Best Thing About Monday

by William Chaffin

Here comes another Snowmageddon! An avalanche of winter has it's sights on Kansas City again. The only thing that could lift our spirits in these trying and treacherous times is an otherworldly, amazing hip hop track. 

Something worthy of hitting the repeat button while jammed into traffic or boarded up in our houses. Heartfelt Anarchy delivers a track so goddamn hot that you might be convinced that Summer is waiting just on the other side of these wretched snow clouds.

Heartfelt Anarchy "KillemwiththeFLOW"
heartfeltanarchy.bandcamp.com/track/killemwiththeflow

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Best Thing About Monday

(On Tuesday - Holiday Weekend Edition)

When Good Robots Go Bad  "From the Depths"

Another Monday on Tuesday. A raging lo-fi punk rock battle cry from When Good Robots Go Bad. Something loud, loose & distorted for your lovely, aching ear-holes. 

photo by William Chaffin

That work is piling up. The coffee maker is spurting & heaving it's last exhausted puffs of moisture into the pot. How the fuck can anyone work a Monday on Tuesday? Throw on your earbuds, close your eyes & use your brain tissue to imagine taking a baseball bat to the bosses yuppie-scum mobile. Of course you can't do it but isn't it nice to visualize the fantasy? What the fuck would you do without punk?

Have fun playing ketchup.

whengoodrobotsgobad.bandcamp.com/track/from-the-depths

Wretched Excess "A Piece of Inifinity"

Album Review by William Chaffin

Wretched Excess was likely raised on Dashiell Hammett novels and David Lynch films. Their *Piece of Infinity* plays out like the soundtrack to a film about a down on his luck detective who has developed a fascination with the tattooed lady in the circus who may or may not be addicted to "diet pills" and mahjong. Spoiler alert: She also might be the killer. (Cue suspenseful music)

The whole experience is completely haunting. With whiffs of films skating in and out of your brain...The Shining, Punch Drunk Love, The Long Goodbye, Blue Velvet...even Malle's Elevator to the Gallows. It would be upsetting to find out that Wretched Excess didn't love film. They've crafted a dark & thematic storyline that seduces you. I should mention around the halfway mark things get considerably darker. The storyline takes a sharp turn...there is even a prayer ala Jimmy Stewart (?) that comes across less prayer and more of a warning to all still listening. Sounds begin to exhaust themselves in gentle overdriven wisps. Like cursed whispers from old gypsy ladies. Opera-esque bits meander like ghosts and flutter with sonic lethargy. This is dark and instrumental music at it's best-painting scenes on your closed eyelids in a Pollock-esque way if you can imagine Pollack as a David Lynch character. A minor character made major purely through the remembering but I speak of this remembrance as if it were happening presently without the gaps that actually define it. Right? Wretched Excess establish a gloomy mood-fuck paradigm of wonderful noise fuckery within the first few minutes and reverse cow-girl all the darkest parts of you into sunset.
Now that's a fucking ride.

Get Wretched Excess here:
wretchedexcess.bandcamp.com

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by William Chaffin

The Kill Your TV Kansas City Cover Up Series

Get Up for Stay Down!

Frabjous day droogs! It's time for another installment of Kill Your TV's *KC Cover Up* series!

Kansas City's fine purveyors of stinging indie, r&b, rock and roll The Quivers put their spin on the most righteous, power chord royalty Federation of Horsepower's "Stay Down"
It's a no brainer in two ways.

1. These bands' sounds fit together like the best looking couple at a 1970's orgy. For the record that's damn near perfect.
2. This is rock and roll that doesn't need the critic. It exists because unlike some music whose symbiosis is reliant on cultural capital for clout...bands like Federation of Horsepower and The Quivers are only motivated by wattage and the perpetual orgasmic stink of the power chord.

Enjoy the fucking song you lucky sonsabitches.


Get more Quivers here:
thequivers1.bandcamp.com

Get more Federation of Horsepower here:
www.federationofhorsepower.com

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We Got Wurms!

Kill Your TV is proud to present the first in a series of singles from a collaboration of two of our absolute favorites in Kansas City: Chocolate Velvet & Wurm (from Wurm & The Madness)
We think you'll agree that's it's an otherworldly fantastic hip hop single with smooth lyrical flows and a damn catchy hook.

art by William Chaffin

We need more of this collaboration in Kansas City & we at Kill Your TV are working our asses off to bring it to you. We shun categories. We believe in music. Music made by musicians with persistent passion and unbridled work ethic.
So, without further ado...
We bring you Chocolate Wurms!

killyourtv-kc.bandcamp.com/album/wonderful-daze

Best Thing About Monday

Is Paris Burning "Wild" b/w "This City"
By Lucy McPherson

A furiously fantastic new wave single for your lovely ears this Monday morning. Is Paris Burning evokes the pleasant pop tones of Phoenix but emits more danger & less obvious hooks. Their sound is deep and dark but NOT melancholy.

Think Joy Division but more accessible. Is Paris Burning moves me & sends a pulchritudinous psychic shudder to all my lady parts...I should include the caveat that I'm attempting a hyperbolic statement and not a complete abandonment of my feminist pride. *Girl fucking power!* Is Paris Burning is fantastic. Their music burns and beats along with a tribal-esque fury (think Poster Children) and is anchored down by a frontman who sounds like he was born in a silicon egg designed by new wave pragmatic Danish designers
Is that too far out?

This is a far out Monday.
Have fun!

Get the single here:
isparisburning.bandcamp.com

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