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Interview
Now in her 90s, Kansas City jazz singer Myra Taylor has had a life of ups and downs in the music industry
By Lorna Perry
Published: February 21, 2008
“Spider and the Fly” by Myra Taylor, from My Night to Dream (2001, APO Records) It's a wintry night at Knuckleheads Saloon in the East Bottoms, but headliner Lavay...
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Wayward Son
Musica Viva: DJing is a second language for Kiko De Gallo
By Jason Harper
Published: February 21, 2008
Download: “Disco Boy (remix by Kiko De Gallo)” by Shantel MP3 Download: “P Funk (remix by Kiko De Gallo)” by Jam Akerson MP3 I never thought my quest for...
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Bonus Tracks
Meet the contestants for the fourth-annual Pitch Ultra Music DJ Contest
By Chris Milbourn
Published: February 21, 2008
At last year's Pitch Ultra Music DJ Contest, Spinstyles pretty much sealed the deal when he dropped Rockaton's remix of Outfield's "Use Your Love." Spinstyles may have been the...
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Bonus Tracks
Twelve Kansas City bands share their thoughts on Armageddon before bringing mayhem to the Mission Theatre
By Andrew Miller
Published: February 21, 2008
"Perish" by Out of the Suffering Local music prophets foresee an impending Winter Armageddon, predicting the time and location of its arrival with chilling precision (4 p.m....
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Bonus Tracks
Clipse says 'We Got It 4 Cheap' — and means it
By Andy Vihstadt
Published: February 21, 2008
If Clipse and its Re-Up Gang collaborators ever get arrested, they might regret rapping about selling more powder than Maybelline. Now signed to Columbia, the outfit is...
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CD Reviews
Jeff Wood
Underneath Me
(Independent)By Andrew Miller
Published: February 21, 2008
Jeff Wood earned plenty of regional goodwill as the booming voice that powered erudite hard-rock act the Sound and the Fury, but the sleeve photo of him strumming a guitar...
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CD Reviews
Tactic
We've Only Just Begun
(Tactic Traxx)By Chris Milbourn
Published: February 21, 2008
Download: All of We’ve Only Just Begun by Tactic via ZShare It didn't take long for DJ Candlewax and Ben Fuller to became peeved by the lack of trendsetting in their...
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Critic's Choice
Ha Ha Tonka
By Richard Gintowt
Published: February 21, 2008
"Caney Mountain" by Ha Ha Tonka Once upon a time, four dudes from Springfield, Missouri, started a group called Amsterband and began harvesting a CCR-informed racket that...
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Critic's Choice
The Alan Parsons Project
By Megan Metzger
Published: February 21, 2008
Sexier than the Human Genome Project, the Alan Parsons Project soothed a wide-lapelled world with 1982's "Eye in the Sky." Eric Woolfson's hushed voice and Parsons' delicate...
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Critic's Choice
Cephalic Carnage
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: February 21, 2008
Cephalic Carnage's world is a place where blood-curdling government conspiracies, paranormal horror and extraterrestrial schemes to forcibly interbreed with humans all come...
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Critic's Choice
Michael Wolff Trio
By John Kreicbergs
Published: February 21, 2008
Chances are, you already know Michael Wolff. You might recognize him as the clueless dad on Nickelodeon's The Naked Brothers Band (which stars his two sons, Nat and Alex) or as...
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Critic's Choice
Brimstone Howl
By Richard Gintowt
Published: February 21, 2008
“Bad Seed” by Brimstone Howl Few are the garage bands that actually sound like they rehearse in a garage. Brimstone Howl is one of them. It's hard to imagine...
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Critic's Choice
Quintron & Ms. Pussycat
By Flannery Cashill
Published: February 21, 2008
Any asshole with a laptop can make music, but it takes an especially enterprising asshole to make a light-responsive synthesizer out of a coffee can. Enter Quintron. He and his...
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Critic's Choice
Eyes of the Betrayer
By Andrew Miller
Published: February 21, 2008
"Play everything," demands MySpace user Mr. Screwjack, voicing the prevailing fan demand for Eyes of the Betrayer's reunion show set list. Sadly for Mr. Screwjack and his ilk,...
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Cafe
Kansas City’s Corona Cantina #1 still has some problems to work out, but we’ll raise a few bottles to the concept
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: February 21, 2008
In 1975, restaurateur Marno McDermott and former Green Bay Packer Max McGee founded a chain of "upscale" Mexican restaurants called Chi-Chi's. In their heyday, these loud and...
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Fat Mouth
Vegetarian lovers of Mexican food long for more than beans, rice and cheese
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: February 21, 2008
A friend of mine was looking over the menu for Corona Cantina #1 (see review, page 31) and didn't see much in the way of vegetarian fare. There isn't a vegetarian category,...
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Film
Be Kind Rewind
Michel Gondry attempts to celebrate DIY filmmaking but comes up short, stale and flat.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: February 21, 2008
The pleasures of Be Kind Rewind do not extend far beyond the promise of its premise: Jack Black, magnetized and manic (yawn), erases every single videotape in the rental store...
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Art
Scope It: Stanton Fernald and Jack Rees enlighten us with medical supplies and plastic
By DANA SELF
Published: February 21, 2008
Conceptual Play is an exhibition about how two artists are drawn to science and math to satisfy their artistic and theoretical impulses. Stanton Fernald works as a graphic...
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Stage
The Unicorn’s new Jerome Stage is the perfect place to get intimate with women who live a world away
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: February 21, 2008
To say that the Unicorn Theatre's new Jerome stage is intimate is not just a polite way of calling it small. This years-in-the-making expansion of the venerable Unicorn is...
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Art Capsules
Art Exhibitions
Published: February 21, 2008
Abstract No. 2 Tomoko Takahashi's work embraces chaos, order and paradox. Her large-scale installations typically focus on the things that pile up around us: bikes, toys,...
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