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Flaming Lips' Christmas On Mars Premiere This Weekend In Kansas City, Details and Interviews
Fri Nov 21, 2:53 PM
As you already know from reading this week's Pitch music feature on the release of the Flaming Lips' original movie, Christmas On Mars, the backyard flick is showing tonight at 9 p.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m. at Screenland... More >>
The Download Extra: Cover Me (New Of Montreal, My Brightest Diamond and Takki Takki Cover Songs)
Fri Nov 21, 10:34 AM
By ANDY VIHSTADT Guilt By Association 2 (out now on Engine Room Records) MP3: My Brightest Diamond, “Tainted Love (Soft Cell cover),? Guilt By Association 2 (Engine Room) thanks to My Old Kentucky Blog MP3: Takka Takka, “In the Air... More >>
Is That Danny Trejo In Tech N9ne's New Video for "Like Yeah"?
Fri Nov 21, 9:44 AM
Why, yes, it is Danny Trejo. Cool! Tech N9ne - "Like Yeah" Dark alley? You wouldn't wanna meet this guy in a sunlit parking lot. Then again, maybe you would.... More >>
The Download: New Mike Relm MP3s
Fri Nov 21, 9:13 AM
By ANDY VIHSTADT While we wait for Mike Relm’s proper debut (which was originally scheduled for release last month), we’ll settle for the four new tracks posted on his site. The California DJ/DVJ (yes, he scratches video as well,) has... More >>
Features
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Murs makes a symbolic bid for office on his positively progressive new albumBy Rich SharpThursday, November 20An eloquent and gifted young black man running for president in 2008 recently stepped up to the mic and said: It's not socialism, it's not... More >> -
Wayne Coyne and Kliph Scurlock discuss the Flaming Lips’ fantastical film freakout, Christmas on Mars.By Richard GintowtThursday, November 20The Flaming Lips – Christmas on Mars trailer Kliph Scurlock still remembers the first time that Wayne Coyne bought him dinner. "I almost... More >> -
Nashville Cat: When Ben Grimes moved to Tennessee a year ago, he thought he'd given up music. Nashville had other plans.By Jason HarperThursday, November 20Nashville, Tennessee: Music City. Though Nashville isn't as buzzed about these days as Austin or Brooklyn or Portland, Oregon, it still boasts a... More >>
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Strictly Strange TourBy Kyle KochThursday, November 20Tech N9ne's recent work — like the much-marketed July release, Killer — has seen Kansas City's most famous rapper moving further and... More >>
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Smashing PumpkinsBy Greg FranklinThursday, November 20Oh, we do cherish the memory of the early- '90s alt-rock boom. For those who witnessed it and are keen on reliving it 16 years later, the thought... More >> -
Vic Chesnutt and Elf PowerBy Elliott JohnstonThursday, November 20If the freak-folk craze had done justice to brilliant eccentrics toiling in far-out rustic sounds, then Vic Chesnutt would be on the tip of the... More >>
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Little JoyBy Richard GintowtThursday, November 20It's been nearly three years since the Strokes released a record; in the meantime, we've learned just how much talent is hidden behind Julian... More >> -
Peter MulveyBy Saby Reyes-KulkarniThursday, November 20When artists rerecord songs from their back catalogs, it's usually a sign that they're running short on ideas. Although singer-songwriter Peter... More >> -
ExpassionatesBy Richard GintowtThursday, November 20It's been a decade since Kansas City's Expassionates put out a record, and it's safe to say the band is champing at the bit to atone for those... More >>
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Minnesota folk-singer Charlie Parr revives jaded modern audiences with American traditional musicBy Elliott JohnstonThursday, November 13The most surprising thing about Charlie Parr is that he makes people dance. He does it sitting down. He rarely raises his eyes above the... More >> -
Video editor Brian Hicks makes the cut for some prominent Kansas City bandsBy Crystal K. WiebeThursday, November 13Brian Hicks is no rocker, but he sure looks like one. He's got the skinny jeans and the dramatic haircut — dyed black strands that fall... More >>
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Freedy JohnstonBy Scott WilsonThursday, November 13A month after playing a series of free shows in Wichita, native Kansan Freedy Johnston heads east to the Jackpot. As he did for those October... More >>
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The Noise FMDream of the Attack
(self-released)By Richard GintowtThursday, November 13If you've ever happened upon a Noise FM show, you know that these three dudes can bring it. In a town (Lawrence) known more for its eccentric... More >> -
The Gaslight AnthemBy Jason BuggThursday, November 13The Gaslight Anthem is a band caught just between the lonely troubadour ache and the we're-all-in-this-together ethos of every gutter punk.... More >> -
Various ArtistsTitan: It's All Pop!
(Numero Group)By Jason BuggThursday, November 13After (and, some would argue, during) its 1978-81 heyday, Kansas City's Titan Records wasn't heard of much outside record-collector guides, but... More >> -
Black Tie DynastyBy Richard GintowtThursday, November 13The first impression that Black Tie Dynasty makes is professionalism — the sort of confidence and cockiness that the Killers and the... More >>
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El Ten ElevenBy Richard GintowtThursday, November 13Too often, the loop pedal is a gimmick that compensates for shortchanging songwriting — not so with El Ten Eleven. The Los Angeles duo of... More >>
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Dear Columbia ... P.S.
Steddy P
By Kyle KochThursday, November 13For a Missouri rapper, it takes moxie to include Columbia — that bare-knuckled town of pickup trucks and sanguine necks between Kansas City... More >> -
After 30 years in obscurity, Kansas City's Titan Records claims its power-pop throneBy Jason HarperThursday, November 06"(Baby) It’s You," by the Boys, from Titan: It’s All Pop! (Numero Group): If there is a god of Midwestern power pop, then the little,... More >>
Slideshows >
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Jazz Disciples featuring Glenn North and Luqman Hamza The Blue Room
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Rick Springfield The Midland
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Mudvayne, 10 Years, Snot Uptown Theater
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Marc Broussard, Gabe Dixon Band, Josh Hoge The Bottleneck
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Tub Ring, Hairy Belafonte The Replay Lounge
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American Catastrophe, Expassionates, Celandine Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club
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DJ Stonerokk VooDoo Lounge
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The DuOvers Jazz
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4 Fried Chickens and a Coke Knuckleheads Saloon
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Fast Johnny B.B.'s Lawnside BBQ
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Red Lefty, the F-Holes Jazzhaus
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Relient K, tobyMac Municipal Auditorium
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Oh Blessed Thought, Cowboy Indian Bear, Andrew Conner The Brick
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Mannequin Skywalker Czar Bar
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Road to the Red Gorilla Music Showcase with Pomeroy, Making Movies, Your Electric Grandmother Jerry's Bait Shop Lee's Summit
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Teacherz Pet Jerry's Bait Shop Lenexa
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Levee Town, Millage Gilbert and the Bluerays, KCBS Volunteer Appreciation Day Aftershock
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Robe Danny's Bar and Grill
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At the Left Hand of God, Sicadis. Seeking Surreal, Flee the Seen, Continent of Ash, Changing Faith The Riot Room
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Rule of Three Double T's Roadhouse
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National
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Broward - Palm Beach
Stand and Deliver
With No Deliverance, the Toadies revert to the bare bones of their past
By Pete Freedman
It was a big-deal time slot: Lollapalooza co-headliners Wilco and Rage Against the Machine were... More >>
Dallas
The Vampire Lounge, Back in Business, Hopes Not to Suck
Also: Rhett Miller returns to Dallas to champion a good cause
By Pete Freedman
Between this weekend's expected big opening for Twilight in movie theaters and the first-season... More >>
Denver
Dead Confederate carries the flag for a new variation on Southern rock
By Michael Roberts
When he's asked to describe his home town of Augusta, Georgia, Dead Confederate... More >>
Houston
Beyoncé's Back
Alter ego (and two movies) in tow
By Mendonca, Dave
Arguably the world's most famous Houston native, and definitely its most popular female R&B... More >>
Miami
Calle 13 Plays La Covacha
With a stellar new album, this Puerto Rican duo extends its global reach.
By Christopher Lopez
Irreverent, impertinent, and unapologetic, the Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 has never been... More >>
Phoenix
Los Guys Take It Easy and Don’t Sweat the Mill Ave. Label
By Chris Hansen Orf
Most bands will tell you that being in a group is like being a polygamist. You're married to... More >>
San Francisco
Of Montreal’s tantric shape-shifting
By Tony Ware
Kevin Barnes is a centaur. Or, at least, he plays one for a few minutes onstage each night with... More >>
Seattle
Lady GaGa: Some Like It Pop
She may idolize Andy Warhol, but her highbrow pop nostalgia is far from factory-made.
By Erika Hobart
Barely anyone paid attention to my music writing until I began reviewing concerts by pop acts... More >>
St. Louis
I Need a Hero: In honor of Smashing Pumpkins' twentieth anniversary, a list of Billy Corgan's top ten guitar heroes
By Shae Moseley
Smashing Pumpkins vocalist Billy Corgan is a guitar hero. This is not my declaration, it's... More >>
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