Eight One Sixty

It's all about KC bands and musicians with new music coming out who also have dates on the concert calendar.

Hear music from these acts:

• Kemet Coleman of The Phantastics, AUG 16 at Lemonade Park

• LYXE, JULY 15 at Replay Lounge and AUG 26 at The Bottleneck

• The Whips, AUG 17 with Hembree on the roof at Crossroads Hotel and OCT 25 with BabyJake at The Encore at Uptown Theater

• Liney Blu, JULY 28 at Replay Lounge

• Julia Haile, SEPT 6 on the roof at Crossroads Hotel and SEPT 16 at Nighthawk at Hotel Kansas City

• Christena Graves, AUG 11 at Vintage Church in Lawrence

• Katy Guillen & The Drive, SEPT 6 on the rooftop at Crossroads Hotel and as Womanish Girl on AUG 24 at Nighthawk at Hotel Kansas City

• Semper Viridis, JULY 14 at The Ship

• Monta, JULY 14 The Ship and SEPT 20 at The Bottleneck

• Timbers, AUG 17 at Nighthawk at Hotel Kansas City

• Lovely Burden, JULY 26 at The Bottleneck

Hang out with us and let's get nostalgic about music from 2013. Hear music from 12 bands, and give you an update on what those bands and musicians are up to now, 10 years later!

On the show you'll hear music from and stories about The Appleseed Cast, Cowboy Indian Bear, Bears and Company, Maps For Travelers, Radkey, Cadillac Flambe, Stik Figa, She's A Keeper, Heartfelt Anarchy, Berwanger, Not A Planet, and The Grisly Hand.

Hear music from all nine bands on the lineup for Innovation Fest 2023 on this show. The second annual fest is happening at Crown Center on Saturday, August 5. The fest will feature nine acts on two stages, a Brewery Showcase, a pop-up Night Market from The Strawberry Swing Indie Craft Fair, and more!

In addition to that, we are going to play the NEW single from Bears and Company! After a hiatus for a few years, they're back and we're excited to share their new song, "Nagoya" with you!

We're diving into stacks of new music from KC musicians and bands and kick off the show with a recap of Boulevardia. We remind you that June 21 is Make Music Day - a day filled with free concerts celebrated all around the world, and we look ahead to what's next on the summer calendar!

Hear new music from Julia Haile, Heidi Lynne Gluck, Second Hand King, The Holdaways, Clearfight, Krystle Warren, Caley Rose, Lovely Burden, Collidescope, Savanna Chestnut, and corey dies in the end, who is playing a show this Friday at The Brick.

At the top of the show we hear from Kemet Coleman, front person for The Phantastics who are playing a FREE concert for The Bridge on Sunday, July 2 at a new place in JOCO called SERVfun, at 90th and Metcalf, come on down!

We welcome in special guest, DJ Diehard aka Street Beast aka McClain Douglas Johnson. DJ Diehard has a great story to tell and he shares it with us as we countdown the days to Boulevardia and to his set on Friday night at The Silent Disco. We learn about his early days as a DJ in New Orleans, we get to hear about a massive list of musicians that he’s interviewed over the years as a blogger and journalist, and we get to hear a 20-minute mix teaser set of what his set might sound like this Friday at the fest. Do you have your tix yet?

DJ Diehard picked out a few artists he is most excited to see at Boulevardia and we play music from them as well. Hear music from Jason Isbell, Big Freedia, and a brand-new single from Hembree, which actually comes out this Friday.

Also, co-host Sarah Bradshaw is back and will be along for the ride, as we celebrate and look forward to Boulevardia.

It should be a fun show, filled with good music and one-liners from DJ Diehard. He also tells us about the origin of his DJ name, spoiler alert, it’s connected to one of the greatest holiday films of all time.

We dive into new and recent releases from national acts, international acts, and some main stage acts from the lineup for the upcoming Boulevardia Beer and Music Festival, acts like Kat King, The War and Treaty, K.Flay, Madds, Cimafunk, Big Freedia, Surfaces, Jason Isbell, The Beths, Post Sex Nachos, and grandson.

In addition to sharing lots of good music with you, we try and give you some tips and pointers for the festival. We share some knowledge about:

• parking

• how to get tickets

• the newly launched Dash Pass for The Silent Disco

• 19 food trucks will be at the fest

• there are more than 50 makers in the Maker Village

• we let you know that you can drink on the Ferris wheel(!)

• we talk about the beer vendors, and how they’re really all amazing volunteers working hard to help a non-profit organization, like Midwest Music Foundation

We also let you know that we just added a few more acts to the lineup:

• Sass-a-brass Band, playing at 5:45PM on Saturday, June 17, they’ll be leading a parade from the main stage, right as Big Freedia ends, and then march through the crowd into the park toward the Propaganda3 Stage - this will be amazing

• Tre' Mutava, playing at 4:30PM on Saturday, June 17 on the Quirk Stage

• DJ Rico aka Boss Hooligan Soundsystem from 3-5PM in The Silent Disco, Saturday, June 17

The first part of the show will be all about Make Music Day, which happens worldwide annually on June 21. This year over 40 acts will play in over 25 venues/parks in KC. We hear music from some of those acts playing on Make Music Day including Molly Hair, Musicbyskippy, Keelon Vann, SliKc, and Damon Parker of The MGDs. The second half of the show will feature more new releases, this time from Danny McGaw, Ethan and Charlie G, St Violet, Hermon Mehari, Rewound x Calvin Arsenia, and Collier Cash - you may know him as the Foo Fighters kid, as he was on stage with Dave Grohl and was gifted his guitar.

It’s all about new music as we hear brand new releases from a dozen KC area acts including Caley Rose, IVORY BLUE, Zion Isaiah, St. Violet, The Whips, Tre' Mutava, PURE XTC, Dan Jones and the Squids, M E aka Myself Embodied, The Salvation Choir, Darren Denney, and malekazrael.

We are LIVE from The Beer Hall at Boulevard Brewery and you’re invited to come out and be part of the broadcast. The evening is officially a Boulevardia Pre-Party! Back Alley Brass Band will be guests on the live broadcast from 6-7PM and then at 7PM they’ll play a FREE concert in The Beer Hall.

Boulevardia sponsors will be there giving out swag, Monster Energy, Proper Cannabis, and others. Also, the first 30 people to check in at the Boulevardia table in The Beer Hall will get a FREE drink ticket to be used at Boulevardia 2023, June 16 or 17 at Crown Center.

On the radio show, we hear music from and also interview Back Alley Brass Band, a lively bunch of NINE musicians that are winning over new fans with every show, from Boulevardia to their recent performance at the sold-out Kelce Jam during the NFL Draft, where they played in front of 18,000 people.

Also on the show, we hear music from bands that Back Alley Brass Band is most looking forward to seeing at Boulevardia.

And we kick off the show with music from Kemet Coleman, who is headed to The White House TODAY to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris as part of a roundtable discussion focused on entrepreneurship among young men of color, as his brewery, Vine Street Brewing Co. is about to open!

We have two special guests on this show, long time co-host Sarah Bradshaw is back and as it’s time for Manor Fest 5, we welcome festival organizer, Shaun Crowley.

Manor Fest is celebrating its fifth year as an event celebrating KC area music. By the numbers: 51 bands will play on 17 stages, in two cities over six days. It starts in Lawrence on May 19 and 20, and then moves to KC on May 25-28.

On this show we give you helpful fest info and also play music from 10 of the 51 acts on the lineup.

Hear music from these acts:

• PURE XTC - FRI MAY 19 at Replay Lounge

• The Creepy Jingles - FRI MAY 19 at Lucia

• EBONY TUSKS - SAT MAY 20 at White Schoolhouse

• MC Rue - THUR MAY 25 at Mean Mule Distilling Co

• The Swallowtails - THUR MAY 25 at Big Mood Natural Wines

• Catty Cline - FRI MAY 26 at Hillsiders

• Paris Williams - SAT MAY 27 at Blip Roasters

• Daniel Gum - SAT MAY 27 at 9th & State

• Kat King - SAT MAY 27 at The Black Box

• Fritz Hutchison - SAT MAY 27 at The Ship