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ll of a sudden, you can’t swing an underemployed drummer in this town without walloping a music festival. In April, the first annual indie-band-centric Middle of the Map Fest was held. This Friday and Saturday, the locally organized but nationally minded Kanrocksas Music and Camping Festival comes to the Kansas Speedway, bringing with it the likes of Eminem, Muse, the Black Keys and the Flaming Lips. And next week, you can hear Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp and Neil Young at Livestrong Sporting Park, where Farm Aid has elected to hold its 2011 gathering. Fine fests, all of them. But none offers the diverse local breadth of The Pitch Music Showcase, now in its 10th year. By wandering down to Westport and paying a measly six bucks, you’re allowed to stroll from venue to venue and feast upon a hearty buffet of hip-hop, rock, country, electronic, jazz, and a number of other genres that contain hyphens. It’s like going to Shoney’s. Or, no, it’s like eating at a buffet at Shoney’s if the food were good. Wait. Is Shoney’s still in business? I’m realizing now that it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a Shoney’s. You know what? Disregard the Shoney’s analogy. Here is another fact about this year’s Showcase: We’ve added RecordBar to our roster of venues, and because it’s a little hike from the Riot Room-Foundry-McCoy’s hub, we’ve got the KC Trolley traveling back and forth between the two spots all night. The Pitch: Strongly opposed to unnecessary, time-consuming walking if it means missing dynamic local, live music performances. Inside this handy guide is info about the bands playing the Showcase. We contacted every nominated act, and those that responded by deadline are quoted in the pages that follow. Read it, go on the Internet and listen to the acts’ Bandcamp pages, make a little itinerary for the evening if you so desire, and then show up August 4, ready to have a ball. — DAVID HUDNALL
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Played Wakarusa Festival earlier this summer. What do you think you sound like? “A six-piece rock band with elements of folk and pop.” Anything else? “We’re not going to do a freeform jazz exploration in front of a festival crowd.” Also nominated: Oriole Post, Sons of Great Dane
BLUEGR AS S/COUNTRY ADAM LEE & THE DEAD HORSE SOUND COMPANY What’s good? “Our most recent album, When the Spirits Move Me, came out last fall. We’ve also recently been playing with Marty Smeller and Ryan Land of the Blue Boot Heelers on steel guitar and drums. That’s been a blast!” What do you think you continued on page 6
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ill Sundahl has been a staple of the local scene for years now, having played with popular acts like It’s Over and the Afterparty. He’s also a mover and shaker, organizing the recurring vaudeville variety show the Donkey Show and putting together the annual Crossroads Music Fest. These days, his primary music outlet is the Columns, an Americana act with a vibrant brass section. The Pitch: What’s new with the Columns? Sundahl: Oh, just changing horn players like underwear. Writing some new music. Gonna do some recording toward the end of the year as soon as I get some of these new songs arranged. We’ve been rearranging some of our older stuff to make it more dance-y and uptempo. It’ll be more horn-driven. Who will be playing horns at the Showcase, then? Nick Howell will be playing with us at the Showcase, but Josh Williams is the new horn guy. They’ll both be there, actually. Nick’s busy with a lot of other bands, so Josh is stepping in. How else is the new material different? It’s written more with the listener in mind than, I guess, my own self-image. [Laughs.] I tend to write more autobiographical lyrics, but I’ve been working the last year or two to get away from that, have it be more stories and in-general topics that don’t have anything to do with me. I think if you get too personal with your lyrics, fewer people can relate to it. So the goal is to write music you can dance to while enjoying the story. Tell tales, dance, have fun. Still with a rootsiness to the sound, though. Yeah. Guitar, bass, drums are still the core of the band. We do the songwriting and arranging, and then we bring in the horn guys whenever we can. Usually, I’ll have a horn line written, and then they come in and make it better. When’s Crossroads Music Fest this year? September 10. We were talking about doing a two-day fest this year, but we’re sticking with one day for now. What acts are you excited about locally these days? Well, I love the Grisly Hand. Always. And then I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about this band Quiet Corral. Haven’t seen ’em yet, but I’m excited to.
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BLUE S MARY BRIDGET DAVIES What’s good? “We’ve been hitting the bluesfestival circuit pretty hard this summer and been able to main-stage with national acts at the Blues From the Top Festival in Winter Park, Colorado, and the Kalamazoo Blues Festival. Currently recording our debut album at West End Studio with engineer Brendan McReynolds and with the expert help of the Good Foot’s Tim Braun. Expecting a release in early fall.” 6
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sound like? “Real-live county music. We play authentic, whiskey-soaked, two-steppin’ honky-tonk. If you think you don’t like country music, it’s probably because you’ve never heard real country music. Come out to a show, and if we can’t get you out on the dance floor, I’ll buy you a drink.”
Samantha Fish What do you think you sound like? “One hell of a good soulful time.” SAMANTHA FISH What’s good? “Just released my solo debut record, Runaway, on Germany’s Ruf Records. I’ve been touring with a group called Girls and Guitars, which consists of myself; Cassie Taylor from Boulder, Colorado; and Dani Wilde from the U.K. Touring Europe, North America and Australia later this year.” What do you think you sound like? “Bluesy but with a swampier, rockin’ edge.” Excited about any particular acts at the Showcase? “All the nominated blues bands. And I’m excited about all the young bands coming up in Kansas City. We have a lot of young kids right now who are starting to play the blues. I think it’s important for that to be recognized and supported.” GRAND MARQUIS What’s good? “We’ve been playing together 13 years this September. Our fifth and latest CD, Hold on to Me, has been out for about 10 months. It was recently No. 1 in Missouri and No. 6 in the United States on roots-radio charts. Look for our next release this fall, recorded at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis.” What do you think you sound like? “Timeless — swinging jump blues in the Kansas City tradition, mixing in some New Orleans, Memphis and early jazz influences. Our original material keeps the music moving forward and relevant while also honoring our musical heritage. It sounds like a party you want to be right in the middle of.” Also nominated: Levee Town
DJ BRENT TACTIC What’s good? “Just had a tune drop on Jon Kwest’s Moombahton vs UK Hardcore compilation. Forthcoming track on Heartbreak’s second Moombahsoul compilation. Always cranking out edits and remixes. The biggest thing I’ve been investing time and effort into is a big-time continued on page 8
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moombahton monthly at Luna on the last Friday of every month. It kicks off August 26 with Dave Nada, the Moombah don, as our special guest.” What do you think you sound like? “Hopefully, the future. I like to sound versatile more than anything.” Anything else? “Pretty sure you will keep seeing me grinding for KC as long as I can keep breathing.” MILES BONNY What’s good? “Lumberjack Soul LP is out now. Currently on tour in Germany and Austria, where I am known for my singing.” SHEPPA OF NOMATHMATICS What’s good? “Three mixtapes and two new remixes will be released before August 14. I’m involved in two monthly parties: Beauty Magic, which consists of a beauty bar, cotton candy and a J-rave environment, making this
party always crazy fun; and BODY2BODY, my moombahton/discoton party.” What do you think you sound like? “A combination of moombahton, blind disco, tropical bass and Papa Smurf.” Anything else? “Rumor has it that Sheppa of Nomathmatics will be part of Oprah’s Favorite Things this year!” FSTZ What’s good? “Recently dropped a long-awaited monster hit with MC Zulu called “Badman Bounce.” Also, recently dropped the third installment of my Global Bounce mix series, which you can find on my SoundCloud page. Watch out for Trimangle, a new group consisting of myself and the homies from Barbaric Merits.” What do you think you sound like? “An eclectic Persian conga riddim made from spare robot parts, modulated through my sub-bass atom smasher. Oh, and it’s danceable.”
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ne of the main dudes behind Lawrence party collective Team Bear Club, Phil Canty (also known as Morri$) is a consistent DJ presence locally. He also makes his own beats and is working on a record with Greg Enemy. But while the music Canty personally creates is dreamy and ethereal, he spins less heady music behind the decks: Waka Flocka Flame, Lil B, Spice Girls. In the next month, you can catch him at the Eighth Street Tap Room, Gusto Lounge and the Union of Westport. The Pitch: How long have you been doing what you’ve been doing? Canty: Bear Club started in 2008, and we’ve been building since. I started DJing really hard around 2008, 2009. I’d always been DJing before, but not nearly as often or as focused. I’ve been making beats for about six years. What are some sounds you’ve been feeling lately? I’ve been working to add some more juke influences. I went to New Orleans a couple weeks ago, and apparently they’re doing this fusion of yacht rock, which is undoubtedly the whitest music, like Michael McDonald, mixed with bounce music, which is just gutter-ass, hood-ass New Orleans music. It’s really crazy. But when I heard that, it fucked me up, so I guess we’re going to try to use some of those influences. At least bounce. I mean, I love yacht rock, but I don’t know if I’m going to be able to put that into my sound. What’s new with Team Bear Club? Talk about the way you approach those parties. The vibe of Bear Club parties is hedonistic. And I think people connect with us on this level where we don’t play anything we play for pretension. I happen to really enjoy a lot of pop music, so we do a lot of that. So I think the combination of that, along with all of our personalities, really lends itself to people being a bit more free than they are at other parties. I’ll tell you this much: When people hear the combination of music we play, they know what to do. There’s never that moment where people are standing around and they’re not really sure how to dance to the music. People are bent the fuck over, sweating, taking their clothes off — doing what they should be doing almost immediately. Editor’s note: At press time, Morri$ had canceled his Foundry show. He remains a nominated act.
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formance team with drum machinists, drummers, drummees and projectiles. If you caught the LP-release party at the Union, you know what I’m talkin’ about.” What do you think you sound like? “A muggy night out in the greenest park with your cute girlfriend and some ice-cold beverages.”
LONDON TRANSIT What’s good? “We released a five-song EP on January 1, 2011, called Fake Figures. It can be downloaded for free at Bandcamp. We’re planning another five- or six-song EP this fall.” What do you think you sound like? “A blend of indie and electro. Darker musical tones blended with hopeful lyrics. We’re kind of morphing the sound again. We’ve added a live drummer to the band. We hope to be like a Radiohead-type band, meaning that we blend the electronic sounds with acoustic sounds in a way that’s unique. We hope to be more daring, and experiment with new sounds and spaces on the next recording.”
SAHARAN GAZELLE BOY What’s good? “I will be releasing a full-length album at some point this fall, for sure. I will be collaborating with a ton of KC music folks for the new album.” What do you think you sound like? “Saharan Gazelle Boy sounds like what you remember hearing but not what you actually heard. It’s very closed — the music was written in a cramped, hot bedroom during one of the happiest times in my life. All of it exists in that place and nowhere else.”
MAX JUSTUS What’s good? “Got a new EP coming out in September called Signs and Wonders, which will sound like a cat scratching the back of a water buffalo while carrying a turnip falling into the sun. Also working on getting a band together to make things a little wilder.” What do you think you sound like? “The music you’ll hear while flying your custom Hoverbike into the light at the end of the tunnel.”
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EMERGING ACT EVERYDAY/EVERYNIGHT What’s good? Full-length Etc. was released in May, followed by a two-week tour of the East Coast and Canada. The band also shot a live, one-take music video outside the NelsonAtkins Museum of Art with Love Drunk Studio. What do you think you sound like? “The best thing you’ve ever heard mixed with the worst thing you’ve ever heard.” Anything else? “We may not win the award, but we are emerging and excited for the future. And we’re playing the Riot Room the day after the awards ceremony.”
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MOTORBOATER What’s good? “Sport, my fuzzy summertime debut LP, was released via the Record Machine in June, and it’s awesome. Motorboater is in the works of becoming a full-time per-
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ROOT AND STEM What’s good? “Our first full-length is coming out at the end of August, recorded at the studio at 24th Street and Southwest Boulevard. No tours booked yet, but we play around Kansas City all the time — RecordBar, the Beaumont and the Riot Room.” What do you think you sound like? “Americana roots rock.” THE LATENIGHT CALLERS What’s good? “We’ve released a six-song EP and are currently recording a second six-song EP to be released in the fall, possibly on vinyl. We recently collabo- continued on page 10
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VI TRAN BAND What’s good? “Debuted with Goodbye, Summer EP this past spring and will release a full-length album, American Heroine, in late 2011 or early 2012, followed by its full-length companion piece, The Butcher’s Son. Band members Vi, Katie [Gilchrist], Sean [Hogge] and Madison [DeCamp] host a weekly coversong chill session, every Thursday at Czar.” What do you think you sound like? “Melodic pop, folk, rock, romance, trade paperbacks, wheat fields, sea salt. Pacific Americana.” MINDEN What’s good? “ ‘Swift Way On’ 7-inch single. ‘Get Clean’ 7-inch split with Soft Reeds. Upcoming East Coast tour with Soft Reeds.” What do you think you sound like? “Smooth, eccentric jamz.” Anything else? “We are for sale.”
E XPERIMENTAL /AMBIENT AUTERNUS What’s good? “Released Dissonant Sea in February. Our final show as Auternus is August 12 with Grandfather, Maps for Travelers and In the Grove, at Czar.” Editor’s Note: :( What do you think you sound like? “An instrumental/ambient band that mixes layered textures with dense distorted passages.” Any last words? “We’ve had a great run over the last couple years, but it’s time to move on to other things. We feel like we’ve accomplished a lot with the support of our friends and fans, and can’t think of a more fitting end than to be nominated for a Pitch award. We are all very honored.” CVLTS What’s good? “Twelve-inch, full-length Realiser coming out in mid-August on Amdiscs, and a 7-inch, short-run, lathe-cut vinyl, split with 10 6 TTHHEE PPIITTCCHH
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rated with Tony Ladesich on a music video that was just released and can be found on our website, thelatenightcallers.com. Heading out to San Francisco in January for the Film Noir Foundation’s Noir City festival.” What do you think you sound like? “We’ve been called ‘the house band at David Lynch’s pool party’ and ‘noir a go-go.’ Basically, imagine Ella Fitzgerald singing for Massive Attack in a black-and-white detective movie.”
Latenight Callers (top photo) and CVLTS EarthMasters, out in August. We’re leaving for Europe in a week for three weeks. We’re playing at Goldrush festival in Denver on September 16.” What do you think you sound like? “Minimal synth, spectral forests, fractal neverlands, hypnotic psychedelia, opiate dreams.” Anything else? “CVLTS is pronounced ‘cults.’ ” MONTA AT ODDS What’s good? “Released Unsuspecting on Upstairs Recordings in June and have a live EP scheduled for release at the end of August as a free download. Currently creating two compositions to accompany Barry Anderson’s new visual installation pieces for a showing in Los Angeles in July.” What do you think you sound like? “Psychedelic soul, including a blend of dub, space rock, electronica and ’60s cinema. Our live show has been described as a visual and aural head trip laced with an animal urge to freak out. We use a jazz approach to reinterpret our songs so that we capture the core of it, but let the details run different courses each time.” UMBERTO What’s good? “Most recent releases are a 7-inch called Freeze! on Not Not Fun and a cassette called Welcome to the Chill Zone on Solid Melts. Also have a 12-inch one-side record called Final Exit coming out soon. Recently toured in Europe.” What do you think you sound like? “Electrosatanic.” KARMA VISION What’s good? “We just released our first fulllength album, Pizza continued on page 12
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RULES: Check one choice per category. One ballot per voter. Ballot stuffing will be detected. Original ballots only (no photocopies or other reproductions). Entries may be filled out online or mailed to The Pitch, or completed at any Showcase venue on the evening of August 4. Tickets to the August 4 Pitch Music Showcase cost $6 through July 21, $8 from July 22 through August 3, or $10 the day of the event. They’re available at The Pitch office and all of the showcase venues: the Riot Room, McCoy’s, the Foundry and RecordBar. Tickets to the August 14 Pitch Music Awards show are $8 in advance or $10 the day of the event, available at the Uptown Theater box office, 816-753-8665 (VIP tickets: $25 in advance or $35 the day of the event).
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❑ Dark Ages ❑ U.S.Americans ❑ No Class ❑ Weekend Dad ❑ Mouthbreathers
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❑ Cowboy Indian Bear ❑ The ACBs ❑ Hidden Pictures ❑ Capybara ❑ The Caves
❑ 77 Jefferson ❑ Liv Stat ❑ The New Riddim ❑ SeedLove ❑ Atlantic Fadeout ❑ Bleach Bloodz ❑ Rooftop Vigilantes ❑ The Lucky Graves ❑ The Conquerors
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❑ Barclay Martin Ensemble ❑ Diverse ❑ Hearts of Darkness ❑ The People’s Liberation
METAL/ HARD ROCK
❑ Fourth of July ❑ Heroes and Villains ❑ Soft Reeds ❑ THEE Water MoccaSins ❑ Making Movies
❑ At the Left Hand of God ❑ Cherokee Rock Rifle ❑ Faster Than Hell ❑ Hammerlord ❑ Federation of Horsepower
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❑ Brent Tactic ❑ Miles Bonny ❑ Morri$ ❑ Sheppa of Nomathmatics ❑ FSTZ ❑ Ataxic
❑ Dutch Newman ❑ Reach ❑ Ron Ron ❑ Stik Figa ❑ thePhantom*
❑ Bobby Watson ❑ Hermon Mehari ❑ Mark Lowrey ❑ Mark Southerland
PUNK
❑ Levee Town ❑ Mary Bridget Davies Band ❑ Samantha Fish Blues Band ❑ Grand Marquis
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❑ Deadman Flats ❑ The Wilders ❑ Truckstop Honeymoon ❑ Outlaw Jim & the
❑ Auternus ❑ CVLTS ❑ Monta at Odds ❑ Umberto ❑ Karma Vision
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❑ Adam Lee & the Dead Horse
❑ Everyday/Everynight ❑ Root and Stem ❑ The Latenight Callers ❑ Vi Tran Band ❑ Minden
INDIE ROCK
❑ Oriole Post ❑ Sons of Great Dane ❑ The Columns ❑ The Grisly Hand ❑ Quiet Corral
JAZZ ENSEMBLE
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❑ The Spook Lights ❑ The Rumblejetts ❑ Them Damned Young Livers ❑ The Blue Boot Heelers ❑ Jenny Carr ❑ Kirsten Paludan ❑ Sara Swenson ❑ Patrick Deveny ❑ John Velghe
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August. My other group, Three the Hard Way — myself, Jo Cool, JL (of B.Hood) and J.P. the City Native — also has an EP coming out, Sofa King Awesome.” What do you think you sound like? “I think my music is just about having fun and enjoying life. We only get one, so we gotta live it up as much as humanly possible. I think my music reflects that.” Editor’s Note: At last year’s Showcase, Newman had the best rap diss of the night — it was something to the effect of “you’re just mad you still work at Minsky’s.” RON RON What’s good? Released album Ron DMC earlier this year. What do you think you sound like? “Hip-hop getting it on with insanity at Motel 6 at 4 a.m. Just a few trillion neurons trying to make music in my head all day.”
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Who are you excited for at the Showcase? “Stik Figa, mayne.” Editor’s Note: The Pitch selected “Caked Up,” a Stik Figa remix featuring Ron Ron, for Best Song in the 2009 Best Of issue. STIK FIGA What’s good? “Releasing a project, Crown and Coke, with my friend and KC producer D/Will on August 16. My solo full-length, Figa of Speech, will be out early next year, hopefully. Been consistently working with D/Will, in addition to Oddisee, Greg Enemy and Michael ‘Seven’ Summers.” What do you think you sound like? “I wouldn’t describe my sounds. I like to leave that up to the listeners. However it make you feel is good to me. I make music simply because I can’t afford a therapist.” THEPHANTOM* What’s good? “I just released my newest album, The Fountain of Youth. It’s my most danceable album to date. Put your dancing shoes on! As far as collaborations go, Mac Lethal and I have been trying to get our schedules to align. I also have a band called the Phantastics. There’s 10 members.” What do you think you sound like? “Souldriven electronic rap. Intelligent lyrics with avant-garde influences and deliveries. As far as comparisons go, people have said my music is a combination of Andre 3000, Deadmau5, NERD, Tech N9ne and Lupe Fiasco.”
INDIE ROCK FOURTH OF JULY What’s good? “Working on a new full-length album. Lots of upcoming local shows, hopefully touring when the album is done.” Who’s in the band these days? “Brendan ‘Stylish Ways’ Costello, Brian ‘Bronco’ Costello, Brendan ‘The Tangerine Man’ Hangauer, Patrick ‘Poopy’ Hangauer. We are two sets of brothers.” What do you think you sound like? “We sound like what it feels like to be alive right now.” SOFT REEDS What’s good? “We’re working on a new EP that will be released in the fall. The next thing we have coming up is a few showcases at the CMJ Festival in New York City in October.” What do you think you sound like? “Unthinkably extreme professionalism.” Anything else? “We’re shockingly professional.” THEE WATER MOCCASINS What’s good? “We started this band as a bet, a challenge to make up a band and a set’s worth of songs in four days. Nearly two years later, we’ve managed to hone those semi-improvisations into a full set of some really fun and eclectic psychedelic dance-pop songs. Currently in the studio with Chris Cosgrove — we can’t wait to share the recording with you all.” What do you think you sound like? “We call it fractal pop.” MAKING MOVIES What’s good? “We are getting ready to release a mixtape of sorts featuring B-sides, collaborations and alternate-language versions of our record in August. We’ve hit the road pretty
thePhantom* hard the last few months — I think we did about 40 dates. Right now, we’re organizing some international stuff that should be fun.” What do you think you sound like? “I’m not sure how to describe what we sound like, but I know what I’m trying to accomplish. I’m trying to steal the most genuine Afro rhythms from Latin America and write interesting songs based on that foundation.” Also nominated: Heroes and Villains
JA Z Z ENSEMBLE BARCLAY MARTIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE What’s good? “Our latest release is called Pools That Swell With the Rain, released last September. I’m writing for the next record right now, but in the meantime, there’s the release of the feature-length documentary film Rise and Dream, for which I wrote the soundtrack.” What do you think you sound like? “A little pop, some folk, a bit of world music, and just enough improvisational elements to remind you of jazz.” DIVERSE What’s good? “Working on a jazz project to be recorded in Paris and another big non-jazz project with local Kansas City musicians. We’re doing another ‘Diverse Plays Michael Jackson’ on October 28 at RecordBar, with the same lineup we had in April.” What do you think you sound like? “Original jazz music influenced by a mix of styles, including hip-hop, R&B, funk and gospel.” Anything else? “We’re excited about Reach’s nomination because he is an artist we work closely with.” HEARTS OF DARKNESS What’s good? “We’re very close to finishing a second recording. No title yet. Recent shows include opening for Huey Lewis and Snoop Dogg.” What do you think you sound like? “If heaven had an anthem.” Anything else? “Not a lefty in the bunch.” Also nominated: The People’s Liberation Big Band continued on page 15
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BOBBY WATSON What’s good? “My last release was The Gates BBQ Suite, which went to No. 4 on the national jazz airplay chart last year. I’m currently working on music for the grand opening of the Kauffman Performing Arts Center on September 17. I’ll also be performing The Gates BBQ Suite there on September 28 with the UMKC Conservatory Concert Jazz Band.” What do you think you sound like? “Fresh swing. When you come to hear us, we will wash away the dust of everyday life from you.”
AT THE LEFT HAND OF GOD What’s good? “Currently recording our second release. Looking forward to Hammerween II, which is going to be one of the biggest metal shows of the year.” What do you think you sound like? “Our music is kind of an amalgam of all different types of metal. It’s somewhat technical but still manages to attract the average listener with catchy choruses and groovy breakdowns. The song structures range from simpler verse-chorus styles to the more progressive I-will-repeat-nothing style. Our main focus as a band is to write good music that we all like and love to play.”
HERMON MEHARI What’s good? “Working on a jazz project to be recorded in Paris and another big non-jazz project with local Kansas City musicians. We’re doing another ‘Diverse Plays Michael Jackson’ on October 28 at RecordBar, with the same lineup we had in April. [Diverse is the jazz act in which Mehari plays trumpet, with Ryan Lee (drums) and Ben Leifer (bass).] What do you think you sound like? “Original jazz music influenced by a mix of styles, including hip-hop, R&B, funk and gospel.” MARK LOWREY What’s good? “Released my first solo CD, Mark Lowrey — Live at Jardine’s, in November 2010. I’ve played well over 300 shows this year, most frequently at Jardine’s, the Phoenix, Café Trio and Sullivan’s. In May, I did ‘Mark Lowrey vs. Hip Hop III,” the final in a series of shows experimenting with free jazz and freestyle hip-hop.” What do you think you sound like? “I like variety. My heart is in jazz music, but I enjoy playing a wide variety of styles and sounds.” Also nominated: Mark Southerland
FASTER THAN HELL What’s good? “We released a record online this year, but there’s no physical album yet. People can download it on ReverbNation. We’re planning a CD and video release for it in September, we hope. Gas prices are too high right now, so we want to work on stuff, get the CD done, then hopefully gas prices get better and we can tour. There have been a few Internet radio stations that have picked us up, and we’re selling in Australia and New Zealand. We’d like to boost those sales and get a tour out there.” What do you think you sound like? “We’ve taken our influence from Clutch and White Zombie, but we all come from metal and rock backgrounds. It’s a bunch of different things mixed together. We’ve been classified as stoner rock.” HAMMERLORD What’s good? “We are all pretty excited about the new material we are writing and feel it is really pushing the boundaries of our musical abilities. We put out our second CD, Wolves at War’s End, about a year ago. And Hammerween is a Halloween event we started last year that went really continued on page 16
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POP COWBOY INDIAN BEAR What’s good? “We just recorded a Daytrotter session. Also, we’ve been working pretty hard writing for the new album — we go back into the studio with Josh Browning next month. Been touring pretty relentlessly of late: Nebraska, South Dakota, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma have all had a Cowboy Indian Bear sighting in the last month, and we’ll be touring down to south Texas and back next month.” What do you think you sound like? “Hmm … pop songs with a dense and hazy edge, full of harmonies.”
THE ACBS What’s good? “We put out a full-length, Stona Rosa, earlier this year. Did a two-week tour of the East Coast back in June, and we’re recording another album starting in August.” What do you think you sound like? “R&B girl groups from the ’90s.” Anything else you’d like to share? “Nothing will stop us from losing this four years in a row.” HIDDEN PICTURES What’s good? “Synchronized Sleeping LP released in April 2011. We have a Daytrotter session on the books for August.” What do you think you sound like? “Indie rock? Indie pop? Good music? If words like ‘fun’ and ‘catchy’ are bandied about, we’re usually pretty happy with that.” Anything else? “We’re excited to get the best of our sibling rivalry with the Caves, and to go all Imma let you finish when Cowboy Indian Bear inevitably wins our category. Also, we ghostwrite all the ACBs’ songs.”
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herokee Rock Rifle burst onto the scene earlier this year with …And the Plains Are Burning, a searing, soul-scraping EP ripe with grungy guitars, thundering percussion and the captivating vocals of frontman Dutch Humphrey. The band is a newcomer, but the members are veterans, having played in local acts Sharp Weapons, Auternus, Sons of Great Dane and Atlantic Fadeout. The Pitch: Tell us a band story that best personifies the group. Dutch Humphrey, on a recent Riot Room show where he climbed to the roof of the patio and violated fire codes with a mouthful of Bacardi 151 and a Bic: We started playing ‘Burn,’ and during the bridge of our righteous jam, I took a mouthful of secret Satanic sky-fire liquid and breathed a pillar of white-hot sex-flame from forth my lips. The flame was roughly twice my standing height. The boys were just killing it beneath me. I couldn’t even see them, but the crowd was sexy, dripping with sweat under a thermal July moon. At the end of the set, I popped a bottle of Andre from between my legs and sprayed the crowd because Tom Waits said it best: ‘Champagne for real friends, real pain for sham friends.’ ” How are you feeling about the state of the Kansas City music scene today? Douglas Nelson, lead guitarist: Honestly, it’s amazing. There are so many great bands crossing multiple genres. It seems that even though all these bands may have different sounds and backgrounds, you can put a show together with four bands that musically don’t mix and it works. The great thing is that the bands support and respect each other. It’s diverse, it’s widespread and it rules.” Do you have a special set worked out for the Showcase? Any new songs that you might be performing? Humphrey: Yes, we have a very special set worked out. We’ll likely be playing the entire set in bathrobes or smoking jackets, and debuting a new song we just finished, entitled ‘Loose Talk-Noose Talk.’ ”
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CAPYBARA What’s good? “We will be putting out a bunch of singles in the coming month or two. Then, on October 11, you can expect Capybara’s second full-length.” What do you think you sound like? “For the longest time, we described ourselves as ‘sunmusic’ because we had to write a description for MySpace. How dated does that sound now? I may as well be talking about releasing our album on laserdisc.” Anything else? “Yes. Jared doesn’t have texting on his phone, Darin hasn’t done laundry in two months, Joel keeps messing up the rice when he attempts to cook it, and Mark’s shorts are too short these days.” THE CAVES What’s good? “We opened up a string of shows in mid-July for the Get Up Kids. We released an EP, Five Songs With the Caves, last year. We’re currently finishing up an album tentatively titled Duplexiaville. Release date TBA.”
Capybara What do you think you sound like? “Dreampop folk/rock.” Excited for anything specific at the Showcase? “[Caves member] David [Gaumé]’s sister, Michelle, is in the band Hidden Pictures, which is nominated in the same category as us. It’s tearing the family apart.”
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DARK AGES What’s good? “Our full-length LP just came out on Sorry State Records, and we’re working to have a new EP out before the end of the year. Playing an all-ages show with Iceage (from Denmark) and Mouthbreathers August 3 at the Jackpot. After that, some shows around the Midwest: Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee.” What other bands are you excited about locally? “Mouthbreathers, continued on page 18
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honky-tonk with a serious edge. Ernest Tubb meets Hank Williams III. If it ain’t about drinkin’, fightin’ or fuckin’, we ain’t playin’ it.”
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JOHN VELGHE What’s good? “On the EP last year, I played most everything myself, so it was genuinely a solo effort. On my new full-length, I’m working with a band, the Prodigal Sons. So while the new record is mined from my scraps and scratchings, I’m being enabled by some genuinely gifted musicians.” What do you think you sound like? “I’m in the midst of making a new record with a new band, so trying to describe what we sound like in this context is tricky because we’re fleshing it out as we speak. When they come out the other end, the only thing I can hope for these songs is that people describe them as honest and compelling. People can concoct their own adjectives from there.”
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Sucked Dry, Kicked In, White Slave, Der Todesking, No Class, No Master. All our friends’ bands.” U.S.AMERICANS What’s good? “We have an EP recorded that will be released when we get paid enough money to put it out. We’re hurrying to get it out as soon as we feel like it. The sticker guy just released our limited-edition decals. Available wherever my truck is. Collaborations? We mainly collaborate with shame and unemployment.” What do you think you sound like? “Ideally, Hearts of Darkness.” NO CLASS What’s good? “We released an LP on Deranged Records out of Vancouver [British Columbia] at the end of 2010. After July, we will take a break from playing KC shows to concentrate on recording new material, but there is always a possibility of playing weekend out-of-town shows. We were offered assistance in setting up a European tour, and we were also asked to play the ‘Fucked Up Weekend’ in Toronto. It just depends on money, vacation time and passports.” What do you think you sound like? “If unibrows had knuckles to drag.” Also nominated: Weekend Dad, Mouthbreathers
REGG AE 77 JEFFERSON What’s good? “Our fourth album, Truth, is coming out this fall. What do you think you sound like? “Loversrock reggae.” LIV STAT What’s good? “Headed back into the studio this fall to work on our next release. Playing the deck at Californos for KCRUF III.” What do you think you sound like? “Psychedelic reggae rock.” THE NEW RIDDIM BAND What’s good? “Working on our debut fulllength album, which should be released this fall. Playing the Kansas City Reggae Uprising Festival August 26 at Californos.” What do you think you sound like? “We sound 18 12
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BLEACH BLOODZ What’s good? “Wish we could tell you about it, but our label would like for us to not let out any information.” Who’s currently in the band? “We will see at the [Pitch Music Showcase at] Riot Room.” What do you think you sound like? “The best band in KC to see while fucked up.” Also nominated: Rooftop Vigilantes, the Lucky Graves, the Conquerors
ROCK ABILLY RUMBLEJETTS What’s good? “Our latest release is Summertime Apples. We’re working on a new EP, due out this fall.” What do you think you sound like? “Fifties rockabilly and rock and roll, with a little oldschool country thrown in for good measure. Our shows are very high-energy. We’re a very approachable bunch of guys. We can all run a 50-yard dash in under five seconds!” Other acts you’re excited about? “Dollar Fox — they’ve got a very happening sound.” THEM DAMNED YOUNG LIVERS What’s good? “Scheduled to release Live at Jody’s Ramblin’ Rose Rodeo Roadhouse in October. Our last two albums have been produced and recorded at Frankie Hickman Memorial Studio, which is our own little independent studio/label. What do you think you sound like? “We’ve been labeled cow punk. Lots of people want to call us rockabilly. I tell them the only thing rockabilly about TDYL is a couple pompadours. Either way, we’ve got that Misfits/Cramps-era punk rock with strong hillbilly undertones. We’re here because the stage is our outlet. We might be dead without it.” THE BLUE BOOT HEELERS What’s good? “Our self-titled debut CD came out in November 2010, and we’re working on our second album. Currently booking a fall tour. Our band members collaborate with Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Company, the Fall Down Drunks, Tinhorn Molly and the Fountain City Ramblers.” What do you think you sound like? “Classic
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ATLANTIC FADEOUT What’s good? “We just released our debut fulllength, Better Run of Bad Luck, this May. We have videos in the works, and we’re planning on releasing stand-alone singles later this fall.” What do you think you sound like? “It’s a female-fronted rock band. Any words I would use to describe it beyond that aren’t going to mean anything to anyone else.” Anything else? “Have you seen that honey badger video on the interwebs? We’re like the honey badger.”
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Welcome to the next generation of Internet Introducing new Time Warner Cable Wideband Internet. With download speeds of up to 50 Mbps, it’s power on a whole other level. With Time Warner Cable Wideband, streaming videos can play with DVD quality. Online action games can move with the smoothness of console games. Large files can download super-fast. Looking to save time and get more done? Time Warner Cable Wideband was built for powertasking™. What used to take minutes can now only take seconds. Plus, multiple users can power through multiple tasks at the same time, with plenty of speed for everyone. Get the bandwidth you need to get more from the online activities you love. No more waiting. No more compromises. Time Warner Cable Wideband Internet is here!
816.222.5000 timewarnercable.com Actual speeds may vary. Time Warner Cable Wideband Internet up to 50 Mbps is based on the speed from the local facility to your cable modem. Actual throughput speeds may vary. Not available in all areas. Some restrictions may apply. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners ©2011 Time Warner Cable Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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