Audios and Visuals, Pitch

Kyle James has a song and now a video about getting really fucked up and laid a lot

David Hudnall — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:01:00 -0500

Sly James is the mayor of Kansas City. You knew that, right?…

Continents, 'Do Your Service' (video)

David Hudnall — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:15:00 -0500

DO YOUR SERVICE // CONTINENTS from Jim Button on Vimeo.
Jim Button, aka Continents, tells Wayward that he's at work on "what appears to be a new album." Hell, yeah!…

The ACBs, 'Ocean' (video and download)

David Hudnall — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:47:46 -0500

After a great deal of personal harassment from me and probably many others, the ACBs are set to release a new LP, Little Leaves, in a few months. Today the band debuted the first single, "Ocean," a reverb-y pop jangler, just the way I like 'em.…

Making Movies, 'Hangover Blues' (video)

David Hudnall — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:51:00 -0500

Free shit alert: Making Movies' most recent EP, Aguardiente, is downloadable for free right now over at the Record Machine. Also, check out their new video for "Hangover Blues," up above us there.…

The Empty Spaces offer kisses for a quarter in their new video

David Hudnall — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:37:38 -0500

holidaysareniceandwarm from Micki Hadley on Vimeo.
We reviewed the new Empty Spaces EP, Party Line, in last week's issue. Here we have a video for the EP's catchiest track, "Holidays Are Nice and Warm."…

The Tambourine Club, 'Summertime' (video)

David Hudnall — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:20:57 -0500

The Tambourine Club - Summertime from Danny Joe Gibson - Artist on Vimeo.
Today we bring you a new video that visual artist Danny Gibson has made for "Summertime," a breezy new folk-psych jam from local bedroom-pop guy Brian Lammano, aka The Tambourine Club. The video is weird in a Flaming Lips type of way — shaky and shot from strange, colorful angles.…

Listen Before the Show: Guantanamo Baywatch

Nick Spacek — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:42:45 -0500

Portland surf-punks Guantanamo Baywatch released the excellent slab of vinyl Chest Crawl on Dirtnap Records back in May, and it promptly took the number one slot on the KJHK charts. I only recently put down the cash to snag a copy for myself, and it pretty much has remained glued to my turntable since it came in the mail last week.…

RC Dub collaborates with Deep Thinkers on 'Travelers Ride'

Nick Spacek — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:40:00 -0500

Out this week from Rougher Records is a collaboration between indie hip-hop act Deep Thinkers and reggae outfit RC Dub. The single, entitled "Travelers Ride," is sort of a takeoff on "Travelers Dub," from last year's RC Dub album, Strategy.…

Clay Hughes, 'Love I Gave Ya' (video)

Nick Spacek — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:52:26 -0500

Local singer-songwriter Clay Hughes' latest, Four, comes out Tuesday, July 24, on Sharp County Records. If "Love I Gave Ya" is any example of what to expect, he's embraced the "intimate and soaring" aspect of his sound we found so promising on Burn.…

The Casket Lottery, 'The Door'

Nick Spacek — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:58:13 -0500

Recently reunited Kansas City favorites the Casket Lottery won't release their full-length, Real Fear, until later this year. Their label, No Sleep Records, has something to tide you over until then, though — a 7-inch single featuring songs "The Door" and "My Father's Son," due out August 7.…

Listen before the Show: REV Gusto

Nick Spacek — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:48:00 -0500

We've been waiting for a good excuse to share this track, "Click-Click," from Kansas City's REV Gusto. The garage-y pop act's been playing out and about these past few months, but it's only recently that they've made music available for download.…

Get a free EP from Fitz & the Tantrums

Nick Spacek — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:46:34 -0500

If you subscribe to any of the various podcasts from Seattle radio station KEXP, you're probably very familiar with station favorites Fitz and the Tantrums. The Los Angeles-based six-piece soul revue is renowned for highly energetic performances and has hit pretty much any music festival worth attending since the band formed in 2008.…

Listen Before the Show: Russian Circles

Nick Spacek — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:38:14 -0500

Chicago's Russian Circles is one of those bands you have to hear to understand. Combining elements of prog, metal and shoegaze, the trio weaves a hypnotic series of melodies, only to then hit you with a crushing wall of heaviness.…

Listen Before the Show: The Mynabirds

Nick Spacek — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:50:00 -0500

The title track to the Mynabirds' new album on Saddle Creek, General, is currently my favorite song. Stomping, dark, sweaty, and just a twinge dirty, it's perfectly suited for the sweltering bit of miserable we're currently experiencing.…

Mac Mo Green, 'Keep It Clappin'' (video)

Nick Spacek — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:42:25 -0500

Mac Mo Green described his new video for "Keep It Clappin'" as trying to capture that idea that if you could just get your boss outside of work, he'd be a cool dude. Shot at KC Trends by Digital Genius, the vid bounces back and forth between a typical workday and aparty in the parking lot.…

SSION, 'Earthquake' (video)

Nick Spacek — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:40:38 -0500

Why go bizarre when you can go hypnotic? We're not saying that the new Cody Critcheloe and Christopher Good-directed video for SSION's "Earthquake" doesn't have a hint of the freaky about it, but rather than being whole-hog weird (such as their last video, for "My Love Grows In the Dark"), it's more subtle.…

Sextapes, a new band from former Spook Lights frontman Rob Gillaspie

Nick Spacek — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:04:00 -0500

Raconteur and Lawrence man-about-town Rob Gillaspie is better known as Scary Manilow, the former frontman of Lawrence garage-rockabilly sleaze purveyors the Spook Lights. Since that band's breakup, Gillaspie has been working on several new projects, and one of them - a full-on bit of death-rock called Sextapes - debuts tonight (Wednesday, June 20) at the Eighth Street Taproom.…

Listen Before the Show: the Drowning Men

Nick Spacek — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:23:43 -0500

California's the Drowning Men operate somehwere between Mumford & Sons and Coldplay - very accessible and NPR-friendly. Thankfully, there's a real musicianship to the sounds they make, and it all aims straight for the stratosphere.…

Living Room unearths vintage footage of the Embarrassment

Nick Spacek — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:59:50 -0500

So a new Web series, Living Room, debuted last week, and the first episode features the Embarrassment. Included in the hourlong episode are four music videos, a half-hour live performance, and interviews with members of the influential Wichita post-punk quartet.…

Les Izmore & D/WILL, 'The Line (Super Soul)' (video)

Nick Spacek — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:21:00 -0500

Les Izmore's video for "The Line (Super Soul)" is smooth. How smooth?…

mc chris, "Tasty Face"

Nick Spacek — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:12:08 -0500

Nerdcore rapper mc chris has figured out a way to make me not despise Carly Rae Jepsen's ubiquitous "Call Me Maybe" by making it about people getting fucked up on drugs and eating other folks' faces. The song is called "Tasty Face," and you can stream it below for free, but if you pay the $1 for which they're asking, you benefit the fight against cancer.…

Listen Before the Show: The Atom Age

Nick Spacek — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:38:00 -0500

If you're going to lift a band's sound - vocals, riffs, horns and all - you could certainly choose worse than Rocket From the Crypt. Berkeley's the Atom Age does the full-throttle rock with horns so well, you almost don't mind that they've copped Speedo and company's signature stylings.…

Listen Before the Show: Sandro Perri

Nick Spacek — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:16:00 -0500

Toronto's Sandro Perri works primarily as a singer-songwriter, but don't pigeonhole him as a "guy crooning with acoustic guitar." He uses electronic flourishes and accents to pepper his work, making it more come-down chill-out music than coffeehouse background.…

Listen Before the Show: OBN III's

Nick Spacek — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:09:21 -0500

Austin's OBN III's rocked the Longbranch Inn as part of the Replay Records party at SXSW this past March. They finally bring their garage rock to the Replay itself this Friday, June 8, along with Mouthbreathers and Up the Academy.…

Meat Mist's bloody, meaty video for 'Art Scum'

Nathan Clay Barbarick — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:39:00 -0500

KC sludge lords Meat Mist are known for brutalizing basements and parking lots throughout the metro area, sometimes showcasing during their performances the finest odds and ends of slaughtered cows. They've brought this meaty spectacle from the basement to the inter-tubes, with a video for a song from 2011's bejeweled cassette, Bleak Bisque.…