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
After disco-funkin' space-truckin' KC band Antennas Up opened for Ha Ha Tonka on Saturday, May 9, at the Record Bar, I convinced Antennas bassist and lead singer Kyle Akers to retreat with me after the show to the venue's basement green room, where we marveled at some penis drawings, rejected a salad, talked about "antennas" vs. "antennae" and birthed the idea of Antennas Up!: The Musical.
This video was originally posted to my latest weekend roundup. Reposted it here so it doesn't get lost,
Tired of that low-income, dead-end routine of playing small bars in one-horse towns? Take your band to college. That's what local three-piece Antennas Up did. Acting on a tip from their friends in Springfield, MO, phenom Ha Ha Tonka (with whom they share a booking agent), Antennas began hustling the university circuit, thanks to the non-profit National Association for Campus Activities.
The NACA holds regular conferences where entertainers such as bands, magicians, comedians, singer-songwriters
Though a friend told me early last night at the Pitch Music Showcase that Twitter had been hit with some kind of viral attack yesterday, that didn't stop me from tweeting doggedly and with great effort throughout the night. Of course, none of my WaywardTweets posted, so because it's easier than writing anything fresh with this massive hangover I'm contending with that is making it very hard to think, I have dug deep into the circuitry of my Sprint Katana II to bring you all of last night'
