Eight One Sixty

For Tunesdays we broadcast live from The Beer Hall at Boulevard Brewing Company and are joined by two special guests, Kat King and PURE XTC.

We play music from both of their catalogs, learn some of their backstory as musicians, hear about their Boulevardia experience, and also do a “7 Questions” segment and ask them the same questions we’ve asked over 200 other musicians on the show.

Also, as part of the series Boulevard will make a donation to Pride Haven and Our Spot KC.

Over the past several weeks we’ve talked about Music in the Park, Boulevardia, Make Music Day (which is TOMORROW!) and the new releases have been piling up!

On the show tomorrow we’ll plow through a dozen new releases from KC musicians and bands.

• We’ll kick things off with a contender for song of the summer from corey dies in the end.

• We'll hear a new pop song from Caley Rose, who was featured last week on KCUR 89.3 with a great supporter of KC music, Steve Kraske.

• Our old friends from Six Percent have a great new EP coming soon.

• The Way Way Back, slowing things down a bit on a new song and still doing everything right.

• Jo MacKenzie continues to impress us with more and more new music.

• New to us, Jerame Gray pouring out the emotions for those suffering in Ukraine.

• Fresh off the stage from Boulevardia and Juneteenth Fest, a new one from The Black Creatures.

• Some hip hop from Current exploring mental health issues.

• Another new single from one of my favorite (former) KC voices, Danny McGaw.

• Also new to us, music from Quinton Paige and Straight White Teeth, who both went to our show page and submitted music.

It should be a fun show. We’ll throw a little Boulevardia recap in there too, at the top of the show.

Next week, on Tuesday, June 28 we’re back at the Beer Hall at Boulevard Brewing Company with two special guests, Kat King and PURE XTC. In addition to being on the radio show from 6-7PM, they’ll each play a 30-minute set in the Beer Hall from 7-8PM.

We're back with our Boulevardia 2022 artist preview series, this week with Heidi Phillips of Frogpond! Heidi joins Chris live from the Beer Hall at the Boulevard Tours and Rec Center to perform a few stripped-down songs, talk about the return of Frogpond and their first album in over 20 years, "TimeThief." 

Frogpond performs at Boulevardia on Saturday, June 18 at 6:15 p.m. on the Fountain Stage.

Eight One Sixty went live from the Boulevard Tours and Rec Center to celebrate the lead up to Boulevardia 2022! Today's episode features Miguel Antonio of Run With It, performing live and talking about his podcast, the evolution of the band and his career and more. See Run With It at Boulevardia on Friday, June 17 at 5:45 p.m.

Today on the show we talk an upcoming event, Music in the Park, happening in Westwood Park at 47th and State Line on Saturday, June 11, 10AM-10PM. We get all of the details from one of the event organizers, Daniel Barickman with the West Plaza Neighborhood Association.

The event features a great lineup of KC musicians: The Phantastics, Bob Walkenhorst, Cassie Taylor, and a new project called Shakedown Strings (featuring Rick Willoughby and Clayton DeLong). Also on the bill is MiD, from Alexandria, VA and internationally known, world-renowned DJ, a pioneer of house music, creator of Mushroom Jazz, Mark Farina!

We jump on the phone for an interview with Mark Farina and I’ll do some serious fan-boying. I first heard Mushroom Jazz Vol 1 and Vol. 2 back in 1999 and I’ve been a fan since. Mark Farina will be in KC on Saturday, June 11, playing two gigs, first at Music in the Park at 3PM and then that night at The Ship at 9PM.

We also play music by the other acts on the bill and give you details about the event and let you know that The Strawberry Swing Indie Craft Fair is part of the event too!

It's all about new music and highlighting a bunch of upcoming shows by these acts:

• Katy Guillen & The Drive on Thursday, May 19 at Nighthawk

• Making Movies at Folk Alliance International on May 19 and Boulevardia on June 18

• Doubledrag on Friday, May 20 at The Bottleneck as part of Manor Fest 4

• R.I.Peter on Saturday, May 21 at White Schoolhouse as part of Manor Fest 4

• Savanna Chestnut and The Field Hands on Friday, May 27 at Kaw Valley Public House in Lawrence, KS

• Wonderfuzz on Friday, June 1 at Power & Light District

• Freight Train Rabbit Killer on Saturday, June 4 at recordBar

• Trevor Turla at Boulevardia at Crown Center on June 18

• Danny McGaw on Thursday, July 7 at Mike Kelly's Westsider

We also hear a recently released single from Laura Noble that should be the official song for the next FIFA World Cup and a new remix from Grant Klein that will test the bass in your car or headphones.

If you're seeing this, it's likely that you're a music nerd (easy, that's a compliment) and I have to say, this might be might most "Pitchfork" show we've ever done. We play music from 11 acts, I only know three of them. The rest are from an impressive pool of submissions.

If you feel like nerding out with me to some new KC music, hear new music from CUSPS, Rue (featuring TyFaizon of Blackstarkids), Paul Jesse & Deegan Poores, Zion Isaiah, VCMN, Bolinas, Coffee, MiD, Nicole Springer, Derek's Shifting Shadows, and Charity Frauds. It's so Pitchforky, very few of the acts even have Facebook pages!

Also, we kick off the show with a little Local 909 out of St. Joe MO, from a 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee. #iykyk

Chris celebrates the first show in May with acts coming to Kansas City!

We celebrate MORE new music from Kansas City musicians this time on the show! Our inboxes are spilling over with new music and we’re excited to share more new stuff with you.

We kick off the show with a brand new song from Jessica Paige, who is playing a special rooftop concert at Crossroads Hotel on Wednesday to celebrate her new single, and it sounds like her lineup is stacked with other great KC musicians! More info on that show here: SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: JESSICA PAIGE.

We hear the title track from Kristin Hamilton’s new album, “Touch of Blue”. Her album release show is this Sunday. More info on that show here: Kristin Hamilton Album Release Concert

We also hear new stuff from Making Movies, The Chunk, Claire Adams (remixed by Alyssa Murray) Gee Watts (featuring Kye Colors and Jass), John Long, Scott Jelinek, Ben Schenberg, Current, and Jean Claude & The Eclairs.