Eight One Sixty

On this week's Eight One Sixty, Chris chats with Mike Alexander and Chris Wagner of Hipshot Killer. The band just released a brand-new album entitled "All This Time Is Ours." They'll be playing all the tracks on the album and share a few stories behind the songs. This week, the band is celebrating the album release with a show at miniBar on Saturday, March 30, with Arson Class and Midlife.

On this week's Eight One Sixty, Chris chats with the band Mess, as they get ready to celebrate the release of their full-length debut, "Learning How To Talk." They'll talk about their big show on Saturday, March 30 at The Rino, preview some music from the new album and hear some stories about it.

After that, we hear from two musicians who used to call KC home and are coming back for gigs — Supa Flowa tonight at The Encore at Uptown Theater and Payge Turner on Thursday at The Rino. We hear a new song from DeMaur, who is playing tonight at The Rino. We also hear the new single from Berwanger — it's so catch you'll be humming the chorus all night after you hear it. And if we have time, we'll throw in a little Metric as Emily Haines brings her band to The Truman on Thursday.

This week's Eight One Sixty kicks off with a big announcement about the Boulevardia 2019 lineup, along with music from some of the headliners! After that, Chris will chat with Sky Smeed, who is gearing up to release his new album, "Leaving Again."

Members of the band Fathers join us to talk about the release of their brand-new EP, "High Horses," and a special release show this Saturday, March 9 at 2016 Main Event Space. Also on that bill will be Eems, Belle & the Vertigo Waves and a children's choir that will be backing up Fathers. We'll play the entire new EP and talk about it with the band, along with our 7 Questions segment.

After that, we'll hear music from some KC-area bands that have inspired them — The Appleseed Cast, The Anniversary and The Casket Lottery.

Una Walkenhorst and Erin McGrane join us for this episode of Eight One Sixty. The two are co-organizing the Survivors' Stories: Stand Against Sexual Violence event this Thursday night at The Rino — an evening of songs, poetry and performance art that touches on the experience of sexual violence or harassment. You may know Una from her solo music as well as the amazing album she put out last year with her father, Bob Walkenhorst; the title track of the album, "For Tomorrow," was voted the No. 1 song of the year by Bridge listeners. Erin has been in a variety of projects over the years and is also currently known as Penny of the antique pop act, Victor & Penny.

During the show we’ll hear from different musicians who are sharing their stories at the show including: Una Walkenhorst, Victor and Penny, Madison Mae Parker, Shoebox Money with Hannah Norris, Kat King and one of her projects, The Typing Pool, and more.

Special guest Claire Adams joins us for this week's episode of Eight One Sixty. On Friday night, Feb. 22, she’s collaborating with Rewound for a special concert at The Rino. Rewound is a 3-piece string band featuring Carmen Dieker on violin, Alyssa Bell on viola and Ezgi Karakus on cello. We’ll talk with Claire about that show and we’ll listen to music from three of her albums: "Claire and the Classical Revolution," "Waiting For The Winds To Change" and "Kamikaze." After that, we’ll hear two new singles from two other KC acts, The Dear Misses and Kat King. 

On this week's episode of Eight One Sixty, we're joined by film critic and blogger Eric Melin of Scene Stealers Movie Reviews to talk about the Kansas City Oscars watch party on Sunday, Feb. 24. Eric and Chris look back on times the Oscars got it wrong — and a few times they got it right.

Our very own Sarah Bradshaw is having a baby next week and she’s going to be away from the show for a few months so we wanted to do something special for her on this show. We play music about being a mom and celebrate Sarah and her baby. We hear from some great KC mama musicians like Heidi Lynne Gluck, Kristie Stremel, Havilah Bruders, Kasey Rausch and a great song about becoming a parent from The Grisly Hand. We add in some songs from other Bridge acts that talk about being a parent too. It's a great time and we’re so excited for Sarah and her family!

This week’s EIGHT ONE SIXTY is a special one. William Elliott Whitmore is stopping by the show and then he’s playing at recordBar after. In addition to hanging out with Will it’s also PLEDGE WEEK and Chris had a huge stack of tix to giveaway to say THANKS for your pledges.

If you don’t know Will, he’s an amazing singer-songwriter with whiskey and gravel soaked vocals, he’s from Southern Iowa, he’s signed to Bloodshot Records, he’s played Middle of the Map Fest three times, he played Folk Alliance International and he’s an all around great guy. 

We welcome special guests, The Snow Globes into the studio! We squeeze an upright bass and some guitars into our studios and they play a couple songs for us live on the air. We talk about their FREE concert on Thursday night at Village Presbyterian Church. We also talk about The Wash Project, the amazing charity that The Snow Globes support with their music, live shows and CD purchases.

After that we turn things up a bit and play some new music from SUCH LUCK- from an EP that comes out in Spring 2019. We play a new one from Radkey- you can catch them at recordBar on December 21. We also hear one from Hipshot Killer who are one of seven bands playing the 4th annual How The Punks Stole Xmas Toy Drive for Hope House