WMM Playlist from April 18, 2012

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

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

90.1 FM’s Band Auction with…
Molly Picture Club + Dollar Fox + Two Headed Cow + The Cave Girls

Wednesday MidDay Medley participated in 90.1 FM’s biggest band auction ever, with more than 100 area bands. Listeners can called to place bids. The highest bidder at the end of each segment received a 2-hour concert for their upcoming birthday, anniversary, block party, Quinceanera, company picnic, or bar mitzvah. The band auction supports 90.1 FM.

At 10:00 – Molly Picture Club

Bands members: Aniko Adany sings, plays synthesizers, keyboards, & the omnichord; Matthew Hayden, plays drums, & drum sequencing; and Michael Tipton sings, plays guitar, & bass.

The band’s new full length album “Molly Picture Club” was released March 3, 2012.

1. Molly Picture Club – “Idears (You Don’t Dance Enough)”
from: Molly Picture Club / Independent / March 3, 2012
[The album was mixed and mastered by Duane Trower at Weights and Measures Soundlab here in KC. ]

Mike Tipton was one of our first guests on WMM, in 2004, when he was part of the band Tabla Rasa. Aniko Adany was born in Budapest and influenced by 80s and 90s punk.

The Molly Picture Club song “Satellites”was featured on Fuse TV as part of their Unsigned Acts promotion.

2. Molly Picture Club – “Satellites”
from: Molly Picture Club / Independent / March 3, 2012

Molly Pictuer Club recently signed licensing agreements with 17 television shows for use of their music on such shows as Keeping up with the Kardashians, Teen Wolf, The Real World, as well as other shows on Discovery, A&E, E!, VH1 and MTV.

MPC was recently in concert Saturday, April 21, at 7:30 pm, with The Peculiar Pretzelmen, and Hillary Watts Riot, at Liquid 9 Studio, 515 Southwest BLVD, KCMO. More info at: mollypictureclub.com.

3. Molly Picture Club – “Bomb in Your Head”
from: Molly Picture Club / Independent / March 3, 2012

M.P.C. recently participated in Sonic Spectrum’s Talking Heads Tribute at the recordBar, and gave some of the best performances of the night.

4. Molly Picture Club – “Static”
from: Molly Picture Club / Independent / March 3, 2012

10:29 – Underwriting

10:30 – Dollar Fox

5. Dollar Fox – “Whiskey Tonight”
Single / independent / Dec. 27, 2011
[offered to the people on their mailing list.]

10:35

Tommy Donoho, Justin Penney, Ryan Watkins, Nick Dothage, and Ethan Taylor, play accordions, banjo, bass, drums, guitars, mandolin, piano, upright bass and vocals.

Dollar Fox has been writing new songs and are in the process of recording their new release.

Tommy Donoho and Justin Penney recently played as an acoustic duo in Fayetteville, Arkansas and, as Tommy wrote to us, “for kicks,” they decided to record a stripped down, acoustic version of the two newest Dollar Fox songs: “No accord” and “I Don’t Remember Names.” You can learn more about the new recordings at dollarfox.bandcamp.com.

6. Justin Penney – “I Don’t Remember Names”
from: The Weekender / Independent / Feb. 14, 2012 (2-track album)

Last year there was a bidding war on this band.

7. Dollar Fox – “Big Rock Candy Mountain”
from: Split Single with The Peculiar Pretzelmen – “Spike Driver Blues” / Independent / 2011

You can get more information about Dollar Fox at: dollarfox.com

11:00 – Two Headed Cow

Two Headed Cow is: Bj McArthur, Tod Davis, and Matt Myers.

8. Two Headed Cow – “Tilt A-Whirl”
from: Safe As Milk / Affiliated Records / 2008

Tod Davis and Bj McArthur moved to Kansas City from Pensacola Florida. Once in KC they changed their band’s name to: Two Headed Cow, for a more regional appeal.

Two Headed Cow played live on our Band Auction last year, and they also participated in our most recent installment of “The He Touched Me Gospel Hour.”

9. Two Headed Cow – “Strange Fishes” (Live)

Two Headed Cow

Bj McArthur

Tod Davis

Two Headed Cow are currently working on their new recording with Saunders Street Records.

10. Two Headed Cow – “Barfly”
from: unreleased song from new recordings with Saunders Street Records

11. Two Headed Cow – “Eden Alley” (Live) 


12. Two Headed Cow – “Elvis Song #492”
from: Safe As Milk / Affiliated Records / 2008

For more information you can visit: myspace.com/twoheadedcowmusic or facebook.com/TwoHeadedCow

11:29 – Underwriting

11:30 – The Cave Girls

13. The Cave Girls – “I Wanna See The Band”
from: The Cave Girls / Cave Out Records / February 4, 2012
[Robin Campbell, Sara Teasley, and Stephanie Williams are The Cave Girls. Their debut Release was Produced by Pat Tomek at Largely Studios in Kansas City. ]

The Cave Girls are Robin Campbell, Sara Teasley, & Stephanie Williams.
Their debut full length recording, “The Cave Girls” was released February 4, 2012, on Cave Out Records, and was Produced by Pat Tomek at Largely Studios in Kansas City. The Cave Girls play Coda Bar and Grill on Friday, April 20, at 9:00 PM with Hillary Watts Riot. More info at: reverbnation.com/thecavegirls.

14. The Cave Girls – “Where Have All The Good Times Gone?” (Live)
(Cover of The Kinks from, Robin Campbell, & Stephanie Williams. Sara Teasley couldn’t be with us.)

Robin Campbell and Stephanie Williams of The Cave Girls

11:44

15. The Cave Girls – “Faster” (Live)
Also available on: The Cave Girls / Cave Out Records / February 4, 2012
11:49

The Cave Girls played Coda Bar and Grill Friday, April 20, at 9:00 PM with Hillary Watts Riot. More info at: reverbnation.com/thecavegirls.

16. The Cave Girls – “Happy Home”
from: The Cave Girls / Cave Out Records / February 4, 2012 [Robin Campbell, Sara Teasley, and Stephanie Williams are The Cave Girls. Their debut Release was Produced by Pat Tomek at Largely Studios in Kansas City. The Cave Girls will have a CD Release show this Saturday night, February 4, at 9:30 at The Brick with special guests The I’ms and Thee Devotion.]

Robin Campbell is a big fan of Loretta Lynn and gave me this very special gift:

Loretta Lynn Coloring Book

Color Me Country!

17. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

Wednesday MidDay Medley in on the web:
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Show #417

April 18 – Molly Picture Club + Dollar Fox + Two Headed Cow + The Cave Girls

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

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

90.1 FM’s Band Auction with…
Molly Picture Club + Dollar Fox + Two Headed Cow + The Cave Girls

Wednesday MidDay Medley participates in 90.1 FM’s biggest band auction ever with more than 100 area bands. Listeners call 888-931-0901 during each band’s segment to place a bid. The highest bidder gets a 2-hour concert for an upcoming birthday, anniversary, block party, Quinceanera, company picnic, or bar mitzvah. The band auction supports 90.1 FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio and continues thru Sunday, April 22. For info or to pre-bid visit: kkfi.org

At 10:00 – The Molly Picture Club join Mark live in our 90.1 FM studios. This dynamic 3-piece, experimental rock band is: Aniko Adany on vocals, synths, keys, & omnichord; Matthew Hayden on drums, & drum sequencing; and Michael Tipton on vocals, guitar, & bass. Their new EP “Molly Picture Club” was released March 13, 2012. MPC will be in concert Saturday, April 21, at 7:30 pm, with The Peculiar Pretzelmen, and Hillary Watts Riot, at Liquid 9 Studio, 515 Southwest BLVD, KCMO. More info at: mollypictureclub.com.

Call 888-931-0901 to bid.

At 10:30 – Dollar Fox joins us live in our 90.1 FM studios for 30 minutes to share music from their critically acclaimed debut recording, “Close to Home,” and a few of their new tracks. Dollar Fox is Ethan Taylor, Justin Penney, Nick Dothage, Ryan Watkins and Tommy Donoho III. They play accordions, banjo, bass, drums, guitars, mandolin, piano, upright bass and vocals. Dollar Fox has been writing new songs and are in the process of recording their new release. More info at: dollarfox.com

Call 888-931-0901 to bid.

At 11:00 – Two Headed Cow bring their incredible songs back to Wednesday MidDay Medley. They’ll play LIVE and give YOU the chance to make a bid. Two Headed Cow is: Bj McArthur, Tod Davis, and Matt Myers. Tod and Bj moved to Kansas City from Pensacola Florida. Once in KC they changed their name to: Two Headed Cow for a more regional appeal. They are currently working on their new recording with Saunders Street Records. More info at: myspace.com/twoheadedcowmusic.

Call 888-931-0901 to bid.

At 11:30 – The Cave Girls join Mark in our studios for 30 minutes to share their music. This award winning 3-piece band is: Robin Campbell, Sara Teasley, & Stephanie Williams. Their debut full length recording, “The Cave Girls” was released February 4, 2012, on Cave Out Records, and was Produced by Pat Tomek at Largely Studios in Kansas City. The Cave Girls play Coda Bar and Grill on Friday, April 20, at 9:00 PM with Hillary Watts Riot. More info at: reverbnation.com/thecavegirls.

Call 888-931-0901 to bid.

Bids start at $200.00
For more info or to make a pre-bid visit: kkfi.org

Show #417

WMM Playlist from April 11, 2012

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

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

New & Local Releases + Char Daniels of LIKE ME Lighthouse
+ Nathan Reusch, Jerad Tomasino, Ross Brown, & Coleen Voeks

1. Vacationer – “Trip”
from: Gone / Downtown Records / March 20, 2012
[A side project of Body Language, a Brooklyn synth pop outfit known for their EP, Social Studies. Vacationer plays The Midland, April 17, with The Naked and The Famous, and Now, Now.]

2. Ruddy Swain – “There Goes My Love”
from: Ruddy Swain [EP] / Independent / November 13, 2011
[Ruddy Swain is David Regnier of Dead Voices and Lauren Krum of The Grisly Hand. Ruddy Swain plays The Riot Room Tomorrow, April 12, with Mountain Sprout, and Deen-O & The Eskimo Bros.]

3. Dead Voices – “Dream Notes”
from: Studio Cut / Independent / 2010
[written by Dave Regnier of The Afterparty, who w/ Jason Beers of The Brannock Device, Mike Stover of Mr. Marco’s V7’s and Matt Richey of The Columns make up Dead Voices, who also sometimes include: Lauren Krum and Marco Pascolini. Dead Voices will play Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, this Friday, April 13 w/ The Blessed Broke and The Sawyers.]

10:14

We gave away 2 tickets to Byrd Production’s 13th Annual Laid Back Fund Raiser, this Sat, April 14, 7:00pm at Just Off Broadway Theatre, w/ Boulevard Beer, Moxie Catering, Brody’s Bakery, performances from Last Free Exit, Jay Cady, Rod Sipe & Matt Gurley, Patricia Rusconi, The Flock, Victor Dougherty, Poets: Jason Ryberg, Iris Appelquist & William Peck, Burlesque from: Goldie Goldstein as LuLu Xanadu, Yvette D’Sin, Kinsey Scale, Ruby Sunset & Cher D Blame. More info: byrdproductions.org

4. Appropriate Grammar – “Lady in Love”
from: Lies and Stories [EP] / Independent / Spring 2012
[Appropriate Grammar includes: Nick McKenna – Guitar/Vocals, Alex Dunsford – Lead Guitar, Claire Adams – Bass/Vocals, and Steve Gardels – Drums. Appropriate Grammar play the recordBar TONIGHT with Goldenboy and Martin Bush.]

5. Bobby Womack – “Please Forgive My Heart”
from: The Bravest Man in The Universe / XL Records / Summer, 2012
[First album of new material in over 13 years. Late last month, the 68-year-old Bobby Womack was released from the hospital following a successful recovery from pneumonia. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has also been battling cancer is scheduled to undergo surgery later this year and looks forward to touring in support of his upcoming album.]

6. Chely Wright – “Like Me”
from: Lifted Off The Ground / Vangaurd – EMI Records / May 4, 2010
[Produced by Rodney Crowell. Chely Wright’s 7th album was released the same day Random House published her groundbreaking autobiography, Like Me. On the strength of her debut album in 1994, the Academy of Country Music named her Top New Female Vocalist in 1995. Her first Top 40 country hit came in 1997 with “Shut Up and Drive.” Two years later, her 4th album yielded her first #1 single, the title track, “Single White Female”. She has had more than 15 singles on the country charts, and has sold over 1,000,000 copies in the United States. In May 2010, Chely Wright became the first major country music performer to publicly come out as gay. She cited among her reasons for “coming out” a concern with bullying and hate crimes toward gays, particularly gay teenagers, and the damage to her life caused by “lying and hiding”.]

10:30 – Interview with Char Daniels

Char Daniels is Director of Operations for LIKEME Lighthouse, 3909 Main Street, Kansas City, MO, a project of the LIKEME Organization, a not-for-profit, 501 – C (3) charity founded by musician Chely Wright. The organization chose to open an LGBT Community Center in KC to provide a safe and welcoming place for the area LGBT community to meet and work together to promote equality. More info at: likemelighthouse.org.

Char Daniels talked about Chely Wright’s song “Like Me” from her album “Lifted Off The Ground.”

Char talked about how she became involved in working with LikeMe Lighthouse.

Chely Wright grew up in the Kansas City area.

The LikeMe Lighthouse is located in the same building at 90.1 FM and provides a safe and welcoming space where LGBT individuals and their families, as well as straight allies, can come for education, resources and to build a cohesive LGBT community in the Midwest. The Lighthouse will provide educational and social events to bring all individuals into the Lighthouse, as well as an outreach program to make the Midwest aware of the needs of the LGBT community. The LIKEME Lighthouse will serve as a voice for the LGBT community in the Midwest.

Hours: Monday – Saturday 11AM to 7PM, Sunday Noon to 6PM

The LiKE ME Lighthouse lobby.

Lighthouse comes fully equipped with resources, staff, counselors and a sense of community and safety. Within the Lighthouse, the Community Center provides resources on such topics as the coming out process, gender identity, bullying and other issues the LGBT community faces.

Char and Mark discussed the Grand Opening Weekend of the LikeMe Lighthouse that included sold out events featuring a documentary premiere and a concert featuring Kristie Stremel, Jennifer Knapp, Tracy Ryerson, Stamie Karakasidis, Hal Sparks, Chely Wright, Alan Cumming, Jeff Parshley, Adam Bouska and Thomas Roberts who all came to Kansas City to support the LIKEME Lighthouse.

Char discussed the facilities of The LikeMe Lighthouse that include a Gallery, Library, a Cyber Center, Meeting rooms, a Welcome Center, with more to come.

Already several groups are now using the LikeMe Lighthouse for their Events details

March 24, 2012 – 10:00AM – Cardio 101
March 25, 2012 -2:00PM – VOLUNTEER TRAINING
March 25, 2012 – 4:00PM – GLSEN of Greater Kansas City Chapter Meeting
March 28, 2012 – 6:30PM – Hear Me Out Toastmasters Meeting

LikeMe offers scholarships for area LGBT graduating seniors, who are heading off to college this fall. Applications are due May 31.

LikeMe Lighthouse is currently training new volunteers.

LIKEME Lighthouse, is located at 3909 Main Street, Kansas City, MO, a project of the LIKEME Organization, a not-for-profit, 501 – C (3) charity founded by musician Chely Wright.

Open Monday – Saturday: 11:00am to 7:00pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 6:00pm.

Phone:(855) RULIKEME

More info at: likemelighthouse.org.

10:44 – Underwriting

10:45

7. Kasey Rausch – “Grassroots”
from: Born Near The Waters… / Rausch House / 2004
[Kasey Rausch can be seen in the short film: “Two Sisters” Directed by Anthony Ladesich, that is playing today at 4:30pm, at the AMC Main Street 6 downtown, as part of The Kansas City FilmFest. ]

[Kasey Rausch will play a solo set first, and then will pick up the doghouse bass and join Buttermilk Boys at RecordBar, Tuesday, April 17, 7:00pm to 9:00pm. in an All ages show.]

[Kasey Rausch, The Grisly Hand, AJ Finney, Grand Marquis, Expo ’70, and Troglodyte all perform at Earwaxx Records and More, 6410 N Oak, Saturday, April 21, 11:00am to 9:00pm for Earwaxx Records Record Store Day Celebration.]

8. Ghosty – “Let Me In”
from: GHOSTY / More Famouser Records / April 17, 2012
[Ghosty is Andrew Connor, Mike Nolte an Bill Belzer who recorded their new album themselves over the last couple of years with help from David Wetzel, Josh Adams, Jake Blanton, Konnor Ervin, Ryan Connor, Kirsten Paludan, and Dan Talmadge. The new release will be pressed on vinyl and available on LP and digital download. More info at ghostysounds.com.]

[Ghosty celebrates the release of their 3rd full-length album (their 1st to be released on vinyl !!) w/ an instore performance at Vinyl Renaissance, 1415 West 39th Street, this Saturday April 14, at 3:00 PM.]

[Ghosty plays the recordBar, Sat, April 21, in a special album release show with Minden and ACBs]

9. Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Company – “When The Spirit Moves Me”
from: When The Spirits Move Me / Independent / November 16, 2010
[Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Co. play Davey’s Uptown tonight, w/ Mercer & Johnson, and JP Harris & the Tough Choices.]

10. Leon Russell – “Give Peace a Chance”
from: Leon Russell / The Right Stuff / Reissued 1995 (Originally released May 1970)
[Leon Russell plays KC this Friday, April 13, at 8:00 pm, at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester KCMO]

11:00 – Interview with Nathan Reusch, Jerad Tomasino & Ross Brown, & Coleen Shaw-Voeks

The 5th annual Record Store Day will take place on Sat, April 21. Record Store Day is an internationally celebrated day observed the 3rd Saturday of April each year. Its purpose is to celebrate the art of music. The day brings together fans, artists, and nearly 1000 independently owned record stores in the United States, along with hundreds of independent record stores across the world.

Joining us to talk about Record Store day are : Nathan Reusch of The Record Machine, Jerad Tomasino & Ross Brown of Golden Sound Records, & Coleen Shaw-Voeks of Vinyl Renaissance. We’ll play new music from: Akkilles, La Guerre, The Empty Spaces, Spirit Is The Spirit, Fullbloods, Millions of Boys, Baseball Project, The Sexy Accident, and Kimbra.

Coleen Shaw-Voeks has been working in record stores for over 15 years. She was formerly the owner of Need More Discs with her husband, musician Erik Voeks. Needmore Discs operated for 6 years in Shawnee, Kansas for 6 years before closing in August of 2009. Coleen is currently the manager at Vinyl Renaissance on West 39th Street in Kansas City. Coleen is also a distance runner and a running coach and prefer to spend my free time running through the woods.

Record Store Day was created for places just like Vinyl Renaissance.

Coleen brought in new music that will be released for Record Store Day.

11:04

11. Kimbra – “Settle Down”
from: Settle Down [EP] / Warner Bros. / Spring 2012
[From New Zealand, Kimbra will be joining Gotye on stage during his Saturday Night Live performance of “Somebody That I Used To Know” on April 14!]

11:08

Ross Brown & Jerad Tomasino are two of the founders (w/ Mat Shoare) of Golden Sound Records. Ross grew up in West rural Olathe. Jerad Tomasino moved around a lot growing up but spent some of his high school years living in Omaha. Jerad and Ross talked about their new Golden Sound Records, 12″ vinyl split release with The Record Machine, It is called “Secret Handshakes” and includes 6 tracks featuring Golden Sound Records artists and 6 tracks featuring The Record Machine artists, all created especially for Record Store Day!

Jerad Tomasino & Ross Brown brought in new music from Ross’s band Fullbloods, for us to feature.

11:10

12. Fullbloods – “Heavily Drugged”
from: Secret Handshakes / Golden Sound Records + The Record Machine (12″ Vinyl Split Release) / Apr. 21, 2012

11:15

Nathan Reusch is co-founder and manager of The Record Machine, an Independent KC based record label, founded in 2003. With Chris Haghirian, Nathan is the co-mastermind, of The Middle of The Map Festival, held last weekend that included over 100 Bands, in 8 Venues, on 10 Stages, in 3 Days.

Nathan, reported that over 6000 people attended The Middle of The Map Festival this year.

Nathan brought in new music to feature.

11:17

13. Spirit is the Spirit – “Pillows”
from: Secret Handshakes / Golden Sound Records + The Record Machine (12” Vinyl Split Release) / Apr. 21, 2012
[Folk-psychedelic-rock from Lawrence, Kansas. Austen Malone, Noah Compo, Wayne Zimmerman, Josh Landau, Brook Partain, Danny Bowersox. “a Lawrence band with a cosmic hippie vibe plus horns (trumpet, trombone), lots of percussion and supernal vocal harmonies”- Tim Finn]

11:23

Coleen Shaw-Voeks is currently the manager at Vinyl Renaissance on West 39th Street. She talked about the bands that will be playing at Vinyl Renaissance on April 21.

Record Store Day at Vinyl Renaissance on West 39th Street
These bands will perform (Starting at 1:00 PM): The Caves, Akkilles, The Empty Spaces, Max Justus, and The Sexy Accident

11:25

14. The Sexy Accident – “What’d We Do”
from: Ninja Ninja Fight Darth Vader / Independent / April 21, 2012
[The Sexy Accident will perform at Vinyl Renaissance on West 39th Street on Record Store Day, Saturday, April 21, in an all-ages, electric show. The Sexy Accident return to WMM on May 2]

11:29

Ross Brown & Jerad Tomasino founders of Golden Sound Records with Mat Shoare shared more music from Golden Sound Records and The Record Machine’s 12″ vinyl split release that includes a track from Mat’s band The Empty Spaces.

11:31

15. The Empty Spaces – “The 1960s Divorce Rate Blues”
from: Secret Handshakes / Golden Sound Records + The Record Machine (12″ Vinyl Split Release) / Apr. 21, 2012

11:35- Underwriting

11:37

Nathan Reusch is co-founder and manager of The Record Machine, an Independent KC based record label, founded in 2003.

11:39

16. Akkilles – “She’s Alright”
from: Secret Handshakes / Golden Sound Records + The Record Machine (12″ Vinyl Split Release) / Apr. 21, 2012

11:41

Coleen Shaw-Voeks Manager at Vinyl Renaissance on West 39th Street, talked about The Baseball Project.

11:43

17. The Baseball Project – “El Hombre”
from: Single Release / Euclid Records / 21, 2012

11:46

Ross Brown & Jerad Tomasino two of the founders (w/ Mat Shoare) played new music from Omaha based, Millions of Boys.
11:48

18. Millions of Boys – “Left For Dead”
from: Secret Handshakes / Golden Sound Records + The Record Machine (12″ Vinyl Split Release) / Apr. 21, 2012

11:51

Nathan Reusch is co-founder and manager of The Record Machine, an Independent KC based record label, founded in 2003.

11:53

19. La Guerre – “23”
from: Secret Handshakes / Golden Sound Records + The Record Machine (12″ Vinyl Split Release) / Apr. 21, 2012

11:56

Record Store Day is April 21. For more info you can visit: recordstoreday.com, therecordmachine.net, goldensoundrecords.com, vinyl-renaissance.com.

Next week on Wed, April 18 – WMM participates in the 90.1 FM Band Auction with 4 amazing Kansas City bands appearing on our show: Molly Picture Club, Dollar Fox, Two Headed Cow, and The Cave Girls. Call in to bid on these great bands.

Wednesday MidDay Medley in on the web:
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facebook.com/WednesdayMidDayMedleyon90.1FM
kkfi.org

20. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

Show #416

April 11 – Celebrating Record Store Day!

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

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

New & Local Releases + Char Daniels of LIKE ME Lighthouse
+ Nathan Reusch, Jerad Tomasino, Ross Brown, & Coleen Voeks

Mark plays music from: Ruddy Swain, Dead Voices, Kasey Rausch, The Empty Spaces, Adam Lee & The Dead Horse Sound Co., Appropriate Grammar, Chely Wright, Bobby Womack, Leon Russell, Vacationer, and others.

At 10:30 Mark talks with Char Daniels, Director of Operations for LIKEME Lighthouse, 3909 Main Street, Kansas City, MO, a project of the LIKEME Organization, a not-for-profit, 501 – C (3) charity founded by musician Chely Wright. The organization chose to open an LGBT Community Center in KC to provide a safe and welcoming place for the area LGBT community to meet and work together to promote equality. More info at: likemelighthouse.org.

At 11:00 Mark anticipates Record Store Day (April 21) with special guests: Nathan Reusch of The Record Machine, Jerad Tomasino & Ross Brown of Golden Sound Records, & Coleen Shaw-Voeks of Vinyl Renaissance. More info: recordstoreday.com, therecordmachine.net, goldensoundrecords.com, vinyl-renaissance.com.

We’ll be giving away 2 tickets to Byrd Production’s 13th Annual Laid Back Fund Raiser, Sat, April 14, 7:00pm at Just Off Broadway Theatre, with Boulevard Beer, Moxie Catering, Brody’s Bakery, performances from Last Free Exit, Jay Cady, Rod Sipe & Matt Gurley, Patricia Rusconi, Members of The Flock, Victor Dougherty, Poets: Jason Ryberg, Iris Appelquist & William Peck, Burlesque from: Goldie Goldstein as LuLu Xanadu, Yvette D’Sin, Kinsey Scale, Ruby Sunset & Cher D Blame. More info at: byrdproductions.org

Tune in on 90.1 FM KKFI
or streaming live at kkfi.org

Show #416

Playlist from April 4, 2012 – Music From The Middle

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

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Music of the Middle of The Map Fest + Mike McCoy
+ Mike Alexander & Center of The City Fest + BCR & Local Releases!

Middle of the Map Fest

1. Nerves Junior – “As Bright As Your Night Light”
from: As Bright As Your Night Light / sonaBLAST Records / Sept. 6, 2011
[9-song debut release from indie rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, formed in 2009. The band consists of Cory Wayne, Stuart Phelps, Christopher Snow, and Zachary O’Renick.]

[Nerves Junior play The Middle of The Map Fest. Saturday April 7, 9:30pm – 10:30pm @ Firefly Lounge 4118 Pennsylvania Ave Kansas City, MO ]

Mr. Gnome

2. Mr. Gnome – “Bit of Tongue”
from: Madness in Minature / El Marko Records / Oct. 25, 2011
[Duo from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed band in 2005. Nicole Barille on vocals & guitar; and Sam Meister on drums, piano & back-up vocals.]

[Mr. Gnome play the Middle of The Map Fest. on Saturday April 7, 10:30pm – 11:30pm @ The Union 421 Westport Rd KCMO.]

3. Friends – “Friend Crush”
from: (Single) / Lucky Number / Mar. 21, 2011
[Debut single of Brooklyn band, fronted by Samantha Urbani. Appearing at this year’s Middle of The Map Festival, to be held April 5 – 7.]

[FRIENDS play the Middle of The Map Fest. on Saturday April 7, 8:30pm – 9:30pm @ The Beaumont Club 4050 Pennsylvania Ave KCMO]

10:14

In the midst of The Middle of the Map Fest w/nearly 70 local bands in Westport April 5-7, The Center of The City Fest presents 16 of KC’s best Punk bands April 6-7 at The News Room. The depth of KC’s local music scene is staggering. In a town known for Jazz and Blues, Punk music can be easily misunderstood, or marginalized, but Punk has always remained a nesessary outlet to bring Rock back to the basics, and the beat. Local punk bands also offer some of the best political lyrics, songs about: war, working families, & fair wages. We present 5 area punk bands playing Center of The City Fest, April 6-7, at The News Room.

Center of the City Fest

4. LAZY – “Work It Out”
from: Obsession [EP] / Manic Static / late May 2012
[Manic Static, a Chicago label will release Obsession on Cassette, and CD. The band is currently working on it’s follow up to their debut full length from The Record Machine, and they are recording w/ J. Ashley Miller of Ssion. In January of 2012 the band started calling itself both Lazy and Knot Lazy. Knot Lazy comes from the band saying that it’s “Not” Lazy and the “K” in “Knot” is a reference back to Lazy K the band’s name when they first formed in late 2009.]

[Lazy play Center of The City Fest. Sat, April 7, at 12:45am @ The News Room, 3740 Broadway]

5. Red Kate – “Flirty Hips”
from: Little Red Songbook [EP] / Independent / Jan. 1, 2009
[In the review of the debut EP, The Pitch wrote, “Bassist and lead vocalist L. Ron Drunkard, (aka Shaun Saving) is a socialist activist by day, bellows like an Appalachian Roger Daltrey.” The band also features: Andrew Whelanon Drums & Vocals and Brad Huhmann on Guitar]

[Red Kate play Center of The City Fest. Fri, April 6, at 12:00am @ The News Room, 3740 Broadway]

6. Iron Guts Kelly – “Killology”
from: Killology / Violent Pacification / May 31, 2011
[Formed in Lawrence KS, in 2002 by Sean Riley who plays drums, and Shawn Reynolds who plays bass, with Josh Leon on guitar and Robert “Boj” Stevens on vocals. Iron Guts Kelly has released five CDs and have toured the midwest, northeast and southwest. In 2010 the band signed w/ KC based Violent Pacification records for their 5th release “Killology.” The band is currently writing their 6th studio album. Iron Guts Kelly’s lyrics confronts the plight of working class families and urban decay.]

[Iron Guts Kelly play Center of The City Fest. Fri, Apr. 6, at 11:15pm @ The News Room, 3740 Broadway]

7. Smash The State – “God Less America”
from: 5 Song Demo [EP] / 3rd Rate Records / November 1, 2011
[Formed in December of 2009, by Mike Yeager on Vocals, Dustin Bigelow on Guitars, Thad Nugent on Guitars, Matt Warriner on Bass, and Josh Smithey on Drums.]

[Smash The State play Center of The City Fest. Fri, Apr. 6, at 9:00pm @ The News Room, 3740 Broadway]

8. Hipshot Killer – “Straight Line”
from: Hipshot Killer / Locket Love Records / April 29, 2011
[Debut release from KC based 3-piece power punk band formed in the fall of 2008 by, Mike Alexander (Revolvers, Architects), on Guitar & Vocals, Chris Wagner (100 Years War, Jackie Carrol) on Bass & Vocals, Brad Wicklander (Dark Circles, Anvil Chorus), on Drums. They have recorded a 4 song EP that will be released as a 10inch this year.]

[Hipshot Killer play Center of The City Fest. Sat, Apr 7, at 9:00pm @ The News Room, 3740 Broadway]

10:30 – Interview with Mike Alexander and Matt Warriner

As we feature music from The Middle of the Map Fest we paused to recognize the Center of The City Fest, featuring 16 of the Kansas City area’s bast punk bands, all playing at The News Room at 3740 Broadway, this Friday and Saturday night, April 6 and 7, starting at 7:00 each night. Joining us to talk about Center of the City was the amazing Mike Alexander of Hipshot Killer, and the heroic Matt Warriner of Smash The State.

Mike Alexander is a very busy musician, playing guitar with John Velghe and The Prodigal Sons, and playing power punk with Hipshot Killer.

Mike talked about recently going to Austin for the SXSW Music Festival, where he played several shows with John Velghe and The Prodigal Sons.

Matt Warriner, is the bass player in Smash The State, and has served as principle organizer of the Center of The City Fest. Matt has “siezed the day” to bring to the table, one more venue, to showcase 16 local punk bands.

The Bands @ The News Room at 3740 Broadway, Friday & Saturday night, April 6 & 7,

FRIDAY APRIL 6TH:

7:30 – The Rackatees
8:15 – Dead Ven
9:00 – Smash the State!
9:45 – The Alerts
10:30 – Bent Left
11:15 – Iron Guts Kelly
12:00 – Red Kate
12:45 – Dismantle The Virus

SATURDAY APRIL 7TH:

7:30 – Pizza Party Massacre
8:15 – Bombs Over Broadway
9:00 – Hipshot Killer
9:45 – Death Valley Wolfriders
10:30 – They Stay Dead
11:15 – The Kingshifters
12:00 – The Bad Ideas
12:45 – Lazy

The Local Punk Music Scene has often had to create its own, very independent venues.

Kansas City and Lawrence have a long history of Punk Bands, Mike and Matt talked about some of their influences.

“I am always happily reminded that some of our most political music comes from our Punk bands. Speaking back to authority is an important element in Punk music.” – Mark

Programming note:
Every Monday night at midnight, 90.1 FM KKFI airs KCDIY Radio, Kansas City’s last and only punk radio program. Each week is a themed selection of punk and hardcore from the past 30 years, including new music. From the early days of KKFI in 1988, through most all of the early 1990s Anne Winter hosted a long running punk show as Little Orphan Annie. Radio hasn’t always been a friend to Punk music.

Mike Alexander discussed the new Hipshot Killer EP that will be coming out sometime this year.

Matt told us that more than likely, the Center of The City Fest will be an annual event.

The Center of the City Fest, features 16 of the Kansas City area’s best punk bands, Friday and Saturday, April 6 – 7, at 7:00 to 1:30 AM, at The News Room, at 3740 Broadway St. KCMO.

10:45

9. Baby Teardrops – “ME Where”
from: X Is For Love / Golden Sound Records / November 15, 2011
[KC native and former Doris Henson leader, Matthew Dunehoo’s new band, was formed in NYC w/ Megan Thomas & Gerry White. Golden Sound Records of KC re-released “X is for Love” on November 15th, in digital, CD, and for the first time, vinyl formats. The release also included exclusive remixes of album tracks.]

[Baby Teardrops play the Middle of The Map Fest. Friday April 6, 11:15pm – 12:00am @ Westport Coffeehouse 4010 Pennsylvania KCMO in a special evening curated by Golden Sound Records that also features: Oriole Post, The Caves, Fullbloods, The Empty Spaces and Everyday/Everynight.]

10. Christopher Paul Stelling – “King is Dead”
from: Songs of Praise and Scorn / Mecca Lecca Records / Feb. 21, 2012
[…”recordings where made in a matter of days in the wet heat of August in an apartment located above a functioning funeral home in Louisville, KY which has been in constant operation since 1848. At times the recording sessions would cease for various intervals out of respect for the family and friends of the recently departed.”]

[Christopher Paul Stelling plays the Middle of The Map Fest. tomorrow, Thursday April 5, 10:00pm – 10:45pm @ The Union 421 Westport Rd KCMO]

11. Keep Shelly in Athens – “Diy”
from: Our Own Dream / Forest Family Records / Nov. 5, 2011
[6-song EP follow up to their 2010 debut “In Love with Dusk” this duo is based in Athens, Greece.]

[Keep Shelly in Athens play the Middle of The Map Fest. Saturday April 7, 2012 11:00pm – 12:00am @ The Record Bar 1020 Westport Road, Kansas City, MO 6411]

12. Saintseneca – “Cold Water History”
from: Last / Mama Bird Recording / August 16, 2011
[debut full-length from Columbus, Ohio based folk band formed by lifelong friends rooted in the same small Appalachian town. The band has toured non-stop for 4 years and previously released 2 EPs.]

[Saintseneca play the Middle of The Map Fest. Friday, April 6, 9:30pm – 10:30pm @ Gusto Lounge 504 Westport Rd, Kansas City, MO 64111 ]

11:00

13. Spirit is the Spirit – “Oh, Speckled Bird”
from: Mother Mountain / Independent / February 26, 2011
[Folk-psychedelic-rock from Lawrence, Kansas. Austen Malone, Noah Compo, Wayne Zimmerman, Josh Landau, Brook Partain, Danny Bowersox. “a Lawrence band with a cosmic hippie vibe plus horns (trumpet, trombone), lots of percussion and supernal vocal harmonies”- Tim Finn]

[Spirit is The Spirit play the Middle of The Map Fest. Friday April 6, 11:00pm – 12:00am @ Riot Room 4048 Broadway Street, KCMO]

14. The Golden Motors – “Tiger in a Crate”
from: The Golden Motors / Daily Records / March 1, 2012
[After 3 critically acclaimed solo albums and a 4th with his indie collective, The Squids, Portland based singer-songwriter Dan Jones has put together a new band, The Golden Motors. On this debut blast of postpunk rock, the song craft is up front, the guitars are loud, and multiple decades of underground rock are jammed into one psychedelic punky-garage rock tour-de-force.]

[Dan Jones plays the Middle of The Map Fest. Saturday April 7, 6:00pm – 7:00pm @ Gusto Lounge 504 Westport Rd, KCMO]

15. Thom Hoskins – “Still Feeling Bronze”
from: Still Feeling Bronze [EP] / Independent / April, 2012
[Former lead singer and guitarist for The Buffalo Saints, singer-songwriter Thommy Hoskins has just released his new solo EP.]

[Thom Hoskins plays the Middle of The Map Fest. Saturday April 7, 2012 7:00pm – 8:00pm @ Gusto Lounge 504 Westport Rd, KCMO]

11:15

16. Cher – “Chop-Chop Life”
from: Boy Named Sue Me / Independent / 1991
[Recorded in 1989. Released on Cassette. Mike McCoy Guitar & Vox, Jeff Nichols – Drums, Tom Livesay – Bass, Mark Reynolds – Free Bass]

11:17 – Interview with Mike McCoy

Mike McCoy

Mike McCoy grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas. In the early 1990s his band Cher U.K. filled venues in Kansas City with their their music playing with popular themes in punk rock music. Mike McCoy, now lives in Austin Texas and fronts his band the Service Industry. Mike is the founder of The North vs. South Music Festival. Tomorrow night, Mike’s bandperforms ina reunion show, as part of The Middle of The Map Fest, with: Molly McGuire, The Esoteric, & Season To Risk, tomorrow night Thursday, April 5, at the recordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

The band was originally called Cher. They released many of their first recordings on cassette, the band went through several line-up changes and the band’s name changed to Cher UK.

Cher UK will also recording new songs for a new EP, here in KC.

Besides Cher UK, Mike McCoy have been in several other bands, and currently plays with his band, The Service Industry.

17. The Service Industry – “Bookstores and Restaurants”
from: Ranch is The New French / Build Gut Records / 2006

In 2004 Mike McCoy founded the North vs. South Music Festival, a bi-annual, bi-polar music festival designed to showcase independent rock along the I-35 corridor. This festival has grown each year. This years festival will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mike talked to us about how he recently met Kenny Rogers.

Mike McCoy, performs in a very special reunion show with his band Cher UK, as part of The Middle of The Map Fest, show with: Molly McGuire, The Esoteric, & Season To Risk, Thurs., April 5, the recordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

11:40

18. Fourth of July – “Friend of a Friend”
from: Before Our Hearts Explode! / Rangelife Records / Aug 31, 2010
[Lawrence, Kansas, based band formed in 2002, by Brendan Hangauer (vocals, guitar) Patrick Hangauer (bass) Kelly Hangauer (keys, trumpet, vocals) Brian Costello (drums, vocals) Brendan Costello (guitar) Steve Swyers (guitar on Album) w/ additional vocals by: Adrianne Verhoeven and Katlyn Conroy.]

[Fourth of July play the Middle of The Map Fest. Saturday April 7, 8:30pm – 9:30pm @ Firefly Lounge 4118 Pennsylvania Ave KCMO]

11:45

19. Betse Ellis – “Looking The World”
from: Don’t You Want To Go / Free Dirt / April 21, 2009
[Originally from Fayetteville, Arkansas, Betse Ellis is one of the founding members of Kansas City’s The Wilders, an internationally touring acoustic honky-tonk band, have been together for nearly 15 years. More information at wilderscountry.com. Betse received her BA Music from the University of Missouri -KC.]

[Betse Ellis plays The Brick, Saturday night, April 7th, with Run Little Rabbit]

20. BCR – “Blue Momo”
from: Speck of Dust / Sparkling Beatnic / December 31, 2004

Black Crack Review

[Black Crack Review, BCR, celebrates their 30th Anniversary as a band, with a special show at Californos in Westport, Thursday, April 5, at 9:00 PM.]

21. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

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Show #415

April 4 – Music from The Middle

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

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Music of the Middle of The Map Fest + Mike McCoy
+ Mike Alexander & Center of The City Fest + BCR & Local Releases!

Middle of the Map Fest

Mr. Gnome

Mark plays music from artists appearing in the Middle of the Map Fest, April 5-7, featuring over 100 Bands, in 8 Venues, on 10 Stages, in 3 Days. We’ll hear tracks from: Spirit is The Spirit, Fourth of July, Thom Hoskins, Cher UK, The Golden Motors, Saintseneca, Nerves Junior, Friends, Keep Shelly in Athens, Christopher Paul Stelling, and Mr. Gnome. More info at: middleofthemapfest.com

Center of the City Fest

We’ll also hear musical releases from: LAZY, Red Kate, Iron Guts Kelly, Smash the State, and Hipshot Killer, five area punk bands playing the Center of The City Fest.

Hipshot Killer at the recordBar (Photo by Mike Alexander)

At 10:30 Mark talks with Mike Alexander of Hipshot Killer and Matt Warriner of Smash the State about the Center of the City Fest, a special event that features 16 of the Kansas City area’s best punk bands, April 6 – April 7, at 7:00 to 1:30 AM, at The News Room, at 3740 Broadway St. KCMO.

Mike McCoy

At 11:15 Mark welcomes Mike McCoy who is back in Kansas City for a special reunion show with his band Cher UK, as part of The Middle of The Map Fest, that also features the reunions of: Molly McGuire, The Esoteric, and Season To Risk, Thursday, April 5, at the recordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Mark also features the music of Betse Ellis, who will be in concert Saturday Night at The Brick, and Black Crack Review, BCR, celebrating their 30th Anniversary as a band, with a special show at Californos in Westport, Thursday, April 5, at 9:00 PM.

Black Crack Review

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Show #415

WMM Playlist from March 28, 2012

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

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Bobby Asher of Hearts of Darkness + Elsa Rae
+ Guest Host Philip Hooser & The New Century Follies

1. Seun Kuti – “African Soldier”
from: From Africa with Fury: Rise / Knitting Factory Records / June 21, 2011
[Nigerian musician, and the youngest son of legendary afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. After Fela’s death of AIDS in 1997 Seun, then only 14 years old, became the lead singer of Egypt 80. While in school Seun had to choose between a career in music and one in American Football for which he has an outstanding talent. About three-fourths of the current Egypt 80 line-up consists of musicians that not only played with Fela Kuti, but often were arrested and harassed alongside the founder of the Afrobeat movement. Live sets consist of both new material and originals from Seun’s father. During his lifetime Fela Kuti never performed songs he had recorded, so for many fans this is their first chance to hear many Kuti classics.]

[Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, will be in concert this Friday night, March 30, at The Granada in Lawrence, Kansas. The Hearts of Darkness will open the show.]

Making Movies last full length recording, “In Deo Speramus” was part of our 100 Best Recordings of 2010. The band re-mastered and re-released the album in 2011 to much critical acclaim. Self identified as an afro-cuban indie latin alternative rock band, Making Movies have been currently recording their new album with Steve Berlin of the Grammy Award winning Los Lobos serving as producer. According to their Facebook page, they have spent the last three days of tracking the new album and are headed home to KC, for their shows Saturday night at the recordBar with the Hearts of Darkness. There are two sets, an early All Ages set starting at 9:00 with Hearts of Darkness opening for Making Movies and a late 21+ show starting at 9:00 with Making Movies opening for Hearts of Darkness more information at therecordbar.com.

2. Making Movies – “Sirena”
from: Single / Appeal Latino / Feb 2011
[More info at makingmoviesband.com]

3. The Hearts of Darkness – “Numeration”
from: Numeration / Bad Way (Split Single) 7″ Vinyl / Shipshape Records / Feb. 18, 2012
[The Hearts of Darkness will play this year’s Wakaursa Festival. The 15 piece ensemble includes: Les Izmore – Vox, Percussion; Brandy Gordon – Vox; Erica Townsend – Vox; Rachel Christia – Vox; Brad Williams – Drum Kit, Percussion; Sean Branagan – Kit, Percussion; Miko Spears – Congas; Pete Leibert – Bass Guitar; Richard Gumbel – Rhythm Guitar; Jolan Smith – Tenor Sax; Shawn Hansen – Alto Sax, Sam Hughes – Baritone Sax; Andrew Ford – Slide Trombone; Ken Walker – Valve Trombone; Bob Asher – Trumpet. The band blends American funk & soul, hip-hop & KC jazz big-band traditions into an afrobeat-based foundation to create a huge sound. Bobby Asher tells us that the band expects to release the 2nd full length vinyl later in the Spring.]

10:17 – Interview with Bob Asher of The Hearts of Darkness

Hearts of Darkness is an 15-piece afrobeat, hip-hop, funk, soul collective formed in 2007 in KCMO. They describe their sound as “a hybrid from the roots of ’70s afro beat & building off of the traditions of KC big-band jazz as well as American funk & rock w/ hip-hop on top.” The band produces an incredible live show that brings out diverse audiences who want to dance. Their debut album, “Hearts of Darkness,” released on July 10, 2010 on Shipshape Music was #1 on our list of the 100 Best Recordings of 2010. In 2011, the band opened for Huey Lewis and Snoop Dogg, played w/ Willie Nelson & Neil Young at Farm Aid and performed at the Kanrocksas Music Festival. They won “Best Jazz Ensemble” in 2011 by the Pitch Music Awards. This year they are back with a new single, and are getting ready to release a new full length album, and after just returning from the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas, the band will share the stage w/ Seun Kuti & the legendary Egypt 80, this March 30, at The Granada in Lawrence, Kansas. On Saturday, March 31, the band is part of the Super Duper Double Feature concerts with Making Movies at the recordBar. Here to fill us in on all the details is Bobby Asher, one of the driving forces behind The Hearts of Darkness.

Bob Asher talked about The Hearts of Darkness participating in this year’s MidCoast Takeover at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas and what it was like traveling to Texas with the 15 member tribe.

Bob also talked about the band’s big weekend of shows: This Friday, the band shares the stage with Seun Kuti & the legendary Egypt 80, at The Granada in Lawrence, Kansas.

Hearts of Darkness & Making Movies

This Saturday: Super Duper Double Feature:
1. (all ages dinner show) Hearts of Darkness at 6:15 PM and Making Movies at 7:30 PM.

2. (21+) Show w/ Making Movies, at 9:30 PM & Hearts of Darkness at 11:15 PM.

The Hearts of Darkness expect to release the 2nd full length vinyl later in the year.

The Hearts of Darkness will play Bill Sundahl’s 2nd annual Spring Dance, May 5, at the KC Crossroads with The Grisly Hand and The Good Foot. last year’s dance was attended by over 1000 people.

The Hearts of Darkness will play this year’s Wakaursa Festival.

The current line up for The Hearts of Darkness:

Bob Asher – Trumpet
Sean Branagan – drums and percussion
Rachel Christia – Vocals
Andrew Ford – Trombone
Brandy Gordon – Vocals
Richard Gumbel – Rhythm and Lead Guitar
Shawn Hansen – Alto Saxophone
Sam Hughes – Baritone Saxophone
Les Izmore – Vocals
Pete Leibert – Bass Guitar
Jolan Smith – Tenor Saxophone and Vocals
Miko Spears – Congas
Erica Townsend – Vocals
Ken Walker – Valve Trombone
Brad Williams – drums and percussion

Discography

Currently working on the second album, to be released in early 2012

Numeration / Bad Way – Split single released Feb. 2012 w/ KC soul band The Good Foot

Debut album, “Hearts of Darkness” released on July 10, 2010 on Shipshape Music.

Single release, “Danse Fambeaux” from”I Heard it on 18th St. II” released Feb 2010. 10:34

The Hearts of Darkness share the stage with Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, this Friday, March 30, at The Granada in Lawrence. On Saturday The Hearts of Darkness participate in the Super Duper Double Feature with Making Movies at the recordBar, Saturday, March 31, with shows at 6:00 and 9:00 PM. More information at heartsofdarkness.net

Music writer Bill Brownlee, a contributing reviewer to The Kansas City Star wrote on his blog “Plastic Sax”: “Far from a musty academic exercise, the Hearts of Darkness convey the spirit, if not the sound, of Kansas City’s heyday. The Hearts of Darkness deserve recognition from the jazz audience because their visceral big band power is the soundtrack to the same exuberant scenes that undoubtedly accompanied the bands of Benny Moten, Harlan Leonard and Count Basie.”

10:35 – Underwriting

10:37 – Interview with Elsa Rae

Elsa Rae

20 year old Elsa Rae has lived in KC for only eight months, but has already participated in the Human Rights Campaign’s Battle of the Bands, in January, and she recently played shows in Austin during the SXSW Music Festival. Elsa Rae grew up in Souix Falls, South Dakota, where she recorded her debut recording “Elsa Rae Plays Tiny Instruments” just days before moving to Kansas City. Elsa plays her original songs with Vincent her Ukulele, Mozart the Toy Piano, and Sebastian F. Schwartz the Kazoo. Elsa Rae joins us today to talk about her new recordings, her performances at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, and she will perform a few of her songs live in our 90.1 FM Studios.

Elsa Rae has been playing the Ukulele for 3 years now.

After she graduated from High School she moved to Minnesota to go to college. Before moving to KC she spent some time in Fairfax, Virginia.

10:44

4. Elsa Rae– “Don’t Move To Minnesota” (LIVE)
also available on: Plays Tiny Instruments / Independent / August 16, 2011
[Recorded at Cathouse Studios in August, 2011. All songs recorded and mixed by Mike Dresch. All songs written and performed by Elsa Rae. ]

Elsa Rae has been re-recording her songs with William Saunders at Saunders Street Records.

Elsa traveled to Austin for the SXSW Music Festival.

10:50

5. Elsa Rae– “For You I’ll Pretend to Be A Woman” (LIVE)
also available on: Plays Tiny Instruments / Independent / August 16, 2011
[Recorded at Cathouse Studios in August, 2011. All songs recorded and mixed by Mike Dresch. All songs written and performed by Elsa Rae. ]

Elsa will eventually release her newly recorded album with Saunders Street Records.

Elsa wants to eventually work with a band.

You can learn more at: elsarae.bandcamp.com and reverbnation.com/elsarae

11:00 – Guest Host & Producer Philip blue owl Hooser

6. Hugh Jackman – “Everything Old Is New Again”
from: The Boy From Oz Original Cast Recording / Decca / 2003

Philip explained that he intended to be like a stripper for our listening audience. Peeling away layers so we can see all that can legally be seen… over the radio. Philip is involved in a project called “The New Century Follies,” which will premiere April 6th in this still-new Century… at the Folly Theatre. When Philip first moved to Kansas City, there was a large-scale effort to restore and reopen the Folly. The Folly become a kind of symbol of Kansas City for him, in a way, his mental folly.

BUT WHAT IS this word “Folly”? It can mean the state or quality of being foolish, of lacking understanding or sense. It can be a costly undertaking, or a whimsical building. In the world of the theatre, it is also a theatrical revue. For those of us in Kansas City, of course, it is all those things in a different order– a theatrical building that proved a costly undertaking to restore in order to bring some very foolish goings-on to the stage.

But it wasn’t always that way. I mean, of course, it wasn’t always known as The Folly. It used to be something … more Standard. Maestro, a little traveling music, if you please….

7. Scott Joplin – “The Entertainer”
from: The Entertainer / Shout Factory Records / Jan. 10, 2003

The Folly Theatre

Philip talked about the Architect, of the Folly Theatre, Louis Curtiss, who was described as “the Frank Lloyd Wright of Kansas City” who was born in Canada, studied architecture at the University of Toronto and in Paris before coming to Kansas City. There are still about 30 buildings he designed in the area, including the Boley Building, at the corner of 12th and Grand — “one of the first glass curtain-wall structures in the world.”

Philip welcomed special guests: Felicia Hardison Londre of UMKC, Gale Tallis the Executive Director of the Folly, and Steve Irwin the Folly’s Development Director.

Felicia Hardison Londre is the Curators’ Professor of Theatre at the UMKC and Honorary Co-Founder of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Dr. Londré has taught at UMKC since 1978, with visiting professorships at Hosei University, Tokyo; Marquette University, Milwaukee; and lecture tours to universities in Hungary and France, including the Sorbonne. She often lectures on the Shakespeare authorship question and on Kansas City theatre history, and can be seen this summer at the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Among Felicia Londré’s fourteen books are Words at Play: Creative Writing and Dramaturgy, as well as books on playwrights: Tennessee Williams and Tom Stoppard. Her most important book is “The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater,” 1870-1929 (University of Missouri Press, 2007, 83 illustrations), which every Kansas Citian needs to read. It was awarded the Theatre Library Association’s George Freedley Memorial Award at Lincoln Center in New York and Jackson County Historical Society’s Education Award.

The Folly wasn’t always known as the Folly.

Throughout the years (1900-1932) The Folly was known as: The Standard, The Century, The Lyric, The Century again, and Shubert’s Missouri.

The Folly offered, “Refined Musical Extravaganza, Musical Novelties, and Polite Farce,” and also… boxing. But no smoking, originally.

Colonel Edward Butler of St. Louis, MO built The Folly at a cost of $250,000 for his son to present shows on the Empire vaudeville circuit.

A 1901 fire at the nearby Coates Opera House caused opera and comic opera performances to be moved to the Standard, featuring such performers as Sarah Bernhardt, Richard Mansfield and Maude Adams.

The theater’s name changed to the “Century” in 1902. The Century featured acts from the Empire burlesque circuit, including Al Jolson, Fannie Brice and Eddie Foy. In addition to theater acts, the Century featured prizefighting and wrestling, with appearances by Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey.

Felicia discussed Kansas City’s place in US entertainment during this period.

Philip and guests talked about vaudeville, where each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies.

Philip and guests talked about vaudeville fading, legit theatre and light opera, and the Depression.

The Shubert brothers bought the Century in 1923 and renamed it “Shubert’s Missouri” after extensive renovations by Shubert architect Herbert J. Krapp. The Shuberts booked dramatic productions including Shakespeare and O’Neill plays.

The Marx Brothers performed “I’ll Say She Is” for three weeks in 1923-24, the long run convinced the Shuberts to continue operating the theater. “I’ll Say She Is” led to the Marx Brothers’ rise out of vaudeville into stardom in the Broadway theatre and later in motion pictures, and came at a time when they had gotten themselves effectively banned from the major vaudeville circuits.

After 1928 business fell off and the theater was used for touring shows on an intermittent basis until it closed in 1932.

11:18

8. Fanny Brice – “Second Hand Rose”
from: The Original Funny Girl – Sings The Songs That Made Her Famous / Charly / 2010

9. Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra – “Moten’s Stomp”
from: Roaring 20s Review Volume 1/ Van Up Records / 2009

11:18 – Underwriting

10. Andrews Sisters – “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”
from: The Andrews Sisters Collection / TMS / 2009

11:21 – Part two of Philip’s interview with Felicia Londre, Gale Tallis, and Steve Irwin

Philip and guests talked about how The Folly was reborn as the Folly!

Philip and guests talked about the theatrical definition of “burlesque” and its relationship to burlesque dance. Felicia discussed how burlesque was originally a parody or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work. Burlesque overlaps in meaning with caricature, parody and travesty, and, in its theatrical sense, with extravaganza, as presented during the Victorian era.

While burlesque went out of fashion in England towards the end of the 19th century, to be replaced by Edwardian musical comedy, the American style of burlesque flourished, but with increasing focus on female nudity. Exotic “cooch” dances were brought in, ostensibly Syrian in origin. The entertainments were given in clubs and cabarets, as well as music halls and theatres. By the early 20th century, there were two national circuits of burlesque shows competing with the vaudeville circuit, as well as resident companies in NYC, such as Minsky’s at Winter Garden.

Philip and guests talked about how burlesque was a sensation and brought to America from Britain in the late 1860s by Lydia Thompson and her British Blondes, a troupe who spoofed traditional theatrical productions and featured ladies performing men’s roles, in costumes considered revealing for the time period.

American burlesque soon assimilated music hall, minstrel shows, striptease, comedy and cabaret style to evolve from the follies of the twenties and thirties to the girlie shows of the 40s and 50s, which eventually gave way to the modern strip club. The striptease element of burlesque became subject to extensive local legislation, leading to a theatrical form that titillated without falling foul of censors.

By the late 1930s, a social crackdown on burlesque shows began their gradual decline. The shows had slowly changed from ensemble ribald variety performances, to simple performances focusing mostly on the striptease.

In New York, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia clamped down on burlesque, effectively putting it out of business by the early 1940s. Burlesque lingered on elsewhere in the U.S., increasingly neglected, and by the 1970s, with nudity commonplace in theatres, American burlesque reached “its final shabby demise.”

Philip and guests talked about how audiences generally preferred their local talent, including: the World’s Tallest Exotic, Miss Perpetual Motion, Marie Antoinette, Russian Girl Cossack

Other theaters converted to movies, but the Folly specialized.

Gale talked about the Ghosts that haunt the Folly. After the theatre was restored to it’s original state, employees and visitors alike report strange happenings in and around the theater. Many have seen a mysterious male figure in a bowler hat, who is believed to be the ghost of Joe Donegan. Others have also seen a woman in a long, flowing gown rushing toward the stage.

Philip and guests talked about the decline of downtown and once again, the Folly was forced to close.

Following the Folly’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, a “Strip the Folly” fundraiser was held featuring Sally Rand, who had performed at the Folly. After seven years a full renovation was completed in 1981, including the construction of an annex on the site of the former Edward Hotel.

A new lobby, restrooms and second-floor Shareholders’ Room were added. The auditorium’s original color scheme was restored. Plans are now under way, and approval has been granted by the Kansas City Landmarks Commission, to install a marquee sign that closely mimics the original Folly signage.

The Folly Theater is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation whose mission is “to preserve Kansas City’s oldest historic theater as a premier performance venue by presenting, producing and hosting a wide range of quality events for the community”. The Folly produces a Jazz Series, a Kids Series, and Cyprus Avenue Live! performances by artists ranging from blues to rock and country. It hosts the Harriman-Jewell Series of classical performers, the Friends of Chamber Music series, and the Heartland Men’s Chorus.

11:37

11. Grand Marquis – “After You’ve Gone”
from: Hold On To Me / Grand Marquis Music / 2010
[The 5th CD from Bryan Redmond – saxophones, vocals / Chad Boydston – trumpet / Ryan Wurtz – guitar / Ben Ruth – upright bass, sousaphone / Lisa McKenzie – drums, washboard, marimba. More info at grandmarquis.net or extravirginkc.com]

11:37 – Underwriting

12. The People’s Liberation Big Band – “…in the rumpus room…”
from: The People’s Liberation Big Band / Tzigane / November 7, 2010
[Recipient of the 2010 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Award, Brad Cox is founder of The People’s Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City.]

11:38 – Interview with Annie Cherry, Damian Blake, Daisy Bucket

Damian Blake and Annie Cherry

At the age of six, Annie Cherry mortified her mother in a high-end department store by belting, at the top of her lungs, Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” That’s surely the kind of chutzpah that got Annie Cherry into the Kansas City Middle School of the Arts and high school at Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts. She is an actress, vocalist, burlesque and belly dancer, vaudeville performer, and pin-up vixen. Annie can most often be seen performing with the Kansas City Society of Burlesque.

Damian Blake, is a man of a thousand faces… or at least a good dozen. At the tender age of three, his fate was set when he saw the Charlie Chaplin movie “The Gold Rush” and became obsessed with clowning and silent film, and most importantly, Chaplin himself. Using the skills he honed as a sideshow/variety performer, Damian has appeared on stage, in print, on film, as a variety entertain, a character actor, and celebrity impersonator. He also appears regularly and quite successfully at the Fishtank Performance Space with Arty Vulgaris.

Spencer Brown aka Daisy Bucket

Daisy Buckët aka Spencer Brown took to the spotlight in The Girly Show at Bar Natasha in 2006. Since then, she has been a force to be reckoned wit, with awards including the Pitch’s “Best Cabaret Show 2007”, “Best Vocalist 2008” Zoey Award), she was crowned Queen of Kansas City Gay Pride 2008, and ran a year-long drag variety show at Sidekicks Saloon known as Daisy’s Twilight Madness. When she’s not supporting local charities like the AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City, and Passages LGBT Youth Center, she is touring the country disguised as Trampolina in the Kinsey Sicks, America’s Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet. Spencer brown also wrote and starred in the “The Rose: A Rock Tragedy” produced at La Esquina here in Kansas City.

Philip and guests talked about how like the Folly, Burlesque has re-invented itself. The “New Burlesque” movement, is the revival and updating of the traditional burlesque performance. Though based on the traditional Burlesque art, the new form encompasses a wider range of performance styles; anything from classic striptease to modern dance to theatrical mini-dramas to comedic mayhem. As with the earlier burlesque, neo-burlesque is more focused on the “tease” in “striptease” than the “strip”. Audiences for neo-burlesque shows tend to be mixed gender, age, race, and class.

Modern burlesque has taken many on forms, but it has the common trait of honoring one or more of burlesque’s previous incarnations. The acts tend to put emphasis on style and are sexy rather than sexual. A typical burlesque act may include striptease, expensive or garish costumes, bawdy humor, cabaret and more. Unlike strippers who dance in strip clubs to make a living, burlesque performers often perform for fun and spend more money on costumes, rehearsal, and props than they are compensated.

The New Century Follies

The New Century Follies begins April 6th and continues every month. Bandleader Brad Cox provides the soundtrack with The People’s Liberation Big Band, with a FULL BAR, and the rotating lineup includes performers such as Annie Cherry, Damian Blake, Alex Espy, Jason Divad, Violet Vendetta, Opal Malone, Phillip Hoosier, Voler Aerial Acrobats, Sweet Louise, Daisy Bucket, Ruby von Blush, Vlad Fortuna, and many, many more!

Expect jugglers, hoopers, aerial acrobats, burlesque gals and guys, big musical numbers, authentic vaudeville style skits, comics, special out-of-town guests, magic, and other bits of business!

No advance tickets, no fuss, just come as you are, pay a modest cover charge, and enjoy with your friends. Celebrate the New Century!

The New Century Follies at the Folly Theater, Friday, April 6, 2012, at 9:30pm.

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13. Hugh Jackman – “Everything Old Is New Again”
from: The Boy From Oz Original Cast Recording / Decca / 2003

14. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

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Show #414

March 28 – WMM presents: Bobby Asher, Elsa Rae, and The New Century Follies!

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

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Bobby Asher of Hearts of Darkness + Elsa Rae
+ Guest Host Philip Hooser & The New Century Follies

Mark plays music from Seun Kuti, The Hearts of Darkness, Making Movies, and others.

Hearts of Darkness & Making Movies

At 10:15 Mark talks with Bobby Asher from Hearts of Darkness about playing SXSW; the band’s show with Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Friday, March 30, at The Granada in Lawrence; and their show with Making Movies at the recordBar, Saturday, March 31, (all ages dinner show) at 6:00, Hearts of Darkness playing at 6:15 PM and Making Movies at 7:30 PM. The late show (21+) opens at 9:00 PM with Making Movies, at 9:30 PM and Hearts of Darkness at 11:15 PM. More info at: therecordbar.com.

Elsa Rae

At 10:35 Mark welcomes Kansas City based singer and songwriter Elsa Rae. Elsa Rae plays her original songs with Vincent her Ukulele, Mozart the Toy Piano, and Sebastian F. Schwartz the Kazoo. You can learn more about her music at: elsarae.bandcamp.com and reverbnation.com/elsarae

At 11:00, Philip blue owl Hooser is our guest host & producer for a special show that will dance us through the history of a 112-year-old KC landmark, The Folly Theatre. Philip will share music and stories of the Folly from its early vaudeville days through its rebirth as a burlesque house to entertain soldiers during WWII; from its near-destruction in the 1970s to The New Century Follies — bringing vaudeville back to the Folly. Philip talks with Dr. Felicia Hardison Londré (Curators’ Professor of Theatre) at UMKC. Philip also welcomes special guests: Annie Cherry, Damian Blake, and Daisy Bucket, who’ll all be appearing in The New Century Follies at the Folly Theater, on Friday, April 6, 2012, at 9:30pm.

The Folly Theatre

The Folly Theater opened in 1900 as “The Century,” starting out as a vaudeville house featuring variety arts, comics, and singers. Burlesque was also presented, in big production numbers with special themes and moving tableaus on stage. Now 112 years later KC’s most creative performers are teaming up with The Folly Theatre to bring vaudeville, variety, and dancing girls back to the stage. The New Century Follies DEBUT SHOW at the Folly Theater, on Friday, April 6, 2012, at 9:30pm, will feature: Annie Cherry, Damian Blake, Opal Malone, Sweet Louise, Voler Aerial Acrobatics, Jason Divad, Phil Hoosier, Daisy Bucket, Violet Vendetta, Veronica Voodoo, Vlad Fortuna (St. Louis), Ruby von Blush, Jessalyn Kincaid, Shelby Floyd and with ALL LIVE MUSIC by The People’s Liberation Big Band led by Brad Cox.

The New Century Follies

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Show #414

WMM Playlist from March 21, 2012

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

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

New & Local Releases + Middle of The Map Fest
+ John Velghe LIVE!

1. Mates of State – “Palomino”
from: Mountaintops / Barsuk / Sept. 13, 2011
[Single release: December 1, 2011. 7th full-length album from indie pop husband-and-wife duo of Kori Gardner (vocals, organ, synthesizer, piano, electric piano, and occasional guitar) and Jason Hammel (vocals, drums, percussion, and occasional synthesizer) who met in Lawrence, Kansas, and formed the band in 1997.]

[Mates of State play The Middle of The Map Fest. Friday April 6, 9:45pm – 10:45pm @ The Beaumont Club 4050 Pennsylvania Ave KCMO]

2. Jonquil – “It’s My Part”
from: Point of Go / Dovecote / Feb 21, 2012
[Hugo Manuel, Sam Hudson Scott, Robin McDiarmid and Dominic Hand, four men in their early twenties living in Oxford, England. All tracks produced by Manuel who also records solo under the name Chad Valley. Part of Oxford’s Blessing Force collective, Jonquil, alongside Pet Moon, Trophy Wife, Fixers, Rhosyn, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Chad Valley, represent the musically creative output of today’s Oxford.]

[Jonquil plays the Middle of The Map Fest. on Saturday April 7 at the recordBar.]

10:14

3. Capybara – “Neighbor Crimes”
from: Dave Drusky / The Record Machine / February 7, 2012
[Lifelong friends Mark Harrison, Jared Horne, Darin Seal, and Joel Wrolstad formed Capybara in January, of 2009, since then they signed up with The Record Machine, released their debut recording “Try Brother” to critical acclaim, went on a 44 city tour, made a fan out of film maker Spike Jonze, recorded the soundtrack for the Independent film “One Two Many Mornings,” They backed up Daniel Johnston at last year’s Middle of The Map Festival, and now have just released their new record: “Dave Drusky.”]

[Capybara plays The Middle of The Map Fest. Fri. April 6, 7:45pm – 8:45pm @ The Beaumont Club 4050 Pennsylvania Ave KCMO]

4. Sam Billen – “Heartbeat of the City”
from: Tokyo Sessions / The Record Machine / 2009
[From Lawrence, Kansas, In 2009, Sam Billen released Headphones & Cellphones with The Record Machine. It was his first his first solo record in 5 years since leaving Northern Records who also released his decade-long band, The Billions, who disbanded in 2008. After the break up of the Billions, Sam took some time to focus on making his own music and starting a family. Sam works full time at the University of Kansas, and rstarted a new business, BillenSounds, LLC.]

[Sam Billen & The Billions play The Middle of The Map Fest. Saturday April 7, at 3:45pm – 5:00pm @ The Record Bar 1020 Westport Road, KCMO.]

5. White Denim – “Drug”
from: D / Downtown Records / May 24, 2011
[4th full-length studio album by four-piece rock band from Austin, Texas that includes: James Petralli – vocals, guitar; Joshua Block – drums; Steven Terebecki – vocals, bass; Austin Jenkins – guitar.]

[White Denim plays The Middle of The Map Fest. Sat. Apr. 7, 12:00 – 1:00am @ Riot Room 4048 Broadway KCMO.]

6. Mission of Burma – “Academy Fight Song”
from: Signals, Calls and Marches / Matador / (August 1981) Remastered by by Matador in 2008
[American post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979. The band was formed by Roger Miller (guitar), Clint Conley (bass), Peter Prescott (drums) and Martin Swope (tape manipulator/sound engineer). Miller, Conley and Prescott share singing and songwriting duties. In early years the band’s recordings were all released on the small Boston-based record label Ace of Hearts. Despite initial success, Mission of Burma disbanded in 1983 due to Miller’s development of tinnitus caused by the volume of the band’s live performances. The band released only one album in its original lineup, Vs.. Mission of Burma reformed in 2002, with Bob Weston replacing Swope, and has since recorded three more albums, ONoffON, The Obliterati, and The Sound The Speed The Light.]

[Mission of Burma plays The Middle of The Map Fest. Friday April 6, 11:30pm – 1:00am @ The Record Bar 1020 Westport Road, KCMO.]

Middle of The Map Fest

10:30 – Interview with Chris Haghirian and Nathan Reusch

Chris Haghirian is a 12 year veteran of The KC Star and helped launch INK in 2008. For the past 3 years Chris has heroically served a one of the primary organizers of MidCoast Takeover SXSW, recognized nationally by USA Today. For the past two years Chris has helped organize and cultivate The Middle of The Map Festival. Chris is also a regular contributor to The Mailbox, a weekly radio podcast produced & hosted by Michael Byars, available at midwestmusicfound.org.

Nathan Ruesch is co-founder and manager of The Record Machine, an Independent KC based record label, founded in 2003, Nathan Ruesch also djays at The Union, on a semi regular basis with Dan Eaton, who is one of the 30 plus artists & bands in The Record Machine family. With Chris, Nathan is the co-mastermind, of The Middle of The Map Festival.

Chris talked about the SXSW Music festival in Austin and The MidCoast Takeover

Ink’s Middle of the Map Fest, April 5-7, 100+ Bands. 8 Venues. 10 Stages. 3 Days.

Mission of Burma – legendary punk band

Friends – from Brooklyn,

Jonquil – 4 piece band from Oxford England fronted by Hugo Manuel aka Chad Valley

Chad Valley – Electronica (a.ka. Hugo Manuel) from Oxford England.

Baby Teardrops – from KC and NYC,

Saintseneca – folk band from Columbus, Ohio.

Neon Indian, – Indie electronica from Denton, TX and Mexican-born Alan Palomo

Phantasmagoria – electro-rock/pop duo from Detroit Michigan

Mr. Gnome – gritty, space-psychedelia duo from Cleveland, Ohio.

Nerves Junior – 4 piece indie rock band from Louisville, Kentucky

Keep Shelly In Athens – an electronic / downtempo duo from Athens, Greece.

A Lull – Indie Rock from Chicago

fun. – indie pop band from New York, New York

Beacon – Electronica from Brooklyn, NYC

Acid Mothers Temple, –

Venues: Record Bar, Riot Room, Beaumont Club, Union, Gusto Lounge, Firefly Lounge, McCoy’s, Westport Coffeehouse

Featuring over 70 KC area bands:
Capybara, Cowboy Indian Bear, Soft Reeds, Ad Astra Arkestra, Motorboater, Max Justus, Sam Billen, The ACB’s, Ghosty, The Life and Times, Molly McGuire, The Esoteric, Season To Risk, Cher UK, Olympic Size, Thee Water MoccaSins, Everyday/Everynight, Fullbloods, Empty Spaces, The Caves, Oriole Post, Maps For Travelers, Spirit Is The Spirit, Grisly Hand, Beautiful Bodies, The Latenight Callers, Miles Bonny, Les Izmore, Diverse Trio, Sara Swenson & The Pearl Snaps, Sons of Great Dane, Quiet Corral, American Catastrophe, Dollar Fox, Minden, Cherokee Rock Rifle, She’s A Keeper, Casket Lottery, We Are Voices, Blackbird Review, Deep Thinkers, Greg Enemy, Stik Figa, Making Movies, The Appleseed Cast, Thom Hoskins, Old Canes, Minus Story, Hospital Ships, La Guerre, Believers, Jaeniki, Steddy P, Louiz Rip, Gee Watts, the Phantom, Molly Picture Club, Deadringers, Team Bear Club, Apples for Archers, Mask and Glove, The Conquerors, Diverse Trio, The Slowdown, In The Grove, Waiting For Signal, Dan Jones, Fourth of July, Brent Tactic, The Devil, and Reflector.

Also featuring:
Fucked Up, Murder by Death, El Ten Eleven, White Denim, Deastro, Coalesce, Hooray for Earth, Owen, Elite Gymnastics, Gold Motel, Broncho, Akkilles, Beau Jennings and The Tigers, the Loom, Christopher Paul Stelling, Sleepy Kitty, Farout, Altos, JBoamb, Dallas, schwervon, Telegraph Canyon, Murder By Death, Shaun DuVall, Mansions, The Phantom Family Halo, DJ Maxx, and Unicycle Loves You.

Special curated shows from The Record Machine and Golden Sounds Records.

To get all the details you can visit: middleofthemapfest.com

Middle of the Map Fest, Ink Magazine and The Record Machine are hosting The Forum at OfficePort, StagePort & Screenland on Thurs & Fri, Apr 5th & 6th, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM.

SPEAKERS include:

BILL ZAHNER, President and CEO of Zahner, is recognized as expert on the use of metals in artwork and architecture. The American Institute of Architects bestowed upon him an honorary AIA membership in 2007 for his dedication to the profession of Architecture, his knowledge of metal building envelopes, and his contributions to advancing the quality of the built environment.

BOB BERKEBILE is a founding principal of BNIM and has contributed over four decades to the architectural profession. Bob and his firm are setting new standards for regenerative design & resource efficiency at the building & community scales. Thru their involvement, energy, materials & human resources efficiency strategies are being implemented on a broad range of projects across the country.

PORTER ARNEILL, KC Municipal Art Commission. Porter Arneill holds a Master’s degree in fine art from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He has served as the Director of Education and Adjunct Curator at Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum and as the Director of Public Art and Education for the Regional Arts Commission, both in St. Louis. He has been the Director/Public Art Administrator for the Kansas City, Missouri Municipal Art Commission since 2002.

PETER WITTE, Dean of the Conservatory of Music and Dance and Professor of Conducting at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (appointed in August, 2008.) During this time, the Conservatory has partnered w/ the Kansas City Symphony, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Friends of Chamber Music, the KC Ballet, the Greater KC Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Council, the Crossroads Arts District, the Arts Council of Kansas City, and the American Jazz Museum. Mr. Witte serves on the Mayor’s Task Force for the Arts in Kansas City.

JULIÁN ZUGAZAGOITIA, Director of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and took his post September 1, 2010. Since arriving at the Museum, he has shown a high interest in reaching out to the community and in making the Nelson-Atkins more open and accessible to all visitors. Born in Mexico and educated at the Sorbonne Paris IV in France, Zugazagoitia speaks six languages and has worked at institutions in the Americas and Europe. Before moving to Kansas City.

PANELISTS
In the spirit of David Bohm’s “on Dialogue”, panelists will facilitate hour long dialogues exploring the challenges facing the future of art, culture, and technology.

Anthony Magliano | Quixotic Fusion
Rachel Hack | Google Fiber
Gregory Kratofil | Polsinelli Shughart
Ford Sypher | Team Rubicon
Joe Reardon | KCKS Mayor
Sly James | KCMO Mayor
Barry Anderson | UMKC
Steve Miller | MindMixer
Stephen Hardy | BNIM
Jon Stephens | Rockhill Strategic
Json Myers | Artist
Cara Lewis | Cara&Cabezas
Danny O’Neill | The Roasterie
Matt Dehaemers | Artist
Ryan Weber | KCnext
Jeff Owens | Goodfriends Entertainment
Andy McLeod | VML
Teri Rogers | Take2
Jonathan Arnold | Arnold Imaging
Christina Hoxie | BNIM
Shaul Jolles | OfficePort
Sean Kelley | City Arts Project
Rachel Pollack | New Roots for Refugees
Jase Wilson | Luminopolis
Jeremy Eccles | Rade|Eccles
Gregory Kolsto | Oddly Correct
John Raux | Artist
Michael Gelphman | KCITP
Daniel Dermitzel | Cultivate Kansas City
Chris Cardinal | Huddle Strategic
Mark O’Renick | Salva O’Renick
Anne St. Peter | Global Prairie
Kate Hackman | Charlotte Street

For more info: middleofthemapfest.com

Ink’s Middle of the Map Fest, April 5-7, featuring over 80 Bands, in 8 Venues, on 10 Stages, in 3 Days. More info at: middleofthemapfest.com

10:45

7. Ghosty – “You Saved Me”
from: GHOSTY / More Famouser Records / April 17, 2012
[Ghosty is Andrew Connor, Mike Nolte an Bill Belzer who recorded their new album themselves over the last couple of years with help from David Wetzel, Josh Adams, Jake Blanton, Konnor Ervin, Ryan Connor, Kirsten Paludan, and Dan Talmadge. The new release will be pressed on vinyl and available on LP and digital download. More info at ghostysounds.com.]

[Ghosty and Hospital Ships will be performing at College Night at the Kemper Museum, Saturday, March 31, From 7 to 10, with screenings of video works by students from the Kansas City Art Institute and University of Missouri-Kansas City. GHOSTY plays The Middle of The Map Fest. Friday April 6, 8:30pm – 9:30pm @ Gusto Lounge 504 Westport Rd, KCMO.]

8. Power and Light – “Joy in My Sorrow”
from: EP / Independent / January 14, 2012
[A new collaboration between Nathan Readey (production) and Andrew Connor (songs, vocals). Their music is described as pop, chill, downtempo, electropop, french pop. Mixing new Ghosty songs before Ghosty releases their new songs.]

9. Andrew Bird – “Give It Away”
from: Break It Yourself / Mom + Pop / March 6, 2012
[6th solo studio album from 38 year old musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist and follow up to his critically acclaimed 2009 release “Noble Beast.” Andrew Bird will be in Concert in Kansas City on Friday, March 23 at The Uptown Theatre.]

11:00

10. Ruthie Foster – “Welcome Home”
from: Let It Burn / Blue Corn Music / Jan 31, 2012
[Ruthie Foster will be in concert in Kansas City with Paul Thorn, Wednesday, March 28, at 8:00 pm, at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester KCMO]

11. Sara Swenson – “All Things Big and Small”
from: All Things Big and Small / Independent / 2010
[KC based singer songwriter Sara Swenson, is a full time high school teacher at Platte County High School in Platte City, in her 9th year of teaching. This is the follow-up to her 2009 critically acclaimed selt titled debut. She also released a new EP in late 2011. Sara Swenson & the Pearl Snaps will be in concert w/ David Burchfield at the R Bar March 24. Sara Swenson aand the Pearl Snapsl play the Middle of The Map Fest. Friday April 6, 10:00pm – 11:00pm @ McCoys 4057 Pennsylvania Ave, KCMO]

12. Diverse – “Sojourner”
from: Diverse / Origin Records / July 21, 2009
[Mentored by the great Bobby Watson at University of Missouri-KC, trumpeter Hermon Mehari, saxophonist William Sanders, pianist John Brewer, bassist Ben Leifer, and drummer Ryan Lee were the winners of the 2008 Origin Records / Gene Harris Jazz Festival Competition, and were awarded a deal to record this album of original music.]

Hermon Mehari, Ben Leifer, and Ryan Lee make up: Diverse Trio and will play The Middle of The Map Fest. Sat. Apr. 7, 12:15 – 1:00am @ Riot Room Patio 4048 Broadway St.

ALSO: Hermon Mehari & The KC High School All Star Jazz Ensemble Present the Music of Duke Ellington & Count Basie at the RecordBar this Saturday, March 24, at 7:00 PM.

At 10:00 PM Hermon Mehari & Diverse.

at 11:30 John Velghe & the Prodigal Sons play at 11:30 PM at the RecordBar, 1020 Westport Road.

13. John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons– “Assume The Ground”
from: Don’t Let Me Stay / Lakeshore Records / March 13, 2012
[John Velghe – vox, guitars, keyboards. The Prodigal Sons: Mike Alexander – guitar, mandolin, backing vocals; Chris Wagner – bass, backing vocals; GoGo Ray – drum set; Hermon Mehari – trumpet; Sam Hughes – saxophone; Mike Walker – trombone. With: Kirsten Paludan – vocals; James Mitchell – cello; Whitney Williamson – violin; Catherine Root – violin. John Velghe will be our guest on Mar. 21, to talk about the new record and play a few songs LIVE. John will be concert at The recordBar, Feb 10, w/ 7-piece, “The Prodigal Sons.” “Don’t Let Me Stay” will have a special release concert, Mar. 24, at The Record Bar that’ll include an 11 piece ensemble, including string players and a horn section.]

John Velghe

11:16 – Interview with John Velghe

KC based musician John Velghe has just returned from the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas, where his band The Prodigal Sons, were featured in Alejandro Escovedo’s annual SXSW Party, held at The Continental Club, on Sunday Night, March 19, and where John performed on the same stage as Lenny Kaye of The Patti Smith Band, Garland Jeffreys, Tommy Stinson of The Replacements, and Peter Buck and Mike Mills of R.E.M. For over 20 years now John Velghe has been creating music and touring in bands including: The Daybirds, Saint Jude, famous fm, and Mendoza Lie. As a composer John Velghe has scored feature-length documentaries and short films. In 2010 John released his first solo EP and last week his new, full length album, “Don’t Let Me Stay,” was released on vinyl from Lakeshore Records. John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons will be concert this Saturday, March 24, at the recordBar, 1020 Westport Rd, in a special recording release show that will include an 11-piece ensemble, including string players and a horn section.

Alejandro Escovedo joined John Velghe on stage to sing Iggy Pop’s “I Wanna Be your Dog.”

John Velghe’s new recording, “Don’t Let Me Stay,” features a track called “Austin (you sorta stole my heart),” that you wrote on the street in Austin, at last year’s festival.

“Don’t Let Me Stay” features John Velghe on lead vocals, guitars, & keyboards, with, The Prodigal Sons: Mike Alexander on guitar, mandolin, backing vocals; Chris Wagner on bass, backing vocals; GoGo Ray on drum set; Hermon Mehari on trumpet; Sam Hughes on saxophone; Mike Walker on trombone. With: Kirsten Paludan on vocals; James Mitchell on cello; Whitney Williamson on violin; Catherine Root on violin.

The Prodigal Sons:

Mike Alexander, on guitar, also of punk band Hipshot Killer, country band Starhaven Rounders, and Irish rock band, Blarney Stoned.

Chris Wagner on bass, also of punk band Hipshot Killer, and the Revolvers, played with John in their band The Mendoza Lie.

“Go-Go Ray” Pollard on the drum kit, a nationally recognized drummer.

Mike Walker, on Trombone who played in tow of my favorite bands: Doris Henson and Olympic Size (with Wade Williamson and Kirsten Paludan, both of whom play in Mike Alexander’s Starhaven Rounders) as well as The Maytags, a “neo-dub explosion” led by Zach Phillips of the Architects and The Gadjits.

Sam Hughes, on Saxophone who plays with Hearts of Darkness, and the Gamelan and was a founding member of the band Sky Burial.

Hermon Mehari on trumpet, who also is know as a founding member of Diverse Trio. Who also collaborates with many area hip hop artists including Lez Izmore of H o D.

This Saturday Night, March 24, Hermon Mehari & The KC High School All Star Jazz Ensemble Present the Music of Duke Ellington & Count Basie at the RecordBar at 7:00 PM. At 10:00 PM Hermon Mehari & Diverse Jazz open for John Velghe & the Prodigal Sons who go on at 11:30 PM at the RecordBar.

11:24

14. John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons – “The Occupier” (Live)
Also available on: Don’t Let Me Stay / Lakeshore Records / March 13, 2012

John Velghe has also produced and recorded projects for Krystle Warren, The Depth and The Whisper, and hip hop artist Blydell. John created Guttersnipe Recording 10 years ago.

We mentioned Alejandro Escovedo, some of your other influences include Brian Wilson, The Replacements, John Lennon, The Stooges, Hayden, The Daybirds, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy, Will Johnson, Quincy Jones, Jim Keltner, Richard Buckner, Townes Vansandt, Big Star, Bob Wills, Superchunk, Husker Dü, Matt Wilson, REM, Guadal Canal Diary, Thin White Rope, The Loud Families.

In your 20 years of working in the music scene what are your thoughts of the Kansas City Music Scene?

Lakeshore Records is based in Beverly Hills, California.

From John’s biographical information:
John Velghe writes songs leaning towards personal narratives and accounts of people he’s met over 20 years of playing in bands and touring. From a friend’s ex-wife in Austin to a four-year-old waitress in Lucas, Kansas to a transvestite railroad worker he met on the banks of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota; Velghe populates his songs with real characters who’ve informed personal allegories about escape, transformation and fear.

11:35

15. John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons – “Heaven’s Waitress” (LIVE)
Also available on: Don’t Let Me Stay / Lakeshore Records / March 13, 2012

John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons will be concert on Saturday, Mar. 24, at The Record Bar, 1020 Westport Road, in a special recording release show that will include an 11-piece ensemble, including string players and a horn section. More info at: johnvelghe.com

11:45

16. Hidden Pictures – “Just A Little Bit More”
from: Synchronized Sleeping / Hidden Pictures / April 1, 2011
[Richard Gintowt and Michelle Sanders first met at the recordBar and performed together in OK Jones before starting Hidden Pictures. This is their debut full length. Several songs had been previously released in two separate EPs in 2010. Hidden Pictures will be in concert at The recordBar, 1010 Westport Road, on Friday, March 23 at 10:00 PM followed by Rusty Scott & The Enormous at 11:00 PM and Wildlife City at Midnight.]

17. The Cars – “Just What I Needed”
from: The Cars / Elektra / May 1978
[Lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson formed The Cars in Boston, Mass, and were signed to Elektra Records in 1977. The Cars were at the forefront in merging 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synth-oriented pop. The band broke up in 1988. Bassist Benjamin Orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer. The surviving original members reunited in 2010 to record a new album, titled Move Like This, which was released May 10, 2011, and toured to support the album. Sonic Spectrum presents a tribute to The Cars featuring members of Minden, White Girl, Be/Non, Deco Auto, Lazy, The Sexy Accident and more. March 25 at 7:00 PM at the recordBar. A portion of the proceeds will go to the midwest music foundation.]

11:52

Gregory Russell Clark

I met Greg Clark though my friend April Fletcher. Greg & April were young students together at UMKC, just starting out in the world. Gregory Russell Clark had went to Bishop Hogan High School and eventually graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the UMKC Conservatory of Music in 1991.

Greg worked professionally in NYC as a singer, arranger, producer, coach, and contractor. His vocals can be heard on the NBC Television show “Smash” where he worked with composer Marc Shaiman. Greg sang with so many of the most successful artists in the business, including: The Roots, Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, the list goes on forever. Greg sang all over the world, in venues including Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Carnegie Hall. Greg’s voice can be heard in numerous television on a radio commercials, singing back up for superstar vocalists and producers in the studio, and touring with many many artists and bands. Oleta Adams gave Greg his first big break in the music business.

Greg’s voice was rich with a beautiful range. He could sing as deep as Barry White and seamlessly climb to his beautiful falsetto.

In the early hours of Tuesday, March 20, Gregory Russell Clark, passed away, in his NYC apartment, leaving friends & musical comrades in shock. We just cannot believe he is gone.

Greg’s voice was so very big, and so was his heart, and his soul, and his loyalty to friends, and his sense of justice, and his unforgettable laugh. I once asked Greg to be a part of a performance art piece I performed in the early 1990’s, about North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. Greg played the part of Mr. Rogers, and even though he was a little nervous, he played the part with honesty, and with his beautiful heart and voice shining through.

Steffani Bennett, gave me permission to play a song that Greg recorded as a demo. The song is called “This Love Won’t Wait.”

Gregory Russell Clark was a man who followed his dreams and lived them, we’ll miss his voice & heart, Gregory Russell Clark, we love you.

18. Gregory Russell Clark – “This Love Wont Wait”
written by Steffani Bennett & Nunzio Signore (recorded as a demo)

19. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

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Sources for Notes: Artist’s websites noted above and wikipedia.org

Show #413

March 21 – John Velghe LIVE!

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

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

New & Local Releases + Middle of The Map Fest
+ John Velghe LIVE!

Mark plays more Local & New Releases from: Mates of State, Jonquil, Capybara, Sam Billen, White Denim, Mission of Burma, Ghosty, Power and Light, Andrew Bird, Ruthie Foster, Sara Swenson, Diverse, John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons, Gemini Revolution, Hidden Pictures, and The Cars.

At 10:30 AM Mark talks with Chris Haghirian of the KC Star and INK, and Nathan Reusch of The Record Machine. Chris and Nathan join us to discuss Ink’s Middle of the Map Fest, April 5-7, featuring over 80 Bands, in 8 Venues, on 10 Stages, in 3 Days. The line-up features: Friends, Chad Valley, Baby Teardrops, Saintseneca, Neon Indian, Phantasmagoria, Jonquil, Mr. Gnome, Nerves Junior, Keep Shelly In Athens, A Lull, fun., Beacon, Mission of Burma, Fucked Up, Murder by Death, El Ten Eleven, White Denim, Deastro, Coalesce, Hooray for Earth, Acid Mothers Temple, Casket Lottery, The Life and Times, Owen, Elite Gymnastics, Gold Motel, Capybara, Cowboy Indian Bear, Soft Reeds, Molly McGuire, Reflector, Minus Story, The Esoteric, Season To Risk, Hospital Ships, Broncho, Ad Astra Arkestra, Thee Water MoccaSins, Deadringers, La Guerre, Motorboater, Everyday/Everynight, Maps For Travelers, Spirit Is The Spirit, Max Justus, Sam Billen, Believers, Akkilles, Beau Jennings, Christopher Paul Stelling, Sleepy Kitty and Unicycle Loves You. More info at: middleofthemapfest.com

At 11:15 Mark welcomes Kansas City based musician and songwriter John Velghe who will play LIVE in our 90.1 FM Studios. John will also discuss his new recording: “Don’t Let Me Stay” from Lakeshore Records. The new record features John Velghe on lead vocals, guitars, and keyboards, with his band, The Prodigal Sons: Mike Alexander on guitar, mandolin, backing vocals; Chris Wagner on bass, backing vocals; GoGo Ray on drum set; Hermon Mehari on trumpet; Sam Hughes on saxophone; Mike Walker on trombone. With: Kirsten Paludan on vocals; James Mitchell on cello; Whitney Williamson on violin; and Catherine Root on violin. John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons will be concert on Saturday, Mar. 24, at The Record Bar, 1020 Westport Road, in a special recording release show that will include an 11 piece ensemble, including string players and a horn section. More info at: johnvelghe.com

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Show #413