Stoked about this upcoming festival in KC featuring: Mission of Burma, Neon Indian, Murder by Death, Fun, The Appleseed Cast and much much more.

Not-to-be-missed is the first show by hometown heroes, Molly McGuire along with Season To Risk and Cher U.K. at the Record Bar. Long live KC Core!

Middle Of the Map Fest. April 5th – 7th

Hoping the dude brings it to KC this time as well. If not, I’ll be the guy yelling out Bryan Adams requests.

UPDATE: He pretty much brought it. Although seeing Adams is never a completely painless ordeal, he played a 2.5 hour show, covering most of his well known catalog. Sprinkled a lot of semi-humorous, self-indulgent comedic attempts along the way. The bar ran out of beer before the show even began.

So while perfectly performed, it was a bit of a snoozer. Fans ranged from rude to downright pathetic, yelling comments such as “You’re putting me to sleep, Ryan” and “Thank you for your music, Ryan.” All in all, I wish he would have brought this level of enthusiasm to his show with the Cardinals last time around.

Love this record