Best of KC 2025: Warehouse on Broadway’s elongated squish-space pulls in eccentric acts
Photo by Maggie Gulling
Earlier this month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can take a peek at the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some local people, places, and things that we thought clearly won 2025. We’ll be publishing these items online throughout November.
Over at 3951 Broadway in Westport, a building that has cycled purposes dozens of times over the years landed the spinner with a variation on a previous purpose, with Warehouse on Broadway re-launching as a music venue with both tonal and physical twists on the norm. When Riot Room closed during the pandemic, it left a hole in the market for a mix of hip hop, EDM, metal, and indie shows for a mid-tier venue size. For genre mixing in a market that keeps losing out on these shows to the likes of St. Louis or Minneapolis, having Warehouse here offers a delightfully enticing 600-ish person space at an accessible crossroad for music fans across the metro.
The room itself is designed in an elongated space, where an unexpected stretch makes for more opportunities to find yourself front and center for artists, instead of being buried several hundred feet behind a crowd. Along with food, reasonably priced drinks, and dual raised bars with seating, there’s hardly a bad view in the house.
Notable among the first round of entertainers were HEALTH, Santigold (with a two-night stint), Destroyer, drag queen balls, raves, and Chiefs watch parties. Between the atmosphere and the spatial arrangement, Warehouse on Broadway has become a new dependable hang for Pitch staff on any night of the week. As that listed line-up suggests, the only throughline is that you’re going to have a good time—everything else feels random.
We’ll also denote that Omaha’s dance-punk stalwarts The Faint were among the very first acts to play this space, and for those of us in Pitch orbit who were unaware that they were the maiden voyage, Warehouse will forever be responsible for one of the most puzzling nights of the year. We were at a rock club, sure, but everything was too clean. It felt like we’d wandered onto the set of a music venue that had just been constructed for a CBS sitcom set—no graffiti, no piss, not even a sticky surface. It was disorienting. Luckily, we can verify that drugs were used in the bathroom. Everything is right in the world, and nothing hurts. Again, come find us at Warehouse anytime.
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