Magnet The online version of "the bi-monthly, internationally distributed, glossy music magazine that gives well-deserved attention to musicians largely ignored by mainstream publications."
Metacritic Lots and lots of critics praise and bitch about music (and movies, DVDs, games, books and TV).
Paste "The premier magazine for people who still enjoy discovering new music, prize substance and songcraft over fads and manufactured attitude, and appreciate quality music in whatever genre it might inhabit."
We reviewed shows by Nas and Damian Marley, Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire and Conor Oberst over the weekend.
Did you endure the heat to see Del McCoury or the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival? Maybe you caught Joe Cocker at Ameristar. Perhaps there's a locally-based band that merits additional exposure.
Chicago and Earth, Wind and Fire took the stage Sunday night at the Sprint Center armed with enough musicians for a intramural football team and sufficient horns to start a Glenn Miller Orchestra franchise.
The oversized black hat worn by Conor Oberst Sunday at the Beaumont Club made it extremely difficult to take him seriously. The odd sartorial selection was typical of the frustratingly inscrutable artist.
Anger overtook grief Thursday night at Crossroads KC.
The breaking news that Michael Jackson had died cast a pall over the audience of about 400 who had gathered to hear Talib Kweli. Interminable delays on the unbearably steamy evening transformed sadness into baffled irritability. Kweli's performance began four-and-a-half hours after the gates opened.
Stevie Wonder performs tonight at Starlight. For the past few days, we've been postingsome vids of his performances over the years. Above is "Free"; below his performance at Luther Vandross' funeral. (If you have some favorites, post a link in the comments.)
Tickets to the show are $45-$350 through Starlight (go here).
When Arrowhead Stadium was chosen
in 1984 as the point of
origin for the Victory Tour – a concert featuring all five of the
Jackson brothers – it
shone an international spotlight on Kansas City like never
before. It was if the term “media circus” was invented just for this crazed
event.
By the time I got to the RecordBar to see Phoenix, the line leading to the front door streched north and then east to the doors of the Westlake Hardware store. And the skies were a dark haze of purple. And the lightning show was fantastic.
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