WMM presents: 90 Minute Cassette + Just Angel + Duff Thompson & Josh Mobley

Wednesday MidDay Medley
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

90 Minute Cassette + Just Angel + Duff Thompson & Josh Mobley

Mark spins New & MidCoastal Releases from: Madisen Ward, Melissa Carper, Just Angel, Warren Burns, 90 Minute Cassette, Religion of Heartbreak, Katy Guillen & The Girls, Duff Thompson, Steph Green, Art d’Ecco, Alejandro Escovedo, Orville Peck with Beck, and Jessica Pratt.

At 10:30 Hillary Watts & Chuck Whittington join us to talk about their new band, 90 Minute Cassette. Crafting jams that you can dub on a mixtape right alongside your favorite classic synth pop hits, 90 Minute Cassette is a fresh and nostalgic surprise. The duo from KCMO, is made up of Chuck Whittington (namelessnumberheadman, Madisen Ward, Summer Breeze) on guitar/vocals and Hillary Watts (The Hillary Watts Riot) on synths/vocals, creates a vibe that fuses analog sunsets and digital sunrises. 90 Minute Cassette play miniBar, 3810 Broadway, KCMO on Friday, Sept. 6, at 7:00 pm with Palm Ghosts, and House of Transgressor. Info at: https://linkin.bio/90minutecassette

At 11:00 Mark talks with Duff Thompson, songwriter, musician, and producer whose music is a swampy blend of folk, pop, and garage rock. Thompson’s latest work is a dark, alienated, and swaggering duology of albums titled Shadow People and Shadow People II. Created over two weeks of intensive recording during a Montreal heatwave in 2021, the Shadow People series comprise 19 total tracks split across two albums. Thompson rented out the studio space at Sud-Ouest Recording Service and produced and engineered the recordings himself, bringing along with him a 16-track reel-to-reel and songwriter/musicians Steph Green (drums, lap steel, pump organ, vocals) and Kyle Taylor (drums, piano, vocals) as his backing band and assistant engineers. Duff Thompson plays Grand Avenue Temple 205 East 9th Street, KCMO on Friday, September 6 with Steph Green and Warren Burns.

Also joining us at 11:00 is Josh Mobley who was born and raised in Kansas City. Josh formed his first band, the Gosh Monsters, at Shawnee Mission East. Attending the Coctails record release party at Anne Winter’s Recycled Sounds led him to their show the next night at the Human Observation Lab, a venue where he first saw Mongol Beach Party, Sin City Disciples, Blue Museum, the Catherines, and Roach Factory. Wandering around deserted downtown outside the Lab was where Josh first encountered The Ship. Josh left KC in 1992 to attend Boston University where I formed a band with friends called the Umpteens. Returning to KC in 1997, Josh got a job working at YJ’s Snack Bar for artist David Ford. Josh played in the band After Party, and help form the Dirty Force Brass Band to play for Mardi Gras celebrations. This band morphed into Hearts of Darkness. Around 2002 Josh came across the architectural remains of the Ship which had been torn down in 1997. In 2004 Josh and friends began to put the Ship back together as a clubhouse for friends. The first party there in 2008, was the debut of Hearts of Darkness. The Ship opened to the public in 2014. Josh is currently working to convert the Grand Avenue Temple into a music venue.

At 11:30 Just Angel will perform LIVE in our 90.1 FM Studios with T.A. Rell on keyboards. Just Angel is a musician, songwriter, dancer, and creative artist. Just Angel, has been seen on stages of The Music Theater Heritage: Ruby Room performance of “Piece of My Heart” in 2023, The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City “After Midnight” in 2022, and playing Osceola Mays in “Texas in Paris” in 2021. Her band, The Wades, can be found playing eclectic takes on pop music, and Just Angel‘s originals, from Part 1 & 2. Her new single “Dumb”, was released August 9, 2024. Just Angel is currently performing in BEAUTIFUL, The Carole King Musical, at The Barn Players Community Theatre, at Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center, 8788 Metcalf Ave., OPKS., Sept. 6-15, (8 Performances). Info at: https://thebarnplayers.ludus.com

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