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
When Brad Hodgson told me, on a recent First Friday night, that he had left his position as frontman for In the Pines, one my favorite Kansas City bands ever, I would've sliced off his ear with a sword cane. But (a) I had no sword cane and (b) I had heard tracks from his awesome new project, Biarchy.Matt Naquin
Launched in early October, Biarchy is a two-man project conceived by Hodgson and fellow former ITP member Mike Myers (who drummed for the band, which, by the way, is forging on to