Eight One Sixty

On this week's episode of the Eight One Sixty, we’re going to Quarantine and Chill. We'll slow things down a bit and play some calm downtempo, electronic and instrumental music. Also, as we’re several days into quarantine, we’re going to play some music created during isolation.

We’ll hear brand new stuff from Tiny Spys, a new project from Dominique Sanders; Shadow Figures, a new project from Jadethelibra and Dallas Gutschenritter; Pala Zolo a side project from Eric Guy Davis of Hembree; plus Bijuu, Jaclyn Bell, Trevor Turla & Reginald Chapman, and Kadesh Flow.

We’ll also hear music from Olympic Size, an excerpt from a 2010 film soundtrack from "We Will Make You Whole Again" (directed by Justin Gardner). We’ll hear the new single from Jónsi of Sigur Rós, an older one from Hermon Mehari — a KC musician who currently calls Paris home — and an amazing spoken word piece from Kate Tempest.

Then we’ll wrap up with music from Barclay Martin. He calls KC home, but is currently living in Barcelona. On Sunday, May 3, he’s hosting a livestream fundraiser concert: Barclay Live In Barcelona-The Wash Project Covid-19 Fundraiser.

It’s a fun and chill show. Hopefully you can tune in and hide with me for a bit, away from all the craziness. 

On this week's episode of the Eight One Sixty, we’re going to Quarantine and Chill. We'll slow things down a bit and play some calm downtempo, electronic and instrumental music. Also, as we’re several days into quarantine, we’re going to play some music created during isolation.

We’ll hear brand new stuff from Tiny Spys, a new project from Dominique Sanders; Shadow Figures, a new project from Jadethelibra and Dallas Gutschenritter; Pala Zolo a side project from Eric Guy Davis of Hembree; plus Bijuu, Jaclyn Bell, Trevor Turla & Reginald Chapman, and Kadesh Flow.

We’ll also hear music from Olympic Size, an excerpt from a 2010 film soundtrack from "We Will Make You Whole Again" (directed by Justin Gardner). We’ll hear the new single from Jónsi of Sigur Rós, an older one from Hermon Mehari — a KC musician who currently calls Paris home — and an amazing spoken word piece from Kate Tempest.

Then we’ll wrap up with music from Barclay Martin. He calls KC home, but is currently living in Barcelona. On Sunday, May 3, he’s hosting a livestream fundraiser concert: Barclay Live In Barcelona-The Wash Project Covid-19 Fundraiser.

It’s a fun and chill show. Hopefully you can tune in and hide with me for a bit, away from all the craziness. 

On this week's episode of the Eight One Sixty, we're joined by special [virtual] guest, Madisen Ward of Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear! Madisen is a great singer-songwriter, film geek, pop-culture fan, a talented showman and a bit of a comedian. He's taken all of these traits and turned them into a series of recordings that he calls "Quarantunes." On the show we'll play several of his Quarantunes and enjoy his storytelling during these weird times.

Also on the show, we'll play brand-new music from The Sluts, Kerosene Culture, Lava Dreams, Una Walkenhorst, Quiet Takes, Sam Wells and Ivy Roots. Some of the music came out recently, some comes out this week and some is a preview of music coming out soon. Despite the current state of things, there is so much great music coming out and we're happy to share it with you!

Another New Music Tuesday ahead!

Despite all of us being at home and practicing social distancing, there is still so much new music coming out from KC musicians. We’ll play brand new music from 10 acts on the show and we’ll talk about some upcoming live-streaming shows that you can catch at home.

As most of us aren’t in our cars too much right now, you can also stream the show live from The Bridge site or better yet, go download The Bridge app right now — it was created by the good people at Propaganda3. 

On the show we’ll hear new stuff from The MGDs, Una Walkenhorst, Use Your Atlas, Khrystal., Lava Dreams, Amy Marcus, Grant Klein, SHINER, Belle & The Vertigo Waves and Ready Astronaut. We’ll criss cross several genres and have a good time.

On this week's episode of the Eight One Sixty, we turn our attention to new music and upcoming livestream concerts! Just because we are all in our homes doesn’t mean that concerts must stop and that new music can’t still fill the airwaves. We’ll hear brand new music from They Call Me Sauce, Fullbloods, R.I.Peter, Nick Siegel, and The MGDs. 

We’ll also hear new music from a very cool compilation put together by our friends at Manor Records, called "Keep The Change." The album features 12 musicians covering a wide array of songs, and comes out digitally on April 13. Money raised from it will help out KC's service industry.

We’ll let you know about and play music from these upcoming livestream gigs:

And lastly, it’s PLEDGE WEEK! Obviously these are weird times, however if you turn to music to find relief when world events feel overwhelming and are in a position to do so OR if you just want a really cool new tee and a cool tumbler, we would love your pledge. For more info and to pledge, please visit this link.

On this week's epipsode of the Eight One Sixty, we turn our attention to the HUGE amount of live-streaming gigs happening every day now. We’ll play music from several acts and let you know when you can tune in and catch a live-streaming concert from them!

We’ll hear from these acts on the show:

We’ll kick off the show with a little John Prine & Iris DeMent too. I 

On this week's episode of Eight One Sixty, it’s another NEW MUSIC show. We’re going to play a bunch of new music from several KC musicians! On the show we’ll hear from Blackstarkids, Westside Royal, Hi-Lux, Amy Marcus, The Roseline, Katy Guillen and The Drive, Jillian Riscoe, Grant Klein, and Jelly Rose Music.

We’ll kick off the show with a song from They Call Me Sauce called “Kansas City Food,” as a reminder that you can still support so many great KC restaurants by ordering carry-out meals right now. Also, check out your favorite KC musician’s social media pages to see if they’re streaming live concerts online that you can watch from the comfort of your own home and throw a few bucks in the hat to help them navigate these uncertain times. We’re all in this together!

The Bridge has been celebrating Women's History Month by playing great music and sharing stories from so many amazing women in music. On this week's episode of Eight One Sixty, we'll do a deep dive into historic women in KC music, and to do so we brought in Bill Brownlee.

Bill Brownlee is a long time concert reviewer and music writer for The Kansas City Star, contributor to KCUR 89.3, he’s been blogging since before the word “blog” was a word, he’s worked for music labels/distributors but most importantly for this show, he knows his stuff when it comes to KC music history.

Here’s a couple teasers for you: in 1985, Tears for Fears were playing in KC and stayed at the hotel that is now the InterContinental Kansas City at the Plaza. While staying there, a woman was in the lounge singing and they loved her voice. Two years down the road, they reached out to her and had her sing on a massive song of theirs, which also featured Phil Collins on drums. After that her solo career launched and she’s gone on to massive success... and she still has a house here!

Another: Remember Johnny Carson? Did you know that the No. 1 most visited musical guest to his show is 91 years old and she still calls KC home? She was a guest on his show 26 times!

On the show we’ll hear from these powerful women: Marva Whitney, Deborah Brown, Oleta Adams, Myra Taylor, Mary Lou Williams, Marilyn Maye, Melba Liston, Priscilla Brown, Julie Lee and a little Janelle Monáe.

On this week's episode of Eight One Sixty on 90.9 The Bridge, we’ll be hanging out with Jake Wells and his band, who just released a brand new EP called “Sunday Morning.” We’re going to play the album track for track, and have Jake and his bandmates share the stories behind the songs.

If you’re not familiar with Jake Wells, he’s a great singer-songwriter, he has nearly 3 million spins on Spotify and recently was on the TV show, “The Voice.”

This Saturday, March 13, Jake Wells will be playing an album release show at recordBar. Also on the bill: Westside Royal (also releasing an EP) and The Philistines.

This week on the Eight One Sixty, it’s all about new and recent releases... again! There’s so much good music coming out of Kansas City right now — this is already our fourth new music show of 2020. 

We’ll hear from Una Walkenhorst, Fritz Hutchison, Ivory Blue, Kerosene Culture, The Widow's Ride, The Black Mariah Theater, Same Empathy, sMallWaves, Teri Quinn and the curiously named Jesus Loves the Atom Bomb.