{"id":53488,"date":"2017-01-31T12:52:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T18:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=53488"},"modified":"2017-01-24T13:08:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T19:08:46","slug":"battery-tour-charging-up-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/01\/31\/battery-tour-charging-up-kansas-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery Tour Charging Up Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musicians use their art as an outlet, but for Christian Robinson and AY, their \u201coutlet\u201d has a double meaning.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between the two Kansas City natives, their energy is channeled\u00a0into Battery Tour<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a new form of live entertainment that we\u2019ve never seen before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-53490 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13653255_481594008714895_5584473039002867314_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"13653255_481594008714895_5584473039002867314_o\" width=\"419\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13653255_481594008714895_5584473039002867314_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13653255_481594008714895_5584473039002867314_o-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13653255_481594008714895_5584473039002867314_o-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13653255_481594008714895_5584473039002867314_o-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13653255_481594008714895_5584473039002867314_o.jpg 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/>AY-Musik is a rap artist who got his start in music six years ago on the X Factor. Christian touts his singing voice, dance skills and knowledge of the greats, like Prince and Michael Jackson. These two are combining their strengths and love for the people to start Battery Tour&#8217;s success from the bottom up.<\/p>\n<p>You may have seen them feeding that energy right back to the Country Club Plaza\u00a0where they bring their art\u00a0to the streets for six to 10 hours at a time.\u00a0Between the singing,\u00a0dancing\u00a0and a crowd full of people partying along with them, nobody knows where the night is going to take them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We create the music, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but Battery Tour is a platform to elevate the people, &#8221; said AY.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The boys have their KC pride, but hit the road to tour Los Angeles\u00a0this\u00a0winter to promote their\u00a0new album, <em>Battery Tour Tapes Volume 1<\/em>,\u00a0available to download for free on\u00a0their website. So while Battery Tour is going to find new batteries to get charged up in LA, plug in at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batterytour.com\/\">batterytour.com<\/a> to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full story and interview with the duo below:<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kjhk\/charged-up-travelling-with-the-battery-tour?in=kjhk\/sets\/ad-astra-pressure&amp;color=993300&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=false&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musicians use their art as an outlet, but for Christian Robinson and AY, their \u201coutlet\u201d has a double meaning.\u00a0Between the two Kansas City natives, their energy is channeled\u00a0into Battery Tour, a new form of live entertainment that we\u2019ve never seen before. AY-Musik is a rap artist who got his start in music six years ago on the X Factor. Christian touts his singing voice, dance skills and knowledge of the greats, like Prince and Michael Jackson. These two are combining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15553,"featured_media":53489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3226,15],"tags":[971,1764,6464,6445,6580,6463,5800,408,89,18],"class_list":["post-53488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-articles","category-featured-on-kjhk","tag-ad-astra","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-ay","tag-battery-tour","tag-battery-tour-tapes-volume-1","tag-christian-robinson","tag-jordan-winter","tag-kansas-city","tag-local-music-2","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15202698_535960823278213_5822376242518190361_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}