Photo Courtesy of Lauren Lovelle For Lauren Lovelle, being involved in music was inevitable. At the age of four, she was singing Hank Williams’ “Your Cheatin’ Heart” with her dad’s band, Two Way Traffic, in Wichita. It’s no surprise, really, given the musical history on both sides of her family. “My mom comes from a musical family,” Lovelle says. “Her…
Courtesy AJM Studio Fantasia Fest 2025 is currently wrapping up and our own Adrian Torres is covering the genre film event—catching break-out new hits and underground premieres. Read all of our coverage here. In the brain of every movie lover, there’s a quadrant constantly on the lookout for a new viewing experience that makes them sit up and take notice….
Them Dirty Roses. // photo by Mike Dotson Them Dirty Roses with Austin Meade and Marty Bush Warehouse on Broadway Friday, August 1 Touring in support of their latest release, Lost in the Valley of Love & Hate Vol. 2, Alabama country rockers turned the Warehouse on Broadway into a honky-tonk Friday night, with assistance from Texan Austin Meade and…
Cedric Ransburg // Photo by Alexander Omorodion In a world where a loneliness epidemic runs rampant in the West, Cedric Ransburg tailors a space centered on human connection. As co-owner of In Good Company alongside Daniel Edwards, Ransburg has taken elements of his wide range of industry and personal experience between Kansas City and California as inspiration. Between the living…
Photo by Travis Young We take a listen to the latest local singles to hit Soundcloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, et al, and sum them up in one sentence. Simple enough? Here we go. Lee Walter Redding, “All My Text Messages Are Verification Codes” One of the singles from the new EP, Student Loan Forgiveness Program, this sees Redding once again work…
Photo by Shea McGraw On June 2 of 2025, a month before her 76th birthday, Patty Prewitt had her head in the clouds—in an airplane ten thousand feet above ground, strapped with a parachute and a video camera, and eagerly waiting to plummet toward the ground at 120 miles per hour. Before stepping out into a total freefall, Patty told…
Fitz & The Tantrums. // photo by Allison Scavo Fitz & The Tantrums with Ax and the Hatchetmen The Truman Thursday, July 31 Fitz & The Tantrums, back in town on their Man On The Moon tour, brought the kind of infectious, high-energy pop-soul that has defined their decade-plus career. A flood of violet and cyan lights washed over the…
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly speaks at a rally on May 29, 2025, in Topeka. (Morgan Chilson/Kansas Reflector) Amid all the ominous signs for the unraveling of our constitutional republic — and the 50 state governments contained therein — one last month struck me as particularly bleak. The Atlantic first reported that Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz…
Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, shown walking into the governor’s State of the State address in January 2024. (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent) Momentum is building for a special session of the Missouri Legislature to redraw the state’s eight congressional districts with the aim of gaining a seat for Republicans. Democrats will fight it, but a united Republican majority…
Welcome, dearest readers, to the August 2025 print edition of The Pitch magazine—locally grown right here in KC, and featuring all the news that’s fit to print. And often… more. More than that. You know what you’re here for, yeah? Here at The Pitch, our prime directive is always “Shine a light on good people doing good, bad people doing…
Courtesy Blue Finch Films Fantasia Fest 2025 is currently running and our own Adrian Torres is covering the genre film event—catching break-out new hits and underground premieres. Read all of our coverage here. Writer-director Brock Bodell’s debut feature, Hellcat, takes a somewhat rudimentary psychological thriller story and gussies it up with smart artistic choices and two stellar performances—even though a…
Blue Finch Films Fantasia Fest 2025 is currently running and our own Adrian Torres is covering the genre film event—catching break-out new hits and underground premieres. Read all of our coverage here. Homeowners’ Associations are evil. What the new movie Hold The Fort presupposes is ‘maybe HOAs aren’t bad’? Maybe they’re the ones who are actually fighting the evil, protecting…
LC’s Bar-B-Q // Photo by Chase Castor Here in Kansas City, barbecue isn’t just a meal we go out and eat when we don’t feel like cooking; it’s a way of life. And now, thanks to a fresh upgrade from Visit KC, that devotion to burnt ends and brisket can earn diners some swag. The newly relaunched KC BBQ Experience,…
This year, Iowa’s Hinterland Music Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary. The first incarnation took place in 2015 at the Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater in St. Charles, just south Des Moines, where it continues to be held today, and featured a mix of indie and roots music artists like TV on the Radio, Old Crow Medicine Show, Edward Sharpe and…
