And, as usual, no one from Kansas City is on it. Yet. (You will be glad to know, however, that Dananananaykroyd, from Glasgow, is.)
A coworker was wondering aloud today whether the festival would be as big this year because of the economy. Many of the unsigned acts that flood the city -- playing free shows any place that will have them, paying all their own expenses, sleeping in the van and so forth -- probably won't be able to go this year. And in past years, that's precisely how Kansas City
That sexy couple of Kate Moss-dating, death-blues wailers Jamie "Hotel" Hince and Alison "VV" Mosshart are headed our way. The Kills come to the Bottleneck on April 23, backed by the Horrors and the Magic Wands. Full tour list after the jump.
"Tape Song" by the Kills, from Magic Boom (Domino)
I said you don't know.
You said don't you know.
I said ... take me out.
To Franz Ferdinand. April 27. The Beaumont.
It's not up yet on the group's MySpace, but a not unreliable source tells us it is so. I wish they were playing just about anywhere than the Breaumont, but I'll survive.
More dates and the best video of the year so far after the jump.
Right on the heels of the June 2 release of their new (seventh) album, Let the Dominoes Fall, punk icons Rancid are coming to the Beaumont. They'll be hitting the club's outside decks on June 19 with support from Rise Against.Rachel Tejada
If you're a superfan -- and you're on this new thing called "MySpace" -- then you can help the band promote by featuring the new single, "Last One to Die," on your profile when the single is released on April 7. Go to Rancid's MySpace page and follow the thre
Flicker: Una Bella MondoI received an e-mail from Linda, a reader in Dallas, Texas who wrote: "I was trying to find something...about Stephenson's Old Apple Farm. I've been going there all my life and we used to go there on our travels at least two or more times a year. Oh, how we miss it. I wondered if they are selling their products anywhere? I want the apple pie spice, the green rice spice..."
Ah yes, the gone, but hard-to-forget Stephenson's Old Apple Farm Restaurant.
No, this particular delicacy isn't actually of German heritage and it's not a pastry you'll find in many German restaurants -- although Margo at the Rheinland Restaurant in Independence just baked one today! -- since the name of the cake wasn't inspired by the country that gave us strudel, lebkuchen (gingerbread) and Gummi Bears...but an American man named Sam German.
And who, you're asking, was Sam German? Well, in 1852, he was an employee at the Baker's Chocolate company outside
I couldn't have come back from a four-day, computer-free weekend to better news: the Pogues are coming to the Midland by AMC on October 25. Pogues.com
Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 26, at 10 a.m. But a pre-sale is available today beginning at 3 p.m. to anyone who signs up for the Pogues' online community.
In recent years, it seems like the storied Irish trad-rock-punk band has only played in New York (and maybe one or two other select cities) when they've bothered to come to the U.S. Ev
