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Wednesday MidDay Medley
Wednesday MidDay Medley plays with themes and special events. The show features new releases, local artists, glam, indie, punk, funk, folk, hip hop, classic country, jazz, lo-fi, electronic, soul, latin, broadway, cuban, african, ambient, and live in-studio performances from area musicians, performers, and writers.
Wednesday MidDay Medley
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Spinning Records With Marion Merritt + Red Kate & Too Much Rock
Mark welcomes Marion Merritt, of Records With Merritt, who joins us as “Guest Producer” to share sonic discoveries and information from her musically-encyclopedic-brain. Marion will spin tracks from: The O’Jays, The Chocolate Watchband, Wooden Shjips, LaVice & Company, THE DESCENDANTS OF MIKE AND PHOEBE, Death & Vanilla, The Brian Jonestown Massacre & Asia Argento, CSC Funk Band, Orgone, Funkadelic, Bardo Pond, The Sufis, Tess Parks, Sunny War, Joan Armatrading, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and more. Records With Merritt is located at 1614 Westport Road, KCMO. More info at: www.recordswithmerritt.com.
At 11:30 members of Red Kate share their new Too Much Rock – Singles Series, 7” vinyl 45 rpm release. Their original song, “Iraqi Girl,” is on side A, with a side B cover of TSOL’s,” American Zone,” the first recording with the band’s newest member, rhythm guitarist Shaun Hamontree. Both tracks were recorded at Weight and Measures Soundlab with engineer Duane Trower and producer L. Ron Drunkard. Red Kate celebrates the release of the new record Friday, February 23 at Davey’s Uptown with Reacharounds from Springfield, MO, Arson Class and Vidco Kult. The band also plays an all ages show Saturday, March 3 at Mills Record Company with Martian Martian Martian. The single is out February 24 at record stores throughout the region and online at black-site.org/red-kate and redkate.bandcamp.com.
Also joining us is Sid Sowder, founder of Too Much Rock, a music blog site he created in 1997 to share his photos, videos & comments of live music shows he attends. The Too Much Rock Singles Series is a collection of 45 rpm singles that marry great songs with great bands all for the love of vinyl. Each old-school two-song single features one unique song paired with one cover chosen by Too Much Rock who press 500 limited edition copies and then simply give them to the band. Schwervon!, Rev Gusto, Josh Berwanger Band, The Uncouth, Hipshot Killer, and Witch Jail have all recorded for the Too Much Rock Single Series. More info at: www.toomuchrock.com
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