Lawrence's own Cowboy Indian Bear (hence more referred to as CIB) have grown both sonically and structurally on their second release, Live Old, Die Young. While their first album was a ramshackle collection of indie-pop and a picture of a group still in flux, Live Old...
Former Kansas City native and dance music savant, Chrissy Murderbot is releasing his new album Greatest Hits ***** on Murder Channel Records today. (For those of you that are unfamiliar with the sound of footwork, it stems from Chicago ghetto house/juke music. The footwork...
Kansas City was blasted on a national scale at least twice last year resulting from occurrences at Kauffman and Arrowhead Stadium, beginning with some extended heckling of a Yankee at their own All-Star Game. The Matt Cassel and Eric Winston debacle didn’t exactly uphold the...
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Kansas City hip hop vets, Tommy Lift, Mic Brass, and DJ Hylanda are The Hymnlayas and they have just released their first full-length album, Lift Ya Hands Hy. The beat collective has gathered up an impressive roster of guest appearances with their minimalist, loop driven...
[photo courtesy of Javonne French for Demencha Magazine, 2012] Given any amount of attention to KC’s rap scene for damn near a decade you’re most likely familiar with CES Cru, whose multi-faceted, electric, elastic flows have consistently dominated a city brimming with a...
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Last but not least, Demencha contributor, Mickel Garrett, joined myself, Molly, Sean Malone and Victoria Howell in covering Middle of the Map Fest over the weekend. Here are a few of Mickel's choice shots from the three day fest that took over KC's Westport District. Hit his...
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Area photographer, Victoria Howell, joined some of the Demencha crew in covering Middle of the Map Fest in Westport last week. These are just a few of her more sparkling shots. Victoria can be reached on e-mail at victoriabphoto00@gmail.com and her website is...
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Middle of the Map Fest concluded over this past weekend. Luckily, we brought out three photographers with us to shoot under the Demencha guise over the course of the three day fest in Westport/Midtown Kansas City, MO. The first gallery we're posting comes courtesy of Molly...
On Saturday night/early Sunday the third annual MOTM fest came to a close in Westport. Although I found myself a bit underwhelmed this year, there were definitely some highlights to the three day festival. In order to save space, I've created a list of highlights and lowlights...
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One of our newest contributors, photographer Molly Malone, recently joined Leonard DStroy and Brandon Draper at the Kill Devil Club in Kansas City's Power & Light District. She took some ridiculously sharp shots of DStroy and Draper while they performed on a Thursday night....
