![PHOTOS: The Popper’s CD Release Party @ Czar [Last Night]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The-Popper-EDIT-for-Featured-Image.jpg&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
Last night was a lot of fun up at Czar. Special shout outs to The Popper and KC Landmarks, DJ Fresh, DJ Rice, DJ Sun-Up Jones, Guerrilla Movement, James Christos, PL, Mad Marlon, Jaz at 64111, and everyone who performed....
![REVIEW: Steddy P – “Better Make Room” [Indyground Entertainment]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/steddy-p-pic.jpg&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
Steddy P makes no effort to hide the work he puts into his music. As the Founder/CEO/man with a plan behind Indyground Entertainment, he’s put some serious time into promoting his projects and making Indyground a name in the Midwest. When Steddy’s latest project, Better Make...
Coachella's "performance" by a holographic Tupac has been blowing up across social media. From a technology standpoint, it's pretty cool. This is the kind of thing that makes me wish the World's Fair was still going on. I also watched this Asimo video yesterday and was...
![REVIEW: Middle of the Map Fest [Chris Mills' Take]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/crowd-at-riot-room-saturday-1024x490.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
I wasn’t expecting Ink and The Record Machine’s Middle of the Map Fest last weekend to be as draining and taxing as it turned out to be this year. Perhaps I’m just getting older? Or perhaps music festivals and I don’t always cooperate with each other. Back in 2007,...
![REVIEW: Middle of the Map Fest [Sean Malone's Take]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Cast1.jpg&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
The second annual Middle of the Map Fest (organized by Ink and The Record Machine) kicked off last week with its first shows on the inaugural Thursday night of the lineup. All of us at Demencha had a great time celebrating the local scene and the national artists that joined us...
I've seen JL (pictured) perform a few times, but I haven't heard much in the way of recordings. The beats on this EP were cooked up by my man Info Gates, who I'm also more familiar with as an MC than as a producer. So, I was curious. Heavy Metal Objects is available on JL's...
A couple of years ago, I asked a friend of mine what she thought the next big thing in music could be. "Maybe lo-fi will make a comeback," she quipped jokingly. Enter the Kansas City-based, beat-creating collective, The Outer Peoples. Primarily comprised of BMoody, Dan...
I made it out to Lawrence this past Friday night for the Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 show at The Granada. With Jason at the wheel, we arrived around 8:30 pm to see what was happening at the venue site and to scope out the crowd. Mass Street was full of stylish sidewalk strollers...
Last night I trekked out to two different hip hop shows in Kansas City. I knew they would be very different from one another, but I don't think the differences really struck me with such authority until I just recently sat down to write this. The Kansas City Academy at 79th...
[pictured: Reggie B & Diplo] Even though I recently expressed some concern over the lack of promotion for music concerts and shows in Lawrence, the Diplo/Chiddy Bang/Lunice show last night at Granada drew anything but a sparse crowd. KC funkateer, Reggie B, and I cruised...
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