Wednesday MidDay Medley
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

WMM welcomes Zee Underscore + Miss Boating + The Talking Trees

Mark spins more New & MidCoastal Releases from: Foxlin, Charlotte Bumgarner, Draper Family Band, St. George & The Dragons, The Freedom Affair, Eddie Moore, Zee Underscore, Keo & Them, Miss Boating, The Talking Trees, Kaia Kater with Aoife O’Donovan, and Makaya McCraven.

At 10:30am Zee Underscore shares music from her debut EP, THE ZEE UNDERSCORE EXPERIENCE released on June 15, 2024. Zee Underscore studied at The School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) in Cincinnati, Ohio, where her confidence and talent flourished, sparking a deep passion for music creation and supporting artists of diverse backgrounds. Zee completed a five-year electrical engineering program at The University of Cincinnati, and her work in electrical engineering led her to Kansas City. Zee is co-founder of ZNTL Enterprises. Zee embodies the spirit of dreaming without limits, juggling roles as a singer, songwriter, recording artist, emcee, event coordinator, entrepreneur, and mentor while also working full time as an electrical engineer. Last year Zee Underscore released one of our favorite singles, “In The Way (feat. Amadi Luv)”. More info at: http://www.linktr.ee/Zeebee.notes

At 11:00am Mark talks with Charlie Colborne & Bill Belzer of Miss Boating who’ve recently signed with High Dive Records to release their debut album, JEWEL IN THE TRASH. Miss Boating play an Album Release Show, Saturday, June 29 at 6:00pm at The Ship, 1221 Union Avenue, KCMO. Miss Boating is a KC based, five-piece with multi-instrumentalist & lead singer Charlie Coleborne, drummer Bill Belzer, Aaron Jones on trombone, Tom Gillespie on Saxophone, and Bryan McGuire on bass. (Phil Dickey played bass on the album.) Charlie and Bill met in the late 1980s. In the beginning they were called The Sympathetic Fringe, and then The Sleazebeats. In recent years Charlie & Bill added Aaron, Tim and Bryan. Described by one local radio host as “the perfect house band for a John Waters After Party.” One of their songs is about a friend’s mom’s dynamic relationship with prescription medication. Another is a tribute to the late Evan Jolly, their former bassist. All of the songs are written by Charlie Colborne through his blue/gay eyes. These songs have a fine patina of ditch weed, filthy humor, cigarette smoke, gay drama, Bee Gee’s inflected new wave, queer music hall schmaltz, odd stiff naive sambas, and box wine. More info at: http://www.highdivekc.com

At 11:30 Tommy Capps, Dirk Liebert, and Graham Stone of the Kansas City based band The Talking Trees join us LIVE in our 90.1 FM Studios. The Talking Trees is a post-rock trio based in Kansas City. They released their 4-song EP, ALIENS on March 1, 2024. That was preceded by the 5-song EP, ARE YOU OK? released October 1, 2022, and the 5-song EP, ONCE I WAS BORN on April 22, 2022, multiple single released in 2020 through 2022, and their debut EP, THE TALKING TREES on August 19, 2019. The band is currently in the studio working on the newest album. More info at: https://thetalkingtreesmusic.com

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Show #1052