Subject: Apple iTunes

• Wayward Cast 2

  March 2, 2007

• The Podcast What I Made

  February 22, 2007

• The Gender Politics of Love Mixes

  February 13, 2007

• New Pitchcast: Interactive Art

  May 4, 2007

• Wayward Cast 6: I Ain't Givin' You Attitude

  May 10, 2007

• New Pitchcast: Hometown Romeo

  May 16, 2007

• New Magic from Bruce Springsteen

  August 29, 2007

• Wayward Cast 14: The ACBs, the Afterparty, Black Lips, Qui, Midlake and others

  September 18, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Taxidermy, Big 12, the Beatles

  March 11, 2008

• Now's Your Chance: Remix Radiohead

  April 1, 2008

• Saturday Is National Record Store Day

  April 18, 2008

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Slideshow and Interview

  April 28, 2008

• Junkie Jukebox: Dr. Dog

  June 11, 2008

• Beck, Are You Really Coming to KC?

  June 24, 2008

• The Download Extra: New DJ A-Trak MP3

  June 26, 2008

• The Download Extra: New Cold War Kids MP3

  October 9, 2008

• New DJ Sku Mix: "NASA"

  Described by air & space authorities as "space funkular, bass travellin, cosmic smut peddling at its finest," the new mix by local turntablist DJ Sku is launching into an iTunes player near you. Download the link below or at Sku's Postbocks page, where you can also find a tracklist. ZIP: DJ Sku, NASA And he's even throwing in artwork! (NOTE: He had nothing to do with the, ahem, embellished image that begins this entry. That was all me.) -- Jason Harper

  January 6, 2009

• Ryan Adams Quits Music, Releases "Extra Cheese" for Valentine's Day

  Yes, this is the album cover. Those lamenting Ryan Adams' recent declaration that he's quitting music for the time being can comfort themselves with Extra Cheese, an iTunes exclusive EP released today that features seven hand-picked love songs from Adams' catalog. 1. "Two" from 2007's Easy Tiger 2. "Blossom" from 2005's Cold Roses 3. "Answering Bell" from 2001's Gold 4. "Evergreen" from 2008's Cardinology 5. "My Love For You Is Real" from 2007's Follow The Lights EP 6. "Desire" from 2002's D

  February 10, 2009

• The Download: Leonard Cohen Live

  Last Thursday, the legendary Leonard Cohen performed in front of an American audience for the first time in 15 years at NYC's Beacon Theater. NPR has graciously posted a dozen of the songs on its All Songs Considered podcast (this link will fire up your iTunes, or you can settle on the streaming version). Here's the shortened setlist: "Dance Me to the End of Love" "The Future" "Chelsea Hotel" "Tower of Song" "Suzanne" "The Partisan" "Hallelujah" "Recitation With N.L." "Take This Waltz" "So

  February 27, 2009

• Hometown Romeo

  May 17, 2007

• KC Goes Hollywood

  May 24, 2007

• Cruising in the Corolla

  June 7, 2007

• Uncensored Stretch

  June 21, 2007

• Wayward Cast 10: It's Hard Out Here for a Punk

  July 12, 2007

• In Amato We Test

  July 19, 2007

• Dog Days

  August 2, 2007

• Wayward Cast 12: Wayward in Lethalville

  August 16, 2007

• Smoke & Mirrors Podcast

  August 23, 2007

• All Time Low

  November 6, 2008

• A Cappella

  October 16, 2008

• The Download

  Waxploitation Records

  December 6, 2007

• Wayward Cast 15: Heart and Finn

  There's a rude awakening awaiting in this podcast, along with music by Joel Kraft, Thunderheist and others.

  October 4, 2007

• Hot Jiggity

  Our Wayward Son introduces you to music by the ACB's, the Black Lips and others.

  September 20, 2007

• Calling Out Michael Moore

  Filmmaker Michael Moore made Sicko to help the health care industry. But will Moore help one of the people he featured in the film?

  August 9, 2007

• Book 'Em, Danno

  Bust out this week's local music -- and other cop-related puns — in this week's Pitchcast.

  June 28, 2007

• Real Mature, Harper

  The Wayward Son offers up music coming to town, along with sounds your inner teenager will like.

  June 14, 2007

• The Download

  August 17, 2006

• Slayer

  June 22, 2006

• The Junior Varsity

  June 15, 2006

• Summer of Ham

  May 18, 2006

• The Horrors and the Kills

  April 23, 2009

• New releases: Tuesday, June 16

  If there's anything we've missed with this brief highlight reel of today's new releases, hit us up in the comments. Incubus' greatest hits collection Moments And Melodies is a two-disc affair. Disc one is the hits, disc two is b-sides and rarities. It contains nothing of their rap-rock roots on Fungus Amongus or S.C.I.E.N.C.E., so don't expect them to even acknowledge that they've been working anything other than the same hard-soft-soaring vocals pallet they've been using since Make Yourself.

  June 16, 2009

• Are Ringtone Sales Public Performances?

  In the past few days, both the LA Times and San Francisco Chronicle published pieces wherein they discuss recent moves by ASCAP and other music publishers to try and gather even more money from ringtone downloads. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bunnicula/ / CC BY-ND 2.0Essentially, the argument made by the music publishing agencies is that songwriters are due two payments for ringtones. See, when ringtones are downloaded, then that's payment #1. The second payment comes into effect because the ri

  July 6, 2009

• Republic Tigers do Sinatra on iTunes exclusive tribute

  What have you done for Ol' Blue Eyes lately? Me, I tried to watch Guys & Dolls over the weekend. (Fell asleep.) Kansas City's Republic Tigers, on the other hand, sent Frank Sinatra an epic, trance-inducing, acoustic-layered, electronic-lathered valentine via the July 7 iTunes release of Sinatra: His Way, Our Way, a compilation of contemporary artists covering songs that the Chairman made famous. The Tigers' contribution: "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)," originally composed by Mitch Leigh an

  July 8, 2009

• Cheap As Hell CDs From Gearhead Records

  If you are a fan of rock 'n' roll of the greasy, fast, loud, "Lemmy Is God" variety, have I got a deal for you. Seems that Gearhead Records has a lot of CDs they'd like to sell you for cheap. Specifically, $3 a disc on selected items in their store. ​Yeah, yeah -- the CD is a dead format. Even with shipping, this is still cheaper than iTunes, and you can play them in your car without two cables, your cigarette lighter, and ten minutes trying to find an empty FM channel. So, go to the Gea

  August 13, 2009

• KISS and the Demise of the Small Town Record Store

  Last week, KISS announced that its new album, Sonic Boom, is to be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart. Is this further evidence of what the Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro referred to as "the death of the record store"? Caro also asked if a rock band selling an album exclusively at a big box store counted as a sell-out. ​I think it's a valid question. The Tribune's Greg Kott and compatriot critic Jim Derogatis on the Sun-Times have discussed this sort of thing time and time again on their program S

  August 25, 2009

• Video: Johnny Dare with Steel Panther, "Don't Stop Believin'"

  Johnny Dare's birthday bash was at the Midland by AMC Saturday night. If you didn't buy tickets in advance, you were pretty much hosed, as the show featuring Steel Panther and the Federation of Horsepower sold out fast. However, you can check out the video below and see several personalities from 98.9 The Rock belt out a Journey cover (top-selling song on iTunes ever, by the way) with Steel Panther while various sundry ladies in tight clothing gyrate nearby. Man...this kind of makes that free s

  August 31, 2009

• Flaming Lips cover Dark Side of the Moon

  When I interviewed Kliph Scurlock a couple of weeks ago, the Flaming Lips drummer talked at length about a very exciting project the band was putting the finishing touches on: a full cover version of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. That news excited me easily as much as the release new Lips studio album, Embryonic.​ A few days after the interview, though, Scurlock contacted me and politely asked that I not mention anything about the DSOTM project. Originally planned to accompany the r

  October 19, 2009

• Alice Cooper, "Keepin' Halloween Alive"

  If ever there were a man who could claim to "keep Halloween alive, honey, 365," it'd be Alice Cooper. I'd no idea the man had anything new out, much less a perfectly suited song such as this. It's available for download on iTunes. If you download the song off iTunes, you get a "Cooperoke" version. Record a video of yourself singing the song and post it to YouTube, and you could win $1,000. Nice, eh? Entries due by 10pm Central Standard Time tomorrow. You can find all the info at the above lin

  October 30, 2009

• Dammit. More Robots?

  Not only did we get some Robot Koch yesterday (say it out loud, and then it's funny), we also have some Party Robots, courtesy of Idle Warship -- more popularly known by its individual members Talib Kweli, Res, and Graph Nobel. ​Idle Warship welcomes you to our first full length offering, Party Robot. This started out as a path to musical freedom. When we established Idle Warship, we did it for us. Now that we are giving you this music, Idle Warship no longer belongs to us, it belongs to t

  November 20, 2009