Tech N9ne, Ruined Orgasm, Cowboy Indian Bear, and more of the area’s best longform music videos
For this month’s Cine Local, we’re going longform. We have two recent performances in their entirety from rapper Tech N9ne and the punks in Ruined Orgasm, as well as a vintage set from Random Aztech sometime in the early ’90s. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s a full half-hour tour documentary on Cowboy Indian Bear. It means you’ll be staring at your screen longer than the usual 3-4 minutes, but in this case, quality and quantity balance out equally.
Hurry Up and Wait: A Documentary
We really dug Micki Hadley’s half-hour documentary about the last few tours of beloved and sadly gone indie band, Cowboy Indian Bear. It’s only five years ago, but the footage from the band’s two 2013 tours is refreshingly honest and open. The line, “This has been a hell of a tour, and we’ll be totally bankrupt tomorrow,” might be the most concisely accurate summary of indie-level touring ever stated.
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Tech N9ne‘s NPR Tiny Desk Concert featuring Krizz Kaliko
Tech’s not the first Kansas City artist to appear at the Tiny Desk, but his four songs with Krizz Kaliko might be among the most impressive. Backed by a live band, the rappers spit crazy flow and tell stories behind the songs they perform. It manages to be introspective and entertaining simultaneously, and shows off a side of the Strange Music mogul we don’t often get to see behind the face paint and dark shades.
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Ruined Orgasm @ Raytown Basement
You’re going to need to turn off the safety settings on your web browser to watch this, and maybe be ready to explain to your boss/significant other/parental unit why you were at PornHub. What better — and in this case, completely true — excuse than the fact you were watching the chaotically noisy punks in Ruined Orgasm blast out song after song in a Raytown basement?
Random Aztech live at the Crossing
There’s more recorded Random Aztech music in this 12-and-a-half-minute video than you can find anywhere else. Aside from “Gravity,” the band’s contribution to the Live in Lawrence compilation LP released by Fresh Sounds in 1988, there really wasn’t any other recorded music from the band until Barry Barnes, the washboard player for Lawrence’s Zydeco Tougeau, uploaded this a week or so ago. Then, strangely enough, a guy by the name of Ken Pearce uploaded a track from the Bottleneck, circa 1988, entitled “I Am Gone,” about a week later. How’s that for cosmic convergence? It seems like the universe is dedicated to getting you all the sax-inflected groovy college rock you can handle.
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