Greenwich Mean Time

The youth hostile hostel where I rested in London earlier this month abutted the offices of BBC 1Xtra. I wistfully considered roads not taken as I longingly watched couriers and employees bustle in and out of the Marylebone office. As the accompanying photo indicates, I compulsively creeped on the station's staff. Because internet access is shockingly shoddy in London, I wasn't able to properly listen to 1Xtra's broadcast until I returned to Kansas. It's delightful to discover that acts like Estelle and Tinchy Stryder are proper stars in G.B.


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I haven't had time to process the passing of Earl Scruggs.

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Jerry "Boogie" McCain has died. (Tip via BGO.)

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Synesthesia, the new release by thePhantom*, contains a nice mix of the styles of Tech N9ne and Fat Tone.

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Possible headline of the year: Jerry Lee Lewis marries cousin's ex-wife.

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Macy Gray's new covers album is a lot of fun. Here's "Maps".

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Marc Myers' interview with John Scofield is loaded with mind-blowing revelations.

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I'm eager to spend quality time at Cultural Equity, but the Lomax archive is aggravatingly buggy.

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I'm not in love with the new album by THEESatisfaction, but I expect that the neo-soul/hip hop project could grow on me.

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By midnight I'll have taken in 57 individual live performances in the past three months. It would seem that my streak of catching over 365 gigs a year will end in 2012.

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Kansas City Click: My official picks are published here.

(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)