Eight One Sixty

KC area musicians continue to release so much new music and we’re happy to share it with you on our show. 

Hear a new single from The Greeting Committee who have a big show coming up on Saturday, August 7, THE GREETING COMMITTEE w/ JAKE WELLS @ LOUD & LOCAL. Also, hear one from Alyssa Murray’s brand new EP and you can catch her this Friday, Alyssa Murray & Miki P at FMK Social Gallery.

Then music from Mac Lethal, Bob Walkenhorst and Una Walkenhorst, Sam Arjes, The Popper and They Call Me Sauce, Streetlevel Uprising, babybrainband - a new band from Jo MacKenzie, We The People featuring Eddie Moore, Redder Moon, and Deadspectres with Josh Hazeslip featuring Eddie Furlong - you may remember him as John Connor from Terminator 2.

There’s a lot of great music packed into our hour-long show!

This time on the show we’re going to hear from 11 musicians performing on Make Music Day, Monday, June 21.  Make Music Day started in France in 1982 and is now celebrated in 1000+ cities in 120 countries across the globe. This year, for the first time, Kansas City is part of the celebration. The event is a day of FREE music, concerts, and events that stretch from Lemonade Park in The West Bottoms to Knuckleheads in The East Bottoms, and from Kansas City International Airport to 18th & Vine. Hundreds of musicians, of all backgrounds will perform, from classically trained musicians in the The Kansas City Symphony to 16 year old singer/songwriters like Kate Whitefield and the students from School of Rock.

This week on the Eight One Sixty, we'll celebrate Record Store Day: Drop #1 happening this Saturday, June 12.

Are you familiar with Record Store Day? It’s been happening around the world since 2007 and it’s a day to celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store. Here in KC, we are blessed with so many great record stores.

Have you seen the list of Record Store Day exclusives for this drop? It’s massive and filled with great stuff. We'll run through some highlights from the list and play music from them. We’ll hear from Conor Oberst, Ben Howard, HAIM, Lupe Fiasco, Beck, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and The Chemical Brothers.

We’ll also hear from two acts that just announced massive tours with KC dates - Garbage, at T-Mobile Center on Sunday, Sept. 19 with Alanis Morissette and Liz Phair. Record Store Day this year is in two parts, and part two is on July 17. It will feature a duet from Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Willie Nelson, who just announced a tour stop here on Sunday, Aug. 8 at Azura Amphitheater, with ZZ Top and George Thorogood & The Destroyers.

And we’ll hear a recently released song from Quite Frankly, who is playing a FREE show at Josey Records.

We encourage you to get out there every day and support local records stores but make sure you don’t miss Record Store Day this Saturday, June 12. Also, thank you so much to Mills Record Company, Vinyl Renaissance & Audio, Josey Records Kansas City (new location), The Vinyl Underground at 7th Heaven, and Vinyl Heaven (new location) for supporting 90.9 The Bridge! 

Today is all about the Concert Calendar, music fans wondered throughout the pandemic, when would all of the concerts come back... well, they’re back! More and more shows are being announced every day and just this morning two more massive concerts were announced:

Foo Fighters with Radkey at Azura Credit Union Amphitheater on August 5 and Alanis Morissette with Garbage and Liz Phair on September 19 at T-Mobile Center.

On the show today we’ll play music from 10 acts and run through highlights from KC venues, and more.

New Music May continues on the Eight One Sixty! For the third week in a row, Chris plays new and recently released music from 10+ KC area musicians.

We’ll jump in first with one from 2020 from Blackstarkids, as they’re having the best week ever! They’re going out on tour with GROUPLOVE, including a stop at Liberty Hall in Lawrence on Sept. 22, and they also just got added to the lineup (along with Radkey) for the massive Riot Fest in Chicago.

Then we'll move onto some heavy hitters, with new stuff from Making Movies and Kemet Coleman. We’ll play music from several younger KC musicians: Tre Mutava, Brooklynn, Paris Williams, Rachel Cion, Riley The Musician, and Hannah Norris & The Band. After that, we’ll turn it up a bit with some rock from Alisa Jefferson and Noah Davis and Heavy Electric. At the end, we'll cool down with a new release from Asterales featuring Royce Diamond.

It should be a good time and it will wrap up THREE weeks in a row of us playing new releases from KC musicians. Next week, we’ll dive into the June Concert Calendar and let you know what’s on the radar. 

Just like last week, we’re going to keep playing new music for you on the Eight One Sixty! This week we’ll play through and talk about new music from 11 more KC area acts all putting out great stuff.

We’ll hear from Wyndsrfr, Dreamgirl, Noah Spencer (featuring Addie Sartino of The Greeting Committee), Quite Frankly, Quinn’s Laundry Hearse, Darcie A. Hingula, Passerine Dream, The Black Creatures, Jazlyn, Cuee, and Scores.

That’s some indie pop, some hip hop, some shoegaze, and a little indie rock for you!

We’re 129 days into 2021 and KC musicians have already released about 175 albums, EPs, and singles - and that's just the ones we know about.

We hear new music, some recent releases, and some stuff that hasn’t even been released yet. Hear from Riley The Musician, Alyssa Murray, Olympic Size, CompanyNoCompany, The Grisly Hand, Eddie Moore, Kat King, Lava Dreams, Sara Morgan, KIAN BYRNE, and Danny McGaw.

It’s all about the Concert Calendar and upcoming shows in KC. Shows are back and more are being announced every day! We play music from some of the shows that we’re excited about and list some highlights of shows to make sure that they’re on your radar.

We also talk about all of the venue name changes that have happened in KC during the pandemic - lots of changes! Five area venues have changed names, including one that just changed names this morning. The large amphitheater in Bonner Springs is excited to team up with their new partner Azura Credit Union and is now called Azura Amphitheater.

It’s a show that could last FOUR hours, but we squeeze it all into ONE. Hear music from acts with upcoming shows including Calvin Arsenia with Quixotic, Blue False Indigo, Waxahatchee, Fitz and the Tantrums, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Sleater-Kinney, The Sluts, Japanese Breakfast, They Call Me Sauce, Run The Jewels, and Dinosaur Jr.

This Tuesday at 6PM on the Eight One Sixty radio show on 90.9 The Bridge is another week of celebrating new music from KC area musicians and bands. We’re only four months into the year and KC-area musicians have already released over 150 albums/EPs/singles. 

We’ll kick off the show by debuting brand new music from Kianna White, who is playing a show outside at Lemonade Park on Friday, May 7 along with The Creepy Jingles, Monta At Odds, and DJ Thundercutz. Then we’ll play a brand new one from Danny McGaw, once a professional footballer in the UK, then moved to KC and Lawrence for a while and now calls California home. He’s back in town this weekend playing at Mayday! Celebration Of Love And Life! Outdoor Show! at Mike Kelly's Westsider on Saturday, along with Brothers Barclay, Damon Parker of The MGDs, The Supermassive Black Holes, and more.

Then we’ll continue with a bigger stack of new music from The Roseline, Such Lovely People (a new project from Josh Dorrell), Pala Zolo (Eric Davis of Hembree), Nick Siegel, a sister/brother duo who are 14 and 15 years old-Ethan & Charlie G, Middlechild, and we’ll hear Greg LaFollette’s treatment of one of my favorite songs of all time.

Also, we’ve said his name more on our show than anyone else this year, Kadesh Flow. He’s put out a dozen new singles so far in 2021, we’ll play the latest from him and let you know you can catch him at The Ship on May 21, along with Jessica Paige.