Friday The 13th in chocked full of great shows to consider in St. Louis, Missouri and beyond. However, Kansas City, Missouri just happens to be having three different album release shows that are worth noting. The first is The Red Headed League CD release show at Mini Bar in the Disaster Room with The Cowtown Playboys and the Joey Skidmore Band.
"A Fistful Of Dharma" is the title of the new release. The doors open at 9:00 pm and the show starts at 10:00 pm. Tickets are $5.00. Visit HERE for the event details on Facebook.
The second is The Runaway Sons who are celebrating their "Intervention" album release show at Records With Merritt with Snakehound, Parants and J.O.T.W.E.
(Acronym for Janis Of The Warship Emerald) This concert is free and goes from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm. Visit HERE for the event details on Facebook.
The third is Chosin's "Tainted Praise" album release at The Batcave at Rhythm & Booze. Kenny "Chosin" Mack, Throwbakc of Childish Adults and Jason Jeremiah will all be performing. This concert goes from 8:30 pm to 2:30 am and costs $5.00. Visit HERE for the event details on Facebook. Check out the artists online below and continue on for more about The Red-Headed Bandits also.
- The Red-Headed League: (Kansas City, MO)
Genre: 60's Garage, Punk, Psyche
http://mesniu.wixsite.com/red-headed-league
https://www.facebook.com/redheadedleagueband
https://redheadedleague.bandcamp.com
- The Runaway Sons: (Kansas City, MO.)
Genre: Punk, Garage, Rock
https://www.facebook.com/therunawaysons
http://www.therunawaysons.bandcamp.com
Google The Runaway Sons: https://g.co/kgs/p1esBh
- Chosin: (Kansas City, MO.)
Genre: Hip-Hop
https://www.facebook.com/Chosin816
(Pre-Order On Amazon)
https://www.amazon.com/Tainted-Praise-Kenny-Chosin-Mack/dp/B07BHXT496
The musicians of The Red-Headed League ride a local musical legacy all the way back to the early 1960s. During the 1980s, lead guitarist JP Coffin (of 60s bands Johnny Coffin and His Undertakers, In Black & White, The Wizards From Kansas) began playing in local punk bands with bassist Dave Olds (Sin City Disciples, and with JP in The Sinclairs/EMF). In 1990, Dave and JP connected with rhythm guitarist Mark Stahl (Nosferatu, The Jolly Rogers) to form D.E.M. - Deus Ex Machina - a fusion of punk, psychedelia, and jazz. The mid-2000s saw JP, Dave, and Mark reunited in The Kansas City Hitmen, laying down some severe garage blues. In 2013 they regrouped as The Red-Headed League, recruiting long-time local musician Daniel Starling (La Fuente Del Ritmo, Power & Fear, DWSTAR, Bipolar Magnets) on keyboards, Ingrid Harper of the Seattle-area act The Rrhoids on percussion, and newcomer Jessee Koehn on drums. In 2017 JP and Ingrid departed to focus on other projects, so Joey Skidmore (of The Royal Nonesuch and The Joey Skidmore Band) was recruited into the League for rhythm guitar and vocal duties.
Their sound that has been fermenting and fomenting on the furthest fringes of Kansas City's music scene for decades. Echoing from Riverbottom to Tombstone Alley, from the Crossroads to Midtown and beyond, it's a sound you can't escape. And sometimes you get the opportunity to happen upon it -- too loud to avoid. You feel in your soul. It’s a HAPPENING: a new opportunity - freeing a tiger from its cage. The Red-Headed League - real, gritty, and totally Kansas City.
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