This may be a bit old but it’s worth posting anyway. I PROMISE there will be more action on kccast.com in the future.. I promise.

I’m gonna start doing this occasionally. Just picking a subject pertaining to local music and ranting about it.

Now, on to the bitching. I am directly ragging on venues in K.C, namely The Beaumont Club. I have been jaded by going out of town lately to The Slowdown in Omaha and The Pageant in St. Louis and seeing what a good venue looks like. Hopefully someone will put a place like this in the new power and light district or something and give me a reason to stop complaining.

Feel free to comment and let me know what you think of my rant. Even better, record your own. Just go to cinch.blogtalkradio.com and follow the instructions then send us the link to your podcast. If your rant is solid, we’ll put it up on kccast.

Update: 

Odd that I would be bitching about The Beaumont today and then this little tidbit comes out of the star.

“My goal is to revitalize the Beaumont Club,” Lunkwicz says. “Because there ain’t no party like a Beaumont party because a Beaumont party don’t stop.”

I know I can’t stop partying.. the dirty bathrooms and skeezy drunks I saw last night will keep me going for at least a week.

myspace.com/amcat

Stemming from former bands such as The Black Water, Sky Burial, Sister Mary Rotten Crotch among others, American Catastrophe explores the americana, the rural grit, the murderer and the romantic. A world of the seedy where one can die choking on the dove of peace or be beaten to death by a bouquet of roses. American Catastrophe has most commonly been described as “Dark Americana” and have shared the stage with the likes of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots, The Reverend Glasseye, Humanwine, The Veils, The Ponys and many more. Their first album “Excerpts from the Broken Bone Choir” has received excellent reviews from Pitchfork, popmatters, AMG, among others; debuted on the CMJ charts at 166 and has received international radio play.

Recently signed to oxblood records.

Though the awards show was on sunday, Heavy Frequency has released the winners for the 2007 awards.

The winners of the 2007 Heavy Frequency Awards, as voted by the public, are as follows:

Best Guitarist
Andrew Nagorski
Sicadis

Best Guitar Duo
Aaron Henges, Andrew Nagorski
Sicadis

Best Bassist
Krista Julius
Out of the Suffering, Moire

Best Drummer
Lance Bennett
The Leo Project

Best Vocalist
Tyler Lyon
The Leo Project

Best Frontman
Paul Kelley
Moire

Best New Band
Caesura

Best Metal Band
Sicadis

Best Rock/Hard Rock Band
The Leo Project

Best Punk/Hardcore/Hybrid Band
Of Vice and Virtue

Best Live Performance
Sicadis

Best Live Venue
The Beaumont Club

Album of the Year
Sidewise
Siren

Achiever of the Year
Jim Kilroy
Banzai Magazine/Club Wars

More

Congrats to all the winners… especially Sicadis.. way to clean up guys!

Rat chats with Heather of heavyfrequency.com about many a thing including the Heavy Frequency Awards coming up next Sunday, Feb. 17th at the Overland Park Convention Center.

myspace.com/ratsband

No coast punk rock from Joplin, MO.

myspace.com/wearescouts

January, 28 at Replay Lounge
946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, Kansas 66044
w/ we are voices

myspace.com/onlytheinnocentsurvive?

myspace.com/wearevoices

January, 28 @ The Jackpot
943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, Kansas 66044

myspace.com/theghosttapes

Seven best friends…
…sweating, bleeding, and screaming their skin off.