Subject: Stereo Systems

• The Download Extra: New Tokyo Police Club Stream

  June 19, 2008

• Wu-Tang Clan/Killarmy/DVS Mindz

  Liberty Hall -- Monday, August 7, 2000

  August 10, 2000

• Best Place to Hear Hip-Hop

  January 27, 2000

• Best Car Wreck

  October 19, 2000

• Best Calamari

  October 18, 2001

• I'm the DJ, He's the Rapper: An interview with DJ Jazzy Jeff

  In the late '80s and early '90s, the smack-talkin', party-startin' Philadelphia duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince provided millions of young American suburbanites their first introduction to the joys of hip-hop. credit: nathalie@gunpowder-3.tv With multi-platinum-selling status and unforgettable songs like "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble," "Parents Just Don't Understand" (which won the first-ever rap Grammy), "Nightmare On My Street" (which, full disclosure, I memorized and performed in a

  June 4, 2009

• Wax On/Wax Off

  November 27, 2003

• Best Saturday Morning Breakfast Spot

  October 7, 2004

• The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower

  February 24, 2005

• Freeks & Geeks

  March 2, 2006

• MSTRKRFT

  October 23, 2008

• Z-Trip

  September 11, 2008

• RJD2

  April 10, 2008

• Lucky 7s

  DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist are 45-a-holics and this Kansas City store might have their hookup.

  January 31, 2008

• DJ Kool-Roc C

  August 9, 2007

• Kansas Rock City

  March 23, 2006

• Metal Mark

  June 14, 2007

• Showin' Up

  Edwin Morales knows how to start a party, even when smelly potatoes are involved.

  April 19, 2007

• Tactic

  February 8, 2007

• Labor Day at the Empire Room

  August 31, 2006

• Phat Tuesdays

  August 10, 2006

• Beat Down

  May 11, 2006

• DJ P

  April 27, 2006

• Superwolf

  April 13, 2006

• Dj SKU and DJ Konsept

  February 2, 2006

• The Retribution Gospel Choir

  August 25, 2005

• Used Needles

  Skratch Track helps turntable junkies get their fix.

  July 7, 2005

• K-Swing

  Saturday, June 11, at Kabal.

  June 9, 2005

• Deaf Jam

  These stereo geeks turned Bartle Hall into the city’s biggest boombox.

  December 30, 2004

• Mr. Dibbs

  Friday, November 5, at the Bottleneck.

  November 4, 2004

• RJD2

  Saturday, October 30, at The Granada. Also Sunday, October 31, at the Blue Note.

  October 28, 2004

• Detroit Cobras

  Sunday, May 9, at the Beaumont Club.

  May 6, 2004

• Eyedea and Abilities

  Monday, March 15, at the Blue Note in Columbia.

  March 11, 2004

• Ming & FS

  Saturday, February 14, at The Granada.

  February 12, 2004

• Slayer

  Saturday, October 11, at Memorial Hall.

  October 9, 2003

• Califone

  Tuesday, July 1, at the Bottleneck.

  June 26, 2003

• Smoking in Cuban

  Cigars may be stinky and unhealthy, but they relieve stress during record-listening parties at Fidel's Tobacco.

  March 27, 2003

• Spin Off

  At KJHK's Battle, local DJs scratch for supremacy.

  October 10, 2002

• Friday Night Fever

  Top DJs and accommodating owners make Jilly's a weekend hot spot.

  August 22, 2002

• Spin City

  Lawrence DJs wax poetic about the turntable arts.

  April 11, 2002

• Best All-Ages Club

  El Torreon

  October 18, 2001

• Walk Like an Egyptian

  David Cassidy’s brother won’t let family issues stop him from loving Nina Simone’s daughter in Aida.

  June 21, 2001

• Dub Narcotic Sound System/The Sub-Debs

  The Bottleneck -- Monday, April 24

  April 27, 2000

• Cordish explains why DJ Jazzy Jeff's set was cut short.

  Backlash continues to rise surrounding DJ Jazzy Jeff's sudden dismissal in the middle of his DJ set last night at Power & Light. Barely 12 hours out, and it's all over the blogosphere. Lots of people, including prominent local hip-hop scenesters, feel that it was clear-cut case of P&L's bias against hip-hop music and those who follow it (by extension: black people).According to Cordish, Jazzy's sound levels would have laid ruin to the P&L's sound system. To get the establishment's side of the s

  June 7, 2009

• P&L press release claims DJ Jazzy Jeff's set damaged system but they want to bring him back to KC

  Local PR firm Sturges Word sent out the press release below. Power & Light District president Jon Stephens is listed as the media contact. (Updated) The release says DJ Jazzy Jeff's set damaged the sound system at KC Live. Pitch reporter Nadia Pflaum asked Stephens if insurance would cover the damage. Here's what Stephens wrote:We are replacing and not charging Jazzy Jeff.  At this point we do not feel that warranties or insurance will cover but we are paying to repair the system.And he

  June 8, 2009

• Cordish to Jazzy Jeff fans: No, it really was the sound.

  As the Plog has just reported, the Kansas City Power and Light District has enlisted a PR firm to handle the DJ Jazzy backlash. In a press release sent out less than an hour ago, the district's management describes the technical hazards Jazzy's set posed to the sound system and says, "To characterize this incident in racial terms is absurd and illogical." Read the whole press release here. The story continues to make national waves.

  June 8, 2009

• Fader TV posts video from DJ Jazzy Jeff's P&L performance. Z-Trip claims they were told not to play any rap music

  This four-minute video was shot by Fader TV in Kansas City at the Power & Light District the night of DJ Jazzy Jeff's now infamous performance. I can't make out what Jazzy Jeff's MC, Skillz, is saying on stage in the video, but backstage Z-Trip says he was told not to play any hip-hop music (a claim Cordish has rebutted and later claimed Jazzy Jeff's set damaged the sound system). See for yourself.

  June 10, 2009

• Get Sloppy

  December 27, 2007

• DJ Dewey Decimal

  January 18, 2007

• Somebody in Kansas City does love you, Sneaky Sound System

  Attention local DJs: Here's your new dance jam of the summer. A random Vimeo search led uber-Plogger Justin Kendall to this brand new video from Sydney, Oz-stralia, band Sneaky Sound System. The song is "Kansas City," and its catchy-as-hell chorus, as if lifted from a souvenir T-shirt, goes Somebody in Kansas City loves me. The video is vaguely Wizard of Oz-themed, with sultry belter "Miss Connie" (or a marionette playing her) dressed as Dorothy. Any resemblance to the movie ends there, howeve

  July 17, 2009