In Kansas City, bands have many theories on how to take their sound to the next level. Some concepts, though tried repeatedly, fail: “Hey, let’s tune our guitars really low and play everything in a dismal mid-tempo.” Others are proven repeatedly: “Hey, this band is already damn good, but let’s add Mike Stover to the [...]
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It takes a special temperament to navigate the black comedy of Gothic Americana and not come off as an overwrought boob. This is precisely what Terrence Moore does within the framework of Kansas City’s gloom dwelling American Catastrophe. While frontman Shaun Hamontree’s grisly bellow is a striking focal point, it’s Moore’s guitar, banjo, and harmonica [...]
Jim Holopter is one of the coolest cats around. An orbiter of Midwest music circles for many moons, Diamond Jim is the founding father of KC rockabilly heavies The Rumblejetts, for whom he plays gorgeous things on gorgeous guitars. Jim and the boys have been filling dance floors for more than a decade and have [...]
Is Steve Tulipana the Charlie Parker of post-everything electro-noise? Well, he is an established and uncompromising Kansas City musical force, having put in more than 20 years of playing, recording, and touring. And he’s a known innovator, a pillar of pioneering KC legends Season to Risk (“They don’t sound like any other band, and when [...]
