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, September 17, 2025

Nick Carswell & Mix Master Music + Brody Lowe + Fritz Hutchison + Mark Ronning

Mark plays more New & MidCoastal Releases from: Pool Culture, Zee Underscore, Brody Lowe, Fritz and Sons, Rudy Love & The Encore, Curtis Harding, and Wednesday.

At 10:10am Nick Carswell of The Lawrence Music Alliance presents the 12th annual MixMaster Music Conference & Fest, a music community event that brings local artists and music industry professionals from across the region together to share information, learn from each other, and support our music ecosystem.Empowering musicians through collaborative programs and conversations, MXM2025 offers panels, workshops and networking opportunities accessible to all through this independently-organized conference event. The Music Fest line-up includes 6 venues over two nights with more than 25 acts performing all over Lawrence, KS. Plus, a free all ages concert on the library lawn Saturday, September 20, 2025. More info at: http://www.mixmaster2025.com

At 10:30 musician Brody Lowe joins us to share details about his new 11-track album Draculover that will be released Friday, September 19, 2025. Brody Lowe moved to Kansas City from Portland, in 2019 and met Jeremiah James Gonzalez of Redder Moom where Brody contributed to the releases: Land of The Blind and Hell is Other People. Brody quickly found his place in reviving the layered synths and dance undertones of the moody, mostly instrumental music. Lowe is a quiet presence behind a large scope of music videos, album art, and other creative content, his music ranging from video game scores and band collaborations to his solo project, Loqsa.

At 11:00 Fritz Hutchison joins us to share details about the new recordings of Fritz and Sons who released the single tracks: “Sprinkler Man” and “I’m a Goner!” on July 17, 2025. Fritz and Sons is Fritz Hutchison on drums, vocals, banjo, songwriting, engineering & mixing; Zachary Arias on electric guitar; Carly Atwood on upright bass; Alison Hawkins on fiddle; and Marco Pascolini on pedal steel, lap steel. Hailing from Kansas City, Fritz and Sons bring a rhythm-forward take on country music blending influences from Ozark old-time, Louisiana honky tonk, the gritty funk of Levon Helm and the cosmic tenderness of Micheal Hurley. More info at: http://www.fritzandsons.bandcamp.com

At 11:30 Mark Ronning joins us to talk about the new release from his band Pool Culture. “Pure Lemon”, the band’s first EP, comes out on Friday, October 17, 2025, and it will be released on the record label Les Bonbons Electriques, an imprint of The Record Machine. Pool Culture is an electronic dream pop band from Kansas City, MO. Through distorted synthesizers, overdriven found-sound samples, and glitched-out electronics, the four-piece puts an electronic twist inside a rock band, removing guitars and substituting them with synths. The band draws on 90s IDM, trip hop, and shoegaze influences, imbuing their synthesizers with the sonic characteristics of busted equipment: filters, overdrives, distortion, and modulation hybridize low and high fidelity instrumentation. This sound, coupled with live bass and drums, captures the dynamic scope of a rock band but with electronic production in a pop package. Blooming beneath dreamy vocals, Pool Culture creates an emotional landscape populated with hope, desperation, love, and doubt, glistening within a vibrant ecosystem of sounds. Pool Culture plays miniBar, Wednesday, September 17, at 7:00pm with Ryder The Eagle, and Prototones. 

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