Last weekend at the Alamo Drafthouse, the first annual Noir City KC film festival took place. The event featured a set of classic film noir flicks, entertainers, musicians and cinema noir stars like Peggy Cummins. She is most well known for her performance in Gun Crazy. The musical entertainment for...
We headed out to the Record Bar for the first night of the seventh annual Apocalypse Meow. Meow is a fundraiser for the Midwest Music Foundation to provide assistance to local musicians in need of healthcare. Besides being a great organization with a noble cause, they also put on great...
On Halloween, we headed out to the Hellfire Hoedown at Westport Saloon. The acts featured ranged from rockabilly and hard rock to bluegrass and blues. We caught the sets from Stay Sick: A Tribute to the Cramps, Electric Lungs, Freight Train Rabbit Killer, and Them Damned Young Livers. There was an...
Recently Coda hosted a fine night of music featuring the Peculiar Pretzelmen out of LA, Love Tusk from KC and Wink Burcham up from Oklahoma. Burcham is a country singer-songwriter who was accompanied by slide guitar and electric guitar. He opened the show with a low key set of somber country...
Saturday, Oct 18th marked the official celebration of the birthday of musician and activist Fela Kuti across the country known as "Felabration". The Kansas City edition at Record Bar, featured local afro-beat group Hearts of Darkness and Cincinnati, Ohio's Baoku and the Image Afrobeat Band. Hearts of Darkness opened the show with a set of...
A little while back we caught a fantastic rockin' bluesy set from Katy Guillen and the Girls at Westport Saloon. Here's some of what we saw: Click image to start slideshow Head over to to KC Live Music Blog for complete coverage of other great local music events!
Back on Friday, September 26, Mac Rebennack aka Dr. John filled the Crossroads air with the sounds of New Orleans soul. Conjuring up the ghosts of Professor Longhair, Louis Armstrong and others, Dr. John drew from his extensive catalog of over forty years of music. Backed by a four-piece band...
About a week and a half ago, we caught local blues act the Filthy 13 over at Coda. The Filthy 13 is a 4 piece outfit features Amaretto Slim on guitar and vocals backed up by bass, drums and harp. The sound is very fuzz heavy, deep blues sound. Slim's...
