On record, former Starting Line singer Kenny Vasoli sounds like a guy you’d trust with your children. With his new band Vacationer’s latest release, Relief, Vasoli soars above happy-go-lucky synth-pop beats. His lyrics are all sepia-toned portraits of summertime and bittersweet love. You can almost imagine him, between the joyous lines of “Paradise Waiting,” twirling around with toddlers, wearing fairy…
After eight years on a torturous hiatus, Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss are getting the band back together. Not only has Sleater-Kinney reunited, but the group is releasing their first full-length album in a decade. It’s called No Cities to Love, out on January 20 via Sub Pop. And they’re going on tour. What do you know? Dreams do come…
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The whole city is thrumming with hometown pride now that the Royals are officially in for the World Series. Just today, the Midland announced that as long as our team is winning, it will be offering a “buy one get one free” deal on tickets to select concerts, as long as you purchase from the box office and show up…
Fleetwood Mac is knee-deep in its On With The Show Tour after kicking off at Minneapolis’ Target Center late last month. The iconic rock band will tour North America through March of next year, where they are scheduled to wrap at the Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita on March 31. Mick Fleetwood and company will make their second-to-last stop at…
Sheri Mitchell Weedman, the owner of Annedore’s Fine Chocolates in Westwood Hills, has all kinds of Halloween confections on display in her three-week-old retail shop (including solid-chocolate Frankenstein monsters, shiny pumpkin-spice truffles, and cellophane bags of pumpkin-spice malted-milk balls), but not much in the way of celebratory Royals sweets. So far, just a bowl of molded chocolate baseball caps and…
%{}% Friday, October 17New Belgium bike raffle at Barley’s Brewhaus (16649 Midland Drive, Shawnee), 4:30 p.m. Raffle drawing at 8 p.m. Saturday, October 18American Homebrewers Association rally and home-brew competition at Free State Brewing Co.’s production facilities (1923 Moodie Road, Lawrence), 1–4 p.m. Brewers will give talks and tours. The rally is free for all AHA members, and others can…
Kansas City’s blue fetish — in honor of the Royals making it to the World Series — continues everywhere, including in the local culinary world. This morning, for instance, Tippin’s let us know about a blue version of its French-silk pie. The Kansas City, Kansas-based company (a subsidiary of Balls Foods) is delivering the pies to almost all of the…
Sort of interested but in no great rush to see the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s latest exhibit, The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth & Sky, which opened in September and runs through January 11? What would you say if we told you that by visiting the exhibit this weekend, you would have a chance to win two tickets to Game Two…
The St. Louis Rams have remained extremely competitive in 2014 despite once again being without would-be franchise quarterback, Sam Bradford. Despite playing their opponents well, though, St. Louis only has a 1-4 mark to show for it through five weeks. While it doesn’t look great on paper, the Rams have unveiled some solid stars in the process, as Brian Quick…
In 2012, a virus infected pockets of the country that led to a frenzied craze for spirited banjo tunes and earthy harmonies. English imports Mumford & Sons led the outbreak, releasing one of the year’s top-selling albums, and the group’s cause was helped along by the Lumineers, whose self-titled debut gave us the eye-twitch inducing “Hey Ho.” Then there was…
Seventeen years is a long time at any job. It’s an especially long time in the rough and tumble world of professional wrestling. In October 1997, WWE superstar Kane debuted at the Bad Blood pay-per-view in St. Louis. Wearing a mask and a red and black body suit, the Big Red Monster tore the door off the Hell in the Cell…
McFadden’s, the hulking sports bar in the middle of the Power & Light District, has benefited from the Kansas City Royals’ postseason run more than perhaps any other drinking establishment in the metro. The bar spills out onto a public courtyard, where fans by the thousands have been gathering to watch the games on a giant projector. Royals players have…
“Only 26 outs left!” That shout emerged over the din of 200 Kansas City Royals fans packing the Well, clapping to celebrate the Baltimore Orioles’ first out of Wednesday afternoon’s game. In many ways, it was the most perfect October day seen in this town since 1985. The sun was out, the air was crisp, and the Well’s staff lifted…
Well, this sucks: Cowboy Indian Bear, one of the area’s most reliable and promising acts, has declared itself dead. A post on the band’s Facebook page this morning broke the news (and offered some music to ease the pain). It all sounds pretty amicable. See the whole thing after the jump. Friends, we’ve got some big changes in our lives…
Katie West’s ceaseless creative output is a little unnerving. When she isn’t writing songs and performing with her husband, Mike West, in the quirky duo Truckstop Honeymoon, she’s churning out spirited folk tunes for 40 Watt Dreams. What began as a solo project about a year ago has now been fleshed out to include four other band members (including her…
There isn’t a gay sports bar in Kansas City anymore (though Jeff Edmondson and Eric Christensen, owners of the Hamburger Mary’s restaurant, plan to open one next year in midtown). But last night, in the final moments of the fourth game between the Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles, the popular Missie B’s nightclub was about as sports-obsessed as any…
