Gossip from the Scene
Be/Non engages in pre-show ritual cleansing.
TONIGHT! Be/Non and El Ten Eleven at the Hurricane
Be/Non is currently in the studio working on a new album. Bassist Ben Ruth has compared the musical interplay of the band’s current lineup to locking into some kind of ecstatic spiritual plane via the top of his head (in other words, it’s like getting high). The album’s engineer, Paul Malinowski, also says the recording process is going amazingly well. But what amazes me the most is that for drummer Adam Phillips, who joined the group directly before its gig at SXSW, Be/Non is only the third band he’s ever been in, and the first two, the Gadjits and the Architects — both being bands he founded with his two brothers Zach and Brandon — practically count as the same group. Nostradamus predicted that when one of the Phillips brothers joins another band full-time, an unusually good harvest of oranges will follow, after which seven years of famine will strike the land. But if we were to have a really good Be/Non album to listen to during those years of strife, we might be able to get by with a little less grain for our cattle.
Devin Blair has gotten a job in Dallas, which means he’ll be leaving the Monitor and Seaside Riot, and Kansas City will lose one of its only devoted mods. Monitor member Cody Wyoming declined to name Blair’s replacement, so I had to feed him to my reticulated python.
In even sadder news, one of the friendliest, happiest, all-around-best bartenders in Kansas City is moving to Houston at the end of the month, leaving us all behind. He was given to us for a short time, to shake our hands across the bar, to anticipate our drink needs with astounding accuracy, and, above all, to make us fell welcome. Trieu, the Record Bar won’t be the same without you.
Plans are still underway for Golden Republic frontman Ben Grimes and his wife to open their clothing store in the Crossroads in June, immediately before the band goes on a tour of France. Also, Ben has shaved off all his hair. It looks pretty good.
Now this is how you do a local gangsta rap Web site.
