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Remi Remembers
By JASON HARPER

Not too long ago, in Warrensburg, Missouri, punk was kosher and Kosher was punk.

Starting in the dredges of the Warrensburgeois punk scene and rising all the way to a contract with L.A.'s BYO Records, Kosher was a pretty big deal. Its frontman, Remi Remlinger, is remembered as a patriarch of the scene, and the now-grown kids are going wild for the group's reunion this weekend.

If you youngins recognize the name Remlinger it may be because of Remi's little brothers, Sonny and Joe, who play together in KC power trio Super Black Market. But what you probably don't know is that all three Remlingers used to have a band called G.O.D. with Scott Burnett of Minnow Records. Burnett recently created a MySpace for the group. It's sick.

The Wayward Blog caught up with Remi via to answer 10 questions about himself and Kosher. Read it and snag some MP3s after the jump.

Show Info: Kosher plays with Super Black Market tonight, Friday, May 2 at the Brick and tomorrow, Saturday, May 3, at The 400 in Warrensburg.

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Intrepid Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski ventured to Lawrence this past Saturday to shoot Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's show at Liberty Hall. He also got to chat with front man Peter Hayes.

View a slideshow of the concert here: Go Go Gadget Slideshow.

Read the interview below.

Scott Spychalski: You have put out a lot of music in the past couple of years and have toured relentlessly. Do you ever get worn out, or do you look at it as feeling lucky to be where you are currently, being so creative and having lots of fans?

Peter Hayes: Honestly, yeah you get a little tired, but finally it's grown out of that, and holy shit, we're able to survive without huge record sales and record companies ... they left us again anyway. Yeah it comes down to fans keeping us alive. There is a certain pride in it now. It's really sinking in.

Are you where you thought you would be when you first started out as a band? Where do you think you will be 10 years from now?

Ummm, I guess I imagined it would somehow, I don't know what I imagined ... now I'm kinda just happy as fuck. For awhile it just bugged me that we were just judged as outcasts. All the albums have been pretty well recieved. I guess I just look at it as being proud to be an outcast and that we haven't really caught on with everyone. Somehow we are the biggest little band around, a lot of people know the name but maybe they don't know the music.

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By NADIA PFLAUM

Now that he’s just turned 21, hip-hop fans might be seeing more of Kemet Coleman, aka the Phantom, at events around town. His latest album, Release, came out last summer but I just heard it for the first time – it’s full of dizzyingly fast lyrics and energetic, electro beats. Colemen met me at Kin Lin on 51st Street for Chinese food and some music dish.

Photo by Pflaum. Terrible photo embellishment by Harper.

NP: Is this your first album?

Coleman: It’s actually my fourth. My first one I did in ’99. I was 13 or something so you might not count that, but technically it was an album. It had 17 tracks on it and we were on a label.

When you look back, is it a good album?

No, not really [laughs]. The guy who ran the label had good intentions but really didn’t know too much about hip-hop. We had that whole dreamy-eyes thing. It was cool nonetheless. Albums in between that, I never really released them, so Release is actually my first, uh, release. I guess you can count it as my debut.

Why’d you give it that name?

It was inspired by my ex-girlfriend. She really opened my eyes. I guess I was kind of closed-minded before dating her. She questioned a lot of things that I took for granted and held dearly, in terms of philosophies, so release was about releasing, basically, about letting go. That was basically the premise behind it.

Continue the interview and snag an MP3 after the jump.

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On the Record with the Rosebuds
By ANDY VIHSTADT

Last week, I caught up with the better half of North Carolina’s favorite rock couple, the Rosebuds.

Photo courtesy Myspace.com/therosebuds

AV: You did a bit of stand-up in December. Does the old adage “Every rock star wants to be a comedian and every comedian dreams about being a rock star hold true?

Kelly Crisp: I have been doing it again and it's sometimes great and sometimes awful. It's taking a while to understand how to be one person on stage. It hit me in NY this past winter, "I never go anywhere without my boys!" For the last three or so years, I've had a group of men with me everywhere I go. So when I went to a comedy show alone, I just didn't know how to act. I wasn't performing that night and so it was even weirder. At least if you're performing, you can hide in the back or hang in the corner and look all intrepid and pretend to write important notes, but if you're just one person just at a place... I was way self-conscious. But I like being on stage and I like making people laugh.

Continue the interview and grab an MP3 after the jump.

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