Subject: Chris Meck

• Dispatches from Roach

  February 26, 2007

• Download live songs from American Catastrophe, Hipshot Killer, the Afterparty y mas, courtesy of the Midwest Music Foundation

  About a month ago, the Midwest Music Foundation launced its Stay Tuned concert series at Davey's with a creme-de-la-creme show featuring local bands Mr. Marco's V7, the Afterparty, Hipshot Killer, Thee Water Moccasins and American Catastrophe. It was a great night of music. And it lives on! MMFer, Davey's bartender, soundman and Gaslights guitarist Chris Meck was on hand with a state-of-the-art recording setup to catch the proceedings, and today he posted 10 sterling songs from the show (two fr

  June 2, 2009

• Local Band News: Gaslights Back Together

  April 23, 2008

• Concert Review: The Crossroads Music Festival, 9/6/08

  September 8, 2008

• Kristie Stremel/Daybirds/Fatback

  Grand Emporium -- Thursday, July 6, 2000

  July 6, 2000

• 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

• Pendergast Breaks Up, Writes Band History

  Pendergast frontman Anthony Ladesich has announced that his band's last show ever will be Friday, December 19, at Davey's Uptown, with Macon Greyson, Brother Trucker and the Cass County Lamenters. Ladesich sent out the following e-mail-slash-eulogy over the weekend. That's right. This is not a joke. Pendergast's LAST SHOW EVER is at Davey's on Dec 19. There will be a visitation of the body early at 7:30 where the Cass County Lamenters will eulogize us. The big show will start immediately fo

  December 8, 2008

• Drinking With Tony Ladesich In Honor of Pendergast, Whose Final Show Is Tonight

  Not counting next year's reunion (though, in this economy, who knows?), tonight will be the last opportunity to see the Vito Corleone (from the first movie) of Kansas City alt-country, Pendergast, perform live. The details: 9 p.m. at Davey's. Brother Trucker and Macon Greyson open. Cover is $7. Readers of this blog will remember the announcement Tony Ladesich made a couple of weeks ago that the band was parting ways. Well, later that same day, I met up with Tony and his lovely girlfriend Rhon

  December 19, 2008

• Out On the Weekend, pt. 1: Black Clover Christmas Party, Pendergast's Farewell Show

  So much cool stuff went down this past weekend in the music scene that rather than stay in one place and focus on one show for formal review, I flitted hither and thither like a fattened fly, taking in as much shit as I could, laying the eggs of approbation 'pon the city's hide. FRIDAY First Stop: Black Clover Christmas at the Riot Room People packed in to the Riot Room for Mac Lethal and co's annual Christmas show. Admission was $15, with the option of buying a $10 Schlafly beer glass th

  December 22, 2008

• Ballot Boxed

  July 15, 2004

• All over but the shoutin' -- Shaker Hoods are done

  Richard GintowtRoll on: Shaker Hoods are no more. Local motorcycle rockers the Shaker Hoods are callin' it quits. The trio, led by bassist and singer Jon Freeman, had been blasting local clubs with balls-out guitar rock for about a year and a half. Pitch contributor Richard Gintowt profiled the band back in April 2008. Freeman announced the break-up and offered bitter advice to the music scene in a MySpace bulletin last night. Read it and weep: "Hey all, I don't know if anybody reads these a

  April 1, 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

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

  November 6, 2008

• Hangover Days

  February 14, 2008

• 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

• Life's a Gas

  March 16, 2006

• The Gaslights

  December 1, 2005

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

  August 4, 2005

• Pendergast

  Saturday, May 24, at Davey's Uptown.

  May 22, 2003

• Around Hear

  Season to Risk and Kristie Stremel’s long-delayed albums are worth the wait.

  August 23, 2001

• Around Hear

  Spirit Fest wrap-up, D.C. Bellamy, Kristie Stremel, and Lost Pride

  September 14, 2000

• Kristie Stremel/Tina/Fatback

  The Grand Emporium -- Monday, May 15, 2000

  May 25, 2000

• Around Hear

  May 25, 2000

• Kristie Stremel

  The Detour

  April 13, 2000

• Around Hear

  KJHK's Farmer's Ball, professor Chuck Berg's album donation, Killswitch, and Smackdown.

  April 13, 2000

• Wayward Weekender: Stay Tuned at Davey's, Fiesta Kansas City, Antennas Up and Ha Ha Tonka

  With Spring has come renewal on the Kansas City music scene. I started out this past Friday with a hearty, bolstering meal at Stroud's, followed by a quick drink at Jazz on 39th (where the full moon had its best company of the evening, I swear), and then on to Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club for the first installment of the Midwest Music Foundation's Stay Tuned series. I missed the earlier acts, Mr. Marco's V7 and the Afterparty, arriving as new-band-of-old-scenesters Hipshot Killer was bashing o

  May 11, 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

• Official Guide: 2009 Pitch Music Showcase and Awards

  August 6, 2009