met in the NLCS last season, and might be the two best teams in the National League again this year. The…