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by Berry Anderson
on Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:40 PM
Angela Bond
All hail the King of Limbs
If you love Radiohead, then you've had this conversation:
Hater: “I don't know about Radiohead, man. I just don't get why people are so into them.” Fan: ”Wait, what? Why are people into them? Because they are fucking awesome!” Hater: “Yeah, I've heard that. But, like, it just sounds like a bunch of noise to me. I mean, that one song 'Creep' is OK. I like that one, I guess. And 'Fake Plastic Trees'? I can do that one.” Fan: “'Creep'? For real? That song is 20 years old.” Hater: “I know, but you can sing along with it and understand what the dude is saying. The other songs are just ... meh ... I don't get it. I'm not a music snob like you are, OK? Guh.”
So no show in recent memory garnered as much advance buzz and bragging ("Hey, bro, I got my Radiohead tickets. Did you get yours? Oh, no, my bad ... it's sold out...”) — and as much pre-emptive whatever hostility — as Radiohead's last night.
This one was for the fans, not the haters. Especially for those who swore we'd wait it out before giving in and heading to St. Louis or Denver in the past, fans of Thom Yorke and co. were duly rewarded last night by a band that last played these parts 16 years ago.
Posted
by Nick Spacek
on Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:30 AM
Rich Strauss, courtesy National Museum of American History
First the kids went crazy over vinyl. Then, when you were able to buy LPs at Best Buy, they started putting out cassettes. Cheap Trick and Fucked Up trumped all of that with releases on 8-track and reel-to-reel, respectively. Now, what's a lo-fi fetishist supposed to do? How about wax cylinders and glass discs? The Smithsonian recently figured out how to get sound from recordings made by Alexander Graham Bell more than a century ago. Take a listen to some of the recordings at the Smithsonian magazine blog.
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by David Hudnall
on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:44 AM
The year's most blogged-about hip-hop act, Odd Future, has announced its fall North American tour dates, and we landed one. They hit the Granada October 11. That is gonna be one berserk show. No word yet on when tickets are on sale.
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by Berry Anderson
on Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:20 AM
Queens of the Stone Age
At one point during his band's sold-out show at the Beaumont last night, Queens of the Stone Agefrontman Josh Homme said, "We may be drunk, but we still care. I may be really high, but I still care." He also claimed that he hadn't played in Kansas City for the past 19 years; but he was glad to be back. Everyone else packed into the Westport venue was, too, because Homme and his band fucking killed it.
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by Mike Krings
on Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:47 AM
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Decades of touring, suitcases full of blow, and Axl Rose's L.A.-sized ego would have killed off the rock in most mortals long ago. But when metal courses through one's veins, these things are mere tribulations. So it is for Ozzy Osbourne, who brings his Ozzy Scream Tour 2011 to the Sprint Center with Slash (longtime buddy, fellow hardcore survivor and one-time Guns N' Roses guitarist) as opening act. Osbourne is touring in support of his 2010 album, Scream. But, come on, he's Ozzy! Does he need a reason to melt faces?
If talking about a song two days after you heard it brings tears to your eyes, then whoever wrote it must be some kind of crazy genius poet. That's my take on the dusty singer songwriter who played an intimate show in the Conspiracy Room on Saturday night. Of course, Sam Baker comes from Austin, Texas, where country and blues regularly ferment into intoxicating Americana.
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by David Hudnall
on Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:21 AM
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Bleach Bloodz. Photo by Forester Michael.
Saturday, the Bloodz were at the Replay in Lawrence, and yesterday they posted a little video tour diary thing on Facebook that features them smoking a bunch of weed and counting money. Hopefully it's a recurring feature?
Well, there's a video of Jones getting lecturing the crowd for having too many people onstage, and then giving them a dance party. If we ever needed proof that Jones is one of the classiest ladies to grace a stage these days, here's Exhibit A.
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by David Hudnall
on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:00 AM
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The kid in this video would clown on a young Michael.
of a little boy dancing to Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean" is not fully viral as I write this Wednesday night, but I'm fairly confident everybody on the internet will have seen it by the end of the day Thursday.
The kid is maybe two or three years old (?), and you've never in your life seen footwork, or sexually unaware crotch-grabbing, like this. He's like the Tiger Woods of dancing.
Posted
by David Hudnall
on Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:40 PM
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Mark Mallman.
In 2004, he played "Marathon 2," a 52-hour performance. The next logical (totally illogical) step is to try a third marathon, and of course he is: on October 7, at the Turf Club in Minneapolis, he'll attempt a 78-hour performance of "Marathon 3."
Oklahoma Joe's ribs named the best in the country by The Daily Meal
KCPD will breathalyze patrons at Tanner's tonight
Soundgarden's sludgy sound, last night at the Midland (review)
Don't mess with the Army, feds remind two local businesspeople
Parisi's Pete Licata is a World Barista Championship semifinalist
Homer's Drive-In: the oldest drive-through in the metro
Yo La Tengo is at Grinders tonight
Voltaire - the saloon, not the philosopher - opens tonight