This just in, courtesy Ruth Bigus, publicist for the Jewish Community Center's
CenterSeason:
Due to an illness of one of the performers, the concert at the Jewish Community Center featuring Richard Cass and Tiberius Klaunser will not be held this Sunday, November 22.
It will be rescheduled at a later date.
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The Elton John & Billy Joel Face Off Tour, directed by John Woo, which features the two piano-playing icons surgically switching faces and playing each others' songs, was originally scheduled for a December 1 stop at the Sprint Center. 
In order to trap Billy Joel, you must become Billy Joel.
The date has been moved. It is now set for February 27. Tickets for the original gig will be honored, or refunds are available at point of purchase.
Word is, Sir Elton's got the flu.
Interested in going to see the sure-to-be killer Max Tundra and Deastro show at the Czar Bar for free tomorrow? And how about heading a few blocks up to Lucky Strike Lanes afterward to catch the mighty Crystal Method spin? And have 'em just wave you right on in?
Deastro: "Come see me!"
Yes, friends, a veritable Yellow Brick Road of free DJ awesomeness is yours for the traversing tomorrow night in Kansas City.
Our pal, Bill Pile of Umove.net (whom we profiled this week in print), has asked the Wayward Blog to help him give away two sets of admission for both events.
Just answer the trivia question below correctly and your name +1 could end up on the guestlist at both the Czar Bar and at Lucky Strike's TCM appearance tomorrow night. (According to Bill, the Tundra/Deastro show should end around midnight, which is about the same time that the Method goes on up the street, but it's up to you to see what you wanna see.)
TCM: "Come see us!"
Answer ye this:In 2005, the Crystal Method's third album, Legion of Boom, was nominated for a Grammy in the first-ever Best Electronic/Dance Album category. To what album did it lose?
E-mail the answer with album title and artist to jason.harper@pitch.com (subject line: "Follow the Yellow Brick Road").
Two winners will be chosen at random tomorrow, Friday, November 20, at 3 p.m. Those two winners will each be able to bring a friend and get in free to both parties.
Happy Wiki'ing!
P.S. You'll wanna get to the CzBr early for the blippy delights of local opener
Max Justus, a perennial favorite of this blog.
For those of you wanting something a little classier on a Sunday than some synthpunk at the Jackpot, there is hope for you.
At 2 p.m. Sunday, in the Jewish Community Campus' Lewis and Shirley White Theatre, there will be a performance from Tiberius Klausner and Richard Cass. The Klausner and Cass concert will include piano and violin duets and solo performances, featuring music from Dvorak, Paganini and Chopin.
This is a real treat for fans of classical music, as Klausner is a former concertmaster of the Kansas City Symphony, and Cass is professor emeritus at the UMKC Conservatory of Music. If you miss it, Klausner and Cass will perform together again in March. That concert will also be at the Jewish Community Center.
And, y'know -- that show at the Jackpot doesn't start until 7 p.m. You could make both, if you were so inclined.
Digital Leather is dark, almost evil synthpunk. The first thing I heard from Shawn Foree was the single he release on Goner, "She Has A Cameltoe," which has made heads perk up every time I've played it somewhere.
"Who's this?" is the usual response, with head cocked to the side like the RCA dog. It's good stuff -- dark, but not too dark; synthy, but with enough rock to keep the punk kids interested.
Digital Leather is touring in support of Warm Brother, their first studio album. Everything else has been recording live on on four-track (or both, in the case of their last album, Sorcerer). It's out now on Fat Possum. They hit the Jackpot for an early show on Sunday, November 22 with fellow Nebraskans the Dinks.
Watch the video for "Hurts So Bad" below.
MP3: Digital Leather, "Dead Sound" (Raveonettes cover)
How would you say this in Spanish? Tenemos Yo La Tengo? Which would then translate to "we got I got it?" Que pasa?
Anyway, Yo La Tengo is launching a tour behind it's latest, the actually rather poppin' Popular Songs, and the Hoboken indie amigos y amiga are running a pretty cool deal. Via Matador Records:
Though Yo La Tengo have hit many of the world's most cosmopolitan cities while touring in support of the monumentally great 'Popular Songs', there are a number of Mid-American locales that haven't thrilled to Ira, Georgia and James at the height of their performing powers. Not until January, that is, at which time Yo La Tengo return to the domestic touring circuit, but this time, with a twist.For each of the (reasonably priced) concert dates below, tickets are available with no additional surcharge from area record stores and/or directly from the venues. Yo La Tengo, their booking agency and local promoters have put a fair bit of time into these arrangements, and here's our contribution to the effort ; a Google Map that will help you find the outlets listed individually below.
Though the band played Springfield last time it came through our area, this time Yo La's hitting Lawrence: January 26 at the Granada. Tickets are $17 and not a penny more. Buy them at the Granada box office or at Love Garden Sounds.
MP3: Yo La Tengo, "Periodically Double or Triple"
Odelay!
In what is sure to be a crazily pop-laden project, Mike Yannich (the Ergs!), Jesse Thorson (Pretty Boy Thorson), and Katie Naden (The God Damn Doo-Wop Band) have formed a new group called Automatic Weapons. According to a post made by Naden, there are "Two songs set to be recorded after Christmas and before New Years" and that they are "So happy you'll wanna puke."
Seriously -- go listen to the Ergs! and the Doo-Wops. You will have melodies stuck in your head for days.
The songs will see release on a 7" from Traffic Street Records, which is just about one of my most favorite record labels out there right now. I'd love Sam and his label even if the only thing he put out was the stellar Dangerous Intersections series of four-way splits. They're ridiculously cheap, and probably the best way to get hipped to the various bands kicking ass in the pop-punk underground right now (i.e., Shang-A-Lang, the Dopamines, the Measure [sa], et al).
Listen to some God Damn Doo-Wop Band over at Minnesota Public Radio's website.
With Digable Planets tonight at the Bottleneck and P.O.S. at the Beaumont on Sunday -- and some killer local shows in between -- you won't be blamed for forgetting rock and roll even exists this weekend in Kansas City.
Wait ... check that.
For one thing, guitars will be present tonight at the Scion Lab when Mouth the band provides support for area rappers Reach, thePhantom, Dutch Newman, Godson and Swayzorblades.
Depending on what Steddy P brings in terms of musical support (he's been known to have both a DJ and live band), there may or may not be amps and drumsticks when the local rapper joins CES Cru, Stik Figa and DJ G-Train for Leaders of the Nu Skool 2 tonight at the Record Bar.
Meanwhile, Digable Planets' Butterfly and Doodlebug are likely to rock it old school at the Bottleneck tonight, with support from local MC Greg Enemy.
We already blogged this, but don't forget: At the Riot Room on Saturday, KC's Deep Thinkers are premiering tracks from their fourth album, Make It Quake. In addition to performances by Reggie B with Miles Bonny and Reach, Chief Rocker Busy Bee will be in the building.
And, then, on Sunday, the Pac-Tour rolls into the Beaumont, bringing the bands Innerpartysystem, Saosin and Eye Alaska and Rhymesayers breadwinner P.O.S., whose punk-rooted indie rap is a solid complement to the rest of the lineup's mostly rock instrumentation.
Kanye West recently gave blog love to P.O.S. for the video for the title track off P's latest, Never Better, which Amazon named one of the year's best in hip-hop.
Anything we're forgetting? Post it in the comments.
When a drummer decides to step out from behind the kit and make music as a solo artist, it can go poorly -- let us never forget the terrible lesson learned with Phil Collins. However, let us remember that for every Collins and Don Henley, we occasionally get a Dave Grohl.
It is in this hopeful spirit that we present the first song from Rilo Kiley drummer Jason Boesel's solo debut, a charming, laid-back alt country tune entitled "Hand of God." The album, Hustler's Son, is due out on Team Love on January 12, with a tour coming in February.
These BBE Lost & Found compilations are quickly becoming the way to get a fast, thorough initiation into the deep cuts of a given genre. Keb Darge last teamed with Cut Chemist on the initial Lost & Found comp, Rockabilly and Jump Blues, which featured obscurities from Little Junior's Blue Flames next to better known artists like Johnny Burnette and Chuck Berry.
On Real R'N'b and Soul, Darge teams with the Jam's Paul Weller. The two met when Darge was DJ'ing at a party thrown by a friend of Weller's, and began talking. They got along well, and started DJ'ing together.
As he always does with DJs, Keb kept a close eye on what Paul was pulling out of his record box. "Not a duff tune in sight, with records ranging from classic floor fillers to the super obscure. He was not tainted by any collectors' scene attitude, just played the tunes he liked," Keb says.
Thanks to the folks over at Suspended In Light, there are details regarding the first two reissues coming from Neurosis.
The reissues, as listed at Suspended In Light, are 1996's Through Silver in Blood and 1999's Times of Grace. They're due out sometime before the end of the year on the band's own Neurot Recordings. There will be booklets to encase the resissues, so as to "revamp the old designs with a unified look without infringing upon the original artwork."
The experimental hardcore band's last release was the well-regarded 2007 record, Given to the Rising.
The Rumblejetts have provided the Kansas City area with high-quality, high-octane rockabilly for over a decade now, and the group shows no signs of stopping. Their live shows are a guaranteed good time, with a mix of classic Sun Records covers, as well as the group's originals, which blend into the set so well as to be indistinguishable from songs written half a century prior.
Oh, and their fliers are always stellar. Usually designed by drummer Jud Kite's Killer Kite Productions, they are by far the most professional fliers you will ever see in the Kansas City area. Much like the poster you see to your left, most of Kite's work wouldn't look out of place hanging in the garage of a filling station somewhere. They're always wholesome, but with a hint of hot rod racer edge.
The Rumblejetts' new CD is called Summertime Apples, and is the band's third full-length (in addition to Roostina and Cool Down, Baby, they've also released the Branded EP). You'll be able to grab it when they have the CD release party for the record at Knucklehead's on Saturday, November 21.
You might also want to give the guys a hug. They'd made it to the second round of CMT's Music City Madness competition, but didn't make it past that to the final sixteen.
Watch the video for Summertime Apples' first single, "Blue Broadway," below.
Nebraska's kings of garage, Brimstone Howl, release Big Deal. What's He Done Lately? on Alive Records in two weeks. However, to get your juices flowing, and raise the anticipation level for this release, we've got a brand-new song off that record for you all to listen to.
The album -- the title of which references a quote from Johnny Ramone about Phil Spector -- is the band's fourth for Alive, and features a couple of older songs, such as "Elation" and "M60" rerecorded from their debut album and first 45, which are all of three or four years old. Their last release, the "Mammon/Solitary Man" single on Rob's House, was absolutely gripping. Each release from these guys just gets better and better.
The band tours relentlessly, and they hit the Replay about once a year. Considering they're from Lincoln, we could probably call them a regional act without too much of a stretch. Keep an eye out for their next stop.
When Leonard Cohen's first-ever Kansas City concert was announced a few months ago, you'd have been forgiven for assuming it was the latest Folly Theater event booked by Bill Shapiro, host of KCUR 89.3's long-running music show (and pledge-drive workhorse) Cyprus Avenue. Shapiro had often named the Cohen tour as No. 1 on his wish list. 
In fact, the tour is an AEG jam at the Midland, and if you're sitting anywhere close to the dapper Canadian, you've blown a big-city chunk of change. (As of this writing, it's mostly sold out, but some $250 seats remain.)
In lieu of the preshow talk he might have offered an audience at the more intimate Folly (which has about 1,080 seats to the Midland's 2,300), we asked Shapiro to name the songs most on his mind as the clock counts down to Leonard Hour. His exclusive list after the jump.
Philadelphia's A Sunny Day In Glasgow -- that phrase is just as cumbersome to type as it is to say aloud, trust you me -- are touring in support of their new release, Ashes Grammar, on Mis Ojos Discos.
They bring their sunny pop to the Replay on November 24. Burger Kingdom opens.
Your boss would probably hate Dr. Nolan Gasser. As chief musical architect of the Music Genome Project, Gasser is directly responsible for countless hours of lost productivity and network lag-time at workplaces all over the world. That's because the MGP is the driving force behind the music-streaming site Pandora.com. Heard of it?
Dr. Nolan Gasser gives a free lecture at the Folly on Saturday.
Using the ultra-shmancy, music-analyzing techniques developed by the Music Genome Project (which began nearly ten years ago), Pandora Radio creates preference-based "radio stations" for users. If you're a music fan who does any amount of online music searching or listening, you've probably encountered Pandora, which has been online since 2005. When you create a free account with the site, you're able to type in the name of a favorite artist. Then, using complex vectors and algorithms and stuff, the Music Genome Project creates a streaming playlist of music by the artist and -- this is the selling point -- by other bands/artists that sound like the artist you entered.
Here's what happens, for example, when you put in Leonard Cohen. (If you're already among the 35 million people already using Pandora, feel free to skip ahead.)
1. Enter band/artist name.
Since Athens-based psych rockers Twin Tigers started their tour with Minus the Bear and the Antlers this week, they've decided to give away some music to entice you to show up early and catch their set.
It stands to reason that if you get to hear some music, you're more apt to see a band live. I'm certainly more likely to listen to music that I can throw on my iPod than something I'm required to hear via MySpace, as well, so the idea of something that resides on my hard drive is a nice incentive to sign up for a band's mailing list.
The Twin Tigers open for the Antlers and Minus the Bear at the Granada on Monday, November 23. Their debut album, Grey Waves, comes out in January on Old Flame Records.
Sign up for their mailing list, and get the Automatic EP for free.
Oh, how much does Tigercity love you? Not only does their new album, Ancient Lover, drop today via your major digital retailers, but they're offering up the single off it for free. And not only that, but they're offering "Fake Gold" as a free download, they're offering up the video and a remix of the song by Only Children (the Chicago duo, not the Lawrence act with the Berwangers).
Casimir Krupinksy
And I guess that wasn't enough, because they're bringing their smooth grooves to the Brick this Saturday, November 7. You've got four days to memorize all the words. Go!
MP3: Tigercity, "Fake Gold"
MP3: Tigercity, "Fake Gold" (Only Children remix)
The competitors for Farmer's Ball, KJHK 90.7FM's annual battle of the bands, have been announced. In no particular order, the bands and acts are:
Cloud Dog
Burger Kingdom
Dutch Newman
Katlyn Conroy
Hidden Pictures
The California Craisins
Eagle Us Pets
DJ Avi
Impressive.
Preliminaries are November 20 at the Jackpot, and finals are November 21 at the Bottleneck.
It's a good year to be Rob Pope. The Get Up Kids bassist is not only selling out venues with his old bandmates on their reunion tour, Pope's other band, Spoon, is preparing to drop a new one, his second with the Austin-based band.
On Thursday, December 3, at the Midland by AMC, Pope, lead singer Britt Daniel, and those two other guys dip into town to headline KRBZ's the Buzz Stole Christmas show. Also on the duosyllabic bill: the Bravery, Metric and Hockey. Tickets go on sale this Friday via Ticketmaster.
Pope (2nd from left) got that Spoon, that Spoon that Spoon-ful.
Expect to hear cuts off Spoon's upcoming seventh full-length, Transference, which is due out January 26, 2010. If receiving this news gets you in the mood for some of Spoon's soulful, minimalist indie-rock, you're in luck, as the band seems to toss out free online baubles every month. Click on the Bonus tab at the band's site (once you've navigated past the annoying teasers) to download the free November track, a live version of "Everything Hits at Once," originally on the band's latest, 2007's excellent Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga third album, Girls Can Tell (2001). (Stereogum posted some working-title live cuts a few days ago as well.)
Or, if you're in the mood for classic Spoon, the band is currently offering deluxe digital versions of its first four albums for $10 each at its online store.
Spoon learns the Ted Leo version of Don't You Evah from Spoon on Vimeo.
Let it never be said that Wayward Blog didn't give you advance notice. We know how important St. Patrick's Day is or those of us in the field of music. When you consider that we're also in the field of journalism, we understand the importance of a holiday that is -- let's be honest, here -- an excuse to get wasted on Guinness and Jameson.
Every year Flogging Molly does what they call the "Green 17 Tour." This is their annual tour leading up to March 17, thus the name. Opening acts are yet to be named, but you can hit the pre-sale here for reduced service charges until November 14.
In what seems to be de rigeur behavior these days, we've got yet another show moved. Whereas the Sunday, November 8, Dashboard Confessional show was moved to the Beaumont Club from the Uptown Theater, it seems that the Bouncing Souls show this Wednesday, November 4, has been moved from the Beaumont to the Riot Room.
It's somewhat harsh being a music fan in Kansas City these days. Passion Pit canceled their show at the Yard and Springsteen canceled his show at the Sprint Center, among other shows.
This isn't new, either -- the Julian and Damian Marley show at the Uptown earlier this summer was also moved from the Uptown, to say nothing of the Perez Hilton tour being made free after few tickets were sold, and the draw of Ida Maria removed.
So, what do you think? Is this a sign of the economy, or of bands not having the draw they once did, or a little of both?
You might be asking yourself, "Who is this band Polka Dot Dot Dot, and where exactly in Lawrence are they playing?" That would be a very good question, and one to which I only have half an answer. They are a trio of musicians, who met randomly at a folk festival in New Zealand, despite all being from random points in the States.
They combined forces and now play a mix of folk, Tin Pan Alley, and medieval rounds. Lots of hand claps for percussion and lots of three-part harmonies make Polka Dot Dot Dot one of those bands suited to hearing outdoors or in somebody's living room. Unfortunately, the band doesn't seem to have a location firmed up for their December 7 stop in Lawrence. I'd keep checking their MySpace for updates.
You can listen to "Invisibrother," off Syzygy, their new album on Bicycle Records, below.
In what we hope is the master list for your Halloween shenanigans, there's a lot to get through. For one thing, since the holiday falls on a Saturday, some folks are getting it started a little early Friday night.
For instance, Fourth of July is at the Eighth Street Taproom (801 New Hampshire in Lawrence) Friday night with Sultan Sea. As you can see from the flier (by Pre Sense Form and Zaguar Collages, featuring the sexy Brendan Hangauer from last year's Halloween), costumes are not only encouraged, they are mandatory. Does that mean they'll bar your entry if you're not wearing one? Best not to tempt it, I think.
Also on Friday night is "Trick or Treat '70s Style" at the Brick (1727 McGee). Solid Gold Easy will provide the sweet sounds of the '70s before Everywhere: A tribute to Fleetwood Mac takes the stage. The best '70s mustache will win you money, too, so anyone rocking a porn 'stache a la Thomas Magnum or the Bandit should attend.
Now, on to All Hallow's Eve proper.
At the Power and Light District (downtown KC) is a big ol' free show, co-sponsored by the Pitch, kicking off with Company of Thieves at 8pm. Our Lady Peace is on the KC Live! Stage at 9 p.m., and Pomeroy closes things out at 11:30 p.m. 
There will be a huge-ass costume contest, with the grand prize winner walking away with $1,000. Second place is nothing to sneeze at, either: $750, and third place gets $250. The contest judging starts at 10:30 p.m. Admission is free, but as with all Power and Light concerts, it's 21 and up.
Hearts of Darkness and Ad Astra Arkestra provide the freak-out experience of the night at Davey's Uptown (3402 Main). Both bands are epic in numbers, and the music will certainly be a pleasant change from the innumerable cover bands out there. Hearts of Darkness' Afrobeat will have a potent counterpart in Ad Astra's rhythmic experimental jams. There is also a costume contest at 11:30 p.m., with a $150 first prize, $50 second prize, and a tantalizing Mystery Goodie Bag third prize.
Stone in Love, Kansas City's premiere Journey tribute act, will be at the Record Bar (1020 Westport). The band, featuring such Kansas City music luminaries as JD Warnock of Ultimate Fakebook and Hipshot Killer's Mike Alexander, will give you all the lovin' touchin' squeezin's you'll need for the night starting at 10 p.m.
If you want your Halloween to be a little brutal, Circle of Trust brings their brand of hardcore to Swagger, at 85th and Wornall. There will be a costume contest, and the first prize is a trip to Vegas. Rock starts at 8:00 p.m. sharp.
Also brutal is the Haunted Creepies CD release party at the Riot Room (4048 Broadway). Not so much for the Haunted Creepies, who will rock and roll you, but for Hammerlord, who are metal as fuck. DJ Chadillac and Clockwerk will be spinning out on the patio for those not inclined to loud rock music.
The Brick's tenth anniversary is on Halloween, meaning this is a double-shot of awesome. The Brick is also your old-people-punk-rock headquarters for the holiday this year, as they'll play host to Blood Feast, the Misfits tribute act fronted by Faster Than Hell's Kriss Ward, alongside Switchhitter and the Sex Offenders.
Up the street at the Czar Bar (1531 Grand) is the mock-public-access-TV show Whoop Dee Do's Halloween party featuring the Ssion, Nomathmatics , Max Justus and games such as bobbing for eyeballs and zombie body shots. Costume contest? These people invented the costume, what are you talking about?
If you want to hang out with the new-school punk rockers, hit the Newsroom (3740 Broadway) for a massive free show. Under Ogre, Demon Horse, Burger Kingdom, Hanna Barbarians, and Wrong Crowd will bring shoegaze, garage, punk, and assorted distortions to your ear holes starting at 10 p.m. Donations are appreciated at the door.
Groove Pilots will perform a combination of rock, funk, and blues covers (with a few originals thrown in) at Kelly's Westport Inn (500 Westport Road), starting at 10 p.m. Kelly's will also play host to a costume contest and grand prize giveaway (although there are no details on what prizes will be awarded).
Going down the highway, you can catch all the shows in Lawrence after the jump.
To benefit the KC chapter of music-education effort Guitars in the Classroom, George Winston pushes aside his piano for an all-guitar solo show tomorrow night. Winston, whose piano albums helped define the Windham Hill sound in the 1980s, is also a longtime champion of Hawaiian slack-key guitar. Expect a luau's worth of that finger-style playing as well as some Appalachian sounds. 
Winston plays at 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 30, at Unity Temple on the Plaza (717 West 47th Street). Advance tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for children ($20 and $15 at the door) Get 'em through BrownPaperTickets.com (800-838-3006) or Unity Temple (816-561-4466). The show also benefits Harvesters, which will have barrels in the lobby to collect nonperishable food items for local food banks.
Photo copyright JazzTimes
Platinum-selling goth rockers AFI are coming to town to bestow hits as well as songs from its latest, Crash Love, upon fans at the Uptown this Friday.
AFI wants to meet you.
If you'd like to win two tickets to the show plus the opportunity to meet Davey Havok and the other boys in the band, become a Pitch Insider and register for our AFI prize pack giveaway on the "free stuff" part of our site. While you're at it, send this link to your parents.
We're still a little bummed we don't get Black Wine opening for the Meat Puppets, but we've heard some news that alleviates the pain somewhat: Grant Hart of Hüsker Dü plays our area two nights in a row next week.
On Friday, November 6, Hart opens for the Meat Puppets at the Record Bar. Then, on Saturday night, he headlines the Replay with openers Arthur Dodge & the Horsefeathers.
Hart is touring support of his new album, Hot Wax, which came out earlier this month on MVD.
Mouth has been making these amazing text fliers for their shows, and I've been meaning to showcase them for a while. Most text-only fliers are ugly as sin, but Mouth's Jeremy Anderson -has the ability to do more with a little bit of color and a simple image than most people can do with the whole Photoshop suite. You can check out a whole bunch of his past work over at the band's MySpace.
This show has a pretty swank concept. Anderson explained in an e-mail:
"The idea for the show was for us to pick five of our favorite local emcees, come up with live arrangements for two or three songs by each one, and make the night in to something like a giant live mix tape. We'll also be playing a short set of our own tunes and hosting an open mic for emcees at the end of the night. PopFreeRadio will be broadcasting the whole thing live."
Thanks to our friends at umove.net, we're giving away two pairs of tickets to see Dragonette this Wednesday at Czar Bar. 
The much-hyped Canadian electro-pop band is sure to heat up the dance party. Local beat mechanics Brent Tactic, Norrit and DJ Boyfriend will be on hand to see the ride through.
Fans of new wave pop rock a la Metric will also want to be there, as will fans of magnificent cheekbones and vandalism. At least, those two things feature prominently in the sexy vid for the catchy single "Pick Up the Phone" form Dragonette's latest album, Fixin' to Thrill.
So how do you get in? Send an e-mail to jason.harper@pitch.com (subject line: I swear I saw a dragon!) telling us the name of this beloved Disney dragon:
The first two people to answer correctly will get a pair of tickets each. The contest is open until this entry has been updated saying otherwise.
Congrats to readers Geoff and Kimberly for correctly identifying the lovable fire-breather above as Elliot from Pete's Dragon!
If you didn't know that, then, I'm sorry, but you had no childhood.
Creed reunited after five years and decided to release a new album. It's called Full Circle. There is no God.
In what has to be the biggest release in Kansas City today, we get the tenth studio release from powerhouse rapper Tech N9ne, entitled K.O.D.. The title stands for "King of Darkness," and as you might expect, the album continues Mr. Yates' plumbing the depths of the human soul. The album also has appearances from the Oscar-winning Three 6 Mafia, in addition to the usual Tech N9ne collaborators Kutt Calhoun and Krizz Kaliko.
The Swell Season's Strict Joy not only comes in a regular compact disc, but a limited deluxe version includes the CD, as well as a live CD and DVD entitled One Step Away - Live from the Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI. May 8, 2008. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova came together during the making of Once, and the relationship in the movie turned into something real and beautiful. Now they're broken up, and still making music and touring. This should be interesting.
MP3: the Swell Season, "Low Rising"
Los Lobos Goes Disney is an Amazon exclsuive, meaning you'll have to order it from the online retailer to get it. On the bright side, the album features their cover "I Wan'na Be Like You," originally release in 1988. It also has some very nice, not obvious covers. The two songs from Robin Hood, "Not In Nottingham" and "Ooh-De-Lally," pretty much make this worth buying in and of themselves. "Heigh Ho," "Bare Necessities," and "Cruella De Vil" are just icing on the cake at this point.
Lastly, the movie I exhort you to buy this week is Night of the Creeps. Fred Dekker's first movie -- the one that allowed him to make the also-fantastic Monster Squad -- is finally seeing a DVD release after being unavailable for years, except in Internet bootlegs. A large portion of James Gunn's Slither took its plot from the film, as well as its tongue-in-cheek delivery. It's one of the most fun horror comedies ever -- I ranked it number six on a list I did for Scene-Stealers last Halloween.
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