For our 69th show it's a live session and interview from a very young KC band, Theta Intellect. They won a spot on the bill and get to play Middle of the Map MUSIC FEST 2016 on Friday, May 6 and get to open for Cold War Kids and The Struts at CrossroadsKC at Grinder's...these kids are all 16-18 years old. Then we'll hear music from bands playing 90.9 The Bridge's Day Party at Middle of the Map on Saturday, May 7 at the new recordBar - Bands like: Hipshot Killer, LionMaker (a project from Barrel Maker and LION) and Valley Hush from Detroit.

Tonight on the show we're playing music from bands with upcoming gigs like: Run With It (4/20 before TheKansas City Royals game at 5:15PM), Four Arm Shiver (4/21 at Davey's Uptown), Andrew Bird (4/21 at Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland) and MoodyMatic - Shamanrahs Album Release Party (4/23 at Uptown Arts Bar).

Then, Middle of the Map Fest officially starts next week with the Middle of the Map FILM FEST 2016, April 28 to May 1, so it's on to some bands playing the MUSIC FEST May 4 to May 7.  A brand new track from EBONY TUSKS (5/6 at Midland before Vince Staples), a new one from SHEL (5/6 at The Brick), dance tracks from GGOOLLDD (5/6 at The Tank Room) and Com Truise (5/7 at rB).

Also, you remember Making Movies Carnaval event at Knux last year? Migrant Kids played there and it was great (5/5 atCalifornos).

Additionally, maybe you caught their set at a packed recordBar last year, but SALES is coming back again this year for the fest (5/4 at Ernie Biggs Westport).

It's a special two hour pledge edition of the Eight One Sixty for our 67th show!  We're joined by Judy Mills of Mills Record Co. and Nicholas St. James to talk about Record Store Day, play two rounds of "7 Questions" and hear some live music!

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For our 66th episode we welcome special guests Rachel Mallin and The Wild Type as we hear a live session from them and sit down for an interview. Then we’ll talk with the crew from The Record Machine about their new compilation album, How To Keep Dreaming, Volume 3 featuring 20+ plus bands and the upcoming release party to celebrate it, Friday, April 8th at Mills Record Company (a free show w/B R O T H E R and Youth Pool. We’ll also hear music from The Philistines, Sharks In The Deep End, Momma's Boy and Santah.

It’s all about NEW RELEASES this time on the show because there’s so much new music coming out of KC right now!!! We play brand new music from 12 KC area bands: Me Like Bees, Kangaroo Knife Fight, Red Kate, Chris Meck and The Guilty Birds, B R O T H E R, Raymond of VIVID ZEBRA, Victor & Penny, Teri Quinn, Logan Richardson, BLKFLANL, Andrew Foshee and The Invisible World.

For this show we welcome special guests BLKFLANL… the project from ConductorWilliams and Barrel Maker who are about to release their 2nd album and are stopping by for a live session. We’ll also talk about BLKFLANL's gig at Middle of the Map Fest, sharing the night with Vince Staples and Gallant (both just received so much critical acclaim at SXSW) and hear music from them too.  Also, this saturday is the the annual Halfway to Winfield 2016 show at Knuckleheads Saloon, so we’ll hear music from Sugar Britches and Whiskey for the Lady who are both on that bill.  But first we kickoff the show with new music from Kawehi, catch her on April 2nd at The Tank Room.

See the videos from BLKFLANL's live Eight One Sixty Session:

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This time on the show we welcome special guests, The Ovaries-eez, a trio from Lawrence who have a brand new record coming out on Friday and we’ll get to hear a live session from them. Also we’ll hear brand new music from The MGDs, Stik Figa + Arkutec (featuring Rachel Christia & DEV3N) and Real Adults. Plus, recent music from a Swedish trio, BASKERY and from here in KC, the author and the illustrator. We’ll also talk about the great Louis Meyers to start the show.

Wanna use your eyes and ears?  Check out the videos from our in-studio session with the Ovaries-eez below!

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This time on the show we'll talk about and hear music from more bands playing Middle of the Map Fest, May 4-7: La Sera, Bassh (Band of Horses side project), Quirk & Ruckus (Katy Guillen and the Girls side project), Gallant, Shadow Rabbits, ZHU, Big Black Delta and probably some more Aimee Mann. Also on the fest, B R O T H E R, we'll hear their new single and a brand new one from The Invisible World.

Station director Jon Hart sits in as co-host this week as we announce this year's lineup and play music from some of the 115+ bands playing INK's Middle of the Map Fest on May 4-7. We'll talk about the HUGE comedian we're bringing in for the IDEAS (formerly The Forum) portion of the fest as well as talk about a band we all love from Japan that's coming back, this time to play the FILM FEST. ALSO, we'll be joined by special guest Steve Tulipana for an announcement about the future of recordBar.

This time on the Eight One Sixty we sit down with special guests, The Grisly Hand and talk about their new record and Kickstarter/pre-order campaign. We also talk about the MidCoast Takeover Fundraiser #2: 2/27 at Tank Room and hear a song from Berwanger. Additionally, we hear new music from bands with upcoming album release shows: Golden Groves (2-26 at The Riot Room) and Be/Non(2-28 Scottish Rite Temple) and from bands with weekend gigs: John Velghe & the Prodigal Sons (2-26 at miniBar), Wrong Kata Trio (2-26 atCoda) and ConductorWilliams (2-26 at The Tank Room).