Video: Ha Ha Tonka Music Video

By CRYSTAL K. WIEBE A Springfield band (with some members now living in Kansas City) has apparently landed a spot on the Lollapalooza line-up. If you go to the Lollapalooza Web site and download the flier, you'll notice the name Ha Ha Tonka listed below all of the super famous headliners. Once known by the stoner-friendly name Amsterband , Ha Ha Tonka makes fine revivalist rock and roll and therefore fits right onto its label, Bloodshot Records . As of Monday, the Lolla gig wasn't yet listed on Ha Ha's [...]

The Meat Puppets are playing with Ha Ha Tonka this Saturday at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room. This lineup features both of the Kirkwood brothers, so at the risk of sounding dramatic, you never know if you'll get to see them again. Ha Ha Tonka is from Spingfield, MO. I first heard Ha Ha Tonka one morning on on Steve Pick's excellent Sound Salvation on KDHX 88.1 , and am excited to see them get such good exposure on a tour like this. Meat Puppets - "Backwater": [...]