Fall arts | Little rest for rock fans - KansasCity.com

Summer is typically the busiest season in the live-music industry, but this autumn?s lineup is full and is shaping up to be one for the ages. It includes the Queen of Pop and the man fondly known as the Boss.

Sept. 8 | Crossroads Music FestivalThis multi-venue event, now in its eighth year, showcases primarily local bands. One of its main venues over the past few years, Crosstown Station, closed a month after last year?s festival. Its spot has been filled by Crossroads KC, the outdoor venue behind Grinders and Grinders West.Fifteen bands will perform at four venues, all within walking distance of one another: Crossroads KC, 417 E. 18th St.; Midwestern Musical Co., 1830 Locust St.; the Brick, 1727 McGee St.; and Czar Bar, 1531 Grand Blvd.The bands and their venues: ??Hearts of Darkness, Makuza and My Brothers and Sisters at Crossroads KC??Starhaven Rounders, Dead Voices, Victor & Penny and the Rural Grit All-Stars at the Brick??Cherokee Rock Rifle, the Atlantic, John Velghe and the Prodigal Sons and Mikal Shapiro, Kasey Rauch and Shane Organ at Czar Bar??Appropriate Grammar, Dim Peepers, the Hillary Watts Riot and Thom Haskins at Midwestern Musical Co.There is also a pre-party/show on Sept. 7 at Crossroads KC. The lineup features the Good Foot, the Grisly Hand and a reunion show by the Supernauts. Tickets are $10 in advance, $13 at the gate.A ticket to all four venues for Saturday?s festival is $15 in advance, $18 at the gate. A two-day pass to Friday and Saturday events is $20. Sept. 28 | Ben Folds Five at Starlight TheatreThey have reunited for a new album and a tour, their first since the trio broke up in 2000. (They did a one-time reunion show in 2008.) The album, ?The Sound of the Life of the Mind,? is due in September. Tickets: $25 to $75 Oct. 13 | Norah Jones at the MidlandShe is touring off her latest album, ?Little Broken Hearts,? produced by Brian Burton, also known as Danger Mouse. ?Hearts? is a melancholic break-up album, and it has been the focus of her shows, but her set list goes back to her earliest albums. She and her band, says the Guardian UK, ?seamlessly glide from the Danger Mouse-induced gothicky foreboding of ?Good Morning? to the hip-swinging country of ?Cold Cold Heart,? then move on to ?Sinkin? Soon,? which reconstitutes the bawdiness of Brecht and Weill in a breezy American way.?Tickets: $48.50 and $60 Oct. 19 | Vicente Fernandez at the Sprint CenterFernandez, 72, is the king of ranchera music and as iconic in Mexico as Elvis Presley was in America. This is his second show at the Sprint Center in less than a year. His all-Spanish show on Oct. 23 before almost 10,000 elated fans lasted three hours, without break. He is not to be missed, whether you speak his language or not.Tickets: $39 to $150. Oct. 30 | Madonna at the Sprint CenterShe turned 54 this month, but she?s out on the road acting like a diva in her heyday. Her world tour, which launched in Tel Aviv in May, comprises more than six dozen stops, including her first-ever in Kansas City.Reviews of the show have been mostly positive, though some much less glowing than others. The set list focuses heavily on her latest album, ?MDNA,? at the expense of some of her best-known songs.From the Guardian UK: ?The show is bullishly heavy on the recent, and decidedly so-so ?MDNA?; its tracks make up nearly half the set. In addition, the hits that do turn up have frequently been faffed about with in a way that speaks less of brilliant reinvention than an innate misunderstanding of what their original strengths were.?The Daily Mail: ?Madonna didn?t become the most inventive female pop star of her generation by turning herself into a human jukebox recycling old hits. And, on this showing, she remains one of the greats.?The only seats remaining are $355. Nov. 17 | Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Sprint CenterIt?ll be his first show in Kansas City since August 2008. He?d scheduled a stop at the Sprint Center in October 2009, but that show was canceled at the last minute after a member of his crew, who was also his cousin, was found dead in his hotel room.Since then, Springsteen?s longtime sidekick, saxophonist Clarence Clemons, has died. His five-piece horn section includes Clemons? nephew Jake Clemons on sax. He has been throwing down three-hour-plus shows on this tour, including a recent one at a sold-out Fenway Park in Boston that approached four.Tickets: $55-$95.

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