Grammy-noted jazz composer and producer Roy Hargrove swung through the Foundation on Friday night, which turned out to be a pretty wild night in Kansas City with a lot of events going down. I first went to see Matty G at the Midland Theater downtown, and his minimal,...
Local singer-songwriter Kurt Viers (stage name, "Kurt Vee") comes from the old school of punk. He's studied at the school of hardscrabble living and has the rock and roll image down, now he just needs the fame. It might be hard to imagine anyone with just an acoustic guitar...
Michael Byars is a cool guy; I say this in complete confidence although I've never actually met him. On top of having one of those comforting and informative voices you can hear regularly on KCUR (89.3, the local NPR affiliate for those of you not in college) he has really...
[pictured: The Good Foot] The Good Foot, known best for their live covers of Motown records, and the explosive afrobeat band, Hearts of Darkness (both based in KC), are set to drop a joint 7-inch vinyl on Saturday, February 18 at the Carnivàle du Soul show at The Uptown on...
Get familiar with Mouth if you're not already and download their 2011 Holiday Mix - "Escape From The Moon" HERE. Catch them tonight with 3 Son Green at the Riot Room in Westport. Hermon Mehari (of Diverse and recent Ink cover fame) will be sitting in for a portion of Mouth's...
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The Kansas City-based, Be/Non, are badass and you should go to this show. Admittedly, I don't know a whole lot about Electric Light Orchestra aside from the time someone told me that all the early-20's hipsters who write for Pitchfork adore them. However accurate that is, I'm...
10. Bon Iver - Bon Iver I almost left this one off, but I felt like I would be remiss not to include an indie album that has received praise and attention from so many varying corners of pop culture. Singer/songwriter Justin Vernon’s home state of Wisconsin declared not...
Being asked to write this article just further proves that I’m like a movie critic when it comes to judging music. I can tell you what I hate, and exactly why I think it sucks, but when asked to come up with a top-ten list this year, I was just kind of like “uhhh..i...
The follow up to Capybara's promising 2009 album Try Brother will hit the net (and shelves for you classicists) in early February. Capybara have been garnering a fair amount of attention the likes of which we haven't seen in our sleepy burgh since The Republic Tigers signed...
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Artist, Luke Rocha (aka beat-maker, Topp Boom) is DIY to the teeth. Having started the blasphemously slept-on SymbolHeavy.com in 2005 to now working with a certain Brooklyn indie-rock icon, (who we cannot name), Luke is constantly learning in addition to holding a distinctly...
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