In 2000, the Primetime Heroes rose from the ashes of a previous Topeka pop-punk act, the Effigies. After releasing two albums on local label Noisome Records, the band played its farewell show in 2006.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Good news and bad news regarding the George Strait concert at the Sprint Center this past Saturday. The good news is that, if you'd been unable to attend, it's been rescheduled for this Saturday, March 3.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Titan Records dudes Tom Sorells and Mark Prellberg are holding their bi-annual vinyl sale this weekend in Waldo, where you can sort through somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,000 records. Says Sorells: "We have records of all genres, loads of new stock since our big spring sale.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
"Fishbone could be a band that doesn't use profanity, goes and does the festival circuit, plays the oldies and rakes in a ton of dough," observes Norwood Fisher. "But we chose to try to forge new ground, go into uncharted territory on some levels. We are where we are because the path that we walk." "Where we are" is complicated, like everything about Fishbone. Appropriately, Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler's documentary, Everyday Sunshine: The Story...
Tonight: Another fucking tribute show! Actually, I am kind of enjoying the sudden abundance of tribute shows in Kansas City, and I think tonight's tribute to the Grateful Dead at Crosstown Station — Workingman's Beauty — might be a good time.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Jake Ryan had a HD disk crash this week, Tyler's computer was out for repair. It returned on Monday, the same day he had to have his car towed to a shop. All of this results in a REPEAT! YEAH! WOO-HOO. (Oh, you're so lucky. What have you done to deserve such gifts?) Jake Ryan joins us via phone from Shermer, Illinois. PLAYLIST: Airiel – Airtight Angels The Drums – Me and the Moon The Clientele – I Wonder Who We Are Eggstone – If You Say [...]
From May 23, 2009 it's Episode 19, Jake Ryan's first episode. PLAYLIST: The Lilys – The Night Sun Over San Juan The Dears – Lost In The Plot Shack – Time Machine The Joggers – Ziggurat Traffic Beck – Youthless Wire – Three Girl Rhumba Stereolab – Three-Dee Melodie Super Furry Animals – The Very Best of Neil Diamond The Stone Roses – Something Burning GoGoGo Airheart – So Good Ambulance Ltd – Primitive (The Way I Treat You) The Melody Unit [...]
„I think she only did one take. And we all said, ‚Wow, that's that done. Here's your sixty quid'", Roger Waters remembered quite ungentlemanlike about Clare Torry , the sadly unsung chanteuse who did the orgasmic wordless vocals on Pink Floyd's The Great Gig in the Sky – arguably the best song on 1973's Dark Side of the Moon. Soon after Clare was hired to do background vocals for Serge G., as well on the acridly funny Rock Around the Bunker as on L'homme à tête de chou, his histoire maudit of a sadistic murderer, including Ma Lou Marilou, [...]
Gimme a board, messieurs. Pour les grandes vagues et les surfer garcons (et filles), here's a twangy big-ninth-version of Charles Trenet's „La Mer" by Psycho Tiki entrepreneurs The Aquamarines , and the probably most liquid version of Serge's & Jane's „Je t'aime (moi non plus)" ever heard, performed by Berlin's number one surf guitarist and lounge expert Kahuna Kawentzmann – the German „Kawentzmann" translates as a rogue wave you shouldn't even try on a Big Wednesday, got my drift, kids? Wet name choice, and even your girlfriend may get instantly ... okay, forget about that. Both tracks [...]
When Alain Bashung hit it big in 1981 – Gaby oh Gaby was in the French charts for 54 weeks and sold a million copies –, they called him the „Johnny Hallyday de la New Wave". Actually, the Gallic super-antistar who garnered eleven Victoires de la Musiques awards between 1985 and 2009, sounded all-too-often more like Paolo Conte merging David Bowie attitude with an unhealthy Dylan obsession, stadium rock style – including a whole lot of obnoxious Frenchican rock bummers (especially the Tom Waits/ Michel Sardou amalgam of 2008's Bleu Pétrole), but also some significantly dazzling results, especially [...]
Charles Aznavour? Wasn't that the somewhat square old entertainer in the grey suit you saw on dozens of awful tv shows all those years ago? Maybe. Aznavour also was Charlie, the forlorn dude in Truffaut's Tirez sur le pianiste (see pic) who smoked all those cigarettes like nobody had it done before, shared the bed with Michèle Mercier and Nicole Berger, and murmered some of the coolest lines ever to be uttered between love and loneliness („Silence is amorous complicity"). Sadness was also one of the keywords in his chansons, as well in Que c'est triste Venise, [...]
When tormented Italian-French superstar Nino Ferrer met lovely Afro-American model, dancer, and singer Radiah Frye, he probably fell head over heels in love. On his 1966 single Je veux etre noir, Nino had already declared that he wanted to be black, and now he had a perfect companion to funk up his groove – exactly what he did on Nino and Radiah et Le Sud in 1974, a fine album with an even finer cover on which Radiah exposed her impeccable body to the public. Before she pursued a brief career as an actress [...]
PLAYLIST: Fiery Furnaces – Chris Michaels Suede – Moving Clinic – The Return of Evil Bill Sharks – Brassneck Standard Fare – Fifteen The View – Wasted Little DJs Poster Children – He's My Star Carter USM – The Undertaker and the Hippy Protest Singer Sugar – Frustration The Concretes – You Can't Hurry Love The Soundcarriers – Cannonball Flowered Up – It's On Husker Du – Books About UFOs The Raveonettes – Twilight The Twang – Loosely Dancing
Kurt Ottaway of the Overcasters returns to the Disgraceland studios to play a few of his favorite tracks and talk music. The first and last break mysteriously disappeared... "we only have this excerpt." PLAYLIST: MAKE-UP - Grey Motorcycle Lower Heaven - Ashes The Stone Roses - Pearl Bastard Kaiser Chiefs - You Can Have It All Calla - It Dawned On Me Gliss - Blue Sky Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down The Warlocks - Come Save Us Lower Heaven - Lose It [...]
This piece originally ran in June of 2008 and was our very first Countdown. We brought it back in honor of Memorial Day Weekend and the unofficial kickoff to summer 2010. Stay tuned for plenty of all-new content in the coming weeks and have a wonderful holiday! - EF What better way to kickoff the summer season than with a highly subjective list of ESSENTIAL summer records? But first, let's get pedantic for a moment. What is a summer record? Was it originally released [...]
This piece originally ran prior to Mother's Day 2009; but hey, moms love serving leftovers, so why can't we? In case you were unaware, this coming Sunday is Mother's Day (you're welcome for the reminder). And lest you think this special occasion is just another fabrication of the greeting-card industry (cough cough Valentine's Day), Mother's Day actually traces its origins all the way back to Ancient Greece. It's THAT legit, and for good reason: Mothers rock. For all their sacrifices and support, patience and encouragement, moms [...]
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In honor of FlashForward's return to network television this past Thursday, we're "flashbacking" to this piece we originally ran in November of 2009; and let's face it, if you watched this last week, you know the music has not improved in the slightest. I'm making a simple appeal to ABC. Fire the music supervisor to FlashForward . Like starting five episodes ago, please do it. Sounds harsh, I know, but let's keep the greater good in mind, "greater good" here being an intermittently appealing show [...]
In honor of last Sunday's Oscars, the following is a post that was originally published here in April of 2009 From Convoy to Sean Penn's cinematic interpretation of the Bruce Springsteen song "Highway Patrolman," called The Indian Runner , filmmakers have fairly often looked to narrative songs for inspiration. Sadly, more times than not, they either seem to miss the mark (see: The Gambler ) or end up making a movie that has nothing much to do with [...]
The following is a two part post that was originally published in December 2008, collected here as a single post. Anyone watching the BET Awards in June may have noticed a suspicious coup in the "Best Collaboration" category. So-called singer T-Pain (above) appeared as a collaborator on four of the five nominated tracks. Perhaps alerted to this loading of the dice, BET left T-Pain's name off the long list of collaborators on DJ Khaled's "I'm So Hood (The Remix)" on its BET [...]
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