Eight One Sixty W/ Chris Haghirian

It’s all about new music as the calendar turns to November, KC musicians are still stacking new releases high in 2021!We’re excited to play new and recent releases for you from Wonderfuzz, Nick Siegel, IVORY BLUE, Elexa Dawson, Rob Rice, Clay Hughes, Daisan The Coward, Alien Hellbop, Reach, The Epitome, Antipsychotic Cocktail, and Birdie .

On this episode we talk about some upcoming shows in November and encourage you to SAVE THE DATE and make sure they're on your calendar!There are some great fundraiser shows happening in November, all doing amazing things:Saturday, Nov 6, Apocalypse Meow 14, a fundraiser show for Midwest Music Foundation - a livestream event - hear music from Katy Guillen and The DriveThursday, Nov 11, Pints With A Purpose for James Carter aka Sarge at The Irish Center of Kansas City - a live and in-person event - hear music from Timbers and David LutherSaturday, Nov 20, Thundergong! a fundraiser for Steps Of Faith Foundation hosted by Emmy-winner Jason Sudeikis - a livestream event - hear a song from the great Ted Lasso.We also talk about and hear music from a couple bands with album release shows on the November Concert Calendar, Frogpond and The Roseline. And then we play some music from other acts with upcoming gigs that we’re looking forward to: Hembree, The Casket Lottery, and Effie.

It's all about new music as we hear new and recent releases from a dozen KC-area acts.We criss-cross genres from indie rock to hip hop, from Americana to bedroom pop, and a few in between. New stuff from KEVIN MORBY, Various Blonde, Caley Rose, Second Hand King, Jake Wells, The Greeting Committee, Stik Figa, Tech N9ne, Grant Klein, Brian Fees, Exit 13, and Belle & The Vertigo Waves.

It's a 3-ring circus and we kick off the show by announcing the line-up for one of my favorite events of every year, Apocalypse Meow hosted by Midwest Music Foundation, happening virtually on Saturday, November 6 with 5 bands playing live sets at recordBar. We play music from 4 of those acts on the show.After that, hear some new releases from Hermon Mehari & Alessandro Lanzoni, Paris Williams, The Nite Owls: Wyatt Brewer & Sarah Lynn, and Lonnie Fisher And The Funeral.Also, music from 3 of the 35+ bands playing this weekend's Any/all Music and Arts Festival, The Sluts, The Royal Chief, and Jass. The fest takes place in and around Blip Roasters in The West Bottoms.

We dive headfirst into the October Concert Calendar on this episode of the Eight One Sixty. This month is stacked with so many great concerts to catch, it’d be impossible to talk about all of them, but we work our way through 11 upcoming shows that should be on your radar.Hear about these shows and from acts on the bill:10/06/21 The Matchsellers' Wednesday Night Pickin' Party’ hosted by The Matchsellers at The Westport Saloon - EVERY WED IN OCT10/07/21 St. Vincent (moved from The Uptown) at Grinders KC10/07/21 The Reminders at the Polsky Theatre at Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College10/08/21 Jake & The Dirty Magicians & J. Taylor at Velo Garage and Tap House presented by The Record Machine 10/09/21 Japanese Breakfast (show moved from Granada) at Liberty Hall10/10/21 Black Box Jazz Series presents Marcus Lewis Big Band at The Black Box in The West Bottoms10/12/21 Erykah Badu at Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland10/15/21 Other Americans, Scout, and Belle & The Vertigo Waves at L

We dive into new and recent releases from 10 KC area bands on this episode of the Eight One Sixty.Hear music from Elevator Division and namelessnumberheadman, they’re playing together at the recordBar this Friday night.Plus, the brand new single from Hembree, they just announced a big Black Friday show at The Truman along with Madisen Ward and Dreamgirl.Also, hear from Quiet Takes, Jaclyn Bell, Rob Rice, Lee Walter Redding, Khrystal , and Sydny August. Then, hear a new single from Glass Bandit, who made a lot of new friends playing at this past weekend’s Plaza Art Fair.And because I’m really excited about it, we’ll kick things off with Future Islands who are playing tomorrow night at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS - some tix still available.

For this week's show, we've got special guests, Jeremy Bennett, a passionate Bridge listener and supporter that is in charge of all of the cool events happening at Crossroads Hotel Kansas City and Sarah Bradshaw will be hanging out and producing the show.We talk about and play music from bands that will be on stage this weekend. For Camp Leavenworth we hear music from Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, Katy Guillen and The Drive, and Quite Frankly. For the Plaza Art Fair, we hear music from OLIVIA FOX, Sam Arjes, They Call Me Sauce, and Hermon Mehari. And a brand new one from Nicole Springer who is pulling a doubleheader and playing BOTH events.

We hear brand new stuff from 12 great KC bands andkick off the show with the first new single from Frogpond in over 20 years (it’s so good)!  We also talk about their upcoming album release show. Also, new music from two of my favorite albums of 2021 so far: The Greeting Committee release their brand new album “Dandelion” on Friday, September 24 and Baby And The Brain released their debut album “BrainBaby” on September 3.Hear brand new songs from recent and forthcoming albums from Quiet Takes, David Luther, Daniel Gum, PURE XTC, Shawn Stewart, Kadesh Flow, The Shortest Forever, and we’ll premiere a new single from Catty Cline - they’re releasing a new EP, “Sratch” on September 25 via Manor Records.And new music from an EP called “3 For Jett” from Cash Ramsay. It's an EP he wrote for his newborn son named Jett and it features his wife, Jenny Ramsay on backing vocals. 

We celebrate and talk about KKFI Crossroads Music Fest on this episode! The 17th annual fest is happening this Saturday in FOUR outdoor venues and showcasing music from 30+ acts. On the show, we play music from 10 of the acts on the fest, including The Freedom Affair, Kadesh Flow & Jessica Paige, Quite Frankly, Grand Marquis, The Black Creatures, The Life I Love, Sam Wells, Jass, Sara Morgan, and Ginny Mac (Ft. Worth, TX).In addition to that, we talk about the live stream component of the fest. If you love KC music but perhaps aren’t ready to return to show-going, you can fire up Facebook and watch the live stream on CMF’s Facebook page OR you can tune into KKFI 90.1 FM from 7PM-midnight and catch five of the performances happening live at Lemonade Park.And at the top of the show, we tip our hat to our friends at The Kansas City Irish Fest. Their annual fest happened this past weekend and they created some amazing programming with their fest and specifically, the MixTape set giving a massive stage an

It’s all about the Kansas City Irish Fest 2021, happening this Labor Day Weekend, Friday-Sunday at Crown Center.On the show, we play music from a dozen of the acts playing on FIVE stages over the three days of the fest. We also talk about the special performance on Sunday at 7PM of Mixtape - where several KC acts will hold court and offer up their take on some massive Irish songs, everything from the Cranberries to Van Morrison.We also tell you set times for several acts playing the fest, but to see the full lineup and to make your own schedule head to KCIrishFest.com.Hear music from St. Andrews Pipes and Drums, The Elders, Young Dubliners, Carswell & Hope, Kadesh Flow, The Narrowbacks, Scythian, Ashley Davis, KIAN BYRNE, Danny Burns, Cassie and Maggie, and Runa.

Hear music from a dozen KC-area acts including Katy Guillen and The Drive, Clay Hughes (featuring G. Love), Scores, Lazy Projector, Juliette Frost, Videodisk, Riley The Musician + CMTEN, Jairy (featuring. R.I.Peter + Catty Cline), Black Light Animals, namelessnumberheadman, and Travis Marvin.

Hear brand new music by 11 Kansas City-area bands and musicians this time on the show. This is our third week in a row featuring all-new music from musicians that call Kansas City home and several of them have gigs coming up.Check out new releases from Geraldine Glen (featuring musicians from The Freedom Affair), Effie, Melissa Mayhew (produced by Eric from Hembree), J. Taylor, PmBata, Musicbyskippy, and Nicholas St. James.Also hear from these musicians with upcoming gigs:- Monta At Odds - playing at recordBar on Friday, celebrating the release of their new album, along with Emmaline Twist- Lava Dreams - playing at Lemonade Park on Thursday, August 26, as part of "PLAYBACK: Covering 20 Years of Music Discovery" Screening & Concert, for The Bridge- The Roseline - playing a free show in Lawrence on Thursday, August 26 at South Park- The Grisly Hand - playing Brew at the Zoo & Wine Too on October 6At the top of the show, we talk about PLAYBACK, the very cool concert and music video event happening on Thu

It's another round of new music this week and ALL of August on the Eight One Sixty! We’ll hear brand new music from 10 KC area acts.This week we’ll hear new stuff from Blackstarkids, Brent Windler, Emmaline Twist, FlareThaRebel, Kate Whitefield, Andrew M. Olsen, You Monster You, PURE XTC, Cheery, and Miguel Antonio.We’ll also unpack this past weekend in live music. We’ll talk about the massive award that The Bridge won over the weekend. And we’ll talk about PLAYBACK, an upcoming event on Thursday, August 26 at Lemonade Park celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Bridge with appearances by Kianna White, Lava Dreams, and Jass - and oh yeah, there will be a screening of an amazingly cool music video project where we partner with several KC bands, it’s going to be a cool night and you’re invited to attend! RSVP at this link!

On the next episode of the Eight One Sixty, it's all about new music! We just finished an amazing four-part series called Sound Minds all July, and during that time we received SO MANY new music submissions. Chris will be sharing that music with you for the next four weeks of August.This week, we'll hear new stuff from 11 KC area bands/musicians:Hipshot Killer, just released “Guns and Gas” EP on July 30Hembree just released a new single on July 20Sisterbot just released a new album, “Truth House,” on July 10Tre Mutava just released a new album, “The Movies,” on July 30Kadesh Flow just released a new album, “Room Service 2,” on July 19Sunshine Lombré just released a new album, "Fading Away,” in JulyBaby and the Brain just released another new single on July 30The Way Way Back just released their new album on July 23Use Your Atlas are releasing “Rise and Fall” EP on Aug. 1The Life I Love released new singles back in AprilRachel Mallin and The Wild Type just released “Thank You Stranger” EP on July 23

On this week's episode of the Eight One Sixty, we wrap up our four-part series, Sound Minds. Back in March, Michelle Bacon conducted a survey about musicians dealing with mental health issues. Over 160 musicians did the survey and for the past four weeks, Bacon has been co-hosting the show and guiding a conversation about the survey findings. She’s also offered up numerous options from organizations and places that provide affordable (and perhaps free) care for people in need. In addition to Bacon sharing her findings and data, we have also been playing music from musicians and sharing the story behind the song, dealing with mental health. This week on the show we’ll hear from Kirsten Paludan, Molly Picture Club, Mac Lethal, and Phoebe Bridgers.We’ll also be hearing music, and the story behind it from these musicians with upcoming gigs:Sam Wells, playing Thursday for Folk Alliance International's Finest Folk showcase at Lemonade Park, along with The Matchsellers and Lyal StricklandTeri Quinn of True Lions, pl

Our July series, Sound Minds, continues this week on the Eight One Sixty. This week we welcome in special guest Dr. Katie Jacobs via Zoom. Also joining us, Michelle Bacon guiding the conversation, and Sarah Bradshaw producing the show.Sound Minds is a four-part series of shows all about musicians and mental health. In March 2021, Michelle Bacon conducted a survey and over 160 musicians participated. The conversation will be about the survey findings as well as gaining perspective from our guest, Dr. Katie Jacobs.In addition to being a PhD and teaching at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, she is also the front person for the rock band Interstate Run - so we’ll get extra insight, as a musician and a doctor. Doc also picked out some songs to share this week on the show, including music from her band, Interstate Run, as well as Sia, Young the Giant, and The All-American Rejects.We’ll also hear from two KC area musicians that shared their music with us, as well as the story behind the song, in con

Our Sound Minds series continues, as we welcome in special guest Dr. Erin Corriveau. Dr. Corriveau is a medical doctor at University of Kansas Medical Center, deputy medical officer at Wyandotte County Health Center and she’s on the Midwest Music Foundation board. This is part 2 of our four-part series on musicians and mental health, based on a survey and findings put together by Bridge content manager Michelle Bacon. Leading the conversation this week is Dr. Corriveau. In addition to providing important insight and knowledge, she also shares with us her amazing taste in music. Listen for songs from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bonny Light Horseman (featuring Justin Vernon), Neko Case, The New Pornographers, Sharon Van Etten, Arve Henriksen, Justin Townes Earle, and her good friend Howard Iceberg.

On this episode we kick off a 4-part series of shows called SOUND MINDS. Every year on the show we dedicate the month of July to a series of shows, and this year as our lives adjust to a new normal, and as our musician community was hit so hard during the pandemic, this might be our most important series yet! Every Tuesday this month The Bridge's Content Manager Michelle Bacon joins the show. Back in March she researched and developed a survey dealing with musicians and mental health. Over 165 musicians replied and with this data and other research and we discuss her findings on the show.Also, this week we reached out to some KC Musicians with upcoming gigs and asked if they had a song in their catalog dealing with this topic that we could play AND we asked them for a few sentences about the back story of the song. We hear from Katy Guillen and The Drive, Miguel Antonio, Crystal Rose, Kadesh Flow, and Nicole Springer and share the story behind each song we play.

On this week's Eight One Sixty, Chris catches up with Madisen of Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear. Last week they were added to the already amazing lineup of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and Lucinda Williams on Thursday, Aug. 3 at Azura Amphitheater. They made the lineup even better!And in September, Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear are part of another great lineup, this time at a fest in Leavenworth. It’s called Camp Leavenworth and features Melissa Etheridge, returning to her hometown for a big show.On the show we’ll talk about those events and musicians, and so much more. Do you remember seeing Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2015? Do you recall that Coach Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots was also a guest? Madisen tells us a story about nearly getting arrested in an Uber moments after leaving the Ed Sullivan Theater.We’ll hear about the podcast they started during quarantine, “Mad Mama Half Happy Hour Podcast.” They’ve already had massive guests like Will Fort

On this week's Eight One Sixty, Chris catches up with Madisen of Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear. Last week they were added to the already amazing lineup of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and Lucinda Williams on Thursday, Aug. 3 at Azura Amphitheater. They made the lineup even better! And in September, Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear are part of another great lineup, this time at a fest in Leavenworth. It's called Camp Leavenworth and features Melissa Etheridge, returning to her hometown for a big show. On the show we'll talk about those events and musicians, and so much more. Do you remember seeing Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2015? Do you recall that Coach Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots was also a guest? Madisen tells us a story about nearly getting arrested in an Uber moments after leaving the Ed Sullivan Theater. We'll hear about the podcast they started during quarantine, "Mad Mama Half Happy Hour Podcast." They've already had massive guests like Wil