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Leonard Cohen performed at the Midland theater Monday.
Like an upper-level graduate course, this show came with some prerequisites: You needed to know the music of Leonard Cohen, and the more intimately, the better.
Just in time for Christmas rush, two of the more popular and successful singer/songwriters of this decade will release new albums on Tuesday: Norah Jones and John Mayer.
If they’re not the hardest-working band in the city, they must be the busiest. One month after the premiere of their film, “Night Is the Mirror,” the members of Alacartoona are back in the business of live theater.
Monday night, Leonard Cohen, 75, will perform at the Midland theater. It will be his first concert in Kansas City, which is grand news to a lot of his diehard fans around here, many of whom will be seeing him for the first time.
Novelty can take you to high places in pop culture, but it won’t keep you there. At some point you’ll need talent and substance to sustain you. When the band Paramore arrived on the scene in 2005, it had the look of a novelty, thanks to its lead singer, the diminutive Hayley Williams, a 16-year-old mighty mite with a siren voice who combined a cheerleader’s enthusiasm with a biker-chick’s strut and pose.
Listening to songs without understanding their lyrics is like eating in the dark. If you can’t see your food, you focus more on other traits, like its aromas and textures. When you can’t focus on a song’s lyrics, you pay deeper attention to its other qualities, like the discreet lines in vocal harmonies or the interplay between soloists and the rhythm section or the band’s lavish wardrobe.
If you’re tired of hearing and reading about the reform of health care and health insurance and want to hear and see people doing something about it, this weekend’s second annual Apocalypse Meow is for you. The event is a benefit/fundraiser sponsored by the Midwest Music Foundation for its Musicians Health Care Fund.
There are plenty of things to do around here this Halloween weekend. Mikal Shapiro, musician and multi-discipline artist, has resurrected one: “Danse Macabre,” her autumn shadow play that celebrates death and the dead.
The rehearsal space for Hearts of Darkness is more than half the size of a racquetball court, but even so, it’s barely big enough these days for a band rehearsal.
Anyone who becomes the most popular in something eventually figures out that once you get to the top, you usually have to work even harder to stay there. That’s especially true when your primary audience is preteens and young adolescents, whose tastes can change as quickly as they grow up.
On Wednesday night, Tina Turner opens her North American tour at the Sprint Center. If you’re going to the show and it’s your first at the Sprint Center, be warned: Fans have complained about the acoustics.
