WMM Playlist from April 17, 2019

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Mark Manning

Wednesday MidDay Medley
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro & Topeka Freedom Singers
+ Sean Mawhirter & Mundo Nouvo + Emmaline Twist

1. “It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Orig. Motion Picture Soundtrack All That Jazz / Casablanca / Dec 20, 1979
[WMM’s opening theme]

2. The Get Up Kids – “The Problem Is Me”
from: Problems / Polyvinyl Record Co / May 10, 2019
[KC / Lawrence KS based band with Matt Pryor on vocals & guitars, Jim Suptic on guitar, Rob Pope on bass, James Dewees on keyboards, Ryan Pope on drums. Formed in 1995, the band was a major player in the mid-1990s emo scene, otherwise known as the “second wave” of emo music. As they gained prominence, they began touring with bands such as Green Day and Weezer before becoming headliners themselves, eventually embarking on international tours of Japan and Europe. The Get Up Kids Members Rob Pope is also in the band Spoon; Jim Suptic is in the bands: Blackpool Lights, and Radar State; James Dewees is in the band Reggie and the Full Effect; and Matt Pryor performs often as a solo artists, and in the bands: Radar State, and The New Amsterdams. On their new album Problems—their first full-length in eight years—The Get Up Kids examine everything from life-changing loss to loneliness to the inevitable anxiety of existing in 2019. But by sustaining the essence of their sound—anthemic choruses with sing-along-ready melodies—the band highlights those troubles as a shared experience, giving way to an unbreakable solidarity. And at the heart of Problems is an invaluable element the band’s embodied since their 1997 debut Four Minute Mile: a penetrating lyricism that’s both acutely introspective and indelibly resonant. // The follow-up to 2018’s Kicker EP, Problems came to life in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with the band holing up together for a three-week span. Working with Grammy Award-winning producer Peter Katis (Kurt Vile, Japandroids, The National), The Get Up Kids took a characteristically riff-driven yet decidedly pop-minded approach to song structure, while also allowing themselves a new sense of creative freedom. “At one point with this band, if we came up with something that felt too much like when we first started out, we would’ve said, ‘No, we can’t do that anymore,’” says Pryor. “These days we’ve learned how to write without roadblocking the ideas that come naturally to us.” // Kicking off with lead single “Satellite,” Problems opens on a stark arrangement of acoustic guitar and stripped-bare vocals, then bursts into brightly crashing rhythms and lyrics revealing the time-bending quality of The Get Up Kids’ songwriting. “I started writing ‘Satellite’ about my son who’s 14 and a total introvert—not antisocial, he just genuinely likes to keep to himself,” says Pryor. “But then somewhere down the line I started singing about myself—about how even when you’re playing a show to a room full of people, I can still feel anxious and isolated.” // Throughout Problems, The Get Up Kids again prove themselves attuned to the nuance of highly specific emotions, and ultimately validate the messiest and most nebulous of feelings. On the joyfully swinging, piano-heavy “The Problem Is Me,” for instance, the band explores the notion of embracing your own romantic dysfunction, while “Salina” captures a small moment of melancholy with sweeping intensity and sprawling guitar work. Later, on “Your Ghost Is Gone,” The Get Up Kids deliver a gently devastating piano ballad sparked from an instrumental piece Dewees wrote soon after his mother’s death. // Through the years, The Get Up Kids have purposely pushed themselves toward previously unexplored songwriting material. “I’m 41 now, I could never write a song like when I was 19—all those ‘I miss my girlfriend’ kind of songs,” Suptic says. “It’s always important to us to write about wherever we are right now.” As shown on Problems, the resulting output both preserves the beloved spirit of The Get Up Kids and creates an entirely new context for their music. “A big part of the reason why we started writing new songs in the first place is that we have things we want to say about this moment in time,” says Pryor. “We’re still so connected to our past and where this all came from—it’s definitely a celebration of the fact that we still get to do this.” ]

3. Weyes Blood – “Andromedia”
from: Titanic Rising / Sub Pop Records / April 5, 2019
[Weyes Blood is Natalie Mering, born June 11, 1988, in Santa Monica, CA and grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She has released 4 albums and an EP. Both her siblings and parents are musicians and music played an important part in her upbringing. Her older brother, Zak Mering, is also a noteworthy recording artist, producer and songwriter under the “Raw Thrills” alias. At the age of 15 Mering began using the moniker Wise Blood to write songs. She changed to Weyes Bluhd on several self released records before changing the spelling to Weyes Blood. She took the name from the Flannery O’Connor novel Wise Blood. At the same time, while working on her own material, she toured the underground music scene with bands Jackie-O Motherfucker and Nautical Almanac. In 2011 she released the album The Outside Room as Weyes Blood And The Dark Juices on Not Not Fun Records. Uncut magazine described the album as “the vibe is devotional and ethereal, but with an edge”, while Beatbots found it “an impressive and ambitious album”. Natalie released her second record in October 2014 called The Innocents, which was released through Mexican Summer. In 2016 she released the album Front Row Seat to Earth on Mexican Summer to great acclaim throughout the music industry, and has spent the past few years touring throughout Europe and the states.]

4. Lambchop – “Everything for You”
from: This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You) / Merge Records / March 22, 2019
[Lambchop, originally from Nashville, was ever a band with a “core” lineup, Lambchop has consisted of a large and fluid collective of musicians focused around its creative centre, frontman Kurt Wagner. AllMusic referred to tLambchop as “arguably the most consistently brilliant and unique American group to emerge during the 1990s”. Initially indebted to traditional country, the music has subsequently moved through a range of influences including post-rock, soul and lounge music. Whatever the style, the characteristic mood of Lambchop’s music is evoked by Wagner’s distinctive songwriting: lyrically subtle and ambiguous, the vocals melodic but understated. Not so long ago, Lambchop had a famously sprawling line-up, toting a dozen or so members around the world and into the studio to document elliptical country-soul mutations. But in recent years, the band has become a more personal vehicle for Kurt Wagner. Anchored by him and framed by bassist Matt Swanson and Wagner’s incorrigibly grinning foil, the pianist Tony Crow, the Lambchop of this decade has become more pliant and adaptable, opening itself to unexpected collaborators that give Wagner’s thoughts and feelings the shape they need for each new album.]

5. Shy Boys – “Dim The Light”
from: Dim The Light / Brick By Brick – Single / Polyvinyl Record Co. / February 15, 2019
[New single release and follow up to the band’s second album and Polyvinyl debut, Bell House. Shy Boys line-up consists of brothers Collin Rausch and Kyle Rausch, Konnor Ervin, Kyle Little and Ross Brown. The group formed shortly after the trio became roommates in 2012. Kyle Rausch and Konnor Ervin were already band mates in the indie-pop band The ACBs and Collin had been playing for years in the Kansas City area in various bands. The three shared a love for 1960s era pop rock and soon started writing their own music. In 2014 they released the self-titled Shy Boys on High Dive Records. The album received generally positive reviews and the single “Bully Fight” was featured on Spin.com. In June 2014 the band recorded and released two more singles and one of them, “Life Is Peachy,” was featured on Stereogum. On April 4th, 2018, it was announced that the band had signed to Polyvinyl Record Co.]

[Shy Boys play VooDoo Lounge 1 Riverboat Dr, KCMO, with Berwanger And Kid Computer on Saturday, April 20 at 7:30 PM]

10:18 – Underwriting

6. LK Ultra – “Two Spirit”
from: Demos For Bengal / LK Ultra / March 19, 2019
[Lawrence, Kansas based 4-piece indigenous-fronted, queer music, straight from the birthplace of emo. Formed by Lily Pryor, Inez Robinson, Aoife Conway, and August Hyde. The EP release was mixed and recorded by Mitchell Hewlett in The Coop.]

[LK Ultra play an All Ages Show, at Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St, Lawrence on Friday, April 19, with an early show at 6:00 pm and a late show at 10:00 pm for Tune In! A Girls Rock Lawrence Fundraiser and Rebrand Announcement with a new name that represents the range of identities we serve and a new mission statement that better reflects our goal: to amplify the voices and ideas of local youth through social justice and musical expression.]

7. Rita Chiarelli – “These Four Walls”
from: Music from the Big House Soundtrack / Mad Iris Music / April 5, 2011
[Rita Chiarelli was called “the goddess of Canadian blues” by CBC Radio One. Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Chiarelli began performing in Ronnie Hawkins’ band in the early 1980s. She spent several years in Italy. When she returned to Canada, she attracted the attention of film director Bruce McDonald, who included her “Have You Seen My Shoes?” on the soundtrack to his 1989 film Roadkill. Chiarelli and Colin Linden recorded a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited” for McDonald’s 1991 film Highway 61. Chiarelli released her debut album the following year. She has released 9 solo albums. Just Getting Started and Breakfast at Midnight were both nominated for the Juno Award for Best Blues Album. For her last release, Music From The Big House Soundtrack, Rita again collaborates with Director Bruce McDonald in a film that chronicles Rita’s pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues, Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison, where Rita plays music with inmates serving life sentences.]

Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro on the April 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.

10:30 – Interview with Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro

Rita Chiarelli was called “the goddess of Canadian blues” by CBC Radio One. Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Chiarelli began performing in Ronnie Hawkins’ band in the early 1980s. She spent several years in Italy. When she returned to Canada, she quickly attracted the attention of film director Bruce McDonald, who included her “Have You Seen My Shoes?” on the soundtrack to his 1989 film Roadkill. Chiarelli and Colin Linden recorded a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited” for McDonald’s 1991 film Highway 61, and Chiarelli released her debut album the following year on Stony Plain Records. She has released nine solo albums, two of which, Just Getting Started and Breakfast at Midnight were nominated for the Juno Award for Best Blues Album. For her last release, Music From The Big House Soundtrack, Rita again collaborates with Director Bruce McDonald in a film the chronicles her pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues, the Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison, where Rita plays music with inmates serving life sentences. Rita is now in Kansas City working on a new documentary project that began at Folk Alliance International with Mikal Shapiro.

Mikal Shapiro

Mikal Shapiro is a singer, songwriter, artist, filmmaker, puppeteer, ring-leader. Mikal Shapiro is the founder of State City Films – a new media house based in KCMO that she founded to create content that amplifies independent voices and tells stories that ache to be told through documentary and experimental filmmaking practices. Mikal Shapiro has worked on commercial, non-profit and independent productions since 2008. She was Director of Photography for the regional Emmy award-winning film “Tipping Point.” She studied Film History, Film, & Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. She received her MFA in Film/Video/New Media/Animation from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. She has been involved in music and the arts for over two decades. Mikal’s full length solo releases “The Crow The Lark And The Loon” from 2008, and “For Good” from 2010 and “The Musical” from 2017 and “The Musical II” from 2018 have been acclaimed by local music writers.

Rita Chiarelli and Mikal Shapiro join us to talk about their work to facilitate a music program inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women. This project culminates with a concert on May 4 that will be presented to their fellow inmates, families, victims, and the community. Authorities from the Department of Corrections will be invited to attend including the Kansas Governor Laura Kelly. Rita & Mikal are currently in the midst of 10 days of filming, with an all-female crew, inside the facility.

Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.

Rita Chiarelli

Text from their Kickstarter Campaign:

We just heard “These Four Walls” from the Music From The Big House Soundtrack. Rita I heard you explaining in an interview that you “‘cold called” the Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentary to begin the process of bringing a film crew into the prison.

Rita collaborated with Director Bruce McDonald in a film the chronicle her pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues, Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison, where Rita plays music with inmates serving life sentences.

How It Began… Two years ago, through Folk Alliance International, acclaimed Canadian musician and film maker Rita Chiarelli and cinematographer Mikal Shapiro of State City Films were invited into ‘The Topeka Correctional Facility for Women’ in Kansas. For two days, the mission was to bring, perform and share some music with its inmates.

What They Found…It was quickly discovered that unlike penitentiaries that house male inmates, where there are instruments available and some forms of music programs, the women’s facilities more often than not have none, such was the case in Topeka.

So…Rita Chiarelli began to work with the women, teaching them to sing some traditional tunes, and encouraging them to bring into the mix their own writings.

What happened next…midst the bonding that came through working together on the music, stories of unbelievable abuse that the women have suffered in their lives started to emerge. They shared stories of beatings and frankly abuse too difficult to imagine. As Rita and the inmates worked together, the women’s voices began to ‘rise’, begging to be heard.

This story needs to be told…Why? – A phenomenon is happening. While abuse against women is on the rise… more women are being incarcerated than ever before. Sometimes the abuser is the system itself…poverty, social injustice…this story will reveal what some women in society are going through and what leads to their incarceration. Their stories reveal that they too are victims of the detrimental effects of poverty, addiction, physical and sexual abuse and assault.

Now What? A Film…Rita and Mikal plan to go back in. Rita will bring the healing power of music to this maximum security facility .Through the compassionate eye of Mikal’s lens; she will follow Rita as she works with a group of talented inmates and adds music to their compelling writing.

This work will culminate in a concert… a concert that will be presented to their fellow inmates, families, victims and the greater community. Authorities from the Department of Corrections will be invited to attend including the Kansas Governor Laura Kelly.

This concert is an opportunity for the inmates to express their thoughts and emotions as well as reveal a side of themselves that will showcase their humanity. Their expressions set to music and sung out in what will be a cathartic culmination of a difficult yet liberating soul search for the women involved. And through the power of music, these women will ask us all for a little more understanding, forgiveness and maybe another chance.

What we leave behind…Rita has been in touch with an organization that brings instruments and music programs to prisons that have none. They are now in contact to possibly facilitate a music program in Topeka Correctional Facility for Women. The impact this project could have on the wider public is also considerable. What goes on behind the gates of a prison–from the lives of the state employees and guards, to those imprisoned inside the cells–often goes unseen and unheard. This lack of transparency contributes to a lack of accountability on our justice system as well as stigma and stereotypes of lives behind the wall. Creative work that connects people on “both sides of the fence” contributes to a healthier dialogue around crime, crime prevention, justice, rehabilitation, and redemption and an unsustainable system for controlling crime. Bringing artists and musicians into the dialogue can help highlight our collective humanity and work to facilitate criminal justice reform.

Rita and Mikal have planned 10 days of filming with an all-female crew, and a budget of $32,500 to cover this project’s initial costs of filming this documentary.

The Team
Rita Chiarelli – Director/Producer
Mikal Shapiro – Producer/Director of Photography
Khitam Jabr – 1st Assistant Camera/Camera Operator
Alexandra Lambdin – Audio Engineer/Boom Operator
Courtney Williams – Production Assistant

This project has been two years in the planning.

10:39

8. “T” – “T’s Rap”
from: T’s Rap / Mikal Shapiro footage / April, 2019
[Recorded on camera inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women]

We’re talking with Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro about their work to facilitate a music program inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women. This project culminates with a concert on May 4 that will be presented to their fellow inmates, families, victims, and the community. Authorities from the Department of Corrections will be invited to attend including the Kansas Governor Laura Kelly. Rita & Mikal have planned 10 days of filming with an all-female crew inside the facility.

10:42

9. Autumn – “Autumn’s clip for radio”
from: Topeka Freedom Singers / Mikal Shapiro footage / April, 2019
[Recorded on camera inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women]

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10:45

10. Vegas – “Vegas’s Verse clip for radio”
from: Topeka Freedom Singers / Mikal Shapiro footage / April, 2019
[Recorded on camera inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women]

We’re talking with Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro heir work to facilitate a music program inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women. This project culminates with a concert on May 4 that will be presented to their fellow inmates, families, victims, and community. Rita & Mikal have planned 10 days of filming with an all-female crew inside the facility.

Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.

Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro on the April 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.

10:50

11. Rita Chiarelli – “I Can Change For You”
from: Breakfast At Midnight / Mad Iris Music / May 8, 2001
[Rita Chiarelli may very well be the most powerful singer in Canada! Bringing her brand of rock & blues to an ever-increasing loyal audience since she was 15 years old, Rita finished high school in Hamilton Ontario and formed the band Battleaxe, a nine piece R&B band which toured Canada and the US. She then joined the Ronnie Hawkins school of rock and roll for a year and in 1981 left Canada on a trip to Italy, staying six years, touring and working in studios. // Back in Canada in the late 1980s she released a succession of independent singles and had one of her most powerful songs, “Have You Seen My Shoes?”, used on the soundtrack of Bruce McDonald’s Canadian-made movie Roadkill, now a cult favorite. // The success of the first Stony Plain album Road Rockets helped cement Chiarelli’s solid reputation on the club circuit as an exciting, powerhouse performer with a stunning 3 octave range and a no-holds-barred delivery that rocked audiences across North America and Europe. Her 2nd album was co-produced with John Switzer, best known for his work with Jane Siberry, and featured guest appearances by Juno Award-winning guitarist & songwriter Colin Linden and members of country rock band Prairie Oyster. All songs with the exception of the Elvis Presley hit “Love Me” were written by Rita, who’s developed her songwriting skills to the point that other artists are paying attention; Long John Baldry recorded Rita’s song “Midnight in Berlin” on his Right To Sing The Blues. – Parsifal.com]

Heidi Lynne Gluck

12. Heidi Lynne Gluck – “Sadness Is Psychedelic”
from: Pony Show / Lotuspool Records / August 26, 2016
[Lawrence, Kansas based Heidi Lynne Gluck is a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist originally from the middle of Canada. After transplanting herself from the plains of Manitoba to the midwestern United States, Heidi quickly became an in-demand player, performing on stage and in the studio both as a solo artist and with renowned musicians including Juliana Hatfield & Some Girls, Margot & The Nuclear So and Sos, Lily & Madeleine, The Pieces, The Only Children, and others. Heidi Lynne Gluck released the single “Party Line” on Too Much Rock on August 3, 2018.]

11:00 – Station ID

Sean Mawhirter on the April 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.

11:00 – Interview with Sean Mawhirter

Sean Mawhirter, is originally from Wichita, Kansas. He is a guitarist and educator. During his over 20 years in the Kansas City metro music community, he has performed in a variety of settings and styles. Sean is a member of the Kansas City Guitar Society and Fractured Atlas. Sean Mawhirter is also the Artistic Director of Mundo Nouvo, KC’s salsa orchestra whee he also plays guitar in the band, Mundo Nouvo has been honing its style for three years and are ready to release their first full-length album, “Mejor Tarde Que Nunca.” This group play an Album Release Concert, Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM, at The 10 Spot, 1000 Broadway, Blvd., KCMO.

Sean Mawhirter thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.

Combining both Spanish and Haitian-Creole language, Mundo Nouvo [‘mun.do-nu.vo] means “New World”. This ensemble looks to source its material from the roots of Afro-Caribbean music with special emphasis on Cuban and Haitian traditions.

At its fullest, Mundo Nouvo operates as an 11-piece Salsa Orchestra that plays the dance halls for crowds that love the timeless groove of guaracha, merengue, mambo, etc.

This band also adapts to smaller formations (3-8 instruments) to play its repertoire in jazz clubs, restaurants, as well as concert programming.

Mundo Nouvo, KC’s salsa orchestra celebrating it’s first full-length album, “Mejor Tarde Que Nunca.”

Mundo Nouvo

Led by veteran Cuban singer Ramon Terrada.

Mundo Nouvo also includes Jose Miguel Ramos on congas & coro vocals, Felipe “Tato” Ramos on timbales & coro vocals, Tony Ramos on bongos, Will Crain on piano, Daniel Nonweiler on bass, Sean Mawhirter on guitar, Guy Montes on flute & coro vocals, Janne Silfverberg on trombone, Lawrence Jackson on trumpet, David Cunningham on trumpet and frequent contributors: Paul Roberts on piano, Armando Gutierrez on trumpet, and Pat Conway on Congas/Bongos & Drumset.

This group has been honing its style for three years and are ready to share an Album Release Concert, Fri, April 19, at 8:00 PM, at The 10 Spot, 1000 Broadway, Blvd., KCMO.

More information at: http://www.mundonouvo.org

Having assembled some of the best talent in Kansas City, this is not only an active band but a fiscally sponsored Arts Organization that has partnered with the Global Birthing Home Foundation (GBHF) to support their efforts with Maison de Naissance (translates to ‘Birth House’) in Torbeck, Haiti.

Maison de Naissance, a modern, culturally appropriate maternal center, was established in 2004 in Torbeck, Haiti, and is sponsored by GBHF, a 501(c)3 non-profit public charity based in Leawood, KS. Since its establishment, Maison de Naissance has delivered over 4,700 healthy babies, and conducted more than 132,000 consultations.

While all of the revenue raised through the fiscal sponsorship will be attributed to the overhead of maintaining the musical ensemble, the ticket sale proceeds will be donated to the Global Birthing Home Foundation (GBHF).

11:07

13. Mundo Nouvo – “La Esencia del Guaguanco”
from: Live at Kansas Public Radio / Mundo Nouvo – KPR / February 22, 2018

11:12 – Interview with Sean Mawhirter

We are talking with Sean Mawhirter, Artistic Director of Mundo Nouvo, Kansas City’s salsa orchestra celebrating it’s first full-length album, “Mejor Tarde Que Nunca” with an Album Release Concert, Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM, at The 10 Spot, 1000 Broadway, Blvd., KCMO.

Sean Mawhirter thanks for being with us on WMM.

Johnsoncountylifestyle.com reported on Sean Mawhirter travels abroad in both Haiti and Cuba for monthlong research trips in an effort to conduct further study into the musical roots of these two countries that are the guiding inspiration for Mundo Nouvo. This involved formal courses taken at two music academies and private studies with some of the nations’ finest instrumentalists.

For Mawhirter, was quoted as saying, “There are so many wonderful ways educate yourself in music nowadays, but there is no substitute for being in the context of the art. After all, how can you say that you know someone without sitting at their table?”

“I’m really excited about what is down the road for us”, Mawhirter says. “Aside from the academic aspect, there’ll be instruments coming back with me for our educational outreach with K-12 schools. Also, we’re looking to get some of these master musicians up here to perform with us in future concert events for Kansas City audiences.”

Mundo Nouvo has been honing its style for three years and are ready to share an Album Release Concert, Fri, April 19, at 8:00 PM, at The 10 Spot, 1000 Broadway, Blvd., KCMO.

Sean Mawhirter thanks for being with us on WMM.

Mundo Nouvo, KC’s salsa orchestra is celebrating it’s first full-length album, “Mejor Tarde Que Nunca” with an Album Release Concert, Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM, at The 10 Spot, 1000 Broadway, Blvd., KCMO. More information at: http://www.mundonouvo.org

11:19

14. The Phantastics – “Heartbreaker”
from: Life of the Party – EP / Kemet Creative / August 24, 2018
[Eight member band from Kansas City formed in December 0f 2010 made up of: Kemet the Phantom -lead vocals; Kim “Phirst Lady” Newsome on lead vocals; JJ Cantrell on lead guitar & vocals; Danny Florez on electric bass; Ashley Thompson on drums, Ernest Melton on saxophone; Ryan Davis on Trombone and rap vocals; Austin Quick on keyboards. The Phantastics specialize in genre-blending dance floor activators. In 2015, the music group was crowned “Kansas City’s best party band” by the Kansas City Star. Musicianship and diversity are at the core of their success. Rock, Rap, Dance, Funk, Jazz and Soul are all incorporated into their music. “The band that can do it all”, according to I Heart Local Music, has shared the stage with some of music’s most legendary acts including George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic.]

[The Phantastics play The Jazzhaus of Lawrence, 926 Massachusetts St, with Tyler Sanford and the Coalition, Saturday, April 20, at 10:30 PM.]

15. Son Volt – “While Rome Burns”
from: Union / Thirty Tigers / March 29, 2019
[9th studio album from St. Louis, Missouri based band formed in 1994 after the break up of Uncle Tupelo. Jay Farrar on vocals & guitar & harmonica, Andrew Duplantis on bass & backing vocal, Mark Patterson on drums, Chris Frame on guitar, and Mark Spencer on keyboards & steel guitar.]

[Son Volt plays Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester St. KCMO, on Tuesday, April 23, at 8:00 PM.]

16. Hi-Lux – “Dance With My Baby”
from: Hi-Lux – EP / Hi-Lux / February 1, 2018
[Originally released as a single on August 15, 2017. Now included in this 6 song EP. HI-LÜX is Julia Haile on vocals, Nick Howell on keyboards & organ, Kian Byrne on drums and vocals, Pete Leibert on bass, Tim Braun on guitar. Hi-Lux is based in KC. The band brings together elements of soul, reggae and funk for a unique and dance inspiring sound. More info at: http://www.hi-lux.bandcamp.com]

[Julia Haile Trio with Tim Braun on guitar and Brendan Culp on drums play The Phoenix, 302 W. 8th, KCMO, Saturday, April 20, at 9:30 PM]

11:28 – Underwriting

17. Priests – “The Seduction of Kansas”
from: The Seduction of Kansas / Sister Polygon / April 5, 2019
[Priests are a post-punk band from Washington D.C. Formed in 2012, they are composed of Katie Alice Greer on vocals, Daniele Daniele on drums, Taylor Mulitz on bass, and G.L. Jaguar on guitar. Strong proponents of DIY ethic, Priests have autonomously released three EPs through their independently run label Sister Polygon Records, as well as tapes and singles from acts such as Downtown Boys, Snail Mail, Shady Hawkins, and other local D.C. bands. In an interview with the Diamondback, guitarist G.L. expressed their commitment to “do it yourself” approaches in creating exposure for corporately marginalized music, “It’s important to try and make safe and supportive art spaces in communities that are very much community oriented.” In 2017, Priests released their full-length debut LP Nothing Feels Natural which found itself on several best albums of 2017 lists including Billboard, NPR, the Atlantic, Will’s Band of the Week, and Pitchfork. On inauguration day, just days before the release of the album, the band played an event which they helped organize called NO: A Night of Anti-Fascist Sound Resistance in the Capital of the USA at the Black Cat. Rolling Stone described the band as “forging jagged incantations that challenge norms ranging from the driving forces of capitalism to punk’s own chest-beating macho traditions.]

[Priests play recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO, on Tuesday, July 9, at 9:00 PM.]

15. Drugs & Attics – “So Tuff”
from: Clean Their Room / High Dive Records / April 19, 2019
[High Dive Records debut from Kansas City based 3-piece premiere party drug rock band.]

[Drugs & Attics play Minibar, 3810 Broadway Rd, KCMO with Dreamgirl and The Whiffs, Thursday April 18, at 9:00 PM celebrating the release of Drugs & Attics new record.]

[Drugs & Attics play Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, w/ High WestHus, JC& The Nuns, and The Whiffs on Sat, April 20, at 10:00 PM celebrating the release of Drugs & Attics new record.]

16. Emmaline Twist – “Oblivion”
from: Dissimulation / Black Site / August 24, 2018
[Debut LP from Emmaline Twist, Kansas City’s Darkwave / Post-Punk / Shoegaze project. In 2017 the band released “Dissimulation 1,” four songs in digital format, their first since 2016’s single release of “Vega” b/w “Moon Eyes.” The band is Meredith McGrade on vocals & guitar, Kristin Conkright on bass, Jonathan Knecht on drums, and Krysztof Nemeth on baritone guitar. Recorded, Mixed, and Produced at Massive Sound by Paul Malinowski, and Mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering. Matched with compelling cover-art created by Amy Abshier. Alex Alexander joined the band on synthesizers & guitar.]

Kristin Conkright & Krysztof Nemeth on the April 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.

11:40 – Interview with Kristin Conkright & Krysztof Nemeth of Emmaline Twist

Emmaline Twist released their debut album “Dissimulation” on August 24, 2018 on Black Site Records. The record was in the Top 10 of WMM’s 118 Best Recordings of 2018. members of Emmaline Twist join us in our 90.1 FM Studios. Emmaline Twist play recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO, Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM with The Foreign Resort, Nite, and Monta At Odds. More information at http://www.emmalinetwist.com

Kristin Conkright and Krysztof Nemeth, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Emmaline Twist is: Meredith McGrade on vocals & guitar, Kristin Conkright on bass, Jonathan Knecht on drums, Krysztof Nemeth on baritone guitar, and Alex Alexander on keyboarders & guitar.

From the band’s website:
These veteran musicians first came together in early 2016 and immediately found an audience eager for their moody, darkwave sound. They produced their first video single, “Vega” (dir. Steve Gardels), later that same year. In the Fall of 2017, they self-released the digital EP, Dissimulation I, as well as their second video — “Desperate Measures” (dir. Matt Lepley). In August of 2018 Emmaline Twist released its debut vinyl LP, Dissimulation, on the Kansas City record label cooperative, Black Site. The album contains four brand new tunes plus completely remastered versions of the four tracks from the 2017 EP. Also in the Summer of 2018, the band released a 45 rpm single of “Vega” (b/w “Moon Eyes”) on Kansas City’s eat.hear.records.

Starting with the solid foundational rhythm section of Jonathan Knecht on drums and Kristin Conkright on bass, keyboardist Alex Alexander, baritone guitarist Krysztof Nemeth, and singer/guitarist Meredith McGrade add layer upon layer of structure and minimalist detail to reveal clean, tightly-crafted songs that are not so much autobiographical documents as they are universal pronouncements ─ sonic explorations of a dark-yet-hopeful aesthetic that is truly a reflection of these anxious times.

Emmaline Twist doesn’t “write songs”. This band constructs vast soundscapes that evoke the urgent, anxious energy of bustling cities enveloped by a sonic atmosphere as wide as the prairie sky. With the workmanlike spirit that is the hallmark of Midwestern rock music, Emmaline Twist combines the angular rhythms of post-punk with the dreamy ambience of shoegaze to create a sound unique to this Paris on the Plains.

This Friday Night will also be the last Emmaline Twist show for quite awhile as they are starting pre-production on their next record and will be recording during the summer.

Kristin Conkright & Krysztof Nemeth on the April 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.

Kristin Conkright and Krysztof Nemeth, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Emmaline Twist

Emmaline Twist play recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO, Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM with The Foreign Resort, Nite, and Monta At Odds. More information at http://www.emmalinetwist.com

11:56

20. Emmaline Twist – “Starcrossed”
from: Dissimulation / Black Site / August 24, 2018
[Debut LP from Emmaline Twist, Kansas City’s Darkwave / Post-Punk / Shoegaze project. In 2017 the band released “Dissimulation 1,” four songs in digital format, their first since 2016’s single release of “Vega” b/w “Moon Eyes.” The band is Meredith McGrade on vocals & guitar, Kristin Conkright on bass, Jonathan Knecht on drums, and Krysztof Nemeth on baritone guitar. Recorded, Mixed, and Produced at Massive Sound by Paul Malinowski, and Mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering. Matched with compelling cover-art created by Amy Abshier. Alex Alexander recently joined the band on synthesizers & guitar.]

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

Next week on April 24 Allaudin Ottinger joins us to share music from his new release “Vision Bewilderment & Love” and he brings along special guests HuDost.

Also next week we talk with Mike McCoy and Amy Farrand who share information about their fundraiser for Brianne Grimmer, supporting her medical expense fund, on Friday, April 26, at 6:00 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO, with Amy Farrand & The Like, Pamper The Madman, Cher UK, Drop A Grand, Knife Crime, Godzillionaire, KC Bear Fighters, and Mahoots.

And, Shaun Crowley of Momma’s Boy and Manor Records shares details about Manor Records Speaks Up – Sat, April 27 at 9:00 pm, at miniBar, 3810 Broadway, with Mild Cats, The Golden Fleece, Mouton, Momma’s Boy, The Rub’s, and Drugs & Attics, Manor Records will also release “The Bennett Tapes” in honor & memory of a good friend Bennett Jones featuring a live un-released track from his old band Shortsweather. The bands & musicians are uniting for a purpose with all door proceeds going to the KC chapter of SPEAK UP, raising awareness about suicide & depression and to help end the stigma associated with suicide. Speak Up stands for Suicide Prevention Education Awareness for Kids United as Partners. More info at http://www.speakup.us

Our Script/Playlist is a “cut and paste” of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

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Show #782

WMM Playlist from April 10, 2019

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Mark Manning

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

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Nicole Springer + Stephonne Singleton
+ Jen Harris, Teri Quinn & Joy Baker of Curses & Charms +
Promise Clutter from Revolution Records + Record Store Day!

1. “It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Orig. Motion Picture Soundtrack All That Jazz / Casablanca / Dec 20, 1979 [WMM’s theme]

2. Hembree – “Heart”
from: House on Fire / OREAD Records / Expected April 26, 2019
[Newest single from band’s upcoming full length album debut. This Kansas City based band was formed in November of 2015. Band members include: Isaac Flynn, Garrett Childers, Eric Davis, Alex Ward and Austin Ward. This new single was written by Isaac Flynn and Eric Davis and performed by Hembree. The track was produced by Eric Hillman and Isaac Flynn and engineered by Joel Martin, Isaac Flynn, and Eric Hillman. The track was mixed by Joe Visciano at Studio 112 in Brooklyn, NY, and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound. Hemree release their debut EP “Had It All” in Nov. 2017.]

[Hembree play Record Store Day – April 13, 1:30 pm, at Vinyl Renaissance, 7932 Santa Fe Dr, OPKS.]

[Hembree play The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, Sat. April 27, w/ Cowboy Indian Bear]

The Freedom Affair is: Misha Roberts on vocals, Seyko Groves on vocals, Paula Saunders on vocals, Cole Bales on guitar, Branden Moser on guitar, Chris Hazelton on bass, Dave Brick on drums, Pete Carroll on trumpet, and Brett Jackson on saxophone.

3. The Freedom Affair – “Rise Up”
from: Soul Slabs Vol. 2 / Colemine Records / April 13, 2019
[The Freedom Affair has been selected to be part of Colemine Records new 3xLP box set, “Soul Slabs Vol. 2” a Record Store Day Exclusive Release. The Freedom Affair is a new project of Chris Hazelton of SunFlower Soul Records and Chris Hazelton’s Boogaloo 7. The new band includes member of the Boogaloo 7 with members of Instant Karma and three of the KC area’s leading vocalists. The Freedom Affair is: Misha Roberts on vocals, Seyko Groves on vocals, Paula Saunders on vocals, Cole Bales on guitar, Branden Moser on guitar, Chris Hazelton on bass, Dave Brick on drums, Pete Carroll on trumpet, and Brett Jackson on saxophone.]

[The Freedom Affair play Record Store Day – April 13, 5pm, Mills Record Co, 4045 Broadway, KCMO]

[The Freedom Affair plays SoundMachineKC, Sat, May 4, at 8:00 PM, w/ Soultru, & Duncan Burnett.]

Brandon Phillips and The Condition “People Talk” Too Much Rock Single Series 009

4. Brandon Phillips & The Condition – “People Talk” [Vinyl]
from: People Talk- Single b/w “Angel Say No” / Too Much Rock / April 13, 2019
[The group which is the Costello + Motown Girl Group project of Brandon Phillips (The Architects, The Gadjits, Other Americans) features an ensemble cast drawing talent from such notable KC bands as Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Hi Lux and Hipshot Killer has mobbed up with venerable Kansas City website Too Much Rock to fashion this special, vinyl-only release – Limited to 500 Copies – for Record Store Day 2019. ]

[Brandon Phillips & The Condition play Record Store Day on Saturday, April 13, at 5:00 PM at Mills Record Company, 4045 Broadway Blvd, KCMO. ]

5. Schwervon! – “Truth Teller”
from: Courage / Olive Juice Records / September 28, 2012
[Schwervon! is a two piece rock band. Nan plays drums, Matt plays guitar, they both sing. They lived in NYC for 15 years and several years ago relocated to KC. Schwervon were part of the anti-folk music community in NYC. They’ve opened for The Vaselines and Belle & Sebastian. They recorded Courage with Memphis-based engineer Doug Easley who worked with Pavement, Sonic Youth, Cat Power. Nan performs in Nan & The One Nite Stands. Matt performs as Major Matt Mason USA.]

[Major Matt Mason USA plays Record Store Day- April 13, 8:30 pm, Revolution Records, 1830 Locust]

[Schwervon! plays Santa Fe Train Depot, 413 East 7th, Lawrence, KS. with Jeffery Lewis & Los Bolts, and google, on Sunday, April 14, at 7:00 PM.]

10:18 – Underwriting

Promise Clutter

10:19 – Interview with Promise Clutter

Promise Clutter is the manager of Revolution Records. She has worked at several diffeent indie record stores in KC. She’s also a musician and plays bass with Wick & The Tricks. Promise joins us to talk about Record Store Day at Revolution Records, 1830 Locust, on Saturday, April 13, with AKAMFDM, Wick & The Tricks, Joseph Warren Wheeler & The Wanderlust Revival, Lovergurl, Major Matt Mason USA, and Instant Karma!

Promise Clutter thank you for being with us on WMM.

Record Store Day 2019 is Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 7 AM – 9 PM

Revolution Records Kansas City – 1830 Locust St, KCMO – http://www.revolutionrecordskc.com

Revolution Records was formerly named Zebedee’s RPM on West 39th street but changed their name when they moved to 1830 Locust Street, in the Crossroads, in 2016, in the space formerly known as Midwestern Musical Company.

Record Store as community center. Revolution Records is a pledged RSD retailer and will have many of the exclusive releases that are available only at independent record shops.

Revolution Records will open at 7:AM and live “In-Store” performances start at 6:30 PM

6:30 – AKAMFDM
7:00 – Joseph Warren Wheeler and The Wanderlust Revival
7:30 – Lovergurl
8:00 – Wick & The Tricks
8:30 – Major Matt Mason USA
9:00- Instant Karma!

Back on March 8, Revolution Records had a “Wage Gap Sale” for International Women’s Day where women were allowed to pay $.76 on the dollar on anything in the store to adjust our prices according to the average pay discrepancy in honor of International Women’s Day. All men who complain/whine/get angry/throw tantrums will pay double.

Promise Clutter, born August 17, 1994 is also a bass player for Wick & The Tricks.

Promise Clutter thank you for being with us on WMM.

Record Store Day 2019 is Saturday, April 13, 7 AM – 9 PM. Revolution Records is located at 1830 Locust St, KCMO. More information at: http://www.revolutionrecordskc.com
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Record Store Day

Record Store Day – Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 7 AM – 9 PM

Here’s a list of Record Stores & Bands playing in-stores

Revolution Records Kansas City – 1830 Locust St, KCMO
http://www.revolutionrecordskc.com
6:30 – AKAMFDM
7:00 – Joseph Warren & the Wanderlust Revival
7:30 – Lovergurl
8:00 – Wick & The Tricks
8:30 – Major Matt Mason USA
9:00- Instant Karma

Mills Record Company – 4045 Broadway Blvd, KCMO
http://www.millsrecordcompany.com
Courtyard Stage
2 PM – Iris Elke
4 PM – sex ed
6 PM – Addie Sartino
Mills Stage
3 PM – The Freedom Affair
5 PM – Brandon Phillips and The Condition
7 PM – Bill MacKay

Josey Records

Josey Records Kansas City – 1814 Oak St, KCMO
http://www.joseyrecords.com
DJ Thundercutz
Da Hill Da DJ
Kiko de gallo
False Brother
The Black Creatures
and more TBA!!

Records with Merritt – 1614 Westport Rd, KCMO
http://www.recordswithmerritt.com
12:00 – OH DEAR OH MY
12:45 – Iain P. Blair
1:30 – Jake Extra Pull Destrian
2:15 – DisTanT From The Kansas City Beatbox Crew,
3:00 – Les Izmore & The GOATS
3:45 – The Black Creatures

Vinyl Renaissance & Audio – 7932 Santa Fe Drive, OPKS.
http://www.vinylren.com
1:30 – Hembree

Other stores participating in Record Store Day include:

The Vinyl Underground at 7th Heaven – 7621 Troost

Brothers Music KC – 5921 Johnson Dr., Shawnee Mission

Gotwhatulike Records – 11601 Hickman Mills Drive

FM Music Vintage Sounds – 206 E. 18th Ave NKC

Other great area indie record stores include:

Boss Vintage shop Records – 1214 McGee

Frank Alvarez & James Oshel of Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee, 901 East 31st Street, in KCMO. (Photo by Aaron Rhodes)

Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee – 901 E 31st

It’s a Beautiful Day – 3918 Broadway, Blvd, KCMO

For Information on special RSD releases: http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases
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10:30

6. Lovergurl – “Rebel”
from: “Rebel” – Single / Lovergurl / September 14, 2018
[Recorded and mastered with RLT at Audibly Recording. KC based 4-piece band, Lovergurl caught our ear with their synth pop sound and lyrics reflecting social and political messages with hip hop and punk elements. The trio released their EP, The President is a Sex Offender on May 19, 2017. Keyboardist and vocalist, Stephanie Bankston was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a graduate of The University of Missouri. She moved abroad in her 20s, and lived in Seoul, Korea, where she played in a mostly female band called BaekMa (“White Horse”). Stephanie returned to Kansas City in the Fall 2015. Brook Worlledge, is 26 years old and is a Kansas City native. She is the band’s drummer and she sings and writes songs for the band. Brook is a defender of the proletariat. Brook’s influences range from The B-52s, The Velvet Underground, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Lovergurl guitarist and vocalist, Heather Andrews is also 26. She was born and raised in Rhode Island, and moved to Kansas City in 2011 and fell in love with the city.]

[Lovergurl plays Record Store Day – April 13, 7:30 pm, Revolution Records, 1830 Locust, St. KCMO.]

7. Wick & The Tricks – “Drama Queen (Radio Edit)”
from: Not Enough 7″ Vinyl EP / Black Site / October 14, 2017
[4-piece band with Wick Trick on vocals & sleaze, Chris Stallion on guitar, Jane Asylum on bass & vocals, and JoJo Tornado on drums. The new EP was recorded and mixed by Justin Mantooth at Westend Recording Studios.] [Wick & the Tricks played a Record Release Show, Saturday, October 14, at 8:00 pm at Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, 3402 Main Street, KCMO, with Red Kate, The Quivers, and The Midnight Devils.]

[Wick & The Tricks play Record Store Day- April 13, 8:00 pm, Revolution Records, 1830 Locust]

Promise Clutter and Nicole Springer

10:37 – Interview with Nicole Springer

Nicole Springer is a critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist who lives in KC. Nicole Springer has a big amazing voice; once your hear it, you cannot ignor it. In the true courageous spirit of DIY, she started her first band by putting an advertisement on Craigslist for a guitarist. She is founder of the bands, The Clementines, and The Good Hearts. She defies categories because her voice sounds like so many things; Rock, Pop, Folk, Gospel, Broadway, and Blues. Nicole Springer is with us to debut her new single, “Hell.” Nicole will also play a few songs live in our 90.1 FM Studios.

Nicole Springer

Nicole Springer plays Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, 3402 Main St, Thursday, April 25, at 7:00 PM with Dawson Hollow, and Joy Camp. Nicole Springer plays Records With Merritt on Sat, May 11, at 7:00 PM with The Summer Storms, and Amanda Hughey.

Nicole Springer thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.

We first met you as part of The Clementines as a duo Tim Jenkins & Nicole Springer when they played LIVE on our April 25, 2012 show. At one point the band had Stephanie Williams on Drums, and Travis Earndshaw on Bass.

Nicole Springer grew up in Oak Grove, MO, and graduated H.S. in 2004. She studied Music-Vocal/Choral at Missouri State University, in Springfield, MO, and studied Special Education with Music at Metropolitan MO CC, in KCMO.

Nicole told The Pitch (Jan. 10, 2012 article): “I grew up singing in gospel choirs,” she says. “And I still love gospel music, though I’m not religious or anything. I did musicals throughout high school, and I went to school for a year at Missouri State for music education. But I’ve never been in a committed band before this one.”

Nicole Springer was navigated the continuing evolution of a music career through the band The Good Hearts and into her solo work.

Nicole Springer is with us to debut her new single, “Hell.”

10:40

8. Nicole Springer – “Hell”
from: “Hell” – Single / Nicole Springer / April 10, 2019
[Nicole Springer is a singer-songwriter + multi-instrumentalist out of the Kansas City Metro. She was the founder of critically acclaimed + award wining local groups, The Clementines, and The Good Hearts. She’s written original music for her bands The Good Hearts, Heart Machine, and her solo projects. More info at http://www.nicolespringersings.com .]

Nicole recorded her new single with the help of musician friend Aaron Derrington, who used his basement recording studio to capture Nicole’s songs. Nicole helped produce her own record and sang harmony to her lead vocals, and played guitar.

Nicole Springer is parent to a cat and pup. She is also proud wife, sister, & aunt.

Nicole Springer loves singing covers from the 1980’s – 1990’s. More info at http://www.nicolespringersings.com where you can hear her originals and covers

Nicole Springer manages The Arcade Decades

Artists Nicole Springer likes; Janis Joplin / Judy Garland / Beach Boys / Beatles / Broadway / The Supremes / Dixie Chicks / Haim / Tegan and Sara

10:48

9. Nicole Springer – “Willing” (Live)
Nicole told us that she wrote this song only a few weeks ago.

Nicole Springer plays live on Wednesday MidDay Medley April 10, 2019

Nicole sings from the heart, writing every song to be a reflective piece of her life story and as a means to evolve and grow as a human. She describes her sound as pop-folk but additional influences such as gospel, soul, and Motown find their way into the mix. With her sometimes big, always emotional vocals, Nicole performs each heartfelt song with a raw emotionality that aims to move people and free herself.

Awards: 2014 Pitch Music Award Winner: Folk Ensemble with The Clementines as lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist

2014 Project Backstage Award: Best Americana Group with The Clementines as lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist

10:55

10. Nicole Springer – ” Echo” (Live)

Nicole Springer thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Nicole Springer plays Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, 3402 Main St, Thursday, April 25, at 7:PM with Dawson Hollow, and Joy Camp.

Nicole Springer plays Records With Merritt on Sat, May 11, at 7PM w/ The Summer Storms, and Amanda Hughey.

More info at: http://www.nicolespringersings.com / http://www.facebook.com/nicolespringersings

11:00 – Station ID

11. The Black Creatures – “Element”
from: “Elements” – Single / The Black Creatures / February 14, 2018
[Dark pop hip-hop duo from Kansas City, Missouri pulling elements from sci-fi to tell an inter-dimensional story. Xavier Martin and Jade Beomh released their debut album, See No Evil, on December 6, 2017.]

[The Black Creatures play R.S.D. April 13, 3:30 pm, at Records With Merritt, 1614 Westport Rd.]

[The Black Creatures play Record Store Day April 13 at Josey Records,1814 Oak St, KCMO]

Bethany Cain, Nicole Springer, Teri Quinn, Jen Harris, Joy Baker on the April 10, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.

11:04 – Interview with Jen Harris, Teri Quinn & Joy Baker

Poet Jen Harris is the founder of Kansas City Poetry Slam, she is a TEDx fellow, She has been nationally recognized for her writing and advocacy. She was recently seen in the 3rd season of Queer Eye on Netflix. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts. She is the recipient of the 2015 Jim Wanser Pride Award for outstanding LGBT community activism. She is the recipient of The Pitch Magazine’s 2017 Poet of the Year award, and was nominated as the 2017 Spoken Word Host of the Year by the National Spoken Word Awards. She was the 2009 ACP Kansas Journalist of the Year. She has two published books of poetry titled: Slammed and Lust & Disdain. Her spoken word record, Flaunting Her Mediocrity was released Oct 9, 2016.

Teri Quinn is a Kansas City based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Teri moved to Kansas City in 2009 to study Clarinet Performance and Music Composition at the University Of Missouri Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music where she graduated in 2013. We first met Teri playing clarinet and guitar for Claire and the Crowded Stage. Teri is also a jewelry designer and her business is called Rattlebone Design. Teri calls herself, “A Northern girl with a Southern heart living in the Mid-West.” Teri released her debut EP, Moons and Meltdowns in 2017 and she is also part of the band Abandoned Bells.

Joy Baker is a multimedia artist and owner of Createful Studios, LLC. She works as a full-time studio artist and art instructor at InterUrban ArtHouse in downtown Overland Park, Kansas. Joy describes her art as “Working from the inside out to create beauty in my life and through my art.” Joy Baker is also a former musician and her passion for music has led her to produced multiple house concerts and now music and multi media live performances at InterUrban ArtHouse. you can see her art at: http://www.createfuljoy.art

Jen Harris, Teri Quinn, and Joy Baker join us to share details about Curses & Charms on Sunday, April 14, at 4:30 PM at InterUrban ArtHouse, 8001 Newton St, Overland Park, featuring spoken word artist Emery Diercks, musician-singer-songwriter Teri Quinn, and Poet Jen Harris. More info at: http://www.interurbanarthouse.org

Jen Harris, Teri Quinn & Joy Baker thanks for being with us on WMM.

Curses & Charms: A Further Account of the Trials of Womyn with wild tales told through poetry & music.

Emery Diercks, musician-singer-songwriter couldn’t be with us.

Jen Harris you are participating in the current class of Artist Inc.

Joy Baker welcome back to the show. Tell us about InterUrban ArtHouse and your work.

Teri Quinn last time you were on the show was when we had Abandoned Bells on the show

Jen Harris performed a piece from the show live in our 90.1 FM Studios.

11:18

Jen Harris

12. Jen Harris – “Mr. P” (LIVE)
original piece written and performed by Jen Harris from Curses & Charms

Curses & Charms on Sunday, April 14, at 4:30 PM at InterUrban ArtHouse, 8001 Newton St, Overland Park, KS. Curses & Charms: A Further Account of the Trials of Womyn with wild tales told through poetry & music featuring spoken word artist Emery Diercks, musician-singer-songwriter Teri Quinn, and Poet Jen Harris.

11:24

Teri Quinn plays live on the April 10, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI

13. Teri Quinn – “Baptising My Beast” (LIVE)
a new song that is a “reflection on loneliness”

Jen Harris, Teri Quinn & Joy Baker thanks for being with us on WMM

Curses & Charms on Sunday, April 14, at 4:30 PM at InterUrban ArtHouse, 8001 Newton St, Overland Park, KS. More info at: http://www.interurbanarthouse.org

11:29

14. Lazy Projector – “Disco”
from: Evoco / Aaron Michael Shinn / April 5, 2019
[Debut album from Kansas City based 4-piece band with Aaron Shinn, Tell Pryor, Matt Schorr, and Sam Marconett. More info at: http://www.lazyprojector.com]

[Lazy Projector play and Evoco Album Release Show, Saturday, April 13, at 8:00 at The Brick, 1727 McGee Street, KCMO with La Guerre, and Mr. Golden Sun]

11:34 – Underwriting

Stephonne Singleton Photography by Paul Andrews Photography // Makeup by Janette RiiRii Noriega // Styling by Alex Nivens and Stephonne Singleton.

11:35 – Interview with Stephonne Singleton

We have the pleasure of welcoming back to Wednesday MidDay Medley singer, songwriter and actor, Stephonne Singleton who joins us to premiere his new single “Want Me.” Last year Stephonne released his debut album, “Caged Bird Sings Songs About Red Beard.” The album was one of WMM’s 118 Best Recordings of 2018. Natalie Gallagher wrote in The Pitch, “If you’re looking for a good soul-stirring, acquaint yourself with Stephonne. The KC-born artist evokes the sultry sashay of Prince — one of his primary inspirations — and the omniscient wisdom of great jazz singers from bygone eras. He recombines the best elements of soul, R&B and funk, informing the resulting sound with some kind of magical instinct for the irresistible.”

Stephonne Singleton, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Stephonne calls himself the lovechild of Prince and Billie Holiday, grew up in KCK and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Bendictine College and Masters in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University.

More info at: http://www.stephonne.com

Stephonne Singleton’s new release was co-produced by, Justin Mantooth, and recorded at Westend Recording Studios. The track features Johnny Hamil on bass, Ben Byard on guitar and Adam McKee on drums.

Stephonne Singleton was born and raised in Wyandotte County, Kansas. He is 32 years old and has performed in multiple shows for Late Night Theatre. He also performs as Kita Rose.

He told John Long of Camp Magazine that, “Late Night Theatre is my favorite place in the whole wide world,” he says, “and the support and opportunity Ron [Megee], Jessica [Dressler] and Chadwick [Brooks] give me has fed me so much as an artist and has nurtured me to be able to fully express myself on a stage.”

Stephonne told John Long of Camp Magazine “I was surrounded by records, and my parents always had music on.” His mother would, “turn on Luther Vandross, or Anita Baker, or all of these artists. We had Barbra Streisand records, Beatles records, the Isley Brothers. I remember watching Lady Sings the Blues [a film about jazz singer Billie Holliday] and I was, like, 7. I lived in a super musical world.”

He expects to move more toward releasing singles rather than entire albums.

11:40

15. Stephonne Singleton – “Want Me”
from: “Want Me” – Single / Glory Blue Music / April 26, 2019
[Co-produced by, Justin Mantooth, and recorded at Westend Recording Studios. Johnny Hamil on bass, Ben Byard on guitar and Adam McKee on drums. Stephonne grew up in KCK. He released his debut album, “Caged Bird Sings Songs About Red Beard.” The album was one of WMM’s 118 Best Recordings of 2018.]

11:43 – Interview with Stephonne Singleton

We are talking with singer, songwriter and actor, Stephonne Singleton who joins us to premiere his new single “Want Me.”

Stephonne Singleton, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Stephonne is currently on the cover of Camp Kansas City Magazine

Stephonne on the cover of Camp – Kansas City, April 2019

Photography by Paul Andrews Photography // Makeup by Janette RiiRii Noriega // Styling by Alex Nivens and Stephonne Singleton.

Want Me hits Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal and EVERYWHERE on Friday 4/26!

Stephonne Singleton’s debut album Caged Bird Sings Songs About Red Beard was released on Glory Blue Music on July 27, 2018.

Stephonne told John Long of Camp Magazine, “I’ve never felt this confident in myself or my music before,” Singleton says. “My first album is my baby, but I haven’t felt anything as visceral, connected and urgent as this music feels. I’m ready to truly show who I am.”

Singleton’s fans can support his recordings, tours, at http://www.gofundme.com/Stephonne.

“Every bit helps,” he says, “because as an independent artist, I don’t have Adele’s resources. It’s all me, without any label backing. Me and my listeners are my label right now, and I’m so excited to make them proud with this new material.”

“Want Me” will be released worldwide in late April on Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal and all digital/streaming platforms. For updates, shows, and more, visit http://www.stephonne.com!

To read about Stephonne in Camp Kansas City Magazine visit: Cover Story: https://camp.lgbt/2019/03/30/stephonne-strikes-again/

For the Camp Kansas City Magazine Single Review of “Want Me” visit: https://camp.lgbt/…/musicality-stephonne-vassy-sigrid-lauv…/

Stephonne Singleton, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

11:50

16. Deco Auto – “Stay Away”
from: Another Great Decision / Deco Auto / April 5, 2019
[Newest EP from Kansas City based alternative pop-punk / power-pop trio. Guitar/vocals: Steven Garcia on guitar and lead vocals, Tracy Flowers on bass & vocals, and Pat Tomek on drums. Written by Steven Garcia, $tudent Loans For Life Music (ASCAP). Recorded, and mixed and by Pat Tomek at Largely Studios, Kansas City, MO. Mastered by Gabe Fry at Kimura Studios. Produced by Steven Garcia and Pat Tomek. “Deco Auto is the perpetual opener, the also-rans, the nice-guys-finish-last band in the KC rock scene. Songwriter Steve Garcia is to blame, and he knows it. His songs straddle the line between power pop and pop punk — never casual enough for the former, nor saccharine enough for the latter.” ~ Too Much Rock]

[Deco Auto plays The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, Saturday, April 20, at 7:00 PM with The Bad Ideas, Hipshot Killer, and Old News (from Wichita).]

11:56

17. Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear – “Walk in The Park”
from: Radio Winners – EP / Glassnote Records / July 27. 2018
[Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear have garnered international acclaim,. They signed with Glassnote Records and recorded their debut full length album in Nashville with acclaimed producer Jim Abiss. They performed their debut single “Silent Movies” on The Late Show with David Letterman, they’ve toured across the United States, and Europe, more than once. They were featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NBC’s The Today Show, and “Later With Jools Holland and played Bonnaroo, Pilgramage, the Newport Folk Festival, and the Ryman Theatre, in Nashville. Ruth Ward has continually performed throughout her life, mostly in coffee shops and open mics, for over 30 years, even recording a solo record. In the midst of this she got married and became a mom, and was busy raising a family. Madisen Ward was born in Oklahoma, and grew up in the outskirts of KCMO. He graduated from William Chrisman High School in 2007. Madisen’s journey to become a musician, was “melodically passed down” through the songs of his mother, where Madisen grew up watching his mom perform at local coffee shops. Eventually he began to learn to play the guitar, and poured his talent for writing into the music to create original songs. They began playing Madisen’s original songs along with the occasional cover, reinterpreted in their own incredibly beautiful performance of two voices and two guitars in harmony and orchestration. Their debut album, The Skeleton Crew, was released May 9, 2015 and was our most played record that year and was #1 on WMM’s The 115 Best Recordings of 2015.]

[Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear play a Members-Only Concert & Reception at The Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts in Helzberg Hall, Tuesday, April 16, at 7:00 PM.]

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

Next week on April 17 Canadian musician & filmmaker Rita Chiarelli and KC based cinematographer Mikal Shapiro of State City Films join us to talk about their work inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women. This work will culminate in a concert for fellow inmates, families, victims and the greater community. Rita and Mikal have planned 10 days of filming with an all-female crew inside the facility. There is currently a Kickstarter Campaign to help fund this amazing project: Topeka Freedom Singers.

Also Sean Mawhirter share music & information about the Kansas City Salsa Orchestra Mundo Nouvo and the release of their debut full length “Mejor Tarde Que Terrada” and their Album Release Show, Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM at The 10 Spot, 1000 Broadway.

Also next week members of the band Emmaline Twist join us to share information about thir upcoming show Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand Blvd. with The Foreign Resort, Nite, and Monta At Odds

Our Script/Playlist is a “cut and paste” of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

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

Show #781

Wednesday MidDay Medley presents: Nicole Springer + Stephonne Singleton + Jen Harris, Teri Quinn & Joy Baker + Promise Clutter

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Mark Manning

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

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Nicole Springer + Stephonne Singleton
+ Jen Harris, Teri Quinn & Joy Baker of Curses & Charms +
Promise Clutter from Revolution Records + Record Store Day!

Mark spins New & MidCoastal Releases from: Stephonne, Nicole Springer, The Freedom Affair, Brandon Phillips & The Condition, Hembree, Deco Auto, Lazy Projector, Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Schwervon!, The Black Creatures, Lovergurl, and Wick & The Tricks.

Record Store Day

At 10:15 Promise Clutter talks about Record Store Day at Revolution Records, 1830 Locust, on Saturday, April 13, with AKAMFDM, Joseph Warren Wheeler & The Wanderlust Revival, Lovergurl, Wick & The Tricks, Major Matt Mason USA, and Instant Karma! Record Store Day in-stores are happening at: Mills Record Company, 4045 Broadway; Records With Merritt 1614 Westport Rd; Josey Records 1814 Oak; and Vinyl Renaissance & Audio at 7932 Santa Fe Drive, OPKS. Other stores participating include: The Vinyl Underground at 7th Heaven, 7621 Troost; Brothers Music at 5921 Johnson Drive, Shawnee Mission; Got What U Like Records at 11601 Hickman Mills Drive; and FM Music Vintage Sounds at 206 E. 18th Ave NKC. Other stores include: Boss Vintage Records at 1214 McGee; Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee at 901 E 31st. For Info on RSD: http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

Nicole Springer

At 10:35 Nicole Springer debuts her new single “Hell.” Nicole will also play a few songs live in our 90.1 FM Studios. Nicole Springer is a KC based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She was the founder of the critically acclaimed bands, The Clementines, and The Good Hearts. Nicole Springer plays Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, 3402 Main Street, KCMO, on Thursday, April 25, at 7:00 PM with Dawson Hollow, and Joy Camp. Nicole Springer plays Records With Merritt on Saturday, May 11, at 7:00 PM with The Summer Storms, and Amanda Hughey. More info at: http://www.facebook.com/nicolespringersings

Jen Harris

At 11:00 Jen Harris, Teri Quinn, and Joy Baker join us to share details about Curses & Charms on Sunday, April 14, at 4:30 PM at InterUrban ArtHouse, 8001 Newton St, Overland Park, KS. Curses & Charms: A Further Account of the Trials of Womyn with wild tales told through poetry & music featuring spoken word artist Emery Diercks, musician-singer-songwriter Teri Quinn, and Poet Jen Harris. More info at: http://www.interurbanarthouse.org

Stephonne Singleton

At 11:30 Singer songwriter and actor, Stephonne Singleton premieres his new single “Want Me.” Stephonne calls himself the lovechild of Prince and Billie Holiday, grew up in KCK and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Bendictine College and Masters in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University. His debut album, “Caged Bird Sings Songs About Red Beard” was one of WMM’s 118 Best Recordings of 2018. Natalie Gallagher wrote in The Pitch, “If you’re looking for a good soul-stirring, acquaint yourself with Stephonne. The KC-born artist evokes the sultry sashay of Prince — one of his primary inspirations — and the omniscient wisdom of great jazz singers from bygone eras. He recombines the best elements of soul, R&B and funk, informing the resulting sound with some kind of magical instinct for the irresistible.” More info at: http://www.stephonne.com

On your local radio dial 90.1 FM or
STREAMING LIVE at: kkfi.org

Show #781

WMM Playlist from April 3, 2019

Posted on April 6, 2019 by Mark Manning

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 3, 2019

Brandon Phillips and The Condition & Too Much Rock
+ Victor & Penny + Aaron Rhodes & Shuttlecock Music
+ Sondra Freeman & Midwest Music Foundation

1. “It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Orig. Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / Casablanca / Dec 20, 1979
[WMM’s theme song]

2. Black Moth Super Rainbow – “Baby’s In The Void”
from: Panic Bloom / Rad Cult Records / May 4, 2018
[American experimental electronic band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They have released 6 albums, 7 EPs, and 4 singles. The project is currently composed of frontman, singer, and songwriter Tobacco whose vocals are altered via a vocoder; keyboardist The Seven Fields of Aphelion, who often performs with a classic monosynth; drummer Iffernaut; guitarist Ryan Graveface; and bassist Pony Driver. Former members include keyboardist Father Hummingbird, who typically recorded with a polysynth, and Power Pill Fist on bass. Black Moth Super Rainbow’s music contains elements of psychedelia, folk, electronica, pop, and rock. Their sound is characterized by analog electronic instruments including the vocoder, Rhodes piano and Novatron.]

[Black Moth Super Rainbow play The Granada Theater, 1020 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, on Friday April 5, at 7:00 with with special guests: Steve Hauschildt, and High Tides]

3. Durand Jones and The Indications– “Too Many Tears”
from: American Love Call / Dead Oceans / March 1, 2019
[Bayou-born soul sensation, Durand Jones got his start in the church, after being forced to sing in the choir of his rural hometown Hillaryville, Louisiana because his Grandmother thought he sang too much at home. When his music career took him to Bloomington, Indiana, he was selected to join the legendary Indiana University Soul Revue, and it was through his involvement that he met writer/producer duo Aaron Frazer and Blake Rhein. The three began writing original soul music, recording themselves straight to tape in the basements of Bloomington – and their debut album is now available on Colemine Records.]

[Durand Jones & The Indications play recordBar, 1520 Grand, Sat. April 6, at 7:00 with Ginger Root]

4. Kyle Reid & the Low Swinging Chariots – “Shot of Whiskey”
from: Alright, Here We Go… / Kyle Reid & the Low Swinging Chariots / September 9, 2014
[Debut recording from the 6-piece band from Norman, Oklahoma who play swing, gypsy jazz, and jazz. The band includes: Kyle Reid on guitar and vocals; John Calvin III on guitar, David Leach on trombone; Kevin Stringfellow on trumpet; Johnny Carlton on bass; Steve Boaz on drums.]

[Kyle Reid and The Low Swingin’ Chariots with Victor & Penny and The Loose Change Orchestra play Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania Ave, KCMO, on Saturday, April 6, at 7:00 PM]

Victor & Penny

5. Victor & Penny – “She Say She Knows”
from: She Says She Knows – Single / EAT.HEAR.RECORDS / November 15, 2017
[Erin McGrane, Jeff Freling formed Victor & Penny in 2010. Vinyl-only label EAT.HEAR.RECORDS was started by Steve Tulipana & team at recordBar. Recorded by Duane Trower at Weights & Measures Soundlab.]

[Victor & Penny and The Loose Change Orchestra with Kyle Reid and The Low Swingin’ Chariots play Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania Ave, KCMO, on Saturday, April 6, at 7:00 PM]

Jeff Freling on the April 3, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM

10:18 – Interview with Jeff Freling

Formed in 2010, Victor & Penny are Erin McGrane on ukulele & vocals and Jeff Freling on guitar, & vocals. Victor & Penny have toured all over country and have performed at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Inaugural New Year’s, the Missouri Governor’s Awards Luncheon, KC Union Station’s Centennial Celebration, KC Mayor, Sly James’ 2015 State of the City Address, representing Kansas City at a New York City press event for America’s Creative Crossroads campaign, “Paris of the Plains Goes to NY.”

Victor & Penny were named “Best Folk Ensemble 2015” by the PITCH; “Standout Concert of the Year” by the Joplin Globe; and are a four-time Official Showcase Artist for Folk Alliance International Conference, and have made over 1,000 personal appearances and traveled more than 200,000 miles in the last seven years. In 2016 Victor & Penny released their 4th album, ‘Electricity.’

Guitar virtuoso and one half of Victor & Penny, Jeff Freling is here in the studio to share details about the upcoming concert on Saturday, April 6, at 7:00 PM, at Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania Ave, KCMO when Victor & Penny with their full band The Loose Change Orchestra join forces with Oklahoma favorite Kyle Reid and The Low Swingin’ Chariots, for an night of high-energy swing, jazz, gypsy, original tunes, lots of laughs, and room for dancing.

Jeff Freling thank you for being with us on WMM.

Formally trained at Berklee School of Music (Boston) and the Conservatory of Music (Kansas City), Mr. Freling participated in the international program, The Acoustic Guitar Project in 2014 and is an accomplished composer, arranger, and outstanding instrumentalist.

Jeff Freling was one of the members of Mongol Beach Party

After Kansas City Jeff moved to Chicago and lived there for 17 years where he played in multiple bands and was part of the critically acclaimed Blue Man Group band.

In 2017 Victor & Penny got married.

On Daisy Buckët/Spencer Brown’s 2018 debut record “Pansy” Jeff Freling not only oversaw making half of the album’s songs happen, {“Stars are Blind,” “Long, Long Time,” “What Makes a Man,” “I’ll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time,” “Hot Nuts”) but was also integral in the mixing process and lending his extra ears. Song credits include V&P band members: Jeff Freling on guitar; Brian Steever on drums; Rick Willoughby on bass; Ken Lovern on organ; James Isaac on tenor saxophone, and Erin McGrand on ukulele and background vocals.

Oklahoma favorite Kyle Reid and The Low Swingin’ Chariots have been friends with Victor & Penny and have met up on the road and at multiple Folk Alliance International events

Victor & Penny’s last full length album was the acclaimed, “Electricity” released in March 2016. “Electricity” debuted on the Folk Radio DJ charts at #12 with the #3 song. “Electricity” crackles and sparks with joy and regret; truths and dares; love and love gone wrong all set to a score of vibrant, rhythmic swing and virtuosic musicianship. Electricity is the culmination of 160,000 miles, 5 years and nearly 1,000 performances and is a testament to the incomparable vivacity of Victor & Penny’s live show, with newly added sophistication and rich instrumentation.

“Electricity” was Produced by Grammy Award winning Producer/Engineer Mitch Dane, and recorded at Sputnik Sound in Nashville, TN.

Electricity features Victor and Penny’s find band, The Loose Change Orchestra (LCO). The LCO’s rich, resonate sound is created by virtuoso reeds player James Isaac on clarinet, soprano saxophone, and melodica; Rick Willoughby on upright bass; and trombonist Kyle Dahlquist. Supplemental instrumentation includes accordion, violin, saw, mandolin, piano, and Hammond B3.

Jeff Freling thank you for being with us on WMM.

Victor & Penny with their full band The Loose Change Orchestra join forces with Oklahoma favorite Kyle Reid and The Low Swingin’ Chariots on Saturday, April 6, at 7:00 PM, at Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania Ave, KCMO, for an night of high-energy swing, jazz, gypsy, original tunes, lots of laughs, and room for dancing.

More information at: http://www.victorandpenny.com or http://www.kylereidmusic.com

10:31

6. Victor & Penny – “Moon Over Bourbon Street”
from: Electricity / Victor & Penny / November 16, 2016
[Written by Sting, inspired by the Anne Rice novel Interview With The Vampire.]

10:36 – Underwriting

7. The Coathangers – “Step Back”
from: The Devil You Know / Suicide Squeeze Records / March 8, 2019
[All female punk group quartet from Atlanta, Georgia, includes: lead vocalist – Julia Kugel, drummer – Stephanie Luke, keyboardist – Candice Jones and bassist – Meredith Franco.]

[The Coathangers play recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO, on Sunday, April 7, at 8:00 PM, with Big Bite and Wet Tropics.]

Jeff Freling and Sondra Freeman on the April 3, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

10:41 – Interview with Sondra Freeman

Sondra Freeman is Director of Promotions and Artist Relations for Midwest Music Foundation, a nonprofit created to support music and musicians in Kansas City and the surrounding areas, founded in 2008 by a collective of musicians and music lovers. The Midwest Music Foundation (MMF) unites and empowers the greater Kansas City music community by providing programs and resources to area musicians through outreach, support, education, and health care opportunities. Sondra is instrumental in MMF’s annual events: Apocalypse Meow, MidCoast Takeover and the MidCoast Takeover fundraiser shows, as well as many other collaborative musical events and fundraisers.

Sondra Freeman joins us right now to talk about Midwest Music Foundation’s inaugural Strike A Match Donation Drive, that started om Monday, April 1 and runs through Saturday, April 6, helping culminating with a Free Musicians’ Health Care Clinic at The Buffalo Room, 817 Westport Road, from noon to 5:00 pm.

Sondra Freeman thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Midwest Music Foundation is in the midst of its inaugural Donation Drive, that started on Monday, April 1. The Strike A Match Donation Drive commences with a goal of $6000 to help local working musicians gain access to health care and valuable career resources.

How To Donate: Venmo: https://venmo.com/midwestmusicfoundation

On Saturday, April 6, the donation drive culminates with a Free Musicians’ Health Care Clinic at The Buffalo Room (817 Westport Road, behind Westport Flea Market), Saturday, April 6, from 12:00pm to 5:00 pm.

The Midwest Music Foundation along with the RockDocs, a collaboration of University of Kansas and the Community Health Council of Wyandotte County, present a Free Musicians’ Health Care Clinic that will offer information, screenings, wellness/smoking cessation programs, opportunities to discuss heath conditions/concerns and arrange follow up visits.

Colon Cancer screening FIT test kits will be provided to those that qualify (anyone 50-75 years old who are not up to date with colon screening) through a generous grant from the Colon Cancer Coalition. Get Your Rear in Gear – Kansas City will be on site with more information and the infamous #stolencolon will be there!

Truman Medical Center (www.trumed.org) will also be at the clinic from 12-3. Truman Medical Centers is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay. They will supply information on health coverage for uninsured patients.

Bill Rogers, Physical Therapist, Orthopedic and Geriatric Clinical Specialist will be available to consult and help triage musculoskeletal problems.

There will also be representatives from Narcotics Anonymous (http://www.kansascityna.org/) on hand with information.

Priority will be given to musicians/music industry personnel, but the clinic is open to anyone.

In addition, the Midwest Music Foundation is providing custom earplugs to the first 20 qualified musicians/music industry personnel to apply. Impressions will be done by AudioGirl Consulting. (These slots are currently filled, but sign up for our waiting list or info on future opportunities).

Contact rhonda@midwestmusicfound.org for more information and to schedule an appointment. Appointments are highly recommended, but walk-ins will be accepted as time permits. Or, just stop by to check out the event and have lunch with us.

Clinic made possible by funding from Jackson County Outside Agencies. With additional support from KKFI 90.1 FM , 90.9 The Bridge , and Folk Alliance International (all will have free promo materials at the event).

Donations will be accepted and MMF merchandise will be available for sale, as this is our final day of our #strikeamatch Donation Drive.
https://www.facebook.com/events/253964785510021/

Sondra Freeman thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

More info and full list of sponsors at: https://midwestmusicfoundation.org/donationdrive/

10:54

8. Hadiza. – “God is 7”
from: Gone – EP / Hadiza./ December 29, 2018
[Madi Mclaughlin on bass & guitar, JL Bolinger on drums, and Hadiza Sa-Aadu on keyboards & vocals. Recording & Engineering: JL Bolinger & Madi Mclaughlin. Mixing & Mastering: Madi Mclaughlin ]

[Hadiza plays: Experiments in Afrofuturism, at miniBar, 810 Broadway, KCMO, on Fri, April 5 at 9:00 PM with Eems at 10:30 PM, Reverend Doctor at 11:30 PM, and The Black Creatures at 12:30 AM.]

11:00 – Station ID

Sid Sowder and Brandon Phillips on the April 3, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM

11:00 – Interview with Brandon Phillips and Sid Sowder

Brandon, Zach, & Adam Phillips come from an artistic family. Their father was a jazz musician, playwright, and actor and their mother an art teacher. The brothers started by playing AC/DC covers, but moved on to original songs and a broader range of influences. In 1991 they formed their first band and a 14-year-old Brandon led his younger brothers Zach & Adam into a seedy bar in KC to play their first gig to the small crowd of locals. In 1997 the brother’s a ska and rock & roll band, The Gadjits, released their debut album, Da Gravy on Yo’ Grits, on their own JoCo Ska label. They went on record five full length albums on Hellcat Records, Thick Records and an unreleased album for RCA Records. They appeared on The Vans Warped Tour, and supported the Skatallites, Rancid, and Let’s Go Bowling on the road.

In 2004 The Gadjits ended and the brothers formed a new band called The Architects who have released six full length albums and two EPs, including The Border Wars graphic novel/EP series, on which they worked with illustrator Mallory Dorn.

In the past three years the brothers have branched of into multiple musical and recording projects including Other Americans with Julie Berndsen (formerly of the Latenight Callers) on lead vocals, Radar State where Adam plays drums, and Brandon Phillips and The Condition with Brandon on vocals, Adam on drums, Zach on bass, former Gadjit member Ehren Starks on keyboard, Rachel Mallin (of Rachel Mallin & the Wild Type) on guitar, and Julie Berndsen on backup vocals. This ensemble changes based on availability of all involved.

Brandon Phillips thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley to share the newest Too Much Rock single from Brandon Phillips & The Condition.

Also joining us is Sid Sowder, founder of the Too Much Rock, a music blog site he created in 1997 to share his photos, videos & comments of live music shows he attends. The Too Much Rock Singles Series is a collection of 45 rpm singles that marry great songs with great bands all for the love of vinyl. Each old-school two-song single features one unique song paired with one cover chosen by Too Much Rock who press 500 limited edition copies and then simply give them to the band. Schwervon!, Rev Gusto, Josh Berwanger Band, The Uncouth, Hipshot Killer, Witch Jail, Red Kate, Heidi Lynne Gluck, have all recorded for the Too Much Rock Single Series. More info at: http://www.toomuchrock.com

Sid Sowder, thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Brandon Phillips & The Condition

Kansas City, Missouri bubblegum-soul champions Brandon Phillips and The Condition emerge from a long winters hibernation with a platinum –wrapped pouch of big league power pop that swings for the fences.

The group which is the Costello + Motown Girl Group project of Brandon Phillips (The Architects, The Gadjits, Other Americans) features an ensemble cast drawing talent from such notable KC bands as Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Hi Lux and Hipshot Killer has mobbed up with venerable Kansas City website Too Much Rock to fashion this special, vinyl-only release – LIMITED TO 500 COPIES FOREVER – for Record Store Day 2019.

Brandon Phillips and The Condition “People Talk” Too Much Rock Single Series 009

On the A-side, “People Talk”– Brandon Phillips and the Condition simply do what they do with understated flex. Take a melody reminiscent of a sixties girl-group, bolt it to a boppy, eighties backbeat and then get to hanging all the accouterments and accessories of power-pop-soul on it like aftermarket chrome on a Lambretta scooter.

11:10

9. Brandon Phillips & The Condition – “People Talk” [Vinyl]
from: People Talk- Single b/w “Angel Say No” / Too Much Rock / April 13, 2019
[The group which is the Costello + Motown Girl Group project of Brandon Phillips (The Architects, The Gadjits, Other Americans) features an ensemble cast drawing talent from such notable KC bands as Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Hi Lux and Hipshot Killer has mobbed up with venerable Kansas City website Too Much Rock to fashion this special, vinyl-only release – LIMITED TO 500 COPIES FOREVER – for Record Store Day 2019. ]

[Brandon Phillips & The Condition play recordBar at 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO, on Friday, April 5, at 9:30 PM with The Sluts, and Dead Voices.]

[Brandon Phillips & The Condition also play Record Store Day at Mills Record Company, Saturday, April 13, at 3:00 PM at Mills Record Company, 4045 Broadway Blvd, KCMO. ]

Sid Sowder, Sondra freeman, and Brandon Phillips on the April 3, 2019 edition Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

11:14 – Interview with Brandon Phillips and Sid Sowder

We are talking with Brandon Phillips and Sid Sowder about the newest Too Much Rock single from Brandon Phillips & The Condition.

OFFICIAL RELEASE PARTY: Record Store Day, Saturday 4/13 at Mills Records, KCMO

Power pop is like a secret religion” says Brandon Phillips.

“Once you’ve been indoctrinated, you can see its themes and values bubbling up through the best rock and roll of every era.” …Get saved.

Sid’s outlook on upcoming shows:
4/3 Laura Jane Grace @ Riot Room
4/5 BP+TC @ recordBar
4/6 Durand Jones @ recordBar
4/7 Coathangers @ recordBar
4/12 Swervedriver @ Liberty Hall
5/1 Pedro The Lion @ recordBar
5/2 Interpol @ Midland
5/6 Pup @ Granada
5/9 Deertick @ Knuckleheads
5/10 Neko Case @ Uptown
5/10 Psychedelic Furs @ Truman
5/15 Johnny Marr @ Voodoo Lounge
5/25 Taco Cat @ recordBar 6/1 Lion’s Law @ Brick
7/5 Bill Callahan @ LFK Library
7/6 Head and the Heart @ Starlight

Visit Too Much Rock Here: https://toomuchrock.com

Catch BP+C live and follow them here:
FB: @BrandonPhillipsandtheCondition
TW: @brandonpandthec
IG: @brandonphillipsandthecondition
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4A3oyiayWBVo2782jX2VvB

The B-side of this vinyl-only, limited-run record is a hand selected cover of Tommy Tutone’s “Angel Say No”– as near a perfect power-pop deep-cut as one is likely to find in even the dustiest record bin in it’s original version, here re-amplified by a crack rhythm section and wedded to the Ronettes-worshiping vocal style for which BP+C are known.

Brandon Phillips & Sid Sowder thanks for being with us on WMM

11:23

10. Brandon Phillips & The Condition – “Angel Say No” [Vinyl]
from: “Angel Say No” B Side Single of “People Talk” / Too Much Rock / April 13, 2019
[The group which is the Costello + Motown Girl Group project of Brandon Phillips (The Architects, The Gadjits, Other Americans) features an ensemble cast drawing talent from such notable KC bands as Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Hi Lux and Hipshot Killer has mobbed up with venerable Kansas City website Too Much Rock to fashion this special, vinyl-only release – LIMITED TO 500 COPIES FOREVER – for Record Store Day 2019. ]

[Brandon Phillips & The Condition play recordBar at 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO, on Friday, April 5, at 9:30 PM with The Sluts, and Dead Voices.]

[Brandon Phillips & The Condition also play Record Store Day at Mills Record Company, Saturday, April 13, at 3:00 PM at 4045 Broadway Blvd, KCMO. ]

11. Dead Voices – “Some Kind Of Fame”
from: Commoners / Dead Voices / February 4, 2019
[The follow up to their 2013 Debut EP. Kansas City Super-Group, formed in September of 2010, by David Regnier on lead vocals, Jason Beers on bass, Matt Richey on drums, Michael Stover on lap steel and other instruments, and Marco Pascolini on guitar.]

[Dead Voices play Westport Saloon, Saturday March 2 from midnight to 2:00 AM]

11:29 – Underwriting

12. DJ Lucas – “Scared The Cook (Radio Edit)”
from: Big Bleep Music Vol. 3 / Dark World Records / February 28, 2019
[DJ Lucas is a rapper from Amherst, Massachusetts. He grew up in a converted mill from the 1700s, where he and his friends – some of whom would later become a part of his Dark World collective – took breaks from practicing in emo bands to play basketball. Even before the time Minor Threat’s frontman (Ian MacKaye) told Lucas what to name his band, Lucas seemed to have a sense that music had a future for him.]

[DJ Lucas plays White Schoolhouse 1510 N. 3rd Street, Lawrence, KS., Friday, April 26 at 7:00 PM, with Ricky Roosevelt & Alccalh, Speed, and Whorxata.]

Aaron Rhodes on the April 3, 2019 edition Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 990.1 FM.

11:33 – Interview with Aaron Rhodes

Aaron Rhodes is a Kansas City music journalist and the owner/editor-in-chief of Shuttlecock Music Magazine. In addition to writing about concerts and local releases, Rhodes also hosts the blog’s flagship podcast. Rhodes is also a frequent contributor to The Pitch, and http://www.Bridge909.org Aaron Rhodes joins us to share music and details for several upcoming Shuttlecock Music Shows.

Aaron Rhodes thanks for being with us on WMM.

Shuttlecock Music Magazine was launched in 2015, and is dedicated to featuring in-depth coverage of new and exciting music emerging from Kansas City and the surrounding areas. In our three years online, they’ve conducted several artists’ first interviews, hosted shows with lineups nobody else can pull off, and posted more concert reviews, photo galleries, videos, and new music write-ups than we can count. They’ve also co-hosted a Middle Of The Map Fest showcase, printed two year-in-review photo zines, and been shit-talked by bar punks, music elitists, and other dorks all across this beautiful town. They’re proud to be the blog where punk rock, hip-hop, and everything in-between lives in Kansas City.

Shuttlecock MusicMagazine and UN/TUCK present:

UN/TUCK is a Queer/ Trans electronic collective. Curators and Founders include: Mazzy Mann, Zoey Shopmaker, and Lorelei Dav

Friday, April 19, at 10:00 PM. at 1819 Vine Street, KCMO featuring Amira Wang, Vice Grip, MX.MRS, Close Qrtrs, and Sister Zo…. Late Nite In The Jazz District – featuring:

Amira Wang (Urging you to use ya back – hip-hop)

Vice Grip (Doing the lord’s work – hardcore punk)
https://vicegrip444.bandcamp.com/album/the-lords-work

MX.MRS (Clowning just for you – electronic/experimental)
https://untuckcollective.bandcamp.com/album/pagliacci

Close Qrtrs (What online presence – electronic)

Sister Zo (Out the cocoon – electronic/hip-hop)
https://soundcloud.com/btrflymusic

Aaron Rhodes interviewed Amira Wang for Shuttlecock Podcast.

11:40

13. Amira Wang- “Use Ya Back (Clean)”
from: Rap Game Ragu / Amira Wang / October 28, 2018
[Amira Wang is a Kansas City rapper/videographer/podcaster and a self-proclaimed “culture chemist.” After years of rapping in her car and for her friends in private, she’s released her first EP, “Rap Game Ragu.”.]

[Amira Wang plays at 1819 Vine Street, KCMO, Friday, April 19, at 10:00 PM. with Vice Grip, MX.MRS, Close Qrtrs, and Sister Zo.s.]

Aaron Rhodes

11:43 – Interview with Aaron Rhodes

We’re talking with Aaron Rhodes a Kansas City music journalist and the owner/editor-in-chief of Shuttlecock Music Magazine. In addition to writing about concerts and local releases, Rhodes also hosts the blog’s flagship podcast. Rhodes is also a frequent contributor to The Pitch, and http://www.Bridge909.org Aaron Rhodes joins us to share music and details for several upcoming Shuttlecock Music Shows.

Monday, April 15, at 8:00 PM at Farewell Transmission, 6515 Stadium Drive, KCMO featuring Show Me The Body (from New York), Spine, Bath Consolidated, and Killus.

Friday, April 19, at 10:00 PM. at 1819 Vine Street, KCMO featuring Amira Wang, Vice Grip, MX.MRS, Close Qrtrs, and Sister Zo.

Friday, April 26 at White Schoolhouse in Lawrence, KS. featuring DJ Lucas with Ricky Roosevelt & Alccalh and Whorxata.

Aaron Rhodes thanks for being with us on WMM.

11:50

14. Show Me the Body – “Madonna Rocket”
from: Dog Whistle / Loma Vista Recordings – Concord Music / March 29, 2019
[Show Me the Body is an American hardcore punk band formed in New York City in 2009. They released “Yellow Kidney” independently in 2015 followed by the “SMTB” EP released via the Letter Racer Collective that same year. After signing with Loma Vista and releasing their debut album “Body War” in 2016, SMTB began touring the US and Europe. Upon returning home the band began a collaborative mixtape project called “Corpus 1” released in 2017. The mixtape featured a broad range of artists and friends who SMTB felt were comrades and innovators, marking the beginning of a community effort spearheaded by SMTB known as Corpus. In the same year, SMTB released a two song Ep called “Challenge Coin”, recorded at Electric Lady Land not far from where the band originated. Between the fall of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 SMTB produced and recorded three projects. All projects; “Grudge 2” by Dreamcrusher, “Machines Smoke” by Tripp Jones, and “Enemy” by Dog Breath, were released via Corpus. In 2019 SMTB presents their sophomore album, “Dog Whistle,” produced by Chris Coady, Show Me The Body, and Gabriel Millman (original drummer and in-house producer). Dog Whistle was written in Long Island City, Queens and recorded in Los Angeles California in the summer of 2018.]

[Show Me the Body plays Farewell Transmission, 6515 Stadium Drive, KCMO, Monday, April 15, at 8:00 PM with Spine, Bath Consolidated, and Killus.]

15. The Wild Reeds – “Telepathic Mail”
from: Cheers / Dualtone Music Group / March 8, 2019
[The Wild Reeds are a 5-piece American indie folk band formed in 2009 in Los Angeles, California by Kinsey Lee, Mackenzie Howe, Sharon Silva, Nick Jones, and Nick Phapiseth. The Wild Reeds released their first full-length album in 2014 titled Blind and Brave. In 2017, The Wild Reeds released their second full-length album titled The World We Built via Dualtone Records. The band released their third album, Cheers, in 2019.]

[The Wild Reeds and Una Walkenhorst play recordBar, 1520 Broadway, TONIGHT, April 3, at 8 PM.]

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

Next week on April 10 we have another Action Packed show with Promise Clutter from Revolution Records talking about Record Store Day, + Nicole Springer debuts her brand new single, Jen Harris, with Teri Quinn and Joy Baker, talk about Curses & Charms at InterUrban ArtHouse on April 14, AND Stephonne Singleton joins us to share his new single release!

Our Script/Playlist is a “cut and paste” of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

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

Show #780

WMM presents: Victor & Penny + Sondra Freeman + Brandon Phillips & The Condition + Too Much Rock + Aaron Rhodes & Shuttlecock Music Magazine

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Mark Manning

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 3, 2019

Brandon Phillips and The Condition & Too Much Rock
+ Victor & Penny + Aaron Rhodes & Shuttlecock Music
+ Sondra Freeman & Midwest Music Foundation

Mark spins New & MidCoastal Releases from: Victor & Penny, Brandon Phillips & The Condition, Dead Voices, Hadiza, Show Me The Body, DJ Lucas, Amira Wang, Durand Jones & The Indications, The Coathangers, The Wild Reeds, and Black Moth Super Rainbow.

Victor & Penny

At 10:15 Erin McGrane and Jeff Freling join us to share details about their upcoming Victor & Penny concert on Saturday, April 6, at 7:00 PM, with Kyle Reid at Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania Ave, KCMO. Victor & Penny along with their full band The Loose Change Orchestra join forces with Oklahoma favorite Kyle Reid and The Low Swingin’ Chariots for an night of high-energy swing, jazz, gypsy, original tunes, lots of laughs, and room for dancing. More information at: http://www.victorandpenny.com or http://www.kylereidmusic.com

At 10:35 Sondra Freeman talks about Midwest Music Foundation’s inaugural Strike A Match Donation Drive, Monday, April 1 through Saturday, April 6, helping local working musicians gain access to health care and career resources. The drive culminates April 6, with a Free Musicians’ Health Care Clinic at The Buffalo Room, 817 Westport Road, from noon to 5:00 pm. In partnership with the RockDocs (a collaboration of the University of Kansas and the Community Health Council of Wyandotte County) this clinic will provide musicians with health information, screenings, wellness, smoking cessation programs, and arrange follow-up visits. More info at: http://www.midwestmusicfoundation.org

Brandon Phillips & The Condition

At 11:00 Brandon Phillips & Adam Phillips drop in to share the newest Too Much Rock single from Brandon Phillips & The Condition. Also joining is Sid Sowder founder of the Too Much Rock Singles Series, a collection of 45 rpm singles that marry great songs with great bands all for the love of vinyl. Each old-school two-song single features one unique song paired with one cover chosen by Too Much Rock who press 500 limited edition copies. Info at: http://www.toomuchrock.com. Brandon Phillips & The Condition play recordBar at 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO, on Friday, April 5, at 9:30 PM with The Sluts, and Dead Voices. Brandon Phillips & The Condition also play Record Store Day at Mills Record Company, Saturday, April 13, at 3:00 PM at Mills Record Company, 4045 Broadway Blvd, KCMO.

Aaron Rhodes

At 11:30 Mark talks with Aaron Rhodes, founder and editor of Shuttlecock Music Magazine, about three upcoming Shuttlecock Music Showcase events: Monday, April 15, at 8:00 PM at Farewell Transmission, 6515 Stadium Drive, KCMO featuring Show Me The Body (from New York), Spine, Bath Consolidated, and Killus. Friday, April 19, at 10:00 PM. at 1819 Vine Street, KCMO featuring Amira Wang, Vice Grip, MX.MRS, Close Qrtrs, and Sister Zo. Friday, April 26 at White Schoolhouse in Lawrence, KS. featuring DJ Lucas with Ricky Roosevelt & Alccalh and Whorxata.

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Show #780

WMM Playlist from March 27, 2019

Posted on March 30, 2019 by Mark Manning

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 27, 2019

Savanna Howland & Stevie Ervay of Playlistplay
+ New & MidCoastal Releases

1. “It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / Casablanca / Dec 20, 1979
[WMM’s theme song]

2. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “In The Capital”
from: In The Capital – Single / Sub Pop / February 27, 2018
[Follow up to their debut full-length album Hope Downs from june 15, 2018. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever is an Australian indie rock band formed in Melbourne in 2013 by singer-guitarists Fran Keaney, Tom Russo & Joe White. The band’s five members are Keaney, his cousin Joe White, Tom Russo, his brother Joe Russo on bass guitar, and Marcel Tussie on drums. Their debut EP, Talk Tight, was released in 2016 on Ivy League Records. It was followed by their second EP, the French Press, which was mixed by Doug Boehm and released in 2017 on Sub Pop Records. Robert Christgau gave Talk Tight an A grade, writing that “If you like the [guitar] effect—and why not, it’s beautiful—you’ll gravitate to it on sound alone. But what I’m loving at least as much is lyrics that suit the bright white male culture the sound implies.” He also compared the band’s sound to that of the Go-Betweens, a comparison that has also been made by critics like Stephen Deusner.]

3. Mess – “Dead Space”
from: “Dead Space”‘ – Single / Mess / March 22, 2019
[Second single from band’s upcoming debut full length album, ‘Learning How To Talk.’ This Kansas City based band was formed by: Allison Gliesman, Kevin Briody, Tanner Pinkerton & Evan Velasquez. This track was produced by Patrick Robinson, mixed by Braxton Matlock,and mastered by Troy Glessner (spectre).]

[Mess play a ‘Learning How To Talk’ Record Release Show, Saturday, March 30, at 7:00 PM, at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, MO. with Weathered, LK Ultra, witchhazel. SOLD OUT!]

4. SASAMI – “Not The Time”
from: SASAMI / Domino Recording / March 8, 2019
[Sasami Ashworth, is known mononymously as Sasami (stylized as SASAMI). She graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 2012. She scored and made orchestral arrangements for films, commercials and studio albums, and worked as a music teacher in Los Angeles, where she is currently based and makes music. In 2015, she joined the American rock band Cherry Glazerr with whom she played synths and toured for two and a half years before announcing her departure in January 2018 to pursue her solo musical career. On April 3, 2018, Sasami shared her first solo track “Callous” on SoundCloud, which Pitchfork awarded with their “Best New Track” label. On October 9, Domino Recording Company announced that Sasami had signed to their label, and officially released “Callous” alongside a new song titled “Not the Time”, premiered by The Fader, who called Sasami “rock’s next big thing.” Sasami stated, “I wrote both of these songs on tour on a guitar on my iPad with GarageBand plugins and Moog 15 app sounds and then re-recorded them in the studio onto tape with really great tones. So it’s kind of like emotionally scribbling a letter on a tear and snot-stained napkin and then re-writing it on fancy papyrus paper to make it look like you have your shit together.”[4] The songs were released on a 7” vinyl on October 26. Throughout 2018, Sasami toured with various musicians, including Baths, No Joy, King Tuff, Mitski, Soccer Mommy, Snail Mail and Menace Beach.]

5. Cate Le Bon – “Daylight Matters”
from: Reward / Mexican Summer / May 24, 2019
[From the upcoming 5th solo album from Cate Le Bon who was born Cate Timothy on March 4, 1983. She is a musician and producer. She sings in both English and Welsh. She has released four solo albums, three EPs and a number of singles. Le Bon has toured with artists such as St. Vincent, Perfume Genius and John Grant. In 2018, she joined John Cale on stage at The Barbican with the London Contemporary Orchestra. Le Bon was born in Penboyr, Carmarthenshire, Wales, and first gained public attention when she supported Gruff Rhys (of the Super Furry Animals) on his 2007 solo UK tour. She appeared as a guest vocalist on Neon Neon’s 2008 single “I Lust U” from their album Stainless Style. Under her original name she provided backing vocals on Richard James’s debut solo album The Seven Sleepers Den in 2006. She also appeared on his second solo album, We Went Riding, from 2010. Her first official release was a Welsh language EP, Edrych yn Llygaid Ceffyl Benthyg (“Looking in the Eyes of a Borrowed Horse”, similar to the English expression “to look a gift horse in the mouth”), on Peski Records in 2008. She also self-released the double A-side debut single “No One Can Drag Me Down” / “Disappear” (described by Gruff Rhys as “Bobbie Gentry and Nico fight over a Casio keyboard; melody wins!”) on her website. Le Bon worked alongside Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci’s Megan Childs, who contributed violin, and Super Furry Animals and Thrills collaborator John Thomas, who added pedal steel. Her debut album, Me Oh My was released in 2009, followed by Cyrk and the Cyrk II EP in 2012. In January 2013, Le Bon moved to L A to further her career in the US. Her third album, Mug Museum, was released November 2013. It was produced by Noah Georgeson and Josiah Steinbrick in Los Angeles, and featured Stephen Black (bass) & Huw Evans (guitar). She provided guest vocals on the track “Slow Train” from Kevin Morby’s debut album Harlem River. In 2015, Le Bon collaborated with Tim Presley as DRINKS and released the album Hermits on Holiday in August 2015. DRINKS released their second album Hippo Lite in April 2018. Le Bon released her fourth studio album, Crab Day, on April 15, 2016 on Drag City to generally favourable reviews. The album was produced by Josiah Steinbrick and Noah Georgeson, and again featured Stephen Black (bass) & Huw Evans (guitar), w/ Stella Mozgawa (drums). She noted how the collaboration with Presley had made her realise “that I make music because I love to, not because I have to”. On tour she was supported by Black and Evans and on occasion by Steinbrick and Josh Klinghoffer, a five-piece that also performs instrument improvisations under the name BANANA. In January 2017, Le Bon released the four-track EP Rock Pool via Drag City. It includes her version of the track “I Just Want to Be Good” featuring Perfume Genius, which she wrote for Sweet Baboo’s 2015 album The Boombox Ballads. In the same month Leaving Records released Live by BANANA, recorded live during the band’s 2016 tour and Le Bon remixed Eleanor Friedberger’s ‘Are We Good?’ In 2018, Le Bon signed with Brooklyn based record label Mexican Summer (Ariel Pink, Jessica Pratt, Connan Mockasin). Le Bon will release her fifth studio album, Reward via Mexican Summer on May 24, 2019.]

Black Stacey

6. Black Stacey – “Tell Me Don’t Want You”
from: Tell Me Don’t Want You – Single (unmastered) / Sharaden Staten / Released in Spring
[Black Stacey is Sharaden Staten, a Missouri native, who release his album “Electric Church” in 2017. Part of WMM’s The 117 Best Recordings of 2017. Sharaden, a 25-year-old, having grown up in the back woods of central Missouri, and couch surfed his way into the KC metro, pairs subtle notes of R&B, funk, soul, and rock; dramatically blending it into a raw eclectic mix. In 2015 Sharaden began writing, recording and producing Black Stacey’s debut, “Electric Chariot”. A project that has given him a solid foundation in the KC music scene, gaining him spots on local radio and the opportunity to work with producer Joel Nanos (Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Radkey, Sly/Robbie & the Taxi Gang). More infor at http://www.blackstacey.com.]

7. Celeste & Gotts Street Park – “Lately”
from: Lately – EP / Both Sides Records – Polydor Records / March 22, 2019
[Celeste Waite is 24. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She left L.A. when she was three years old. With her my mother she moved to an area just on the outskirts of London, and then to Brighton when she was five years old. Brighton is an hour away from London on the train. Celeste told Interview Magazine in 2017, “It’s funny, because it’s such a good place to grow up when you’re a teenager because it is quite safe, really, so you can do all of that underage clubbing and go out when you’re 16. But by the time you get to 20, or even 18, you want more. It feels like quite a small place once you’ve lived here for a while, but the good thing about it is I’ve always felt free to just create and do what I want. There’s not real pressure to fit in and be something that you’re not. It’s always that you could do what you wanted to, in a good way.” She went on to say,”I think I really want to move to London, mainly because now I want to spend time in the studio more and I have, over the last few years, been traveling back and forth to London. I’ve made groups of friends there, so it feels like the natural thing to want to be there. But I think Brighton is always a place that I’ll come back to because it does feel really nice sometimes; when you’ve been feeling shitty then you come back and you can be near the ocean. There’s not a time of day where everyone’s rushing around because it’s not that kind of place.]

10:29 – Underwriting

The Freedom Affair

8. The Freedom Affair – “Rise Up”
from: Soul Slabs Vol. 2 / Colemine Records / April 13, 2019
[The Freedom Affair has been selected to be part of Colemine Records new 3xLP box set, “Soul Slabs Vol. 2” a Record Store Day Exclusive Release. The Freedom Affair is a new project of Chris Hazelton of SunFlower Soul Records and Chris Hazelton’s Boogaloo 7. The new band includes member of the Boogaloo 7 with members of Instant Karma and three of the KC area’s leading vocalists. The Freedom Affair is: Misha Roberts on vocals, Seyko Groves on vocals, Paula Saunders on vocals, Cole Bales on guitar, Branden Moser on guitar, Chris Hazelton on bass, Dave Brick on drums, Pete Carroll on trumpet, and Brett Jackson on saxophone.]

[Paula Saunders and Desmond Mason play the Indigo Hour in the American Jazz Museum Blue Room Jazz Club, at 1600 E 18th Street, KCMO, Friday, March 29, at 5:00 pm, the Indigo Hour features the best Kansas City R&B and Neo-Soul acts every Friday night from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm.]

[The Freedom Affair play Lucia Beer Garden + Grill, 1016 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, KS, Saturday, March 30 at 10;00 PM with Dylan Guthrie & The Good Time Guys]

[The Freedom Affair plays SoundMachineKC, Sat, May 4, at 8:00 PM, w/ Soultru, & Duncan Burnett.]

Kadesh Flow

9. Kadesh Flow – “Party Thoughts (Radio Edit) (feat. Jessica Paige)”
from: Otaku Moods EP / Ryan Davis / January 25, 2019
[Kadesh Flow is Ryan Davis is a rapper with an MBA. At age 11, he began rapping and playing trombone within two weeks of one another. His music has been featured on network television in multiple countries and territories across Southeast Asia. Locally, Kadesh can be found rocking solo hip hop sets, laying down bone bars with KC funk juggernaut The Phantastics, or jamming with Marcus Lewis Big Band.]

[The Deshtet plays Ca Va, 4149 Pennsylvania, KCMO, Thurs, Mar 28, at 9:00 – 11:00 PM. The Deshtet includes Ryan Jamaal Davis aka Kadesh Flow w/ Peter Schlamb, Matt Villinger, & Zach Morrow.]

10. The Butter Band – “Bicycle”
from: Crag-o-lea / The Dear Misses / February 25, 2019
[Three years in the making, the newest album from Scott Stanton & The Butter Band features the songs of Scott Stanton. Scott is one of Kansas City’s finest songwriters of original, down-to-earth songs weaved with inspiration from songwriters Bob Dylan & John Prine. Recorded at Rob Nold Studio. Mixed and mastered by James Albright. Scott Stanton & The Butter Band is: Scott Stanton – songwriter, vocals, acoustic guitar; Chad Brothers – acoustic guitar, harmonies; Kasey Rausch – upright bass, harmonies, fiddle; Marco Pascolini – pedal steel guitar; Grady Keller – banjo. Scott Stanton is also a host & Producer for River Trade Radio airing Sundays from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM.]

[Scott Stanton & The Butter Band play and Album Release Show, Friday, April 12, at 7:00 PM at The Buffalo Room, 817 Westport Rd, KCMO. Kicking off the night will be collaborations with members of Shapiro Brothers, The Country Duo and River Trade Radio founders Kasey Rausch Music & Mikal Shapiro Music (a/k/a Partners in Glory!)]

11. Nilüfer Yanya – “In Your Head”
from: Miss Universe / ATO Records / March 22, 2019
[Debut album from British musical artist, Nilüfer Yanya who was born in 1996, the daughter of two visual artists. Yanya grew up in Chelsea, London. Growing up with her father’s Turkish music and her mother’s classical music playing at home, she soon gravitated to guitar rock and learned how to play the instrument at age 12. Informally starting her musical career with demos uploaded to SoundCloud in 2014, she turned down an offer to join a girl group produced by Louis Tomlinson of One Direction and focused on developing her own music instead.[1] Her first EP, “Small Crimes/Keep on Calling”, was released in 2016. Her second EP, “Plant Feed”, was released in 2017, followed by “Do You Like Pain?” in 2018. Miss Universe has received wide critical acclaim, with critics noting her ability to bounce back and forth between musical and lyrical styles, shifting between “gimlet-eyed composure and cataclysmic panic”. Yanya’s music has been described as nervous and restless, combining influences from indie rock to soul, jazz, and trip hop. A Stereogum review called her voice “malleable and endlessly expressive.]

12. Y god Y – “Say”
from: Say- Single / High Dive Records / February 15, 2019
[Y god Y is an electronic duo from Lawrence Kansas that formed in the summer of 2017. The project consists of producer Joel Martin and singer / multi-instrumentalist, Garrett Marsh. The two write, record and produce their music entirely on their own. With only a handful of singles released, they have quickly garnered attention in the Midwest by performing with the likes of Phoenix, and at several Midwest Festivals alongside Grizzly Bear, Spoon, Lion Babe, and Leikeli47. This is their 4th single and part of their upcoming debut 5-song EP to be released April 5, 2019, and on their new label High Dive Records. Garrett Marsh on vocals & Joel Martin on music, making “experimental R & B” with influences of 80’s electropop.]

[Y god Y play the 3 DEEP : CHROMADEPTH 3-D CONCERT WITH MONTA AT ODDS, LA GUERRE, and PALA ZOLO with Live Visuals from VJDN (Nate Bogert), Friday, March 29, at 8:00 PM. at recordBar, 1520 Grand, KCMO. Produced by Kosmic City and Sound Machine KC.]

13. Monta At Odds – “Argentum Dreams”
from: Argentum Dreams / Haymaker Records / October 19, 2018
[6th full length release from the psychedelic, experimental indie/space rock/electronic collective based in KCK formed by brothers Dedric and Delaney Moore. The band describes their music as: Mutant Disco, minimal synthwave, post-punk dance, Electronica, Indie, Space Rock, Ambient. Current members include: Dedric Moore, Delaney Moore, Alexander Thomas, Adam Davies, Zach Bozich, Aaron Osborne, Matthew Hayden, past supporting members: Mika Tanaya, Sterling Holman, Bree Plaster; Eric Bessenbacher, Ryan Shank, Jeremiah James, Samer Saba, Doug Hutchinson, Erin O’Neill, Sam Behrens, Luke Behrens, Sam Hughes, Tom Romero, Caleb Aldrich, John Aldrich.]

[MONTA AT ODDS play the 3 DEEP : CHROMADEPTH 3-D CONCERT WITH, Y GOD Y, LA GUERRE, and PALA ZOLO with Live Visuals from VJDN (Nate Bogert), Friday, March 29, at 8:00 PM. at recordBar, 1520 Grand, KCMO. Produced by Kosmic City and Sound Machine KC.]

14. Katy Guillen & The Girls – “Heavy Days”
from: Heavy Days / VizzTone Label Group and KG&G Records / June 24, 2016
[Katy Guillen on guitar & vocals, Claire Adams on bass & vocals, & Stephanie Williams on drums. Recorded at Weights and Measures Soundlab with their longtime engineer Duane Trower, the band supplemented guitar, vocal and percussive layers; auxiliary instrumentation from blues pianist Mike “Shinetop” Sedovic (Danielle Nicole Band) and jazz trombonist Ryan Heinlein (The Project H); production from Paul Malinowski; and mastering at Black Lab Mastering in Louisville, Kentucky. Katy Guillen & the Girls hometown release of “Heavy Days” on May 21 at Knuckleheads.]

[Katy Guillen & Stephanie Williams play the Gospel Lounge, at Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester St, KCMO, Friday, April 12, at 9:00 PM]

11:00 – Station ID

15. Miya Folick – “Thingamajig”
from: Premonitions / A Terrible Records – Interscope Release / October 26, 2018
[Los Angeles based musical artist writes: “Premonitions begins with “Thingamajig” — something you can’t quite recall the name of, but you know exactly what it means and what it feels like. Like the pull of desire that comes with not quite remembering fully. The magnetism of something just on the tip of your tongue. I wanted the album to feel like that thing. // I think a lot about about memory-making as an act of creation, the words we use to describe a memory give shape to and sometimes mutate the memory itself. I believe that the way we choose to describe the events of our lives is not only a means of creative fulfillment, but an absolutely vital part of creating the world we want to live in. When we are dishonest in the present, we create a dishonest future. When we are honest in the present, we create a more honest future. I wanted this album to be the vehicle for a hopeful, truthful, generous, and loving world. I tried not to posture or pretend. I wrote about my life as I’ve seen it and how I’d like to see it, as both memory and premonition. // The producers, Justin Raisen and Yves Rothman, and I spent months collecting organic sounds to fill the world of this record. We threw away everything that felt false and tried to keep the soul of each song alive. I hope Premonitions gives you comfort and joy. I hope it feels like all the mysterious details of your lives, all your massive and mundane glories. I hope it reminds you that there is beauty in the details. Rainbows in your sprinklers. Drinking water from a hose. The way it felt to make a friend for the first time. Locking yourself in a bathroom to avoid everyone. Dancing until your shins burn. Leaving your phone in an Uber and making your best friend drive you an hour away to knock on a stranger’s door after locating it on Find My Phone. Losing a friend. Losing yourself. Remembering.”]

11:04 – Interview with Savanna Howland & Stevie Ervay

Stevie Ervay and Savanna Howland on the March 27, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

Savanna Howland & Stevie Ervay are joining us on our 90.1 FM Studios here at 39th and Main Street. Savanna Howland started Playlistplay in 2015 with husband Nick Howland. Savanna is also the co-creator of gstlst.com. With 25 music festivals under her belt in the past two years and 86 shows attended in 2018, she is constantly searching for hidden gems in local music scenes around the world.

Savanna Howland thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Stevie Ervay Lives in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied Communications/Public Relations at Park University. He serves as Digital Content Manager & Editor at Playlistplay. Steven also works for gstlst.com, he is co-director at Sofar Sounds Kansas City, he also works as a Promoter & Booker at The Rino promoting shows under the moniker of Fine Dining Productions.

Stevie Ervay thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Savanna Howland started Playlistplay in 2015 with husband Nick Howland.
The site came out of the playlists Savanna and Nick shared with each other. Sending playlist back and forth as they were dating and eventually got married. They created a website for fun but is was so well received from others that it grew into a business

Savanna is also the co-creator of gstlst.com as sister site to Playlistplay. Savanna has been going to music festivals around the country and discovered that there are over 400 big music festivals happening annually. with Stevie’s help they created a database with all of these festivals and created a place to link them together.

Savanna is also co-Creator of Bands and Bowls that focuses on food and music.

Savanna also works at Refinery Room and has studied at Paul Mitchell The School

http://www.playlistplay.com features Discovery Playlists offering a chance for viewers to find their new favorite songs as well as discover new tracks from their favorite artists.

Along with Playlists the site also features Liner Notes and Features

11:14

16. Hop Along – “How Simple”
from: Bark Your Head Off, Dog / Saddle Creek / April 6, 2019
[Written over the course of 2016 and 2017 and recorded in the summer of the latter year by Frances Quinlan (songwriter/vocalist/rhythm guitar), Tyler Long (bass), Joe Reinhart (guitar), and Mark Quinlan (drums), Bark Your Head Off, Dog addresses disappointment, particularly in man’s misuse of power, and relates accounts from the periphery — one’s attempts to retreat from the lengthening shadows of tyrants, both historical and everyday. It considers what it’s like to cast off longheld and misguided perceptions, yet without the assurance of knowing what new ones will replace them. Much like on Hop Along’s first and second records, Get Disowned and Painted Shut, Quinlan seeks in real time to work through these issues. // Throughout the album, one gets the sense that Quinlan is wandering in the thicket of a forest—a state of being that will feel familiar to longtime listeners—and on this outing, she hasn’t left a trail of breadcrumbs behind her. The album’s artwork, which Quinlan painted herself, invites the listener into that forest, as well. “There is a terror in getting lost,” she says, “the woods are at the same time beautiful and horrifying.” This curious wandering gives the album, both lyrically and musically, a heightened dimensionality. // Bark Your Head Off, Dog is, without question, Hop Along’s most dynamic and textured record yet. Self-produced and recorded at The Headroom in Philadelphia by Reinhart and Kyle Pulley, Bark Your Head Off, Dog features the familiar sounds that have always made the band allergic to genre: grunge, folk, punk, and power pop all appear, with inspiration from ELO to Elvis Costello to ‘70s girl group vocal arrangements. This time around, they’ve added strings, more intricate rhythms, lush harmonies (featuring Thin Lips’ Chrissy Tashjian), along with a momentary visit with a vocoder. In more than one place, Mark Quinlan drums like he’s at a disco with Built to Spill. // Most significantly, Bark Your Head Off, Dog shows the band at its strongest and most cohesive. Hop Along (which originally began as Quinlan’s solo project under the moniker Hop Along, Queen Ansleis) has never sounded so deliberate, so balanced. “So strange to be shaped by such strange men” is a line that repeats on more than one song on the album. “I’ve been thinking about that a lot. That I just deferred to men throughout my life,” Quinlan says. “But by thinking you’re powerless, you’re really robbing yourself. I’m at a point in my life where I’m saying instead, ‘Well, what can I do?’” // Produced by Joe Reinhart and Hop Along // Written by Frances Quinlan and Hop Along (ASCAP) // Engineered by Kyle Pulley and Joe Reinhart at The Headroom in Philadelphia with Assistants Pat Quigley Ethan Farmer Ben Weiss // Mixed and Mastered by Ryan Schwabe .]

11:18 – Interview with Savanna Howland & Stevie Ervay

Savanna Howland and Steven Ervay

Savanna Howland started Playlistplay in 2015 with husband Nick Howland. Savanna is also the co-creator of gstlst.com. With 25 music festivals under her belt in the past two years and 86 shows attended in 2018, she is constantly searching for hidden gems in local music scenes around the world.

Steven Ervay serves as Digital Content Manager & Editor at Playlistplay. Steven also works for gstlst.com, he is co-director at Sofar Sounds Kansas City, he also works as a Promoter & Booker at The Rino promoting shows under the moniker of Fine Dining Productions.

gstlst.com // http://www.playlistplay.com

Savanna Howland & Stevie Ervay, thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

11:27

17. Superorganism – “Reflections On The Screen”
from: Superorganism / Domino Records / March 2, 2018
[Superorganism is an indie pop band that formed in early 2017. The group is made up of 8 members, one of which is a 17-year-old Japanese girl only known as Orono. The 7 other members go by the names of Harry, Emily, Ruby, B, Tucan, Soul, and Robert. The group, started with members from all over the world including The United States, Japan, South Korea, London, Australia, and New Zealand, makes original internet-age electronically-tinged indie pop music. Bandmembers Harry, Emily, Ruby, B, Tucan, Soul, and Robert were all longtime friends who decided it was finally time to work together. Harry and Emily met Orono during one of their old band’s Japan shows (she attended as a fan), and they struck up a Facebook friendship with their future bandmate. After discovering she could sing, they invited her to add lyrics and vocals to a demo they’d been working on for a new project at the beginning of 2017.]

11:31 – Underwriting

18. Jaclyn Bell – “Wanna Be Mine”
from: Wanna Be Mine / Jaclyn Bell / March 28, 2019
[Kansas City based Jaclyn Bell is releasing her new EP, Wanna Be Mine as a follow up to her 2018 EP “Memories.” Jaclyn Bell studied at Berklee College of Music. She also studied Audio Engineering/Music Production at Recording Radio Film Connection]

[Jaclyn Bell plus a Record Release Show, tomorrow, March 28, at 7:00 PM, The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, MO with Tonks (NJ), Oh Dear Oh My]

19. L A Jones – “Addicted”
from: Addicted – Single / L A Jones / June 30, 2018
[LA Jones is a soul-pop band from Kansas City, Missouri. Formed in 2016 by partners Danielle Jones and Tim O’Connor, the band has now grown to feature a wide variety of instruments and members including a three piece horn section, keys, bass, and drums. They blend a style of funk and soul with contemporary pop/rock music drawing comparisons to Amy Winehouse, Stevie Wonder, and The Revivalists. Band Members include: Danielle Jones on lead vocals, Tim O’Connor on guitar & vocals, Marcus Grimes on keyboards, Jeramy Johnston on bass, Daniel Dissmore on trumpet, Trevor Turla on trombone, Matt Cook on saxophone, and Cade Pool on drums.]

[LA Jones, play and Album Release Show, Sunday, March 31, at 7:00 PM at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North KCMO with Matt Cook Collective, Lovergurl, and Dreamhouse.]

Hipshot Killer

20. Hipshot Killer – “Hearts Like Ours”
from: All This Time is Ours / Hipshot Killer / January 16, 2016
[KC based 3-piece power punk band formed in the fall of 2008. The current line up consists of: Mike Alexander (Revolvers, Architects, John Velge and The Prodigal Sons, The Starhaven Rounders), on guitar & vocals, Chris Wagner (100 Years War, Jackie Carrol, John Velge and The Prodigal Sons) on bass & vocals, legendary drummer Jon “Buddy” Paul, who plays in (The Big Iron, The Revolvers.) The band released their debut record Hipshot Killer, April 29, 2011. The band released their second album They Will Try To Kill Us All on January 16, 2016. It was number 7 in Wednesday MidDay Medley’s 116 Best Recordings of 2016. Hipshot Killer also released a single on Too Much Rock on October 21, 2016 .]

[Hipshot Killer, play an “All This Time is Ours” LP release show, Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 9:00 PM at miniBar 3810 Broadway Rd, KCMO with Midlife from Springfield MO and KC’s own Arson Class.]

21. The Ultra Sounds – “Snow”
from: Maiden Mars | The Ultrasounds Split EP / The Ultrasounds / April 20, 2017
[Sludgy garage pop from Winona, MN Comprised of three chicks and one dude who, surprisingly, is not the drummer—The Ultrasounds fashion a wall of noisy guitars and feedback juxtaposed with frail but poignant melodies. It’s an indie, post-punk, and sludge amalgam for all except tasteless squares. Band Members include: Megan Hanson on guitar & vocals, Courtney Guenveur on bass, Amber Fletcher on drums, and Todd Hanson on guitar & vocals.]

[The Ultra Sounds plays Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee, 901 E 31st St, KCMO Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 5:00 PM with Red Kate, Busey, VidCo Kult, and Kill Vargas.]

22. VidCo Kult – “Ernest Goes To Branson”
from: Enrollment Opportunities : Tangential Life Trajectories Ensuring Physical and Spiritual Greatness Through the Power of Devotional Subjugation / Double Double Whammy / March 1, 2019
[VidCo Kult is a musical trio involving Bob Lyons, Tripp Kirby and Keith. They are based in Kansas City, Missouri. Aside from live performances of original material, they mostly argue about comic books and science fiction.]

[VidCo Kult plays Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee, 901 E 31st St, KCMO Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 5:00 PM with Red Kate, Busey, Ultrasounds, and Kill Vargas.]

23. Busey – “Cat Butt”
from: Cat butt – Single (b/w of Good Boy) / Butt Horn Records / March 15, 2019
[Power slop from Minneapolis. Band Members include: Montana Dan, Skokie Jones, Jesse Berndt, Young Ryan, and Jonny Po. Written and Performed by BUSEY. Recorded/mixed by John Peters at Future Condos .]

[Busey plays Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee, 901 E 31st St, KCMO Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 5:00 PM with Red Kate, VidCo Kult, Ultrasounds, and Kill Vargas.]

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

Next week on April 3 we have an Action Packed show with Victor & Penny, Sondra Freeman of Midwest Music Foundation, Brandon and Adam Phillips sharing the new Too Much Rock Single Series featuring Brandon Phillips & The Condition, and Aaron Rhodes of Shuttlecock Music Magazine.

Our Script/Playlist is a “cut and paste” of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

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Show #779

WMM Playlist from March 20, 2019

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Mark Manning

Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
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Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Mike Alexander & Hipshot Killer
+ Patrick Alonzo Conway & Gamelan Genta Kasturi
+ New & MidCoastal Releases

1. “It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / Casablanca / December 20, 1979
[WMM’s theme song]

Radkey

2. Radkey – “Spiders”
from: No Strange Cats…P.A.W. / The Century Family / February 22, 2019
[This new 7 song EP is essentially a collection of the band’s most recent singles. It comes after the January 11, 2019 release of No Strange cats…Spiders – EP a 6 song EP of several new songs mixed with several singles from late 2018. Isaiah, Dee, and Solomon Radke of the critically acclaimed rock trio Radkey joined us live in our 90.1 FM studios on September 5, 2018 to talk about their performance at recordBar with Quixotic Performers, as headliners for the 14th Annual Crossroads Music Fest. Radkey was formed in 2010 in St. Joseph, where the brothers were raised. The family moved to Kansas City several years ago. The band has released two full-length recordings — “Dark Black Makeup” in 2015 and “Delicious Rock Noise” in 2016 — plus multiple EPs and singles, and recently were part of a MasterCard advertising campaign on digital billboards in NYC along with a national television commercial that aired during the Grammy Awards that brought the band to the attention of Jack White who asked the band to tour with him. After Crossroads Music Fest the band went back on the road playing shows with The Damned throughout the United States. In December they went back into the studio to record songs for this release with producer Bill Stevenson of the California punk rock group Descendants. In early 2019 they played shows in Amsterdam and Stockholm. Last year the and released “Basement” , “St. Elwood” “Rock & Roll Homeschool” as well as several other singles.]

[Radkey plays The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St, Lawrence, KS, Friday, March 22, at at 7:00 PM with special guests: Drop A Grand, The Bad Ideas, and Wick & The Tricks.]

3. Metric – “Now or Never Now (Radio Edit)”
from: Art of Doubt / MMI-Crystal Math Music-BMG / September 11, 2018
[7th full-length record, from Canadian band Metric founded in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. Emily Haines on lead vocals, synthesizers, guitar, tambourine, harmonica, piano; James Shaw on guitar, synthesizers, theremin, backing vocals; Joshua Winstead on bass, synthesizers, backing vocals; and Joules Scott-Key on drums & percussion. Although the band is Canadian, Haines was born in India to American parents, and Winstead and Scott-Key are American. The band started in 1998 as a duo formed by Haines and Shaw with the name “Mainstream”. After releasing an EP titled Mainstream EP, they changed the band’s name to Metric. The band’s first studio album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, was released in 2003. Live It Out, released in 2005, was nominated for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the “Canadian Album of the Year” and for the 2006 Juno Awards for “Best Alternative Album”. Their third studio album, Grow Up and Blow Away, was recorded in 2001; it was initially planned as their debut album, but was delayed for many years and finally released, with some changes, in 2007. Metric’s fourth album Fantasies was released in 2009. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for “Canadian Album of the Year”, and won the “Alternative Album of the Year” at the 2010 Juno Awards. Metric also won the 2010 “Group of the Year”. The fifth Metric studio album, Synthetica, was released in 2012. The band won two awards at 2013 Juno Awards: “Alternative Album of the Year” for Synthetica & “Producer of the Year” for Shaw. The art director/designer/photographer Justin Broadbent also won an award for “Recording Package of the Year” for Synthetica. Metric’s sixth album, Pagans in Vegas, was released in 2015. Art of Doubt, was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnson.]

[Metric plays The Truman, 601 E. Truman Road, KCMO, Thursday, March 21, at 8:00 PM]

Yola

4. Yola – “Faraway Look”
from: Walk Through Fire / Easy Eye Soud – Nonesuch Records / February 22, 2019
[Yolanda Quartey was born 1984. Known professionally as Yola. She is an English singer-songwriter, from Bristol, England. She became the lead singer of the band Phantom Limb, who released their first album in 2010. She also sang backing vocals for Massive Attack. Yola released her first EP, Orphan Offering, in 2016. In February 2019, she released her debut album Walk Through the Fire on Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label, to much acclaim. AllMusic called it “an extraordinary record, one designed to be part of a grand musical tradition, and it contains enough emotion and imagination to earn its place within that lineage.”]

5. Soultru – “Can You Keep A Secret”
from: Soultru & Progeny / Fake Four Inc. / December 25, 2018
[ Singer, songwriter, poet and emcee Terrance A Banks aka Soultru is a native of Davenport, Iowa and is currently based out of the Quad Cities area of NW Illinois/NE Iowa. Combining his poetic and lyrical talents with a soulful voice, Soultru has forged his own unique sound. Soultru credits a wide range of influences, including Gavin Degraw, John Legend, Yelawolf and Son Little. Soultru is the latest signing to Kansas City label The Record Machine.]

[Soultru plays SoundMachineKC on Saturday, May 4, at 8:00 PM, with The Freedom Affair, and Duncan Burnett.]

6. Rina Mushonga – “In a Galaxy”
from: In a Galaxy / Rina Mushonga / February 15, 2019
[Rina Mushonga was born in India and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. She attended college in the Netherlands and eventually moved to Peckham, in London, where her music career ignited. As a child she learned to play guitar and piano and began writing her own songs. She names her influences as Paul Simon, Oliver Mtukudzi, Nina Simone, and Fleetwood Mac. She started out by playing at open-mike nights in Harare. Her 2014 debut, The Wild, The Wilderness, was recorded while she was living in the Netherlands and released on Sony Music. The album contained a folk/rock-influenced sound in the vein of her early influences, but Mushonga was unsatisfied, feeling she was unable to express her authentic self. It was only after she moved to Peckham, a multiculturally rich neighborhood of London, that she felt more at home and able to explore her African heritage in music. The resulting album took five years, as she juggled making music with working and caring for her young daughter. She made a demo with Frans Verburg in Rotterdam, recorded with Brett Shaw at his studio in Peckham, and eventually released “In a Galaxy” on PIAS in 2019. The album has a rich, kaleidoscopic sound incorporating elements of Afro-pop, indie, and electro into a catchy yet experimental whole. ~ John D. Buchanan, Rovi]

7. Mysterious Clouds – “Circles (Inner Party) featuring Your Friend”
from: My Head is Going Round EP / Haymaker Records / May 25, 2018
[Mysterious Clouds is one of the musical projects of Kansas City, Kansas based post-punk psychedelic musical artists, Dedric Moore and Delaney Moore and special guests. For this track and one other on the new EP the band collaborated with Taryn Blake Miller a Lawrence Kansas based musician and songwriter who records as Your Friend. The Delaney brothers are also founders of the band Monta At Odds. The band writes: “While crawling around in the murk of (their last release) Panic on the Noon Meridian, Delaney fed the band a healthy dose of underground West Coast psych. This helped the band see a feel good light that helped them recover from the heaviness of Panic. These songs are for spring and summer listening and are meant to add a bit of happiness to our daily struggle of keeping up the faith and fighting the good fight.]

[Mysterious Clouds play recordBar 1520 Grand Blvd, KCMO, TONIGHT, March 20, at 8:00 pm, opening for The Bright Light Social Hour with Sea Moya.]

8. Rufus Wainwright – “Blue (Live)”
from: Joni 75: A Joni Mitchell Birthday Celebration (Live) / Decca / March 8, 2019
[A Joni Mitchell tribute album, celebrating her 75th birthday, features live renditions of the singer’s songs by Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, James Taylor and many others. The record contains a recording of a tribute concert that was held in her honor in Los Angeles last November. The concert was additionally broadcast in movie theaters on February 7th. Percussionist Brian Blade, who made three studio albums and toured with Mitchell, served as the evening’s co-musical director alongside producer and arranger Jon Cowherd. The evening was presented by the Music Center, a non-profit organization that tries to bring artists and communities together with an eye toward enriching the lives of people living in Los Angeles County. “By honoring Joni Mitchell, an amazing iconic artist, the Music Center had an incredible opportunity to bring her music to Los Angeles audiences,” the organization’s president and CEO, Rachel Moore, said in a statement. “Now that experience can be enjoyed by many more Joni Mitchell fans with an album that allows other music legends to shine a light on her artistry.” Rolling Stone reviewed the concert and called it a “moving tribute show.” “The unifying effect of Mitchell’s music rang out with a closing group singalong to ‘Big Yellow Taxi,’ one of the more ebullient standouts from her oeuvre,” the review reads. “The billed artists stood side by side … and belted the number, a bright rumination on the harrowing effects that man has on society. They each delivered solos, then bowed in unison, as a portrait of Mitchell loomed in the background, a fitting homage to an icon whose presence is still felt, even in her absence.”Mitchell herself, who has been battling health issues, did not take the stage at the event. Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration track list: “Dreamland” – Los Lobos with La Marisoul, Xochi Flores and Cesar Castro “Help Me” – Chaka Khan “Amelia” – Diana Krall “All I Want” – Rufus Wainwright “Coyote” – Glen Hansard. “River” – James Taylor “Both Sides Now” – Seal “Our House” – Graham Nash “A Case of You” – Kris Kristofferson and Brandi Carlile “Down to You” – Brandi Carlile “Blue” – Rufus Wainwright “Court And Spark” – Norah Jones “Nothing Can Be Done” – Los Lobos with La Marisoul, Xochi Flores and Cesar Castro “The Magdalene Laundries” – Emmylou Harris “Woodstock” – James Taylor “Big Yellow Taxi” – La Marisoul, James Taylor, Chaka Khan and Brandi Carlile.]

10:29 – Underwriting

Patrick Alonzo Conway on the March 20, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

10:31 – Interview with Patrick Alonzo Conway

Patrick Alonzo Conway is a Kansas City based composer, performer, educator, and independent musician. He holds a Masters in Music Composition from the UMKC Conservatory of Music. He was a founding member of newEar, and he works with Terrestrial Consort, People’s Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City, Chris Hazelton’s Boogaloo 7, and BCR. He is a 2012 recipient of the Charlotte Street Foundation Generative Performing Artist Fellow Award. Patrick Alonzo Conway is also the Director of Gamelan Genta Kasturi.

Patrick joins us to share details about Gamelan Genta Kasturi Spring Concert with Asnawa Family, on Sunday, March 24, at 1:00 PM, at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St, KCMO.

Patrick Alonzo Conway thanks for being with us again on WMM.

Gamelan Genta Kasturi – Spring Concert w/ guest Balinese artists: I Ketút Gedé Asnawa, Putu Oka Mardiani, Ni Made Nias Yunirika & Ni Nyoman Nias Yonitika

Sunday March 24, 2019 – 1:00 pm – Nelson Atkins Museum – Atkins Auditorium
FREE and open to the public ticket required at the info desk or http://www.nelson-atkins.org

Funds provided through a grant from the Leo Gilbert Wetherill Foundation

For over 16 years KC’s community Balinese gamelan orchestra, Gamelan Genta Kasturi, has been presenting community concerts.

The group’s founder and family return in a special concert of Balinese Music & Dance featuring original compositions by Mr. Asnawa and traditional classics.

Gamelan Genta Kasturi with Balinese Guest Artists, under the direction of I Ketút Gedé Asnawa, featuring his wife Putu Oka Mardiani Asnawa, and two daughters Yunirika Asnawa & Yonitika Asnawa performing several dances with the music.

Mr. Asnawa has been faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in conjunction with the Robert E. Brown Center For World Music since leaving KaC in 2006. He & his family maintain an active schedule performing, teaching & promoting Balinese Cultural Arts.

Gamelan Genta Kasturi players:

Patrick Alonzo Conway – director, ugal, trompong, kendang; Sam Hughes – assistant director, pemade, kantilan, ceng ceng kopyak; Roy Alanis – jegogan, ceng ceng kopyak; Matt Brahl – kajar, jublag, pemade, ceng ceng kopyak; Malcolm Cook – pemade, ceng ceng kopyak; David Bennett Freeling – jublag, ponggang; Wesley Isaac – pemade, kantilan, ceng ceng kopyak; Sara Koron – gongs; Sean Mawhirter – jegogan, kajar; Lauren Mola – jublag, pemade, kantilan, ponggang; Julian Schempf – pemade, kantilan, ceng ceng kopyak; Wayne Yockey – suling, pemade; Allan Winkler – ceng ceng, kempur

One of the pieces from the program is Kebyar Ding – I Wayan Regog

This composition is credited with being the first Gamelan work that began the wave of “Kebyar” style that swept the entire island of Bali after it’s introduction in 1915. Kebyar has been interpreted as “lightning”, “the bursting open of a flower” and “explosive”. This style is highlighted by abrupt bursts of sound, shifts in tempo, rapid stops and a style of fast succession of themes within a single piece, in contrast with the more evenly colotomic and structured traditional repertoire of Balinese Gamelan.

10:39

9. Gamelan Genta Kasturi – “Keybar Ding”
from: unreleased track / Gamelan Genta Kasturi / Feb, 2011
[This performance taken from 10th Anniversary Concert.]

Gamelan Genta Kasturi Spring Concert with Asnawa Family, on Sunday, March 24, at 1:00 PM, at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St, KCMO.

Patrick Alonzo Conway joins us to share details about Gamelan Genta Kasturi Spring Concert with Asnawa Family, on Sunday, March 24, at 1:00 PM, at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St, KCMO. Event is open to the public, more info at: http://www.nelson-atkins.org.

Another piece from the program is Sekar Gadung arranged by I Ketút Gedé Asnawa

This composition is an influential resetting of a traditional sacred gamelan selonding work into gamelan semar pegulingan style.

10:45

7. Field recording of I Ketút Gedé Asnawa neighboring Gamelan group – “Sekar Gadung (Semar Pegulingan style)”

Gamelan Genta Special Thanks: Catherina Mueller – Nelson-Atkins Museum; Laura Isaac – Arts Dojo; Leo Wetherill – Leo Gilbert Wetherill Foundation; Karen Williams – Kindness, Inc.; Wayne Yockey; Thaylia Smith

A gamelan is a traditional musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Java and Bali, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, kendang (drums) & gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed & plucked strings. Vocalists may also be included. For most Indonesians, gamelan music is an integral part of Indonesian culture.

The term refers more to the set of instruments than to the players of those instruments. A gamelan is a set of instruments as a distinct entity, built and tuned to stay together – instruments from different gamelan are generally not interchangeable.

Patrick Alonzo Conway thanks for being with us again on WMM.

Gamelan Genta Kasturi Spring Concert with Asnawa Family, on Sunday, March 24, at 1:00 PM, at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St, KCMO. Event is open to the public, more info at: http://www.nelson-atkins.org.

10:53

11. Shapiro Brothers – “Almost Ready”
from: Shapiro Brothers [EP] / Shapiro Brothers / November 3, 2016
[Kansas City based Americana duo, formed by Mikal Shapiro and Chad Brothers who interpret classic country and folk music alongside critically acclaimed originals. Strengthened by Shapiro’s lyrical prowess and Brothers world-class flat picking, the couple showcases their harmonies, stellar guitar interplay and a magnetic onstage chemistry. All songs written by Mikal Shapiro, except “Almost Ready” was written by Mikal Shapiro and Chad Brothers.]

[Shapiro Brothers play The Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania Ave, KCMO, Saturday, March 23, at 8:00 PM with Grant Sabin and the Juke Joint Highball, and Outside Voices.]

12. Sky Smeed – “If You’re Taught You Learn to Be Mean”
from: Leaving Again / Sky Smeed / February 9, 2019
[Sky Smeed told us that he wrote this song while watching the horrible things that happened in Charlottesville, WV a few weeks ago. It’s influenced by a bunch of things for certain. Sky Smeed was born and raised outside of Chanute, Kansas, in an old, one-room schoolhouse his parents bought and turned into a home in the early 1970s. Last year, he sold the country home he built by hand and migrated to Lawrence, Kansas, a place that has provided a non-stop supply of creativity, community and culture, and began settling in to an old fixer-upper on the north side of the Kaw River. To date, Smeed has self-released five full-length albums: Flying High (2002), The Front Steps (2004), Mill River (2006), Sky Smeed (2012) and Drive All Night (2015). His sixth album, Lunker Bass (released February 1, 2017), was recorded and produced at The Ninth Ward Pickin’ Parlor in Lawrence by none other than award-winning folk duo Truckstop Honeymoon (Mike & Katie West).]

[Sky Smeed plays recordBar, 1520 Grand, on Friday, March 22, at 7:00 PM, with Kelly Hunt.]

11:00 – Station ID

13. Hipshot Killer – “New Gillham Park”
from: All This Time is Ours / Throwing Things / January 16, 2016
[KC based 3-piece power punk band formed in the fall of 2008. The current line up consists of: Mike Alexander (Revolvers, Architects, John Velge and The Prodigal Sons, The Starhaven Rounders), on guitar & vocals, Chris Wagner (100 Years War, Jackie Carrol, John Velge and The Prodigal Sons) on bass & vocals, legendary drummer Jon “Buddy” Paul, who plays in (The Big Iron, The Revolvers.) The band released their debut record Hipshot Killer, April 29, 2011. The band released their second album They Will Try To Kill Us All on January 16, 2016. It was number 7 in Wednesday MidDay Medley’s 116 Best Recordings of 2016. Hipshot Killer also released a single on Too Much Rock on October 21, 2016 .]

Mike Alexander on the March 20, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

11:03 – Interview with Mike Alexander

Mike Alexander is lead vocalist & guitarist of Hipshot Killer with Chris Wagner on bass & vocals, and Jon “Buddy” Paul on drums. Hipshot Killer released their debut album Hipshot Killer, on April 29, 2011. The band released their second album They Will Try To Kill Us All on January 16, 2016. It was number 7 in Wednesday MidDay Medley’s 116 Best Recordings of 2016. Hipshot Killer also released a single on Too Much Rock on October 21, 2016. Mike Alexander has been a tireless organizer of the KC area punk scene and has helped to produce multiple years of the Center of the City Fest. Mike also helped to create the 8-song tribute recording, I’ll Repay You: A Benefit for John Fackler – featuring the songs of John Fackler and Jettison . Mike Alexander joins us to share information about Hipshot Killer’s new album All This Time is Ours, and the band’s special – LP Release Show, Saturday, March 30, at 9:00 PM, at miniBar, 3810 Broadway Rd, KCMO, with the Midlife from Springfield MO and KC’s own Arson Class.

Mike Alexander thanks for being with us on WMM.

Drum tracks for All This Time is Ours were recorded at Weights and Measures studio by Duane Trower.

Music tracks were recorded in the bands rehearsal space and then taken back to Weights and Measures to be mastered.

All songs written by Mike Alexander

More information at http://www.hipshotkiller.com

11:12

14. Hipshot Killer – “Breaking the Lease”
from: All This Time is Ours / Throwing Things / January 16, 2016
[KC based 3-piece power punk band formed in the fall of 2008. The current line up consists of: Mike Alexander (Revolvers, Architects, John Velge and The Prodigal Sons, The Starhaven Rounders), on guitar & vocals, Chris Wagner (100 Years War, Jackie Carrol, John Velge and The Prodigal Sons) on bass & vocals, legendary drummer Jon “Buddy” Paul, who plays in (The Big Iron, The Revolvers.) The band released their debut record Hipshot Killer, April 29, 2011. The band released their second album They Will Try To Kill Us All on January 16, 2016. It was number 7 in Wednesday MidDay Medley’s 116 Best Recordings of 2016. Hipshot Killer also released a single on Too Much Rock on October 21, 2016 .]

Hipshot Killer

We are talking with Mike Alexander lead vocalist & guitarist of Hipshot Killer with Chris Wagner on bass & vocals, and Jon “Buddy” Paul on drums. Mike Alexander joins us to share information about Hipshot Killer’s new album All This Time is Ours

Mike is also a much sought after guitar player and he regularly performs live and records with John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons, The Starhaven Rounders, and The Architects.

Mike Alexander wrote all the songs on “All This Time is Ours” and then the band further developed them in the recording process.

Hipshot Killer play an All This Time is Ours – LP Release Show, Saturday, March 30, at 9:00 PM, at miniBar, 3810 Broadway Rd, KCMO, with the Midlife from Springfield MO and KC’s own Arson Class. More information at http://www.hipshotkiller.com

11:25

15. Hipshot Killer – “Perfect Midnight Sky”
from: All This Time is Ours / Throwing Things / January 16, 2016
[KC based 3-piece power punk band formed in the fall of 2008. The current line up consists of: Mike Alexander (Revolvers, Architects, John Velge and The Prodigal Sons, The Starhaven Rounders), on guitar & vocals, Chris Wagner (100 Years War, Jackie Carrol, John Velge and The Prodigal Sons) on bass & vocals, legendary drummer Jon “Buddy” Paul, who plays in (The Big Iron, The Revolvers.) The band released their debut record Hipshot Killer, April 29, 2011. The band released their second album They Will Try To Kill Us All on January 16, 2016. It was number 7 in Wednesday MidDay Medley’s 116 Best Recordings of 2016.]

11:31 – Underwriting

16. Durand Jones and The Indications– “Don’t You Know”
from: American Love Call / Dead Oceans / March 1, 2019
[Bayou-born soul sensation, Durand Jones got his start in the church, after being forced to sing in the choir of his rural hometown Hillaryville, Louisiana because his Grandmother thought he sang too much at home. When his music career took him to Bloomington, Indiana, he was selected to join the legendary Indiana University Soul Revue, and it was through his involvement that he met writer/producer duo Aaron Frazer and Blake Rhein. The three began writing original soul music, recording themselves straight to tape in the basements of Bloomington – and their debut album is now available on Colemine Records.]

[Durand Jones & The Indications play recordBar, 1520 Grand, Sat. April 6, at 7:00 with Ginger Root]

17. Payge Turner – “Wyld (feat. The Authors)”
from: Wyld – Single / Payge Turner / September 21, 2018
[4th Single from KC based singer songwriter originally born in the Caribbean. Payge moved to Colby, Kansas when she was in the 6th grade. She writes, “Ever since I was able to talk, all I ever wanted to do was sing!”]

[Payge Turner plays The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, Tomorrow, March 21, at 7:00 PM, with Tom West, Chase The Horseman and Erica Joy.]

[Payge Turner plays Voltaire 1617 Genessee St, KCMO, Sat, March 23, at 10:30 PM with Jessica Paige.]

18. Sugarpulp – “Open Yr Mouth”
from: Teeth / Sugarpulp Records / February 22, 2019
[Chicago based rock dance rock glam psych band with Deb Chesterman on keyboards & vocals; Sam Allyn on guitar, synthesizers, & programming; Patrick Riley on drums; and Patrick Foley on bass. All songs written and produced by Sugarpulp. Recorded and Mastered by Mike Hagler.]

[Sugarpulp plays miniBar 3810 Broadway Rd, KCMO, TONIGHT, Wednesday,march 20, at 9:00 PM with Golden Groves, Salty, and Ethan Eckert.]

19. Kill Vargas – “What We Don’t Know”
from: Laugh It Off / Kill Vargas / April 2, 2019
[Wichita, Kansas based band with Logan Bush on drums, Austin Engler on bass, Griffin Bush on guitar & vocals, and Trent Gaddie on guitar]

[Kill Vargas plays Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee, 901 E 31st St, KCMO Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 5:00 PM with Red Kate, Busey, Ultrasounds, VidCo Kult.]

20. VidCo Kult – “Tim Allen’s Demolition Kitchen”
from:Enrollment Opportunities : Tangential Life Trajectories Ensuring Physical and Spiritual Greatness Through the Power of Devotional Subjugation / Double Double Whammy / March 1, 2019
[VidCo Kult is a musical trio involving Bob Lyons, Tripp Kirby and Keith. They are based in Kansas City, Missouri. Aside from live performances of original material, they mostly argue about comic books and science fiction.]

[VidCo Kult plays Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee, 901 E 31st St, KCMO Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 5:00 PM with Red Kate, Busey, Ultrasounds, and Kill Vargas.]

21. Adia Victoria – “Different Kind of Love”
from: Silences / Atlantic Recording Corporation / February 22, 2019
[Adia Victoria was born July 22, 1986. She is an American singer and songwriter, known for her “gothic blues” musical style. In addition to playing and writing music, she also writes poetry. She is currently based in Nashville. Adia Victoria was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina and is one of six siblings. Her father is Trinidadian. She was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist and she attended church schools until in the 6th grade, her mother enrolled her in public school. Shortly after, her parents divorced and Victoria began to write poetry and short stories as a means of coping. Being moved from the world of Seventh-day Adventists to a public school was difficult for Victoria, who didn’t feel like she fit in. Victoria and her siblings often spent time with her maternal grandparents who lived near Campobello. She attended Landrum Junior High School in Campobello. Her family also left the Adventist church before Victoria attended high school, which allowed her to explore music she hadn’t been exposed to before, like Kurt Cobain, Miles Davis and Fiona Apple.After high school, she went to New York for a time, in an attempt to “strike it big in a new city.” In 2007, she left New York for Atlanta. On her 21st birthday, a friend gave her a guitar and she began to work with blues music. Victoria moved to Nashville in 2010. She chose Nashville as a place where she could live anonymously. In Nashville, she earned her GED and then took French in college. She began to perform around Nashville. In 2016, she performed at South by Southwest. Her personal “look” was noticed by Vogue for its “Afropop” roots. However, Victoria states that she doesn’t like to be “fetishized” for her looks, saying, “People think that because you are attractive, you owe the world something, to let them consume you.” Victoria began her career with a backing band consisting of Ruby Rogers, Tiffany Minton, and Mason Hickman. Later, she began working with a different group, and they debuted together in January 2016.Victoria’s first single release was “Stuck In the South”, which was described on All Things Considered as a “very swampy mysterious kind of slow-burning song.” Rolling Stone describes her as “PJ Harvey covering Loretta Lynn at a haunted debutante ball.” Her live performances are described by Wondering Sound as angry and “furious and feral.” American Songwriter calls her stage presence “commanding.” Victoria’s full-length debut, Beyond the Bloodhounds, was produced by Roger Moutenot, The name of the album is a reference to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. The predominant theme of her first album is dealing with life in her twenties. Moutenot has previously collaborated with Yo La Tengo and also produced her first single. Canvasback is her current record label]

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

Next week on March 27 we welcome Steven Ervay and Savanna Howland of Playlistplay

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Show #778

WMM Playlist from March 13, 2019

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Mark Manning

Wednesday MidDay Medley
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

WMM’s 777th Show!
New & MidCoastal Releases

1. “It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / Casablanca / December 20, 1979
[WMM’s theme song]

2. Emily King – “Remind Me”
from: Scenery / ATO Records / February 1, 2019
[We fIrst played Emily King on June 29, 2016 when our friend Krystle Warren was Guest Producer and played the song “Georgia” from King’s 2011 EP Seven. She is an American singer and songwriter. She started her career in 2004 and her debut album East Side Story was released three years later in August 2007. In December 2007, King was listed as a Grammy nominee for Best Contemporary R&B Album. Born July 10, 1985, in NYC in 1985, King grew up in a small apartment on the Lower East Side. Her parents, Marion Cowings and Kim Kalesti, were a singing duo who performed and traveled regularly bringing her and her older brother along with them. At age 16, King left high school after earning her GED to pursue her music career. She began playing shows in restaurants and venues around New York City including CBGB and The Bitter End. King signed her first record deal with J Records in 2004 and was featured on Nas’ 2004 album Street’s Disciple credited as simply “Emily”. Her debut album East Side Story was released 3 years later in August 2007. It went on to earn a Grammy nomination for “Best Contemporary R&B Album of the Year.” During that time King toured with John Legend & Floetry. She opened for various artists such as Nas, Alicia Keys, Chaka Khan & Erykah Badu. After parting ways with her label in 2008, King continued independently. She self-recorded her follow-up EP Seven in her home, released July 2011. In October 2011, she accepted an invite from Maroon 5 to open on their European/Scandinavian tour. In 2012, King was awarded the Holly Prize (a tribute to the legacy of Buddy Holly) from The Songwriters Hall of Fame for recognition of the “all-in songwriter” whose work exhibits the qualities of Holly’s music: true, great and original. King was invited by Emeli Sande to open for her UK tour playing sold out shows in 5 cities including The Royal Albert Hall in London. King collaborated with José James on his album No Beginning No End in 2013 and can be heard on tracks Heaven on the Ground and the acoustic version of Come to My Door. In 2014, King was performing as an opening act for Sara Bareilles’ Little Black Dress tour. The year 2015 marked the release of King’s 2nd studio album, The Switch, Emily self-released on her label Making Music Records on June 26. The Wall Street Journal remarked that the album is “a tasteful collection of 11 songs that showcase King’s distinctive voice.” After signing with the ATO Records in 2017, King became label mates with Brittany Howard, Benjamin Booker & Brandi Carlile. More info at: http://www.emilykingmusic.com]

3. Kevin Morby – “No Halo”
from: Oh My God / Dead Oceans / April 29, 2019
[5th release from Kevin Robert Morby born April 2, 1988. follow up to his 2017 release City Music. Kevin learned to play guitar when he was 10. In his teens he formed the band Creepy Aliens. 17-year-old Morby dropped out of Blue Valley Northwest High School, got his GED, and moved from his native Kansas City to Brooklyn in the mid-2000s, supporting himself by working bike delivery and café jobs. He later joined the noise-folk group Woods on bass. While living in Brooklyn, he became close friends and roommates with Cassie Ramone of the punk trio Vivian Girls, and the two formed a side project together called The Babies, who released albums in 2011 and 2012. He began a solo career in 2013 releasing his debut album Harlem River. His 2nd album Still Life was released in 2014. His album Singing Saw was in WMM’s The 116 Best Recordings of 2016. His album City Music was in WMM’s The 118 Best Recordings of 2018]

4. Ebony Tusks – “Everybody Run feat. Jamaal Rashad, Morri$)”
from: Midas – EP / Team Bear Club / June 2011
[Debut 3-track EP released by the band. Ebony Tusks is a hip hop project from Lawrence KS, formed in 2010 by Nathan Giesecke, Martinez Hillard (of Cowboy Indian Bear), and Daniel B. Smith. Inspired by series of nightmares after a string of real-life armed robberies in which he was the victim, Martinez Hillard (EBONY TUSKS) began writing and composing material alongside MORRI$ & TOM RICHMAN, both members of BEAR CLUB’s rapidly ascending group of producers, to create what would become the music for MIDAS. Narrative-driven, rhythmically diverse and over all too soon.]

[Ebony Tusks play The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St, Lawrence, KS Saturday March 16, at 7:00 PM with special guests: V.I.S.I.T.O.R., Flock of Pigs, and Drifter.]

5. Helado Negro – “Running”
from: This Is How You Smile / RVNG Intl./ March 8, 2019
[6th album from Roberto Carlos Lange, better known by his stage name Helado Negro, is an American musician. He was formerly signed to Asthmatic Kitty Records from 2009 to 2016. Helado is now currently signed to and released his latest album through RVNG Intl., a Brooklyn-based music institution. Helado grew up in Miami, Florida where he spent his teenage years searching for his identity in the cultural melting pot of south Florida. He immersed himself in the hip-hop and electronic music scenes, where he learned to be an artist by playing out shows to small audiences. Helado released his first full-length album in 2009 titled Awe Owe. In 2010, Helado released an EP titled Pasajero. Helado released his second full-length album in 2011 titled Canta Lechuza. In 2012, Helado released the first of a three part EP, titled Island Universe Story – One. Helado released his third full-length album in 2013 titled Invisible Life. Helado released the second Island Universe Story EP in 2013. In 2014, Helado released his fourth full-length album titled Double Youth. The third EP in Helado’s three-part Island Universe Story series was released in 2014. In 2015, Helado released the single “Young, Latin and Proud” along with an animated-visual and lyric video. Lange describes the song as “It was as if I was singing my 6-year-old self a lullaby… It’s about feeling a sense of pride and self-confidence, understanding that you’re born into something and it’s alright to feel good about it. Stereotypes and contradictions are built into identity and I think those are a strong current in both Latino and black identity in the U.S. today.” In 2016, Helado released his fifth full-length album titled Private Energy.]

6. Our Native Daughters – “Black Myself”
from: Songs of Our Native Daughters / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / February 22, 2019
[Our native Daughters is: Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, Amythyst Kiah & Allison Russell (of Birds of Chicago). This song features all of their voices. Songs of Our Native Daughters’ gathers together kindred musicians in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive today. The material on ‘Songs of Our Native Daughters’ — written and sung in various combinations — is inspired by New World slave narratives, discrimination and how it has shaped our American experience, as well as musicians such as Haitian troubadour Althiery Dorval and Mississippi Hill Country string player Sid Hemphill, and more. Rhiannon Giddens is the co-founder of the Grammy Award-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, was awarded a 2017 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and won the 2016 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Bluegrass and Banjo. She has performed for President Barack Obama, appeared on The Late Show, Austin City Limits, CBS Sunday Morning, and has played a recurring role on the television drama Nashville in the role of Hallie Jordan, a young social worker with “the voice of an angel.” For her project with Our Native Daughters, Giddens brought together three other black female roots artists. “Gathering a group of fellow black female artists who had and have a lot to say, made it both highly collaborative and deeply personal to me,” she explains. “It felt like there were things we had been waiting to say our whole lives in our art; and to be able to say them in the presence of our sisters-in-song was sweet, indeed.” Their debut recording, Songs of Our Native Daughters, is a stunning thirteen-track album. Produced by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell. Engineered and mixed by Dirk Powell. Recorded at Cypress House Studio, Breaux Bridge, LA. Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge NY. Assisted by Chris Allgood. Annotated by Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell, and Dirk Powell.]

7. Deerhunter – “Death in Midsummer”
from: Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? / 4AD / January 18, 2019
[8th studio album by the American indie rock band Deerhunter. The album was co-produced by singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon, Ben H. Allen (who had previously worked with the band on Halcyon Digest and Fading Frontier), Ben Etter (who worked as a studio assistant on Fading Frontier) and the band itself. The first single, “Death in Midsummer”, was released on October 30, 2018. The same day, a world tour in support of the album was announced, starting in November 4, 2018. The second single from the album, “Element”, was released on December 6, 2018. The album leaked on December 12, 2018. Deerhunter is an American rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 2001. The band consists of Bradford Cox (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Moses Archuleta (drums, electronics, sound treatments), Lockett Pundt (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Josh McKay (bass) and Javier Morales (keyboards, synthesizers, alto saxophone). Founded by Cox and Archuleta, Deerhunter’s first stable line-up included guitarist Colin Mee and bass guitarist Justin Bosworth. After recording a split EP with Alphabets, Bosworth died of head injuries, suffered during a skateboarding accident. The band recorded their first studio album, Turn It Up Faggot (2005), with Josh Fauver occupying the vacant role of bass guitarist. Following the album’s release, Cox asked childhood friend, Lockett Pundt, to join.

10:29 – Underwriting

8. FEELS – “Awful Need”
from Post Earth / Wichita Recordings / February 22, 2019
[East Los Angeles and made up of: Laena Geronimo on vocals & guitar, Shannon Lay on vocals & guitar, Amy Allen on vocals & bass, and Michael Perry Rudes on drums. Recorded and Mixed by Tim Green at Louder Studios in Grass Valley, CA except for; lead vocals on “Find A Way” and “Last Chance” recorded by Dante White Aliano at The Cone, “Sour” lead vocals and crowd noise recorded, effected and arranged by Laena Geronimo with additional vocal effects by Dante White-Aliano. Mastered by Howie Weinberg.]

9. Citizen Cope – “Justice”
from Heroin and Helicopters / RainWater Recordings / March 1, 2019
[7th album from Clarence Greenwood (born May 20, 1968), also known by his stage name, Citizen Cope. He, is an American songwriter, producer and performer. His music is commonly described as a mix of blues, soul, folk, and rock. Citizen Cope’s compositions have been recorded by artists as varied as Carlos Santana, Dido, Pharoahe Monch and Richie Havens. He currently records and produces for his own record label, Rainwater Recordings, which he founded in 2010 after deciding not to work with major labels any longer. He had previously been signed to Capitol, Arista, DreamWorks and RCA. On March 1, 2019, he released his first album in six years, Heroin and Helicopters, on his own label, RainWater Recordings. Billboard magazine called Heroin and Helicopters “Personal and poignant.”]

[Citizen Cope plays The Truman, 601 East Truman Road, KCMO, Tonight, March 13, at 8:00 PM.]

10. The Dear Misses – “Kansas City”
from: Kansas City – Single / The Dear Misses / February 25, 2019
[Kansas City based 4-piece band made up of: Todd Anderson on lead vocals & rhythm guitar, Cody Stapleton on lead guitar & backing vocals, Bret Collins on drums, and Shane Berggren on bass. The band is currently in the studio recording songs for their upcoming release. More information at: http://www.reverbnation.com/thedearmisses%5D%5B

11. Kris Kristofferson & Brandi Carlile – “A Case of You (Live)”
from: Joni 75: A Joni Mitchell Birthday Celebration (Live) / Decca / March 8, 2019
[A Joni Mitchell tribute album, celebrating her 75th birthday, features live renditions of the singer’s songs by Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, James Taylor and many others. The record contains a recording of a tribute concert that was held in her honor in Los Angeles last November. The concert was additionally broadcast in movie theaters on February 7th. Percussionist Brian Blade, who made three studio albums and toured with Mitchell, served as the evening’s co-musical director alongside producer and arranger Jon Cowherd. The evening was presented by the Music Center, a non-profit organization that tries to bring artists and communities together with an eye toward enriching the lives of people living in Los Angeles County. “By honoring Joni Mitchell, an amazing iconic artist, the Music Center had an incredible opportunity to bring her music to Los Angeles audiences,” the organization’s president and CEO, Rachel Moore, said in a statement. “Now that experience can be enjoyed by many more Joni Mitchell fans with an album that allows other music legends to shine a light on her artistry.” Rolling Stone reviewed the concert and called it a “moving tribute show.” “The unifying effect of Mitchell’s music rang out with a closing group singalong to ‘Big Yellow Taxi,’ one of the more ebullient standouts from her oeuvre,” the review reads. “The billed artists stood side by side … and belted the number, a bright rumination on the harrowing effects that man has on society. They each delivered solos, then bowed in unison, as a portrait of Mitchell loomed in the background, a fitting homage to an icon whose presence is still felt, even in her absence.”Mitchell herself, who has been battling health issues, did not take the stage at the event. Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration track list: 1. “Dreamland” – Los Lobos with La Marisoul, Xochi Flores and Cesar Castro / 2. “Help Me” – Chaka Khan / 3. “Amelia” – Diana Krall / 4. “All I Want” – Rufus Wainwright / 5. “Coyote” – Glen Hansard / 6. “River” – James Taylor / 7. “Both Sides Now” – Seal / 8. “Our House” – Graham Nash / 9. “A Case of You” – Kris Kristofferson and Brandi Carlile / 10. “Down to You” – Brandi Carlile / 11. “Blue” – Rufus Wainwright / 12. “Court And Spark” – Norah Jones / 13. “Nothing Can Be Done” – Los Lobos with La Marisoul, Xochi Flores and Cesar Castro / 14. “The Magdalene Laundries” – Emmylou Harris / 15. “Woodstock” – James Taylor / 16. “Big Yellow Taxi” – La Marisoul, James Taylor, Chaka Khan and Brandi Carlile.]

12. Violet and The Undercurrents – “Inconvenient Friend”
from: The Captain / Violet Vonder Haar Music / March 1, 2019
[The band’s new 10-song album called The Captain, was inspired by lead singer and songwriter Violet Vonder Haar’s father, a riverboat captain who introduced her to the music of folk legends and encouraged her journey as an artist. This Columbia, Missouri based 4-piece band is made up of Violet Vonder Haar on lead vocals & guitar; Linda Bott on bass guitar; Phylshawn Johnson on drums, and Lizzy Weiland on lead guitar. The quartet is anchored by the intrepid songwriting of Violet Vonder Haar and enriched by the creative energy of her musical counterparts. Raised in a small town at the edge of the Missouri River and nurtured by a thriving folk music-centered community, Vonder Haar started honing her craft as a songwriter, performer and vocalist at an early age. She More information at: http://www.violetandtheundercurrents.com]

[Violet and the Undercurrents are playing an album release at Midcoast Takeover Thursday, March 14 at 4:30 PM at the Shangri La, 016 E 6th St, Austin, Texas.]

13. Carswell & Hope – “The Other Side”
from: Exit Plan EP / Silly Goose Records / May 22, 2018
[Music by Carswell & Hope. Lyrics by Nick Carswell. Produced & mixed by Jason Slote & Nick Carswell. Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper @ TurtleTone Studio NYC. Lawrence KS based 5-piece band formed June 25, 2012. The band is: Nick Carswell, Jason Slote, Austin Quick, Chris Handley, and Jordan Tucker. Songwriter Nick Carswell is originally from Ireland and has found a new home on the plains of Kansas.]

[Carswell & Hope play Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, KS, Sunday, March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, 3:40 PM in a day long line up that include Nicolas St. James, The Brody Buster Band, Whiskey For The Lady, Signal Ridge, Midnight Kick, Rolling Foliage and Tyler Gregory.]

[Carswell & Hope play Frank’s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust St, Lawrence, KS, Sunday, March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, 7:00 to 10:00 PM]

11:00 – Station ID

14. Radkey – “P.A.W.”
from: No Strange Cats…P.A.W. / The Century Family / February 22, 2019
[This new 7 song EP is essentially a collection of the band’s most recent singles. It comes after the January 11, 2019 release of No Strange cats…Spiders – EP a 6 song EP of several new songs mixed with several singles from late 2018. Isaiah, Dee, and Solomon Radke of the critically acclaimed rock trio Radkey joined us live in our 90.1 FM studios on September 5, 2018 to talk about their performance at recordBar with Quixotic Performers, as headliners for the 14th Annual Crossroads Music Fest. Radkey was formed in 2010 in St. Joseph, where the brothers were raised. The family moved to Kansas City several years ago. The band has released two full-length recordings — “Dark Black Makeup” in 2015 and “Delicious Rock Noise” in 2016 — plus multiple EPs and singles, and recently were part of a MasterCard advertising campaign on digital billboards in NYC along with a national television commercial that aired during the Grammy Awards that brought the band to the attention of Jack White who asked the band to tour with him. After Crossroads Music Fest the band went back on the road playing shows with The Damned throughout the United States. In December they went back into the studio to record songs for this release with producer Bill Stevenson of the California punk rock group Descendents. In early 2019 they played shows in Amsterdam and Stockholm. Last year the band released “Basement” , “St. Elwood” “Rock & Roll Homeschool” as well as several other singles.]

15. The Sluts – “It’s Ok to Fake It”
from: Break Their Heart / The Sluts / February 12, 2019
[New 6 song EP from the Lawrence based band The Sluts formed by Ryan Wise & Kristoffer Dover in 2011. Produced recorded, mixed, and mastered by Joel Nanos at Element Recording and Mastering Studios, KCMO]

[The Sluts play recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO, on Friday, April 5, 2019 at 9:30 PM with Brandon Phillips and The Condition and Dead Voices.]

16. Deco Auto – “Goals”
from: Goals – Single / Deco Auto / February 21, 2017
[Most recent new music from Kansas City based alternative pop-punk / power-pop trio. Guitar/vocals: Steven Garcia on guitar and lead vocals, Tracy Flowers on bass & vocals, and Pat Tomek on drums . Written by Steven Garcia, $tudent Loans For Life Music (ASCAP). Recorded, mixed and mastered by Pat Tomek at Largely Studios, Kansas City, MO. The band is currently working on a new album to be released this year.]

[Deco Auto plays St. Patrick’s Eve, Saturday, March 16, at 10:00 PM at The Brick, 1727 McGee St, KCMO with Scruffy and the Janitors.]

17. Y La Bamba – “Mujeres (Album Version)”
from: Mujeres / Tender Loving Empire / February 8, 2019
[Mujeres is “Woman Island” in the Gulf of Mexico. Y La Bamba has been many things, but at the heart of it is singer-songwriter Luz Elena Mendoza’s inquisitive sense of self. Their fifth record, Mujeres, carries on the Portland-based band’s affinity for spiritual contemplation, but goes a step further in telling a story with a full emotional spectrum. Coming off Ojos Del Sol, one of NPR’s Top 50 Albums of 2016, Mujeres exhibits the scope of Mendoza’s artistic voice like never before. “Soy como soy,” Mendoza says, and that declaration is the bold— even political— statement that positions Mujeres to be Y La Bamba’s most unbridled offering yet.]

18. Pedro The Lion – “Circle K”
from: Phoenix / Polyvinyl Recording Company / January 18, 2019
[Pedro the Lion is an indie rock band from Seattle, Washington. David Bazan formed the band in 1995 and represented its main creative force, backed by a varying rotation of collaborating musicians. In 2006 Pedro the Lion was dissolved as Bazan went solo; Bazan reformed the band and resumed performing under the Pedro the Lion moniker in late 2017. Releasing five full-length albums and five EPs over 11 years, the band is known for its first person narrative lyrics with political and religious themes. Pedro the Lion was formed by David Bazan in 1995. In 1997 they released their debut EP Whole with Bazan playing nearly every instrument, a format he continued on the band’s first two full-length albums, It’s Hard to Find a Friend (1998), and Winners Never Quit (2000).]

[Pedro The Lion plays recordBar, 1520 Grand, KCMO, on Wednesday, May 1, at 9:00 PM with John Vanderslice.]

19. Sugo Day – “Charm (radio edit)”
from: Charm – Single / Sugo Day / February 14, 2019
[Sugo Day is the solo side project of Nicholas Turner who we first met when he played in the Kansas City band Riala. Nicholas moved away from his hometown and is now based in Minneapolis and has released several singles. On March 6, 2018 Sugo released a 7-song EP called “Lush.” Nicholas told us that “Charm” is “a celebration of self in a sense—I find there is a lot of self defeating music that is really popular right now so i wanted to captured me playing shows on the west coast as a solo artist which is what the chorus is about a motivational tune with a subversive sense of vulnerability in the middle verse.”]

20. Lomelda – “M for Mush”
from: M for Empathy / Double Double Whammy / March 1, 2019
[Lomelda is the stage name of musician Hannah Read. According to Read, Lomelda is a made up word that means “echo of the stars”. Hannah Read was raised in Silsbee, Texas. She began her music career playing in bands with her brother as well as her high school friends. Read’s first full-length album, Forever, was released in 2015. In 2017, Read released her second full-length album, Thx, with the independent record label Double Double Whammy. The album was co-produced with the assistance of Read’s brother, Tommy. It was primarily written over a few months while Read was sleeping in her car.]

21. Solange – “Dreams”
from: When I Get Home / Columbia Records / March 1, 2019
[4th studio album from singer and songwriter Solange, and follow up to her breakthrough record, A Seat at the Table released on September 30, 2016,. Following the release of her second studio album Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams (2008), Knowles began work on her third studio album, during which she suffered a “breakdown” due to the amount of time and emotion she was putting into the recording process. While recording the album Knowles released an EP entitled True (2012) and launched her own record label named Saint Records. A Seat at the Table became Solange’s first number-one album on the Billboard 200 in the United States.]

11:31 – Underwriting

13. Shay Estes & Trio All – “Little Drop Of Poison”
from: Despite Your Destination / Independent / December 3, 2009
[Shay Estes with Trio All an acronym for: Zack Albetta on drums, Mark Lowrey on piano, and Ben Leifer on Bass. The debut album–a collection of songs drawn from a wide range of eras and composers, all given fresh, unique arrangements. Before turning to jazz, vocalist Shay Estes performed with a rock band, a Western-surf band, and a burlesque troupe. In recent years, Estes has collaborated with Brad Cox’s People’s Liberation Big Band and Mark Southerland’s “Urban Noise Camp.” “Despite Your Destination” includes standards by Irving Berlin, and George and Ira Gershwin, as well as reworked versions of contemporary songs, like Tom Waits’ “Little Drop of Poison.”]

14. Hot Club of Cowtown – “This Wheel’s on Fire”
from: Crossing the Great Divide / Hot Club Productions / January 11, 2019
[16th release from The Hot Club of Cowtown, an American hot jazz and Western swing trio that formed in 1997. The band’s name comes from two sources: “Hot Club” from the hot jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli’s Quintette du Hot Club de France, and “Cowtown” from the western influence of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and the band’s love of fiddle tunes, hoedowns, and songs of the American west. The band was formed Whit Smith from Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Elana James from Prairie Village, Kansas. The two met through an ad in the classified music section of The Village Voice in 1994. They played together in New York City before moving to San Diego in 1997, where they spent a year playing for tips and building up their repertoire. In 1998 they moved to Austin, Texas and two years later added Jake Erwin from Tulsa, Oklahoma on bass. The band split briefly in 2005, though they reunited for occasional shows in 2005–07, including the Fuji Rock Festival and a tour of Australia as Elana James & The Hot Club of Cowtown, in 2007. Whit Smith performed as Whit Smith’s Hot Jazz Caravan, based in Austin, Texas. Elana toured with Bob Dylan in 2005. Changing her last name to James, Elana began performing with her own trio in late 2005. Smith and James resumed playing together full-time in 2006. By early 2008 the Hot Club of Cowtown had officially re-formed. “Crossing The Great Divide” is a tribute to The Band. “This Wheel’s on Fire” is a song written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko. It was originally recorded by Dylan and the Band during their 1967 sessions, portions of which (including this song) comprised the 1975 album, The Basement Tapes. The Band’s own version appeared on their 1968 album, Music from Big Pink. Live versions by the Band appear on their 1972 live double album Rock of Ages, as well as the more complete four-CD-DVD version of that concert, Live at the Academy of Music 1971, and the 2002 Box Set of The Last Waltz (the song did not make it into the movie or the original soundtrack album). In 1968, a version by Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger and the Trinity became a hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart (see 1968 in music) and also reaching number 106 on the U.S. Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. With its use of distortion, phasing, the evocative imagery of the song’s title and the group’s flamboyant dress, this version is closely associated with the psychedelic era in British music. The arrangement featured prominent use of both Hammond organ and mellotron. Driscoll recorded the song again in the early 1990s with Adrian Edmondson as the theme to the BBC comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, whose main characters are throwbacks to that era. Australian singer Kylie Minogue released a cover of the track as the official theme song for 2016’s Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. The Byrds released a recording of “This Wheel’s on Fire” on their 1969 album, Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde, and live versions of the song are also included on the Byrds’ Live at the Fillmore – February 1969 album and the expanded CD reissue of their (Untitled) album. In 1987, the song was covered by the British rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees for their all-covers album, Through the Looking Glass. Released as the first single from that album, Siouxsie and the Banshees’ version climbed to number 14 on the UK singles chart. The band did not know the song had been composed by Dylan before recording it: they covered it because they liked Driscoll’s version. Australian pop, rock group, Flake, had a top 20 hit on the Go-Set National Top 60 with their rendition in July 1970, which remained in the charts for 22 weeks. Other artists who have released their own versions of the song include: Hamilton Camp, Phil Lesh, Golden Earring, Elvis Costello, the Hollies, Ian and Sylvia, Les Fradkin, Leslie West, Serena Ryder, Charlie Winston, June Tabor, Guster and Rat Scabies.]

Black Stacey

24. Black Stacey – “Lose The Peace”
from: Lose The Peace – Single (unmastered) / Sharaden Staten / To Be Released This Spring
[Black Stacey is Sharaden Staten, a Missouri native, who release his album “Electric Church” in 2017. Part of WMM’s The 117 Best Recordings of 2017. Sharaden, a 27-year-old, having grown up in the back woods of central Missouri, and couch surfed his way into the KC metro, pairs subtle notes of R&B, funk, soul, and rock; dramatically blending it into a raw eclectic mix. In 2015 Sharaden began writing, recording and producing Black Stacey’s debut, “Electric Chariot”. A project that has given him a solid foundation in the KC music scene, gaining him spots on local radio and the opportunity to work with producer Joel Nanos (Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Radkey, Sly/Robbie & the Taxi Gang). More info at http://www.blackstacey.com.]

[Black Stacey plays SoundMachine KC, on Tuesday, March 19, at 9:00 PM at miniBar, 810 Broadway Rd, KCMO, with Stuyedeyed, and Stone Grower.]

25. Rachel Mallin – “Noise of The Night”
from: The Persistence of Vision EP / Independence / September 12, 2014
[Rachel Mallin is from Kansas City, MO. At the age of 19 she released her self produced 4-song, EP The Persistence of Vision. The songs were written and created by Rachel in her mother’s basement during the summer of 2014, and recorded, mixed, and produced by Rachel Mallin in September. “Listener’s are immersed into Rachel’s writing and production as each song musically transcends the discord of human emotion into a harmonious wave of expression.” Co-mixed by Michael Kessler. Mastered by William Reeves at Centro Cellar Studio. In less than a year following her four-track EP’s release, her songs “Razorback” and “Noise of the Night” were broadcast on radio stations in Kansas City and nationally. In 2015 Rachel formed a band called The Wild Type. Rachel Mallin & The Wild Type also revealed a new song: “Something Wicked” on the on the new compilation series How To Keep Dreaming from The Record Machine released September 10, 2015. http://www.HowToKeepDreaming.com. On July 30, 2016 Rachel Mallin & The Wild Type – released their debut EP as a band, Degenerate Matters with: Rachel Mallin on lead vocals & guitar, Justin Walker on bass, Austin Edmisten on drums & back-up vocals, Jesse Bartmess on synthesizers & keyboards, Matt Kosinski on lead guitar. Degenerate Matters was recorded, produced, and mastered by Joel Nanos at Element Recording Studios. Musical Arrangements written and performed by Rachel Mallin, Justin Walker, Austin Edmisten, Jesse Bartmess, & Matt Kosinski. Lyrics by Rachel Mallin.]

[Rachel Mallin and the Wild Type play 100 Days A Tribute to the life of Mills Record Company and Judy Mills beloved shop dog Loretta Lynn, on the 100th day after her passing, Tonight, Wednesday, March 13 at 6:00 PM at Mills Record Company, 4045 Broadway Blvd KCMO with Dylan Pyles, and Westside Royal. This will also be a fundraiser for the shelter where Loretta was rescued (SEK Humane Society). More info at http://www.millsrecordcompany.com ]

26. Varma Cross – “Stairjumper”
from: Varma Cross / Varma Cross / February 18, 2019
[Debut album from Varma Cross with: Sam Boatright, Bryce Boley, Bradley McKellip , and Kelsey Richardson. Recorded and mixed by Duane Trower at Weights and Measures. Mastered by Carl Saff.]

[Varma Cross play Replay Lounge 946 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS, Saturday, March 16, i a Matinee from 6:00 to 9:00 PM with F I N K E L [LA], and Wonderfuzz.]

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

Next week on March 20 Patrick Alonzo Conway joins us to share details about the upcoming Kansas City Gamelan Genta Gasturi concert. Plus, musician Mike Alexander joins us to share new music from Hip Shot Killer.

Our Script/Playlist is a “cut and paste” of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

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

Show #777

WMM Playlist from March 6, 2019

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Mark Manning

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 6, 2019

New & MidCoastal Releases
+ Fathers + Britt Adair of Josey Records +
Cody Wyoming & Rod Peal of The Philistines

1. “It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / Casablanca / December 20, 1979
[WMM’s theme song]

2. Emmaline Twist – “Oblivion”
from: Dissimulation / Black Site / August 24, 2018
[Debut LP from Emmaline Twist, Kansas City’s Darkwave / Post-Punk / Shoegaze project. In 2017 the band released “Dissimulation 1,” four songs in digital format, their first since 2016’s single release of “Vega” b/w “Moon Eyes.” The band is Meredith McGrade on vocals & guitar, Kristin Conkright on bass, Jonathan Knecht on drums, Krysztof Nemeth on baritone guitar, and Alex Alexander on synthesizers & guitar. Dissimulation was Recorded, Mixed, and Produced at Massive Sound by Paul Malinowski, and Mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering. The album cover-art was created by Amy Abshier.]

[Emmaline Twist plays miniBar, 3810 Broadway Rd, KCMO Tomorrow night, March 8, at 8:30 PM, with The Heroine, and The Almighty Trouble Brothers.]

[Emmaline Twist plays Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St. Lawrence, KC, Saturday, March 9, at 10:00 PM, with Dentist (from New Jersey & Cleopatra Records.), and Toughies.]

The Freedom Affair

[The Freedom Affair play Knuckleheads Saloon Thursday, March 7, at 7:30 with Stone Cutters Union.]

4. Our Native Daughters – “Mama’s Cryin’ Long”
from: Songs of Our Native Daughters / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / February 22, 2019
[Our Native Daughters includes: Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, Amythyst Kiah & Allison Russell (of Birds of Chicago). This song features all of their voices. Songs of Our Native Daughters’ gathers together kindred musicians in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive today. The material on ‘Songs of Our Native Daughters’ — written and sung in various combinations — is inspired by New World slave narratives, discrimination and how it has shaped our American experience, as well as musicians such as Haitian troubadour Althiery Dorval and Mississippi Hill Country string player Sid Hemphill, and more. Rhiannon Giddens is the co-founder of the Grammy Award-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, was awarded a 2017 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and won the 2016 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Bluegrass and Banjo. She has performed for President Barack Obama, appeared on The Late Show, Austin City Limits, CBS Sunday Morning, and has played a recurring role on the television drama Nashville in the role of Hallie Jordan, a young social worker with “the voice of an angel.” For her project with Our Native Daughters, Giddens brought together three other black female roots artists. “Gathering a group of fellow black female artists who had and have a lot to say, made it both highly collaborative and deeply personal to me,” she explains. “It felt like there were things we had been waiting to say our whole lives in our art; and to be able to say them in the presence of our sisters-in-song was sweet, indeed.” Their debut recording, Songs of Our Native Daughters, is a stunning thirteen-track album. Produced by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell. Engineered and mixed by Dirk Powell. Recorded at Cypress House Studio, Breaux Bridge, LA. The recordings were mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge NY. Assisted by Chris Allgood. Annotated by Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell, and Dirk Powell.]

5. The Black Creatures – “Silver Tears”
from: Silver Tears – Single / The Black Creatures / June 19, 2018
[The Black Creatures are a dark pop hip-hop musical duo from Kansas City, Missouri pulling elements from sci-fi to tell an inter-dimensional story. Xavier Martin and Jade Beomh released their debut album, See No Evil, on December 6, 2017 and their recording Elements in February 2018. This song was originally released as part of a 12″ vinyl record exclusive for Josey Records’ 2017 Fall Compilation. The band made it available as a digital download in June of 2018 on their Bandcamp page. The song includes additional vocals provided by: AniMal (Ana Marcela Maldonado Morales), Barbara Solomon, Kassidee Quaranta, and Adres Va Cortas.]

[The Black Creatures play Revolution Records, 1830 Locust St, KCMO, on Sat, Mar. 9, at 8:30 PM with Collidescope, and Anothermaxwell.]

6. Scott Hrabko & The Rabbits – “Sometimes”
from: Smash Hits From A Parallel Universe (EP) / Scott Hrabko / February 14, 2019
[Scott Hrabko on lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic 6 and 12 string guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, & percussion; Jason Beers on bass guitar; Tim Higgins on drums, Marco Pascolini on junior electric guitar. Scott calls this release: 4 songs for the new age of anxiety. Scott Hrako & The Rabbits released “Summer” in 2017, and “Biscuits and Gravity” in 2015. Scott Hrabko’s 2013 critically acclaimed solo release, “Gone Places” was said to be 30 years in the making. Singer-songwriter Scott Hrabko has played with KC’s oldest garage band The Original Sinners, as well as various incarnations of the 1980s bands: The Splinters, and The Andersons. In the early 1990s Scott performed as a solo artist in coffee houses with Iris Dement and Howard Eisberg.]

[Scott Hrabko plays SongCraft Session #2 Hosted by Kelly Hunt in residency at recordBar, tomorrow night, Thursday, March 7, at 6:00 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand Blvd, KCMO]

7. Mene Mene – “Knuckledraggers (Radio Edit)”
from: Knuckledraggers – Single / Mene Mene / March 5, 2019
[Written and performed by Brad Feagan on vocals and keyboards and Alec Stockman on drums. This KC based 2-piece Indie-Alternative-Rock band launched their debut EP ‘Stone, Steel, and Spark’ in September 2017. Since then they’ve been featured on KC Star ‘Star Sessions’ and area radio stations. They have quickly gained a reputation as an impressive live act characterized by their larger than life sound and light show. The band describes their song as: “Some piano, some drums, and a whole lot of repressed feelings”. The band describes Knuckledraggers as “a war cry against the unintelligence dominating the American media, culture, and political scene today. With great angst and determination, the song calls out those who don’t think before they act. Propelled by a ragtime-esque piano riff, driving powerful drums, deep bass, and catchy lyrics, Knuckledraggers creates a dark and rich sonic atmosphere and a fresh take on piano rock.”]

[Mene Mene plays Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, 3402 Main St, KCMO, on Saturday, March 9, at 7:00 PM opening for Lost Stars with True Lions.]

10:29 – Underwriting

Fathers

8. Fathers – “PRTND”
from High Horses / Fathers / March 1, 2019
[Formed in 2017 the band includes: Kenneth Storz on vocals, guitar, & keyboards; Brooke Honeycutt on vocals, bells, & percussion; David Vava Littlewood on vocals, keyboards, & bells; Matt Guilliams on bass, & percussion; Bryce Veazey on vibraphone, voice, & percussion; Josh Seerden on guitar, keyboards, bass, & percussion; Celeste Tilley on trombone, vocals, & percussion.]

[Fathers play a High Horses EP Release Party, Saturday, March 9, at 8:00 PM, at the 2016 Main Event Space at 2016 Main St, KCMO, with Eems and Belle & The Vertigo Waves.]

11:35 – Interview with Kenneth Storz, David Littlewood, & Bryce Veazey of Fathers

Bryce Veazey, Kenneth Storz, and David Vava Littlewood of Fathers on the March 6, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

Kenneth Storz, David Vava Littlewood, & Bryce Veazey are three of the members of Fathers the Kansas City band formed in 2017. Fathers have released several singles. On March 1 they released their debut EP High Horses. Fathers play a High Horses EP Release Party, Saturday, March 9, at 8:00 PM, at the 2016 Main Event Space at 2016 Main St, KCMO, with the Youth Chorus of Kansas City and with opening acts: Eems and Belle & The Vertigo Waves.

Kenneth Storz, David Vava Littlewood, Bryce Veazey, thanks for being with us on WMM.

Fathers Includes:

Kenneth Storz on vocals, guitar, & keyboards;

Brooke Honeycutt on vocals, bells, & percussion;

David Vava Littlewood on vocals, keyboards, & bells;

Matt Guilliams on bass, & percussion;

Bryce Veazey on vibraphone, voice, & percussion;

Josh Seerden on guitar, keyboards, bass, & percussion;

Celeste Tilley on trombone, vocals, & percussion.

Fathers is a 7-piece band, but for Saturday night the band will be an 11-piece.

Also joining the band with be the Kansas City Youth Chorus

Kenneth Storz, David Vava Littlewood, Bryce Veazey performed live in our 90.1 FM Studios

Bryce Veazey, David Vava Littlewood, and Kenneth Storz of Fathers playing live on the March 6, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

10:46

9. Fathers – Elsewhere Anywhere” (LIVE)
[Kenneth Storz on lead vocals & guitar, Bryce Veazey on Vibraphone & vocals, David Littlewood on keyboards & vocals.]

Fathers play a High Horses EP Release Party, Saturday, March 9, at 8:00 PM, at the 2016 Main Event Space at 2016 Main St, KCMO, with Eems and Belle & The Vertigo Waves.

Parts of Fathers’ High Horses EP were recorded in the Yoga studio of Bodyfit where David Littlewood works

Several reviews of High Horses have compared Fathers to The Beach Boys and to Olivia Tremor Control.

There will be a limited edition vinyl release

Fathers have played Middle of The Map Fest, The Buzz Homegrown Showcase, recordBar, the Brick, Power and Light District, The Rino, sharing stages with many area bands including Pink Royal, Y God Y, Pageant Boys, The Fey, Calvin Arsenia, and others.

Bryce Veazey, Kenneth Storz, and David Vava Littlewood, of Fathers on the March 6, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

Kenneth Storz, David Vava Littlewood, Bryce Veazey, thanks for being with us on WMM.

10:53

10. Fathers – “High Horses”
from High Horses / Fathers / March 1, 2019
[Formed in 2017 the band includes: Kenneth Storz on vocals, guitar, & keyboards; Brooke Honeycutt on vocals, bells, & percussion; David Vava Littlewood on vocals, keyboards, & bells; Matt Guilliams on bass, & percussion; Bryce Veazey on vibraphone, voice, & percussion; Josh Seerden on guitar, keyboards, bass, & percussion; Celeste Tilley on trombone, vocals, & percussion.]

[Fathers play a High Horses EP Release Party, Saturday, March 9, at 8:00 PM, at the 2016 Main Event Space at 2016 Main St, KCMO, with Eems and Belle & The Vertigo Waves.]

11:00 – Station ID

11. Cherry Glazerr – “Isolation”
from: Stuffed & Ready / Secretly Canadian / February 1, 2019
[Cherry Glazerr is currently on a U.S. and European tour. The band was just at recordBar last Wednesday, Feb. 27. Cherry Glazerr is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 2013. The current lineup consists of guitarist and lead vocalist Clementine Creevy, bassist Devin O’Brien and drummer Tabor Allen. The band’s sound has transitioned from lo-fi, garage-rock in their debut release Haxel Princess in 2014, to a more polished rock sound, with elements of grunge punk and new wave, in their subsequent releases Apocalipstick and Stuffed and Ready. After releasing 2016’s critically acclaimed ‘Apocalipstick,’ Cherry Glazerr spent the next 18 months touring the world on their own steam. Between DIY All Ages venues, rock clubs, large festival stages, and massive theaters with some of the world’s best and most beloved bands (The Pixies, Flaming Lips, Slowdive, and The Breeders, among others), the band has really only stopped to work on their follow up, ‘Stuffed & Ready.’ While furiously building the band’s sound and ideas, front person Clem Creevy enlisted Carlos de La Garza to be the band’s studio co-collaborator as they evolved the songs and refined the recordings.]

11:03 – Interview with Britt Adair

Britt Adair on the March 6, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

Britt Adair is founder and lead guitarist for the band The Bad Ideas. Britt is also part of the family at Josey Records. Britt is an artist and filmmaker and huge nurturer of Kansas City Punk Music Scene. She has organized bands and shows for in-stores, festivals, and tours. For several years Britt organized the Summer Kamp Fest bringing nationally touring punk bands to town to play with bands from Kansas City’s diverse community.

Britt joins us to today to share music from her band The Bad Ideas and from Josey Records located in Kansas City’s Crossroads at 1814 Oak Street, KCMO. Josey Records specializes in vinyl records including collectibles, new releases, CDs, tapes, turntables, and feature First Friday In-Store Concerts, Art Exhibitions, Live DJs. Josey Records is currently getting ready for Record Store Day, Saturday, April 13. Meanwhile, Britt’s band The Bad Ideas are getting set to release their new album “Happiness” at the end of the month and The Bad Ideas will play The Bottleneck in Lawrence, Friday, March 22.

Britt Adair, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.

We just heard Cherry Glazerr, one of the songs you brought in to play on the show today.

Since I’ve known Britt I’ve seen her working at Charlotte Street Foundation, working at several area record stores, working as a bartender in punk clubs, and finally at Josey Records.

Since I’ve known Britt I’ve also watched her get married to Christian LaBeau, manager of Josey Record, area DJ, and all-around great guy.

The Bad Ideas are getting set to release their new album “Happiness” and The Bad Ideas play The Bottleneck in Lawrence, Friday, March 22.

The Bad Ideas are: Britt Adair on guitar, Breaka Dawn on vocals, Matt Roberts on bass, and Jay Willis on drums.

The Bad Ideas are from Kansas City, Missouri and were formed in August 2011. They’ve written all original songs and are influenced by post-hardcore, punk, and early 80’s punk. Their EP, Worse Thoughts, was recorded on January 22, 2012 and released March, 2012. Their first self-produced full length album, Lesson #1 was released March 8, 2013. The Bad Ideas also released a 7″ split with Red Kate on March 31, 2014. Their most recent release is a full length cassette, “Leave Me Alone” released on June 6, 2015.

The Bad Ideas are getting set to release their new album “Happiness” at the end of March.

The Band Ideas – Britt Adair on guitar, Breaka Dawn on vocals, Matt Roberts on bass, and Jay Willis on drums.

11:13

12. The Bad Ideas – “Nightmare”
from: Happiness / The Bad Ideas / March 30, 2019
[The Bad Ideas are: Britt Adair on guitar, Breaka Dawn on vocals, Matt Roberts on bass, and Jay Willis on drums. This Kansas City, Missouri based band was formed in August 2011.]

[The Bad Ideas play The Bottleneck in Lawrence, Friday, March 22.]

13. Hot Snakes – “I Need a Doctor”
from: Jericho Sirens / Sub Pop / March 16, 2018
[Hot Snakes are an American post-hardcore band led by Rick Froberg and John Reis, formed in 1999 in San Diego, California. Reis and Froberg had previously performed together in Pitchfork and Drive Like Jehu, after which Reis had found international success with Rocket from the Crypt. Hot Snakes disbanded in 2005 but reunited in 2011. Although they share musical similarities with members’ previous outfits, Hot Snakes have a sound that is much more primal than that of Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu or even Rocket from the Crypt. Reis and Froberg were also heavily influenced by bands such as The Wipers, Suicide, and Michael Yonkers Band, and these influences gave Hot Snakes a distinctive sound that has been described by one critic as “hardcore garage punk.”[3] The band’s recordings and merchandise were conducted in a “Do it Yourself” manner, with Froberg providing all of the artwork and Reis releasing the material via his Swami Records label.]

11:17

We are talking with Britt Adair a founder of the punk band The Bad Ideas, and part of the staff at Josey Records at 1814 Oak Street, KCMO.

Josey Records

The East Crossroads: KC Crossroads at Grinders is across the street from Josey Records.

Josey Records features First Friday In-Store Concerts, Art Exhibitions, Live DJs.

Christian LaBeau couldn’t be with us because he is getting ready for Record Store Day, Saturday, April 13.

Britt Adair on the March 6, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

Britt Adair, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

11:26

13. Gurr – “Yosemite”
from: In My Head / Duchess Box Records / October 14, 2016
[Debut album from GURR, a German garage rock duo, consisting of Andreya Casablanca and Laura Lee (both on vocals and guitar). Casablanca, who is from Nuremberg, and Lee, from Oldenberg, met in Berlin while doing North American studies, and formed a band together soon after. They self-released the Furry Dream EP in April 2015. They recorded their debut album, In My Head in a studio at Berlin’s Funkhaus. Its release was preceded by the singles Moby Dick and Walnuts (present on the album in a German language version, “Walnuss” – their only German language song). The album was released in October 2016, to positive reviews. In 2017 the band toured Europe extensively and also played SXSW in Austin, Texas, and did a session at Maida Vale Studios for Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom. They supported The Go! Team and Shame on UK tours in the spring of 2018. In May 2018 the band released a new single, “Hot Summer”, which was followed by various festival dates including Immergut, and the Rock am Ring and Rock in Park festivals. The band ended 2018 by collaborating with Eddie Argos of Art Brut on Christmas songs for a new “Christmas Business” EP.]

11:29 – Underwriting

11:31 – Interview with Cody Wyoming and Rod Peal

Cody Wyoming and Rod Peal of The Philistines on the March 6, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

Cody Wyoming & Rod Peal are veterans of the Kansas City music community. They are also two of the founding members of the six-piece rock band The Philistines. Formed in 2013 The Philistines includes: Kimmie Queen on vocals, Cody Wyoming on guitar & vocals, Steve Gardels on drums, Rod Peal on guitar, Josh Mobley on keyboards, and Barry Kidd on bass. The Philistines released their debut album “The Backbone of Night” on June 4, 2016. The recording was #1 on WMM’s 116 Best Recordings of 2016. Cody and Rod join us today to share two new “A side” singles the group is releasing next week.

Cody Wyoming & Rod Peal, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

New music from The Philistines, that will be part of the upcoming album Dysnomia.

Recorded and mixed by Paul Malinowski at Massive Sound Studios.

Produced by Paul Malinowski and Cody Wyoming.

The Philistines

11:38

15. The Philistines – “Further”
from: Further – Single / The Philistines / March 15, 2019
[New music from The Philistines, that will be part of the upcoming album Dysnomia. Produced and engineered by Paul Malinowski at Massive Sound Studios. The Philistines are a Kansas City based rock band with a psychedelic bent, made up of: Kimmie Queen on lead vocals, Cody Wyoming on lead guitar & vocals, Rod Peal on guitar, Josh Mobley on keyboard, Steve Gardels on drums, and Barry Kidd on bass.]

11:41 – More Interview with Cody Wyoming & Rod Peal

Cody Wyoming and Kimmie Queen also have created a musical side project called The Guillotine Choir.

Cody Wyoming is also a guitarist with The Pedaljets. The Pedaljets are also planning to release a new album this year. Cody wrote the song “Further” during the recording process of The Pedaljets new album. Cody worked at The Midwestern Musical Company for one of the original members of The Pedaljets, bassist Matt Kesler. Cody went to Park Hill High and lives in Kansas City, Missouri with Kimmie Queen who he has been in a relationship with for 15 years. Besides music, Cody and Kimmie have collaborated together on multiple theatrical projects. Cody grew up in Enid, Oklahoma.

As well as his work with The Philistines Rod Peal was the owner of Halcyon Diversified Trading. He currently works for Ruskin. Rod went to Platte County High and lives in KCMO. Rod at one time lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rod is the father to his son Sydney who’s voice can be heard on The Philistines new recorded track, “Velvet Rabbits.” Rod married Sarah Carlson on September 3, 2016. Together they have a daughter named Opal.

The song “Velvet Rabbit” was written by Mike McCoy who is known for his Kansas City band Cher UK, and his Austin, Texas band The Service Industry. “Velvet Rabbit” was originally recorded by McCoy’s post Cher UK band, Black Rabbits a band that recorded songs with “rabbit” in their titles. The band Black Rabbits included: Lyle Wells on guitar, Bernie Dugan on drums, and Jason Beers on bass.

Cody wanted to record this song because he loves Mike McCoy and he loved the band Black Rabbits, and he currently has been thinking a lot about rabbits, and how some of us are like the rabbits, and their constant state of fear, because the the times we are currently living through.

11:53

16. The Philistines – “Velvet Rabbit”
from: Velvet Rabbit – Single / The Philistines / March 15, 2019
[Written by Mike McCoy. This song will be part of the upcoming album Dysnomia. Produced and engineered by Paul Malinowski at Massive Sound Studios. The Philistines are a Kansas City based rock band with a psychedelic bent, made up of: Kimmie Queen on lead vocals; Cody Wyoming on lead guitar & vocals; Rod Peal on guitar; Josh Mobley on keyboard, Steve Gardels on drums, and Barry Kidd on bass.]

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

Next week, on March 13, we present out 777th show.

Our Script/Playlist is a “cut and paste” of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

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

Show #776

WMM Playlist from Feb. 20, 2019

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Mark Manning

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, February 20, 2019

New & MidCoastal Releases
+ Claire Adams + Frank Alvarez + Wick Thomas

1. “It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / Casablanca / December 20, 1979
[WMM’s theme song]

2. Mavis Staples – “Can You Get to That (Live)”
from: Live in London / Anti / February 8, 2019
[New Live album released just prior to her 80th birthday, and 10 years after her last live album, Mavis Staples Live: Hope at the Hideout, from 2008. A follow up to her 16th studio solo album, “If All I Was Was Black, from 2017. For Live in London, Mavis recorded with her touring band: Rick Holmstrom on guitar, music direction & backing vocals; Jeff Turmes on bass & backing vocals; Stephen Hodges on drums; Vicki Randle on backing vocals; and Donny Gerrard on backing vocals. This live album celebrates music from her last 5 studio albums, released in the last nine years, with songs written by Jeff Tweedy, M. Ward, Benjamin Booker, Ben Harper, Curtis Mayfield, Talking Heads, Roebuck “Pops” Staples, Justin Vernon. This track was written by George Clinton & Ernie Harris and recorded for “Maggot Brain,” the third studio album by the Funkadelic, released in 1971. Mavis Staples is a legend. She is a gospel R&B singer, actress and civil rights activist, born in Chicago, Illinois on July 10, 1939. She has recorded and performed with her family’s band The Staple Singers. She began her career with her family group in 1950. Initially singing locally at churches, appearing on a weekly radio show, the Staples scored a hit in 1956 with “Uncloudy Day” for the Vee-Jay label. When Mavis graduated from what is now Paul Robeson High School in 1957, The Staple Singers took their music on the road. Led by family patriarch Roebuck “Pops” Staples on guitar and including the voices of Mavis and her siblings Cleotha, Yvonne, and Purvis, the Staples were called “God’s Greatest Hitmakers.” With Mavis’ voice and Pops’ songs, singing, and guitar playing, the Staples evolved from enormously popular gospel singers (with recordings on United and Riverside as well as Vee-Jay) to become the most spectacular and influential spirituality-based group in America. By the mid-1960s The Staple Singers, inspired by Pops’ close friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr., became the spiritual and musical voices of the civil rights movement. They covered contemporary pop hits with positive messages, including Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” and a version of Stephen Stills’ “For What It’s Worth”. Mavis!, the first feature documentary about Staples and the Staple Singers, directed by Jessica Edwards, had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2015. Mavis! was screened in theaters and on HBO in February 2016. Staples was briefly married to Spencer Leak in 1964; they divorced when Staples would not end her music career to stay home. She has no children. In the 2015 documentary Mavis! she reveals that Bob Dylan once proposed to her, and she turned him down. This song was oroginally included on Mavis Staples’ 2013 release One True Vine, her 13th studio album, and the second on which she collaborated with record producer and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy. Tweedy also played most of the instruments on the album, with the exception of the drums, which were played by his son, Spencer Tweedy. The album was recorded at the Wilco Loft in Chicago, and while working on it, Staples commuted back and forth between the Loft (on Chicago’s North Side) and her home on Chicago’s South Side.]

3. Shy Boys – “Dim The Light”
from: Dim The Light / Brick By Brick – Single / Polyvinyl Record Co. / February 15, 2019
[New single release and follow up to the band’s second album and Polyvinyl debut, Bell House. Shy Boys line-up consists of brothers Collin Rausch and Kyle Rausch, Konnor Ervin, Kyle Little and Ross Brown. The group formed shortly after the trio became roommates in 2012. Kyle Rausch and Konnor Ervin were already band mates in the indie-pop band The ACBs and Collin had been playing for years in the Kansas City area in various bands. The three shared a love for 1960s era pop rock and soon started writing their own music. In 2014 they released the self-titled Shy Boys on High Dive Records. The album received generally positive reviews and the single “Bully Fight” was featured on Spin.com. In June 2014 the band recorded and released two more singles and one of them, “Life Is Peachy,” was featured on Stereogum. On April 4th, 2018, it was announced that the band had signed to Polyvinyl Record Co.]

[Shy Boys play recordBar, 1520 Grand Ave, KCMO, Friday, February 22, at 8:00 PM, with Natural Man, and The Creepy Jingles.]

4. Kasey Rausch – “City Strangers”
from: Born Near The Waters / Independent / November 24, 2004
[From http://www.kaseyrausch.com: Released on the night of her 30th birthday, “Born Near the Waters…” is the first full album released by Kasey Rausch. It was recorded by Mike West at the 9th Ward Pickin’ Parlor in New Orleans, Louisiana over three hot muggy days – July 3, 4 & 5 2004. Breaks from the studio were spent on top of the now infamous levy broken by the forces of Hurricane Katrina. Kasey’s husband, Travis Huffhines (mandolin) and two of her dear friends, Mikal Shapiro (harmonies, percussion, clarinet) and Joel Kraft (vocals), recorded by day and gigged by night. The result is a raw, un-mastered recording that reflects the once youthful songwriting and vocal styles of Rausch. Guest musicians include Grammy nominee Gina Forsyth on fiddle, Mike West on banjo, mandolin, acoustic guitar and Katie West on upright bass (Truckstop Honeymoon). // Kasey Rausch is a 5th generation songwriter & musician, co-producer/host of roots music radio show River Trade Radio on KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio and former host of Campfire on DittyTV (Memphis, TN). Her family and musical roots can be found in Parkville, Kansas City, the Missouri Ozarks, Winfield, Kansas (home of the legendary Walnut Valley Festival) and deep Southeast Texas. She tours nationally with pedal steel and guitar master Marco Pascolini as The Country Duo and plays locally with classic country honky tonkers The Naughty Pines and songwriter Scott Stanton. Rausch’s third album, Guitar in Hand (originally released on MudStomp Records 2014), debuted at #3 on the Roots Music Reporting charts and was voted one of the top three albums of the year by readers of The Pitch, KC’s weekly entertainment guide. She was named 2016 Best of the Northland Artist, 2013’s Female Performer of the Year by The Farmer’s Turnpike on KMXN 92.9 FM and is a four-time Pitch Music Award Nominee.]

[Kasey Rausch plays a Songwriters Serenade with Rex Pryor and John Keck, Thursday, February 21, at 7:00 PM at Madrigall, 1627 Oak St, KCMO. Hosted by John L. Keck, “Songwriters Serenade” is an evening of performance in a listening environment with original music in the round.]

5. Laura Spiegel – “Strand of Life (“Viroid”)”
from: Unseen Worlds / Unseen Worlds / January 18, 2019 Reissue
[Laurie Spiegel’s second full-length album, Unseen Worlds, arrived just over ten years after her debut album. Having realized the pieces found on The Expanding Universe (1980) on an instrument no longer available to her, the GROOVE System at Bell Laboratories, Spiegel moved on to composing and developing for the Alles Machine, alphaSyntauri, McLeyvier and various other instruments before creating an instrument entirely her own. Spiegel created “Music Mouse – An Intelligent Instrument” on a Macintosh 512k so that she could have an instrument that was not general purpose but a small, specialized, and well defined musical instrument for and by her that she did not have to compromise on or risk losing access to it. While it was a very personal instrument for Spiegel, demand among friends and colleagues nevertheless grew until “Music Mouse – An Intelligent Instrument” became a commercial product for the Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari personal computers with a devoted popular following that continues to this day, despite the obsoletion of those platforms. At the time of her Unseen Worlds album’s original release in 1991, the issuing record label turned out to be going out of business, dissolved and disappeared, sending the album immediately into obscurity. Outside of a private CD edition issued by Spiegel on her own Aesthetic Engineering label in 1994, this new edition represents the first proper commercial release of Unseen Worlds. “Unseen Worlds is not so much based on melody and rhythm as it is on textures, pulses, and sonic environments. Sometimes dark, sometimes light, its drama pulls in the adventurous listener who wants to take a musical journey. Using computer software she wrote in order to implement a unique musical vision, Unseen Worlds blends the artistic and the technical, the cerebral and the sensual, and revives the virtually abandoned tradition of electronic music. Unseen Worlds is the work of a sonic explorer whose music can both challenge and caress. Those looking for other worlds of sound can put on headphones and find them here.” – Craig Anderton // All compositions composed, produced, mixed, and coded by Laurie Spiegel. Mastered by Paul Zinman]

6. Mess – “Cave”
from: “Cave” – Single/ Mess / August 27, 2018
[First single from band’s upcoming debut full length album, ‘Learning How To Talk.’ This Kansas City based band was formed by: Allison Gliesman, Kevin Briody, Tanner Pinkerton & Evan Velasquez. This track was produced by Patrick Robinson, mixed by Braxton Matlock,and mastered by Troy Glessner (spectre).]

[Mess play recordBar, 1520 Grand Blvd, KCMO, Tuesday, February 26, at 8:00 PM, opening for Soccer Mommy with Hovvdy.]

[Mess play a ‘Learning How To Talk’ Record Release Show, Saturday, March 30, at 7:00 PM, at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, MO. with Weathered, LK Ultra, and witchhazel]

7. Mae C – “Anxious”
from: “Anxious” – Single / Mae C / April 10, 2017
[Follow up to her 2016 EP Warning Sign of True Love. Influenced by Hip Hop, Rock, Jazz, Soul & R&B, Mae C is making her mark as an independent artist in the Kansas City music scene. A self-acclaimed black girl nerd, she originally planned on becoming an engineer and studied computer design at Lincoln University of Missouri. After leaving Lincoln to pursue her true passion of singing and songwriting, she finds that her techy side impacts how she writes music. “As a kid, I was always picking things apart and figuring out how to put them back together,” she said. “As an artist, I do the same thing – I pick apart my favorite singers to discover what made them great so I can walk in their footsteps.” With Kansas City becoming a place of movement for arts and entertainment, Mae C says now is the time to reinvent the wheel, break barriers, build bridges, but most of all support each other. “Supporting each other is the secret to rising to the top and putting the town on the map”, says Mae C. She aspires to inspire other artists to capitalize in their craft by not putting themselves in a box. “I’m an African American woman, but I refuse to allow anyone to use that against me. I’m an artist & proud black girl and I deserve a chance at every opportunity just as anyone else,” she said..]

[Mae C. plays The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, KCMO, Saturday, February 23, at 8:00 PM. with Trxz Jones, They Call Me Sauce, JaySol Music, Guest DJ: DJ G3wizz, and Special Guest: Jo Blaq.]

8. Mercury Rev – “Reunion feat. Rachel Goswell”
from Bobbie Gentry’s the Delta Sweete Revisited / Partisan Records / February 8, 2019
[Rachel Ann Goswell was born May 16, 1971. She is an English singer-songwriter and musician who rose to prominence as vocalist and guitarist of the shoegaze band Slowdive, which formed in 1989. Goswell, along with Neil Halstead, Ian McCutcheon and former Chapterhouse member Simon Rowe became Mojave 3 when Slowdive transitioned to a more country/folk rock style. She released a solo album in 2004, titled Waves Are Universal on 4AD Records. // It slipped out of a Mississippi of hot biscuits, genteel table manners and working-class sense, suddenly overturned by a grave sinning and suicide. Carried on an evening breeze of strings and a supple, foreboding voice like sensually charged breath, “Ode to Bilie Joe”—Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 debut as a singer-songwriter and a Number One single for three weeks in the late Summer of Love—was the most psychedelic record of that year not from San Francisco or London, as if Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Brian Wilson had conspired to make a country-rock Pet Sounds. Except Gentry, just 23 when she wrote the song, got there first, in miniature. // Gentry’s hit was a revolutionary act, a quietly thorough feminism in vision, deed and success amid the strict, paternal order of the country-music industry. And it was her license to thrill again. In October, 1967, while “Billie Joe” was still in the Top Five, Gentry began recording The Delta Sweete, a connected set of a dozen songs that extended the narrative dynamics of that single with personal reflection and set her folk-siren charisma in a richer frame of dream-state orchestration, swamp-rock guitars and big-city-R&B horns. // In her eight original songs for the album, Gentry drew from her childhood and church life on her grandparents’ farm in Chickasaw County, Mississippi: the girl-ish craving for a beautiful dress in “Reunion”; the rise-and-shine of “Mornin’ Glory”; the stern Sunday lessons in “Sermon,” based on a traditional hymn also known as “Run On.” The covers were boldly chosen: Mose Allison’s chain-gang blues “Parchman Farm”; “Tobacco Road”’s litany of trial; the Cajun pride in Doug Kershaw’s “Louisiana Man”. Gentry also turned them to new purpose and even gender. “Gonna get myself a man, one gonna treat me right,” she sang in Jimmy Reed’s “Big Boss Man” with heated assurance. // But The Delta Sweete—released in March, 1968, only three months after Dylan’s John Wesley Harding and right as the Byrds came to Nashville to cut Sweetheart of the Rodeo—was too soon in its precedence. Gentry’s LP, the first country-rock opera, was ignored on arrival, not even cracking Billboard’s Top 100. It was as if Billie Joe had risen out of the Tallahatchie River and thrown that record off the bridge instead. // This Delta Sweete is her long-delayed justice—Mercury Rev’s committed and an affectionate resurrection of an album that anticipated by three decades their own pivotal expedition through transcendental America, 1998’s Deserter’s Songs. From their recording lair in New York’s Catskill Mountains, the founding core of Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper with Jesse Chandler (previously in the Texas group Midlake) honor Gentry’s foresight and creative triumph with spacious invention and hallucinatory air. And they are not alone. Gentry’s stories and original resolve are brought to new vocal life and empowerment by a vocal cast of women from across modern rock and its alternative paths: among them, Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval; Laetitia Sadier, formerly of Stereolab; Marissa Nadler; Margo Price, the fiery new country star with a punk-rock heart; and Norway’s Susanne Sundfør, who cuts through “Tobacco Road” with arctic-Nico poise. Phoebe Bridgers, whose first record was a softly stunning 2015 single for Ryan Adams’ PAX AM label, hovers through the acid- western suspense of Gentry’s “Jessye’ Lisabeth” with floating calm, like a comforting angel. // On the 1968 LP, Gentry opened with a call to jubilant order, “Okolona River Bottom Band,” like she was leading a barn-dance union of the early Rolling Stones and Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five. Norah Jones takes that entrance here with her own sultry command, like Sarah Vaughan at the head of a slow-blooming choir. In “Sermon,” Price—who has known real struggle up close—sings like a survivor through Mercury Rev’s explosion of color and groove: a specialty throughout the band’s history as recently as 2015’s The Light in You, going back through All Is Dream in 2001, the whirling iridescent soul of 1995’s See You on the Other Side and the sumptuous turbulence of the 1992 single “Car Wash Hair.” // Gentry is still very present in the changes. Her seesaw of pride and hurt in the melancholy blur of “Penduli Pendulum” (“When goodbye serves as/My one amusement”) is even more explicit with the seasoned intimacy of Vashti Bunyan—a once-elusive voice from Britain’s psychedelic-folk boom—set against the younger, brighter arc of Kaela Sinclair, now in the electronic project M83. And in “Courtyard,” a despairing finale of strings and guitar arpeggios on Gentry’s LP, Mercury Rev build a striking Delta Krautrock in which the English singer Beth Orton wanders, like Gentry, through a ruin of profound loss and treasured memory. // “Ode to Billie Joe” was not on the ‘68 Delta Sweete. But Mercury Rev go back to that dinner table with Lucinda Williams of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and it is an inspired bond, calling up the ghosts and questions of a South still very much with us. Indeed, Gentry—who retired from recording and performing in the Seventies—reportedly lives only a couple hours’ drive from the bridge that made her famous, while the spirits she set loose in The Delta Sweete are as restless and compelling as they were 50 years ago. This album is a loving tribute to that achievement, one of the greatest albums you have never heard. It is also a dozen new ways to walk that land. -David Fricke]

9. Calvin Arsenia – “Tip Toe”
from: Cantaloupe / Bullseye Records / September 15, 2018 (KC Release)
[Calvin’s first release on Bullseye Records. Calvin Arsenia came home to KC in 2014 after living in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has released the EPs, Moments, Prose, 2017’s Catastrophe. He released the EP Caviar to special guests who attended his Wickstock West show in West Bottoms. Standing at 6 foot 6 inches, Arsenia’s powerful vocals span a 3.5 octave range, while playing piano, banjo, guitar & harp. Calvin has played Folk Alliance International, KC Fringe Fest, Apocalypse Meow, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, The Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts, Middle of the Map Fest., The Folly Theatre. He undertook a three month US/European Outlyre Tour where he has played San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, NYC, Boston, Edinburgh, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Lyon and Paris.]

[Calvin Arsenia plays the Crossroads Hotel, 2101 Central Street, KCMO, Thurs, Feb 21, at 7:00 PM.]

[Calvin Arsenia plays a special A Fundraising Concert. Saturday, February 23, at 7:00 PM, for The Open Table KC, 318 E 55th St, KCMO. Part of the proceeds will go towards expanding programming and anti-racism trainings at The Open Table KC.]

[Calvin Arsenia plays Mark Music 3.1: A Sunday Evening Of Music With Calvin Arsenia, Sunday, March 24, at 7:30 PM, at Marshall Hall at St. Mark Hope and Peace Lutheran 3800 Troost Avenue.]

[Calvin Arsenia plays Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Boulevard, KCMO, Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 6:00 PM.]

10:29 – Underwriting

Claire Adams (Photo by Anna Selle)

10. Claire Adams – “Enough”
from: Into The Blue / Independent / December 12, 2015
[Claire Adams on voice & guitar, Nick Bell Conductor, Christina Wince on flute, Teri Quinn on clarinet, Brandon Crawford on bass clarinet, Mark Lauer on bassoon, Jen Oliverio on trumpet, Austin Pfeiffer on trombone, Joseph Felton on tuba, Erik Hassell pn violin, Alyssa Bell on viola, Eman Chalshotori on cello, Sarah Lahasky on double bass, and Stephanie Williams on drum set. Songs composed by Claire Adams “In the Blue” arrangement by Peter Lawless; “Enough” arrangement by Teri Quinn. Recorded by Duane Trower at Weights and Measures Soundlab in Kansas City, MO. Artwork by Katelyn Boone.] [ Aside from her work with Katy Guilllen & The Girls, Claire also released the 5-song EP Waiting for The Winds to Change / on October 24, 2017 featuring new recordings of original songs by Claire Adams on vocals, guitar, & bass; Katy Guillen on guitar & harmony vocals; Lennon Bone on drums. Recorded, mixed & mastered by Duane Trower at Weights + Measures Soundlab, Kansas City, MO. More info at: http://www.claireadamsmusic.com]

[Claire Adams performs with KC based string quartet, Friday, February 22, at 8:00 PM at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City. Alyssa Murray opens the evening.]

Alyssa Bell and Claire Adams on the February 20, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.

11:35 – Interview with Claire Adams & Alyssa Bell

Claire Adams is a critically acclaimed bassist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In the last year we have played musical tracks from Appropriate Grammar, Claire Adams and the Crowded Stage, The Classical Revolution, and Katy Guillen & The Girls all recordings and performing projects where Claire was essential, as a singer, songwriter and musician. Claire Adams has released multiple EPs and albums with each of these musical entities, while also releasing her very own solo EPs and solo albums too. Over the last 10 years Claire has traveled all around the world performing music, and “honing her melodic instincts and vision” in multiple genres of rock, blues, folk, americana, pop, jazz, and big band. At the center of all of this work is Claire’s beautiful and expressive voice, and her generous spirit and openness to collaborate, allowing oportunites for new younger musicians and producers to gain experience. Claire Studied Music Business at Belmont University and grew up in Topeka, Kansas.

Kansas City based Alyssa Bell is part if the string quartet Rewound. She is the Founder and Executive Director for Classical Revolution KC. Alyssa also serves as Adjunct Professor of High Strings at Northwest Missouri State University. Alyssa received her Master of Music in Performance/ Viola at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland and her undergraduate degree in Music education at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance.

Claire Adams and Alyssa Bell join us to share information about their new show, Friday, February 22, at 8:00 PM at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, where she plays with the Kansas City based string quartet, Rewound, performing her original songs as arranged by Peter Lawless. Special guest Alyssa Murray opens the show.

Claire Adams and Alyssa Bell, thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

We just heard Enough from the vinyl release Into The Blue, which was Claire’s last 2015 collaboration with Peter Lawless and The Classical Revolution.

The Classical Revolution was a natural out-growth of your recordings as Claire and The Crowded Stage.

Claire and The Crowded Stage was where you first collaborated with Katy Guillen and Stephanie Williams your co-horts from Katy Guillen & The Girls.

For Claire’s new show on Friday, February 22, at 8:00 PM at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, she will perform with the Kansas City based string quartet, Rewound,

Rewound is Carmen Dieker on violin, Alyssa Bell on viola, and Ezgi Karakus on cello.

Claire is performing her original songs as arranged by Peter Lawless.

Peter Lawless is one of the founding members of The B’Dina’s, a band that included Katy Guillen on guitar & vocals, Peter Lawless on bass, saxophone, & vocals. Katelyn Jamison on keyboard & vocals, and Tess Jehle on drums & vocals, and released 3 EPs and one full length album between 2010 and 2014. Meredith McGrade was part of the original line up for their debut EP release. Peter Lawless and Katelyn Jamison play with Found A Job. Katelyn Jamison and Tess Jehle were part of the band Dream Wolf from 2010 to 2014. Tess Jehle is drummer for the band Dynamite Defense

On Friday night at The Rino – Special guest Alyssa Murray opens the show.

10:53

Claire Adams and Alyssa Bell thank you for being with us on WMM.

Claire Adams performs with KC based string quartet, Friday, February 22, at 8:00 PM at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City. Alyssa Murray opens the evening. More information at: http://www.claireadamsmusic.com

10:55

11. The AM Trio – “Fall Awake”
from: As of Now / Independent / June 30, 2015
[Alyssa Murray (Vocalist/Pianist/Songwriter), Joel Stratton (bass), and Josh Blythe (drums/vocals) have crossed paths and joined forces to create unique, multi-dimensional songs. Murray’s writing style has drawn comparison to Joni Mitchell as well as Fiona Apple.]

[Alyssa Murray opens for Claire Adams when she performs with KC based string quartet, Friday, February 22, at 8:00 PM at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City.]

11:00 – Station ID

Alyssa Bell, Wick Thomas, and Claire Adams on the February 20, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.

12. Vedettes – “Train”
from: EPHEMERAL / Vedettes / March 1, 2019
[First single from the band upcoming EP Release Ephemeral, which contains five studio-recorded and mastered tunes, recorded and mixed by Paul Malinowski from May to December 2018 at Massive Sound in Shawnee, Kansas. This Lawrence, Kansas based 4-piece band was formed in 2015 with Heather Lofflin on lead vocals & guitar; Lizz Weiler on bass, & backup vocals; Ben White on lead guitar & backup vocals. More information at: http://www.vedettes.com]

[Vedettes play A Tribute to Queen presented by I Heart Local Music at The Granada Theatre, 1020 Massachusetts St. in Lawrence, KS on Friday, February 22 at 7:00 PM, with PartyParty, Katlyn Conroy, Nick Carswell, Wick & The Tricks, Vibralux, Dick Von Dyke, Mean Melin and CindAIRella.]

11:06 – Interview with Wick Thomas

Wick Thomas

Wick Thomas grew up in Drexel Missouri and graduated from UMKC. Wick is an urban pioneer who is also a gardener, a student, a teacher, a librarian and an activist. Wick was voted Best Activist by The Pitch Magazine. Wick has help organize LGBTQIA youth groups on college campuses and in High Schools, he served as President of EQUAL and won an award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Wick spent many years working for the Kansas City Public Library and then the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. Recently Wick was a guest artist for The Band That Fell To Earth – A Tribute To David Bowie at recordBar. Appropriately Wick interpreted the Bowie classic, “Rebel Rebel.” Wick Thomas, is lead singer for the punk rock band Wick and The Tricks. In late 2017, Wick & The Tricks, released a 7-inch vinyl, 4-song EP debut called “Not Enough,” on Black Site Records.

Wick Thomas joins us to share details about A Tribute to Queen presented by I Heart Local Music at The Granada Theatre, 1020 Massachusetts St. in Lawrence, Kansas, on Friday, February 22 at 7:00 PM. The special evening will feature performances by: Wick & The Tricks, PartyParty, Katlyn Conroy, Nick Carswell, Vedettes, and Vibralux. There will also be a drag performance by: Dick Von Dyke, and a special air guitar tribute to Queen by: Mean Melin and CindAIRella, also known as Eric Melin and Beth Melin. More information at: http://www.iheartlocalmusic.com

Wick Thomas, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

It was great seeing Wick performing on night one of The Band That Fell To Earth Tribute to David Bowie, Friday, January 19th, at recordBar, 1520 Grand Ave, KCMO. Wick performed “Rebel Rebel” which has become an anthem of gender bending and non-binary identification, can you tell us about your experience interpreting that song?

Now Wick is jumping from David Bowie to Freddie Mercury playing A Tribute to Queen at The Granada Theatre, 1020 Massachusetts St. in Lawrence, Friday, Feb 22 at 7:00 PM.

Presented by I Heart Local Music. More information at: http://www.iheartlocalmusic.com

Wick & the Tricks is now a 5-piece w/ Wick Trick on vocals, Chris (Bardell) Stallion on guitar, Noah Cassity on guitar, Promise Clutter on bass, George Henry Valyer IV on drums.

11:14

13. Wick & The Tricks – “KCBB”
from: Not Enough 7″ Vinyl EP / Black Site / October 14, 2017
[4-piece band with Wick Trick on vocals & sleaze, Chris Stallion on guitar, Jane Asylum on bass & vocals, and JoJo Tornado on drums. The new EP was recorded and mixed by Justin Mantooth at Westend Recording Studios.] [Wick & the Tricks played a Record Release Show, Saturday, October 14, at 8:00 pm at Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, 3402 Main Street, KCMO, with Red Kate, The Quivers, and The Midnight Devils.]

[Wick & The Tricks play A Tribute to Queen presented by I Heart Local Music at The Granada Theatre, 1020 Massachusetts St. in Lawrence, KS on Friday, February 22 at 7:00 PM, with PartyParty, Katlyn Conroy, Nick Carswell, Vedettes, Vibralux, Dick Von Dyke, Mean Melin and CindAIRella.]

11:15

In 2006, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force gave Thomas a Creating Change Award for establishing a chapter of the Gay-Straight Alliance in 2004 while he was a student at Paola High School. He’s also been involved in bike activism, has volunteered for the ACLU and Greenpeace, and founded the local environmental group TWIG (Think Work Inspire Grow).

Wick Thomas is also involved in Shadow-casting for The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Wick and The Tricks are playing Unholy Masquerade, Saturday, March 2, at 8:30 PM at Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, 3402 Main St, KCMO

Fally Afani is the founder of I Heart Local Music

I Heart Local Music presents A Tribute to Queen at The Granada Theatre, 1020 Massachusetts St. in Lawrence, Kansas, on Friday, February 22 at 7:00 PM. The special evening will feature performances by: Wick & The Tricks, PartyParty, Katlyn Conroy, Nick Carswell, Vedettes, and Vibralux. There will also be a drag performance by: Dick Von Dyke, and a special air guitar tribute to Queen by: Mean Melin and CindAIRella, also known as Eric Melin and Beth Melin. More information at: http://www.iheartlocalmusic.com

11:23

14. Queen – “Another One Bites The Dust”
from: Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack) / Hollywood Records / Oct. 19, 2018
[The Soundtrack to the Queen biopic contains several greatest hits plus 5 songs from the band’s dramatic Live Aid performance now available for the first time. The film includes a faithful recreation of the Live Aid performance. Bohemian Rhapsody was nominated for Best Film, Best Actor for Rami Malek, and Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Editing categories. // “Another One Bites the Dust” is a 1980 song by British rock band Queen. Written by bass guitarist John Deacon, the song featured on the group’s eighth studio album The Game (1980). The song was a worldwide hit, charting number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, from 4 October to 18 October (their second number-one single in the country). The song spent fifteen weeks in the Billboard top ten (the longest running top ten song of 1980), including thirteen weeks in the top five, and 31 weeks total on the chart (more than any other song in 1980). It reached number two on the Hot Soul Singles chart and the Disco Top 100 chart, and number seven on the UK Singles Chart. The song is credited as Queen’s best-selling single, with sales of over 7 million copies. This version was ranked at number 34 on Billboard’s All-Time Top Songs. The song won an American Music Award for Favorite Rock Single and also garnered a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.]

11:27 – Underwriting

15. Lenny Lashley’s Gang Of One – “All Are Welcome”
from: All Are Welcome / Pirates Press Records / February 15, 2019
[Lenny Lashley is a household name in New England. Whether it’s performing on stage or slinging drinks at The Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plains, Massachusettes, Lenny is a star – regaling the world with Boston history and decades of tour stories like no one else can. His voice is as Boston as it gets – and as identifiable as any other frontman out there. Lenny’s even narrated movies and done voiceover gigs to help him sustain being a diehard rock and roller. A longtime fixture in the Boston punk scene, Lenny has been playing and touring for 20 years. After a traumatic run of Europe in ’08 (resulting in a mental breakdown) and a few years of reflection, Lenny has re-emerged onto the scene with more energy and clarity than ever before, playing solo acoustic shows, making cameos with Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and even joining the Boston powerhouse Street Dogs. Lenny Lashley’s Gang Of One and the new album, All Are Welcome is aimed to take Lenny’s prowess and message to a larger audience. The underlying message that this release conveys could not be better timed, as the world is desperately in need of a voice of reason.]

[Lenny Lashley’s Gang Of One plays Sister Anne’s – Records & Coffee, at 901 East 31st St, in KCMO, Friday, February 22, at 6:30 PM, with The Uncouth and Red Kate, hosted by Teenage Heart Records.]

11:33 – Interview with Frank Alvarez

Frank Alvarez on the February 20, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.

I first met Frank Alvarez in the mid 1990s. Frank was working as a manager and music buyer for Recycled Sounds at Westport Road & Main Street. Before that Frank ran his own record store, Abba Zappa. When Recycled Sounds closed in 2006, Frank was part of a special radio show we produced on Wednesday MidDay Medley, featuring testimonials from past and present Recycled Sounds employees, and playlist created by Recycled Sounds Staff reflecting stories of the time Prince came into the store, or the multiple bus trips the store organized to see The Pixies, or the many cultural events that were connected to this special place. The Radio show also included live interviews with Frank, Kasey Rausch, Kurt von Schlemmer, Iris DeMent and Anne Winter herself, who helped to produced and coordinate the show.

It seemed like the end of an era for music. The end of vinyl. The end of brick and morter music stores. Frank went on to work for Vinyl Renaissance, one of the only record stores left in the metro, besides Zebedee’s on 39th, It’s A Beautiful Day, and Vinyl Underground at Seventh Heaven. Seven years passed, and then something happened, vinyl made a comeback. Mills Records Company opened in 2013, Records With Merritt opened in 2014, Zebedee’s closed and reopened as Revolution Records in the Crossroads, Josey Records opened at 19th & Oak St.; FM Music opened on East 18th St; Brothers Records & Music opened on Johnson Drive in Mission; and Gotwhatulike at 11601 Hickman Mills Drive opened in July 2014. Record Stores were opening and thriving again, creating that needed community space for music lovers, bands, and vinyl collectors.

Last Fall, Frank Alvarez and longtime friend James Oshel opened Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee, at 901 East 31st Street, in Kansas City. Sister Anne’s sells used records, new local releases, posters, stereos, and coffee, and was named after Anne Winter who owned Recycled Sounds, one of Kansas City’s most treasured record stores, where both Frank and James worked. Since then their business is growing. They have welcomed many in-store concerts, and this weekend are presenting, Lenny Lashley’s Gang Of One, on Friday, Feb. 22, at 6:30 PM, with The Uncouth and Red Kate, hosted by Teenage Heart Records.

Frank Alvarez thanks for being with us again on WMM

Frank Alvarez & James Oshel of Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee, 901 East 31st Street, in KCMO. (Photo by Aaron Rhodes)

Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee is two blocks west of Troost, at 901 East 31st Street.

James Oshel and Frank Alvarez had talked about starting a record store when they were roommates and working together at Recycled Sounds. When Recycled Sounds closed, in 2006, Frank Alvarez went to work at Vinyl Renaissance, and Jim Oshel at Broadway Cafe.

10 years passed by, and then the owner of Windhorse Tattoo, Mark Galloway, who had worked with Jim Oshel at Mercy Seat Tattoo, let his friend know he was moving and there would be extra space in the building. This was the spark that ignited Oshel and Alvarez moving into action to open their own place.

Frank Alvarez and Jim Oshel decided to open a record store and a coffee house and were motivated to name after Anne Winter, owner of Recycled Sounds, who died in 2009.

Recycled Sounds operated from 1988 to 2006. Anne Winter and husband Kurt Von Schlemmer, were integral to the Kansas City Music scene. Anne Winter was a co-founder of the Kansas City Free Speech Coalition, and the brain child behind the annual Culture Under Fire, a week and sometimes two week festival of music, art, performance, guest speakers and writing and publishing events centered around the 1st Amendment and freedom of speech. Recycled Sounds was home to many bands and a meeting place.

Frank told Aaron Rhodes in a Pitch Kansas City article published on December 26, 2018, “I want to do what Anne taught us to do,” Alvarez says. “She taught us to just be good people, help people find the music they’re looking for, provide a space in Kansas City where they can find out about music, come in and talk about music, and just do what we can for the whole scene.”

Frank ran his own record store, Abba Zappa, three blocks away from Recycled Sounds. As is usually the case record stores are generally friendly with each other, as studies prove that the more record stores in a community the more business for all. Frank and Anne were friends. Frank had been second guessing his decision to run his own store when at one point Anne Winter visited Anna Zappa and offered to buy him out, bringing his inventory , and he himself into Recycled Sounds. Alvarez accepted the offer.

Lenny Lashley’s Gang Of One plays Sister Anne’s – Records & Coffee, at 901 East 31st St, in KCMO, Friday, February 22, at 6:30 PM, with The Uncouth and Red Kate hosted by Teenage Heart Records.

11:42

16. Red Kate – “Urban Church”
from: Red Kate – Stiff Middle Fingers split 7″ / Black Site Records / April 8, 2017
[L. Ron Drunkard on bass & lead vocals, Andrew Whelan on drums & vocals, Brad Huhmann on guitar, Desmond Poirier on guitar & vocals. Recorded at Weights & Measures Soundlab, with engineer Duane Trower. 2nd release on KC’s coop record label, Black Site after the release of Red Kate’s 2nd LP, unamerican activities. Cover art designed by Shaun Hamontree, who is also Red Kate’s new rhythm guitarist.]

11:44 – More Interview with Frank Alvarez

Frank told Aaron Rhodes of The Pitch Kansas City, (When Anne hired me), “At that point, I was about 10 years in the game already, and I thought, ‘I know everything,’” Alvarez says. “I went to work for her and learned so much more.”

Anne Winter was one of the people who helped start 90.1 FM KKFI. She served on the Board of Directors and hosted Kansas City first ever Punk Rock show on the radio called Little “Orphan Annie.” Alvarez told Aaron Rhodes about the wide variety of music that could be found at Recycled Sounds. “There was someone there that specialized in every kind of music,” he says. “There was the hip-hop person, the punk rock person, there was a person that knew classic rock. Every base was covered.”

Frank Alvarez and Jim Oshel have been working diligently, building up the physical space and inventory, installing turn tables with coffee and espresso machines for their new business of Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee. They are open from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM.The shop is hosting in-stores. Their opening featured Hipshot Killer and Emmaline Twist. Sister Anne’s – Records and Coffee has a big back room that serves as an all-ages venue.

Aaron Rhodes in his Pitchweekly feature called the Sister Anne’s “Winterlike — warm, friendly, knowledgeable.” “This is the only thing I’ve done since 1985,” Alvarez says. “I get up and come to a record store. That’s what I do.”

Sister Anne’s hosts the SPINE WEST COAST TOUR KICK OFF, presented by Kansas City Hardcore, in an ALL AGES show tonight, Wednesday, February 20 at 6:30 with Spine, Devils Den, Constraint (from Kentucky), Brute Force (from St. Louis), and Crisis Actor.

Lenny Lashley’s Gang Of One plays Sister Anne’s – Records & Coffee, 901 East 31st St, Fri, Feb 22, at 6:30 PM, w/ The Uncouth and Red Kate hosted by Teenage Heart Records. More information at: http://www.sisterannes.com

17. The Uncouth – “Matter of Time (Radio Edit)”
from: “Matter of Time” – Single b/w “All You Fascists” / Teenage Heart Records / Aug, 2018
[Hard hitting Oi! band from KCMO, with CJ Wilson on lead guitar & vocals, Cody Blanchard on lead vocals & guitar, Steve Gardels on bass, and Todd Rainey on drums. “Just A Matter Of Time” written by The Uncouth, “All You Fascists” written by Woody Guthrie. Recorded at Element Recording. Pressed by Gotta Groove Records. Copyright by Know Your Roots Publishing. Producer Johnny Starke. Recorded and mastered by Joel Nanos. Kansas City’s The Uncouth are back again with their third release. Manufactured in the USA on high quality vinyl in Clear, White, and Black wax. Test Pressing four packs include all three limited colors and one of our super limited test pressings straight from the pressing plant.]

[The Uncouth plays Sister Anne’s – Records & Coffee, at 901 East 31st St, in KCMO, Friday, February 22, at 6:30 PM, with Lenny Lashley’s Gang Of One, and Red Kate, hosted by Teenage Heart Records.]

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

Next week on February 27, Nico Gray joins us in our second hour at Guest Producer. In our first hour at 10:30 we will be joined by singer songwriter Julia Othmer, who plays Knuckleheads in the Garage, Thursday, February 28, at 8:30 pm.

Our Script/Playlist is a “cut and paste” of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

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

Show #774

Wednesday MidDay Medley

Wednesdays, 10 – Noon, on 90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio

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