Posts Tagged ‘Sympathetic Vibrations’

Hip-hop and testosterone-filled bravado have run hand-in-hand since the genre’s inception. And save a few brave acts over the decades, few rappers are willing to spit bars about something as vulnerable as their feelings. That’s where KC-native Joe Stanziola, aka Second Hand King, is different. Stanziola, 28, began writing tracks for his new album, “Frankie,”…

Hundreds of area music and film lovers will ascend atop the Central Library this Friday night for the season’s first 2018 Off-the-Wall Film Series: Summer Cinema Mixtape. The annual summer film series, co-presented by the Young Friends of the Kansas City Public Library, provides an intersection between music and film through a collection of beloved…

Unlikely Congressional bedfellows in the U.S. House of Representatives came together last week to unanimously pass a sweeping overhaul of the music licensing and royalty payment laws that may have repercussions from D.C to KC. The bill, known as the Music Modernization Act, now heads to the Senate for debate later this month, where it…

Those who have only known electronic music as the cash printing, mainstream monolith that it has become in recent years might be surprised to hear that the genre actually spent the bulk of its existence in the underground. EDM is the grandchild of house music – a dance variant originating in the ’80s whose pioneering…