Mike Warren
Music ReviewerMike Warren began as editorial assistant at The Pitch in Kansas City more than 20 years ago, and he's been writing about local music ever since. In addition to teaching writing at Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods, he still writes for The Pitch and a variety of national publications, including No Depression.
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Jenna Rae and Martin Farrell both grew up in cities. But when the two got serious about playing music together as the folk duo Jenna & Martin, they ended… -
There was a time, around Kansas City — and the whole country — when the Ozark Mountain Daredevils were the soundtrack of summer.When you drove around… -
When Lawrence songwriter Sky Smeed starts his new album lamenting that he’s leaving yet again, he sounds sad, like we're about to hear a story of one more… -
When singer/songwriter Kelly Hunt arrived in Kansas City from Memphis three years ago, the relocation came with a surprise: There was already a well-known… -
Brandon Draper will not be getting a summer vacation this year.Draper is a percussion and music business instructor at the University of Kansas, and this… -
This is a love story, of sorts, between a middle-aged, but still-famous, Kansas City rock band and an ancient Norwegian women’s chorus.Kansas City roots… -
Every once in a while, a Kansas City band releases an original Christmas song. But it’s unusual for area musicians to put out an entire album of holiday… -
When The Matchsellers’ Julie Bates sent out the word that she was organizing Cover Me, Kansas City Folk, an evening of local roots and acoustic… -
For Truck Stop Love, the early ‘90s were a magical rock and roll blur.Some things the band does remember: recording their major label debut for Scotti… -
Fred Wickham has clearly absorbed the spirit of the Hadacol Caravan.Back in the early ‘50s, the Caravan, named for an alcohol-laden “medicine” designed to…
