Subject: Apple iPod

• Local Eats

  April 10, 2008

• Sexy Beasts

  September 29, 2006

• Daily Briefs: Let's Spell Together, My Fox Rocks, How to Save Newspapers, Darla Jaye Needs This

  March 26, 2008

• MP3: Colin Meloy Sings Live!

  April 23, 2008

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Slideshow and Interview

  April 28, 2008

• Don't Drink the iPhone Wine Application!

  July 15, 2008

• Potluck and Mac swap at Broken Arrow Park in Lawrence

  Every year, the Macintosh User Group in Lawrence gets together for a swap meet picnic in the park. This year's event is at Broken Arrow Park, 29th and Louisiana, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. The point, of course, is to bond over the superiority of Apple computers while swigging sweet tea and nomming on potato salad. Plus, Apple users can try unloading some of their old equipment onto other people. "People bring their old software, maybe some add-ons such as zip drives. It's frequently a nostalgia

  June 1, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Wednesday, 10/08

  October 8, 2008

• Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008

  In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Good thing there were so many awesome records available to serve as a soundtrack for exactly that kind of behavior. The ten discs below are just the tip of a very big, very heavy iceberg. Metal seems t

  December 29, 2008

• Wayward Q&A: Crackin' Nuts with Michelle Markowitz of Davey's

  Michelle Markowitz is the owner and proprietor of Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club, a Midtown entertainment institution. From Alejandro Escovedo and Freedy Johnston to goth DJs and burlesque shows, this family-owned operation has continued to host diverse local and touring acts and pour stiff drinks through the digital music explosion, a literal building explosion and the threat of a light rail running past the front door. Yesterday, to the sounds of the Grateful Dead, Michelle and I talked about iP

  February 4, 2009

• Olathe's iResQ shows its dark side, woman charges; UPDATE: case closed

  Friendly Midwestern success story iResQ, the Apple-authorized repair center in south Olathe, fixes iPhones and iPods but may have a tough time fixing its reputation in the almighty blogosphere. In the wee hours this morning, the influential Web site BoingBoing -- a kind of think tank devoted to epic geek time wasting -- linked to a Sacramento, California, blogger accusing iResQ of opinion blackmail. According to BoingBoing's post today, the disgruntled customer, who blogs as brownielinzi, se

  February 10, 2009

• Best Local Musician

  October 7, 2004

• Sell Out

  November 18, 2004

• Mallstars

  December 2, 2004

• Tom Morello and Boots Riley form new band, come to KC with NIN and Jane's Addiction.

  Image is from the Wikimedia commons.You probably already know that Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction are co-headlining at Starlight on Wednesday, May 27, and that tickets go on sale March 13 blah-di-blah. But what you may not know is that Trent Reznor is part centaur. Also, self-appointed Nightwatchman Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave and badass MC Boots Riley of funky, funny and political Oakland hip-hop outfitthe Coup have joined forces to form a band they're calling

  March 9, 2009

• From the Facebooks: John Yuelkenbeck's desert-island playlist

  Editor's note: I'd been waiting for the right Facebook music list to arrive that I could grab for this blog, and, lo, it came this past Sunday. It's fitting that it's by Dave's bartender John Yuelkenbeck, not just because he presides over the best jukebox in town, but also because he published, edited and did most of the writing for a local music zine in the early '90s called Sound. Thanks to John for letting me post his classy list/essay as-is. The premise is basically the classic desert-island

  March 9, 2009

• Tonight! Chairlift at the Jackpot

  Get comfy, Chairlift.Boy oh boy - Chairlift is a tough act to pin down. The trio's ski-tastic nickname would have pegged them as a jam band if they had stayed in their native Boulder, Colorado, where they purportedly formed for the purpose of creating background music for haunted houses. When that didn't pan out (god bless 'em for chasing the dream), the group hauled ass to New York City and started buddying up with '80s AOR-influenced acts like MGMT and Tigercity. Thus the group's debut album,

  March 17, 2009

• Upcoming: Fake Problems at the Jackpot, July 17

  Fake Problems will hit the road this summer in support of their debut SideOneDummy release, It's Great To Be Alive. The band has been on the road since they wrapped the recording and this tour will be their first set of headlining shows in support of the album. They will be joined on two separate legs by Kiss Kiss and Ninja Gun. Fake Problems recently made an appearance on Fuel TV's Daily Habit (one song of which is below) and did an amazing live session on Daytrotter.com and in similar fashi

  June 3, 2009

• Download

  September 22, 2005

• P.O.S. covers Pearl Jam

  The circuitry of my brain has just been rewritten a little. For the deluxe rerelease of Pearl Jam's debut album Ten (now 18), MTV2 got various artists to do covers. It's very commercial and most of them suck (Hoobastank? fuck you), whatever. But, for some reason, Minneapolis indie rapper P.O.S.'s contribution, a cover of "Why Go," is blowing my mind. This video is so far the only place you can hear it. It's a super-minimal affair, with P.O.S. warning that his voice may suck ("there's no auto

  March 25, 2009

• Various Artists

  November 30, 2006

• Chronically Popfree online radio has become a full-time job for Justin Bale, aka Chronic the Hedgehog

  March 19, 2009

• Set to make millions with their YouTube-beating technology, the upstarts in Lifted Logic found a better market for their talents

  January 29, 2009

• Listen and Learn

  December 11, 2008

• iPod Dance Party

  December 4, 2008

• Love Garden drops its first single: a 7-inch from Ad Astra Per Aspera

  July 10, 2008

• Cheap Like Us

  Whether it's grocery-store coupons, liquor or music, we all need a deal sometimes.

  January 31, 2008

• Guided by Voices

  Tuesday, January 20, at the Blue Note in Columbia.

  January 15, 2004

• No Static at All

  Local webcasters offer alternatives to the airwaves.

  April 19, 2007

• No Replay for Wii Play

  March 8, 2007

• Dream On

  The second installment in the Belger Art Center’s American Dream series makes us a bit restless.

  November 16, 2006

• Mirah

  Thursday, October 21, at the Stray Cat.

  October 21, 2004

• Apollo 13

  July 6, 2006

• Generation Next

  Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war.

  December 29, 2005

• Sigur Rós

  September 29, 2005

• Viva Audiophilia

  Check your head.

  September 8, 2005

• Old Crow Medicine Show

  August 18, 2005

• Marrying the Mainstream

  White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

  December 30, 2004

• Marrying the Mainstream

  White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

  December 30, 2004

• Backwash

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  September 23, 2004

• Night & Day Events

  Week of September 19, 2004

  September 16, 2004

• Night & Day Events

  Week of July 29, 2004

  July 29, 2004

• Mix It Up

  Let the make out mix tape masters get you excited this Valentine’s Day.

  February 12, 2004

• I Pod, You Pod

  Welcome to the days of wearing your pretensions on your hip.

  January 29, 2004

• Listen Up

  July 27, 2006

• Wayward Q&A: Crackin' Nuts with Shinetop Jr.

  Shinetop Jr. has the market cornered on blues piano in this city. The KC native, a.k.a. Mike Sedovic, who occasionally gigs with Levee Town, Trampled Under Foot and John Paul's Flying Circus has also been nominated for a 2009 Pitch Music Award. Check out his boogie piano solo show every Wednesday night at B.B.'s Lawnside BBQ. Need a preview? Click the link for some footage of a show he played last year in Brazil. The Pitch: How long have you been playing piano? Shinetop Jr.: I've been playing

  July 1, 2009

• Free Sampler Downloads From Epitaph and Fearless

  We're all about hooking you up with free tunes this week, huh? Once summer hits, all the record labels want you pumping their jams through the car stereo, the front porch, and the beach, so they offer up a slew of sampler downloads. For the most part, these sampler comps take the place of the CDs you used to grab off the counter of your local record store. They're cheaper for the labels, better for the environment, and and you the listener can just delete what you don't like. Take heed that mos

  July 1, 2009

• Royals pitcher Roman Colon uses All-Star break to do court-ordered community service

  Roman ColonA ragtag bunch of kids in Toledo, Ohio, are about to learn some life lessons from Royals pitcher Roman Colon, and Colon is going to learn a little something about himself. Colon is chipping away at his 200 hours of community service he received for a 2007 clubhouse brawl, which started with Colon throwing down on a teammate who turned down his iPod and ended with Colon breaking the face of another teammate who was trying to break up the fight (the guy ended up with three titanium plat

  July 14, 2009

• Download Over 1,000 Songs Free From Amazon

  Right now, on Amazon, you can look through 1,120 songs for free download. ​Seriously -- go to this page, and you can sort through enough free songs to fill an iPod...well, my iPod, at least. Barsuk Records offers up tracks from the majority of their artists, from Death Cab For Cutie to Say Hi, and Def Jux does the same with tracks from Murs, Dizzee Rascal, and others. I cannot recommend the eight song Alive Records sampler enough. It's available here. Alive (a subsidiary of classic New W

  August 17, 2009

• Download the Twin Tigers Automatic EP

  Since Athens-based psych rockers Twin Tigers started their tour with Minus the Bear and the Antlers this week, they've decided to give away some music to entice you to show up early and catch their set. ​It stands to reason that if you get to hear some music, you're more apt to see a band live. I'm certainly more likely to listen to music that I can throw on my iPod than something I'm required to hear via MySpace, as well, so the idea of something that resides on my hard drive is a nice i

  November 4, 2009