Eight One Sixty

It's another New Music Tuesday on the Eight One Sixty this week! We’ve been saying it for nearly a year now, but despite the pandemic, it’s amazing how so many musicians are finding ways to put out new music during these crazy times.

We’ll start the show with music from a young KC musician named PmBata, who blew up this month on Spotify and Tik Tok. Their song Roadtrip debuted in the top 5 on Spotify, where it’s already racked up more than 13 million spins since Feb. 5 — that’s over a million spins a day!

We’ll also hear brand new music from Edison Lights, Mensa Deathsquad, Quiet Takes, Alisa Jefferson, J Jerome, Christena Graves, David Luther, Blue False Indigo, Nan + The One Nite Stands, and we’ll hear a little Fat Tuesday music from the Back Alley Brass Band.

On this week's episode of the Eight One Sixty, Chris takes a deep dive into the Folk Unlocked Virtual Conference. This year would've marked the return of the Folk Alliance International Conference to Kansas City, after spending the last two years in Canada and New Orleans.

The physical return to KC will have to wait till 2022, but the good people at Folk Alliance are NOT taking the year off. Instead, they've curated and created an amazing virtual conference from Feb. 22 through 25. Like the in-person conference, the virtual event will feature musicians from countries all over the world. If you've ever been to the Folk Alliance Conference, you know they're amazing curators of talent.

On the radio show this week we'll hear music from several of the acts on the lineup, including Steve Poltz (from Canada, now U.S.), Kelly Hunt (KC), Elana Dara (Brazil), Élage Diouf (Senegal in West Africa, now Canada), Lanita Smith (Memphis, now Los Angeles), XANI (Melbourne, Australia), Idris Lawal (Nigerian born, now based in Toronto), Beny Es Guerra and New Tradition Music (from Bogotá, Colombia, now based in Canada), Oscar Blue (Ireland) and Keb' Mo' (Compton, Los Angeles).

Another amazing thing — watching performances by these acts and so many others is available to you for a donation of whatever you see fit. The money raised from donations by viewers will be turned into grants and given to musicians in need during these crazy times.

This week's episode of the Eight One Sixty is all about new music! But first, we'll celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs and their effort to RUN IT BACK. We'll kick off the show with Chiefs anthems from Yes You Are (Kianna White) and a brand new one from Blane Howard.

Then we'll dive into several new songs from Other Americans, Making Movies, Redder Moon, Lily B Moonflower Band, Blue False Indigo, Charlotte Bumgarner, Everett The Grey, and we'll hear a lively one from a massive collaboration of artists called the Marcus Lewis Virtual Big Band — featuring Kadesh Flow, Ryan Heinlein, Eddie Moore, Clint Ashlock, Jeff Harshbarger, Rich Wheeler, Brett Jackson and many, many more.

This week's episode of the Eight One Sixty is all about new music! But first, we'll celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs and their effort to RUN IT BACK. We'll kick off the show with Chiefs anthems from Yes You Are (Kianna White) and a brand new one from Blane Howard.

Then we'll dive into several new songs from Other Americans, Making Movies, Redder Moon, Lily B Moonflower Band, Blue False Indigo, Charlotte Bumgarner, Everett The Grey, and we'll hear a lively one from a massive collaboration of artists called the Marcus Lewis Virtual Big Band — featuring Kadesh Flow, Ryan Heinlein, Eddie Moore, Clint Ashlock, Jeff Harshbarger, Rich Wheeler, Brett Jackson and many, many more.

On this week's episode of Eight One Sixty, we take a moment to look back 10 years — all the way to 2011! We’ve had a lot of fun playing brand new music for you the past two weeks, but we’re going to dive deep into our external hard drives and put together a fun show for you.

We’ll start with the very first band Chris ever played on our very first show seven years ago, The Appleseed Cast. We’ll hear from some projects that don’t exist anymore, some projects that continue to make new music, others that have changed things up and started new projects, and some bands that have grown up right in front of us like Radkey.

On the show we’ll hear music from Cadillac Flambé, The Republic Tigers, Les Izmore & ConductorWilliams, Hipshot Killer, Spirit is the Spirit, Baby Teardrops, The Wilders, Howard Iceberg, and Atlantic Fadeout.

It's another all new music show this week on the Eight One Sixty! We’ll hear new music from 11 KC-area acts, including Kadesh Flow, Brat Pitt, Sam Wells, Kid Computer, Leah Watts, Ashley Ray, Lily B Moonflower, Slim Hanson and the Poor Choices, Wayne Gottstine, Club Sinister and Shadow Figures.

There’s some indie rock, some alt-country, some bluegrass, some hip hop, and some industrial goth electronica — we’ll touch on each genre!

It's another all new music show this week on the Eight One Sixty! We’ll hear new music from 11 KC-area acts, including Kadesh Flow, Brat Pitt, Sam Wells, Kid Computer, Leah Watts, Ashley Ray, Lily B Moonflower, Slim Hanson and the Poor Choices, Wayne Gottstine, Club Sinister and Shadow Figures.

There’s some indie rock, some alt-country, some bluegrass, some hip hop, and some industrial goth electronica — we’ll touch on each genre!

On this week's episode of the Eight One Sixty, we're kicking off 2021 with an all-new music show! Also, the new year marks our show’s seventh anniversary and the 20th anniversary of 90.9 The Bridge! On the show, we’ll hear brand new music from 11 different KC bands and musicians, including Redder Moon, Christena Graves, Wallace Loyal, Radial Red, Brotha Newz, Joshua T. Merello, Use Your Atlas, Grand Marquis, Scabb, X.WILSON, and Ivy Roots.