Subject: Abigail Henderson

• Fun With Ctrl F

  June 13, 2006

• The Pitch Music Awards: Time to Vote, Amigos!

  June 22, 2007

• Local Band News: Gaslights Back Together

  April 23, 2008

• Dispatch from Election Night: The Returns Come in at Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club

  November 5, 2008

• Apocalypse Meow Weekend Highlights/Summary

  November 10, 2008

• Exene Cervenka of X diagnosed with MS

  Sad news today, friends -- and news that hits close to home, as we've been following the rejuvenation of the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund on this blog and in print. Hang in there, Exene. A statement today was issued from the headquarters of rural-Missouri-dwelling punk goddess Exene Cervenka of the legendary LA punk band X (and, more recently, the Original Sinners), announcing that the singer has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Here's the statement in full. After some months of not feel

  June 2, 2009

• Forrest Fire

  April 25, 2002

• New Gaslights MP3: "California"

  It's been a quiet winter, concert-wise, for the Gaslights -- which is to be expected as frontwoman Abigail Henderson continues her cancer treatments. But ray of sunshine has broken through da haze: The band has just announced a new album due out this summer, and you can download the first single, "California," for free below or at thegaslights.com. I think we could all use a taste of the Golden State right about now. Catch the Gaslights live this Saturday, April 4, at the Czar Bar, with Expass

  March 31, 2009

• Scene Snapshot: The Gaslights, Friday, April 3, at Midwestern Musical Co.

  photo by Jason Harper She's an angel: Abigail Henderson and her Gaslights rocked a First Friday crowd at Midwestern Music Co. this past weekend. The band went on to play the Czar Bar the next night, which is a lot of gigging for a musician with cancer, but as she says on her blog, Hope Is My Middle Name, "When something blows up yr life you can either stay pinned under the giant concrete slab or try and get the damned thing off you and figure out how to get on with it." Did we mention she's sti

  April 6, 2009

• Light My Fire

  February 8, 2007

• Talkin' Relief

  "The fact that we're sitting here on your birthday, having this conversation at all is a miracle." Billy Brimblecom's comment is directed at birthday girl Abigail Henderson, but it applies to everyone at the table: Henderson and her husband and band mate Chris Meck, California singer-songwriter Victoria Williams and, last but not least, a doctor (anesthesiologist, actually) from St. Luke's named Mark Matthews. Photo by Forester MichaelFrom left: Mark Matthews, Victoria Williams, Chris Meck, A

  April 9, 2009

• Letters from the week of November 13

  November 13, 2008

• After 30 years in obscurity, Kansas City's Titan Records claims its power-pop throne

  November 6, 2008

• A Picture of Hope: Abigail Henderson fights cancer – and rallies musicians for health care

  November 6, 2008

• Hangover Days

  February 14, 2008

• The Gaslights

  16 Addresses
  (Self-released)

  January 31, 2008

• The Gaslights

  November 29, 2007

• All the Rage

  The Pitch Music Showcase: There’s no better reason to leave the house.

  August 2, 2007

• Help a Dude Out

  July 19, 2007

• Pitch Music Showcase Guide

  August 3, 2006

• Wayward Son

  Runnin’ the Voodoo Down John Wesley Myers brings a hot blues injection to Kansas City.

  January 12, 2006

• The Gaslights

  December 1, 2005

• Yo, Kansas City! It's time to rock the vote!

  August 4, 2005

• Beasty Girls

  It’s hard work being the women behind the masks.

  October 21, 2004

• Midwest Music Foundation launches Stay Tuned concert series.

  The Midwest Music Foundation, a newly formed group dedicated to boosting homegrown music and helping musicians in need, is kicking off its Stay Tuned concert series next Friday, May 8, at Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club. Readers who have been following our coverage of Abigail Henderson and her Apocalypse Meow cause will already be familiar with MMF. As I reported in the Victoria Williams round table session a couple of weeks ago, the MMF has been working to establish its 501(c)3 status and also

  April 29, 2009

• With a solo album, a Brannock Device reunion and three Wild Chipmunk and the Cuddly Poos releases, Jason Beers is one busy guy

  June 11, 2009

• The 2009 Pitch Music Awards Nominees Announced!

  Ladies and gentlemen, the wheat has been separated from the chaff, the cream has been skimmed from the top, and the nominees for the 2009 Pitch Music Awards have been chosen. Because we are insanely in love with the scene and wanted to cover as wide an array of local awesomeness as possible, we upped the size of the ballot from16 categories last year to 21 this year, for a total of 126 nominees (30 more than last year). And, as is always the case year after year, there are many local acts --

  June 10, 2009

• They love us! They really love us!

  Plog's two sisters took the home the Gold and Silver awards in the Blog category at the Kansas City Press Club's Heart of America Awards banquet on Saturday night. Journalists in the Los Angeles Press Club, who judged our local contest, deemed Jason Harper's Wayward Blog the best in Kansas City, followed by Charles Ferruzza and Owen Morris' Fat City.Judges called Harper's blog "a funny, profane chronicle of the local music scene with an engaged and opinionated audience." They said Fat City was "

  June 15, 2009

• Concert Review: Lucinda Williams, 6/17/09, at the VooDoo Lounge

  It was all about the honey. Sipping straight honey from a cup on stage up by her tiny Fender guitar amp ("It's the only thing that keeps me from coughing," she said, sounding like a character from a Tennessee Williams play), Lucinda Williams and her backing band, Buick 6, delivered two straight hours of pure, refined, thick aural sweetness last night at the VooDoo Lounge at Harrah's Casino. Scott Spychalski After walking out on stage at ten minutes after 9 in high heels and hip-hugging jeans a

  June 18, 2009

• Letters from the week
  of June 18

  June 18, 2009

• Letters from the week of
  July 16

  July 16, 2009

• Official Guide: 2009 Pitch Music Showcase and Awards

  August 6, 2009

• Wayward Roundup: The Pitch Music Awards 2009

  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. If, several days before Sunday night's awards, we hadn't stumbled across a recent Jazz Ambassador Magazine with her manager's phone number listed in the back, we might never have gotten in touch with the mighty Taylor. (With 126 nominees on this year's ballot, representing more than 500 musicians, it was hard enough getting th

  August 17, 2009

• Beggars’ Banquet: Myra Taylor led the charge for people to like Kansas City music at this year’s Pitch Music Awards Ceremony

  August 20, 2009

• Tomorrow Night: The Midwest Music Foundation's Stay Tuned 3

  The "Best Nonprofit" in this year's Best Of issue went to Midwest Music Foundation. In addition to last year's Apocalypse Meow benefit for the Gaslights' Abigail Henderson, they've started a series of concerts, called "Stay Tuned," to raise money to start "LIVE. HEAR. NOW.," "a television series, slated for production next year, showcasing the incredible level of musical talent within Kansas City and the surrounding areas." ​The showcase this go-'round features the alt. country of The Gas

  October 2, 2009

• Apocalypse Meow 2

  November 5, 2009

• Tonight & Tomorrow: Apocalypse Meow 2

  Just over a year ago, friends of musician Abigail Henderson rallied to help her defray the cost of the expensive cancer treatments she was undergoing. And in true Kansas City fashion, that first benefit show, called Apocalypse Meow, rocked. Now Henderson is cancer-free, and it's time for another round of musical fundraising. Forester MichaelAbigail Hendson at last year's inaugural Apocalypse Meow​ Taking place Saturday at Crosstown Station with a pre-party tonight at Midwestern Musical Co

  November 6, 2009