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The 2012 Pitch Music Awards roundup

David Hudnall — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:30:13 -0500

The 2012 Pitch Music Awards were held Sunday, August 12, at the Uptown. Read about the party and see the list of winners here.…

Vote for the 2012 Pitch Music Awards

David Hudnall — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:27:00 -0500

Pitch Music Awards season is upon us again. We've been publishing the nominees in print the last few weeks - some of our readers still cut out the ballots and mail them in, which is amazing - but today I bring you the link to vote online.…

This Sunday! The Pitch Music Awards ceremony! Open bar!

David Hudnall — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:19:19 -0500

The Pitch Music Awards ceremony, hosted by Kansas City Air Guitar Champion and Dead Girls dude Eric "Mean" Melin (pictured), is on Sunday night at the Uptown. VIP ticketholders ($25 through Ticketmaster, $35 day of event) can enjoy an open bar and free food from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Uptown's Conspiracy Room.…

Cast your vote for the 2011 Pitch Music Awards

David Hudnall — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:08:22 -0500

Anyway, you should vote! Sick of the same band winning every year?…

Rock Local: the Pitch Music Awards Ceremony

Elke Mermis — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:36:11 -0500

Ad Astra Arkestra was missing something.

Blinking under the bright lights of the Uptown, the band accepted its award for Best Experimental Act at the Pitch Music Awards Ceremony last night; but they couldn't find somebody they wanted to thank. Where was she?

"She's drunk!" a crowd member volunteered.…

Pitch Music Awards Ceremony this weekend

Elke Mermis — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:29:50 -0500

We're honoring Kansas City talent on Sunday night at the Uptown Theater in our annual Pitch Music Awards Ceremony. (Buy tickets here, for six bucks.)…

Pitch Music Showcase is tonight! Check some lineup changes.

Elke Mermis — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:03:03 -0500

Our annual sonic feast of local music goes down in Westport tonight, also known as the epic Pitch Music Showcase. Peep the lineup here, with a few changes: Capybara, Queens Club, Stik Figa and Mammoth Life will no longer be playing the showcase.…

Wayward Roundup: The Pitch Music Awards 2009

Jason Harper — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:36:32 -0500

Myra Taylor -- there are none higher.

It was only by last-minute luck that the 92-year-old Kansas City blues and jazz matriarch ended up at the Pitch Music Awards at all.…

Video: Pitch Music Awards band performances

Jason Harper — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:03:35 -0500

London Transit, the Pedaljets, Stik Figa and Making Movies performed two or three songs each last night at the Pitch Music Awards ceremony. The top video is a playlist combining all four.…

Myra Taylor serenades David Wayne Reed at the Pitch Music Awards Ceremony

Jason Harper — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:04:03 -0500

It was a moment of pure bliss. Accepting the award for Best Jazz: Ensemble on behalf of her group, the Wild Women of Kansas City, 92-year-old jazz and blues queen Myra Taylor sang a song to ceremony emcee David Wayne Reed and told a joke.…

Video: Mean Melin brings airness to the Pitch Music Awards.

Jason Harper — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:29:40 -0500

Last night, US Air Guitar Championships finalist Eric "Mean" Melin performed his signature routine on stage at the Uptown. Later, by popular vote, his band, the Dead Girls, won best band in the Pop category.…

The 2009 Pitch Music Awards Winners

Jason Harper — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:12:07 -0500

We're still editing photos, videos and verbiage from last night's Pitch Music Awards Ceremony -- and wrestling with the inevitable hangover. In the meantime, join us in congratulating this year's winners.…

Pitch Music Awards Ceremony Schedule

Jason Harper — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:59:02 -0500

See you there. XOXO!!

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Pitch Music Awards Pre-Party Schedule

Jason Harper — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:14:16 -0500

As soon as I get it, I'll post the schedule for this Sunday's Pitch Music Awards Ceremony. In the meantime, here's a schedule for the VIP pre-party for the nominees and guests.…

D/Will and David Seume live collabo at the Pitch Music Showcase

Jason Harper — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:04:14 -0500

Though local rapper Sephiroth's impromptu performance with Mark Lowrey got all the blog attention hither and yon, it wasn't the only genre-jumping hip-hop performance under the sponsor tent last Thursday at the 2009 Pitch Music Showcase.

Catching up on my RSS feeds just now, I stopped by D/Will's blog, where, days ago (sigh), the hometown hip-hop producer and MC posted footage of himself rapping while fellow PMA nominee David Seume plucks a sparse fingerstyle riff and sings.…

Eric "Mean" Melin to play Pitch Music Awards Ceremony

Jason Harper — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:57:47 -0500

I've been watching all white-knuckled and nail-bitey the coverage of local air guitar superstar Eric "Mean" Melin.

I was bummed to learn yesterday that he didn't make it past the finals -- but glad to see that he's not giving up.…

The Pitch Music Showcase Videos

Jason Harper — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:56:06 -0500

Our friend John Kreicbergs of Patchchord.com was kind enough to resume his role as showcase videographer. This year, he captured hot footage of six of the night's acts.…

Pitch Music Showcase Roundup: McCoy's, mostly

Crystal K. Wiebe — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:35:40 -0500

For most folks, the Pitch Music Showcase is kinda like a baby South by Southwest. You bounce around from bar to bar all night, trying to cram in as many musical acts as possible, and maybe taking advantage of the bit of free booze offered at the sponsor tent.…

Pitch Music Showcase Roundup: the Beaumont Club

Berry Anderson — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:33:56 -0500

It's safe to say that the night of the Showcase is one of the best nights of the year to go out... even better than New Year's Eve, Irish Fest, Rock Fest, the first First Friday of the summer or your cousin from Blue Springs' bachelor or bachelorette party at Toby Keith's. It's awesome.…

Pitch Music Showcase Roundup: All Freakin' Over

Jason Harper — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:33:13 -0500

I'm not sure whether it was Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler arriving in their limo to a gaggle of paparazzi outside of the Riot Room or if it was seeing Kurt Loder interviewing T-Pain on the roof of McCoy's, but somewhere between those two sightings -- but two incidents within a major-media-filled, celebrity-packed evening -- I realized, Man, the Pitch Music Showcase has gotten sorta big.

Then I realized someone had slipped peyote into Hefeweizen.

South By Southwest it ain't.…

Last night's tweets restored.

Jason Harper — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:16:05 -0500

Though a friend told me early last night at the Pitch Music Showcase that Twitter had been hit with some kind of viral attack yesterday, that didn't stop me from tweeting doggedly and with great effort throughout the night. Of course, none of my WaywardTweets posted, so because it's easier than writing anything fresh with this massive hangover I'm contending with that is making it very hard to think, I have dug deep into the circuitry of my Sprint Katana II to bring you all of last night's tweets.…

Showcase Video: Freestyle jam feat. Mark Lowrey and Sephiroth

Jason Harper — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:22:10 -0500

Because this is the first thing I've written all day about last night's 279th annual Pitch Music Showcase, I feel compelled to tell you: It was great. A fucking awesome, enjoyable, rich night.…

Tonight's Pitch Music Showcase Lineup, Duh

Jason Harper — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:15:09 -0500

Oh yeah, and here's the lineup. It's been up on our microsite for weeks, but I guess I never posted it on this blog.…

Tonight: The Pitch Music Showcase

Jason Harper — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:22:42 -0500

Go suck a reindeer, Christmas. The Pitch Music Showcase is the most wonderful night of the year.…

Pitch Music Showcase MP3-ography: The Pitch Sponsor Tent

Jason Harper — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:22:01 -0500

In this entry: free MP3s from Howard Iceberg, Mark Lowrey and David Seume, who will be performing tonight outside in the parking lot between McCoy's and the Foundry, surrounded by goods and services courtesy of our fabulous sponsors.

The Pitch Music Showcase is TONIGHT! In the meantime, we've been giving you an audio-visual taste of the 28 bands, DJs, rappers and solo artists who are playing for your $5 (buy wristband here) by posting MP3s and photos for, hopefully, all of them.…