Eight One Sixty

511 songs played, 272 different bands, 21 live sessions with 78 musicians, 25 guest interviews with 33 guests and 1 Mark Manning Day later, it's been a wild year! To celebrate we go through Chris' 'Best Of' list, plus a take a look at some favorite shows. Thanks for listening everybody!

51 shows!? Already!? This is awesome...and it's the end of the year so it's "Best Of" time on the Eight One Sixty. Chris asked Sarah to bring in her favorites for the year for this episode and we'll hear a beautiful new Christmas track from Sam Billen.

We talk about everything going on New Year's Eve in some of our favorite venues on this episode. We also hear music from these bands with NYE gigs: The Hearts of Darkness (The Granada Theater and Prohibition Hall), Katy Guillen and The Girls (Knuckleheads Saloon), The MGDs/Damon Parker (The Phoenix), The Calamity Cubes! (The Westport Saloon), Beautiful Bodies (Uptown Theater), The New Riddim (The Brick), a holiday song from Mark Lowrey (private gig) & Hermon Mehari (The American Restaurant), Sugar Britches (The Bottleneck) and Various Blonde (recordBar). And as it's Star Wars week, we'll hear Victor & Penny's take on an iconic piece of music from the film. 

Yeah, we know, pledge drives get a bad rap, but if you know the Eight One Sixty, this isn't your ordinary pledge drive.  We are joined by Kansas City music writer Bill Brownlee.  You may be familiar with Bill through his work with INK Magazine, The KC Star, KCUR, and/or his music blogs Plastic Sax & There Stands The Glass... he's also the musical yin to Chris Haghirian's musical yang. This is what it sounds like when opposites attract on this special two-hour-end-of-year-pledge edition of the show!

We are joined by several very special guests on this episode of Eight One Sixty!  First, Kristen May and Brian Little talk about their new project. Then, we're getting ready for the holidays with live music from The Snow Globes and an interview with Barclay Martin.

 

We're breaking in the turntables tonight with Judy Mills from Mills Record Company as we get ready for Black Friday Record Store Day with tracks from Record Store Day Exclusives!

It's Mark Manning Day!!!

Community Organizer, Director, Teacher, Gardener, Performance Artist, Actor,Writer, Radio Producer & Host, Stage Manager, Engineer, Activist, Mentor, Designer, Board Member, Secretary, Environmentalist, Progressive, LGBT Organizer and Speaker and overall amazing human being, one of KC'S finest local music advocates, KKFI's Mark Manning  joins us from down the dial on this show.

So much love we just can't stop!!! This episode, the last in this run of our KC Lovefest, features more Kansas City baseball love songs. Then, some presale info about a recently announced mammoth of a show and a slew of songs from artists playing upcoming shows in KC and Lawrence.

What an amazing time to be in Kansas City!!!  To celebrate our home team world champions, it's a Kansas City Lovefest Part 2 as we play more Baseball on the Bridge submissions and music from Kansas City.

It's our Halloween edition of the Eight One Sixty with covers (songs in costume) by musicians from the 816 and surrounding areas!