Tag: Kansas City

Kansas City’s Allen Brooks Turns a Road Trip Errand into the Anthem of the Summer with “Don’t Forget The Weed”

Equal parts humor, heart, and hypnotic groove, “Don’t Forget The Weed” is the kind of track that arrives already grinning and never lets up from the first chant to the final chord. Allen Brooks channels decades of roots rock and blues experience into a song that feels spontaneous, communal, and genuinely alive. If your summer […]

Abdus Da Man – ‘We GoT the Alpha’ Prod. by Kayin, Has a Futuristic Supporting Video

A data rap incorporating elements of the rapper’s personal experience surviving the streets of Philadelphia to make it to the top of New York City and get knocked down back to Kansas City. Video footage shows a young man, in his 20’s, wearing an electrode headset. In real-time, the man’s electrical brain waves are acquired, […]

Bill Abernathy – “More Than Meets The Eye” – the songwriting is extremely accomplished

“There’s more to this than meets the eye. Decisions based on biased lies. Determining who lives and dies. Whose freedom are lost. Whose justice is blind. There’s more to this than meets the eye.” These are the opening lines to Bill Abernathy’s track “More Than Meets The Eye”. Written during the pandemic lockdown period, the […]

Bill Abernathy: “Crossing Willow Creek” – a portrait of an artist totally comfortable in his own skin

Kansas City, Missouri resident Bill Abernathy, began writing songs in his early teens.  He played all through his school years, but then life took over. Bill got married, built a business career, and raised his children.  After his kids graduated from school and started their careers, Bill picked up the guitar again and began trying to rekindle […]

Rex Macadangdang: “The Pasadena Sessions” spreads joy throughout your body

There’s nothing like a pop music mystery. It intrigues, it induces wonder, it confuses. Mysteries, in these days of production line pap, faux-angry American noise bands and Rap moaners, is hard to find. Everything seems so formulaic, so predictable, and so staid. Although new bands are emerging, they seem…well, simple. Rex Macadangdang is many things. […]

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