By Chris Mills | March 28, 2012 at 5:19 pm | One comment
If you're just another person in KC trying to make a "documentary" on local music/hip hop and you're not at this show, you might want to reconsider your mission statement, or just quit entirely. I believe the picture above was shot by one Jeremy McConnell (Editor of Flavor...
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By Chris Mills | January 29, 2012 at 7:10 pm | No comments
Besides being an awesome writer and having one of the sharpest voices here at Demencha Magazine, Nick Ah-Loe aka DJ A:42 keeps it even more real by playing all vinyl still today in 2012. As I understand it, he doesn't do a lot of DJ gigs, but how are you gonna front on five...
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By Sean Malone | December 25, 2011 at 4:39 pm | 2 comments
10. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
I almost left this one off, but I felt like I would be remiss not to include an indie album that has received praise and attention from so many varying corners of pop culture. Singer/songwriter Justin Vernon’s home state of Wisconsin declared not...
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By Sean Malone | October 19, 2011 at 4:12 pm | 3 comments
For some of us, HUM were a late 90s obsession. The group was somehow loud, melodic and intelligent all at once without ostensibly being math rock. Their songs existed somewhere between the calculated and massive noise of a metal band and the expressive and urgent sound of late...
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By Chris Mills | May 17, 2010 at 10:33 pm | No comments
You already know how big we are on 90's r&b over here at the Demencha blog, so when I came across this Aaliyah cover by r&b prince, The Dream, I almost "shit out of my dick," as Sniggs likes to say. This does not disappoint. Okay, okay, okay...I'm finally going to give...
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By Chris Mills | May 4, 2010 at 6:34 am | No comments
This is a DJ mix/collection of early-mid 90’s r&b tracks that I grew up on. I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure everything on this mix was released before ‘97. This mix has local implications. If Kansas Citians will remember, Hot 103, the city’s main hip hop...
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By Chris Mills | March 17, 2010 at 11:20 pm | No comments
This song was so dope when it came out! I tried getting Silk E. Fine's "Romeo & Juliet" off of youtube but I think the best one I was looking at had the embedding disabled.
I like this song/video better...
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