By Chris Mills | December 8, 2011 at 7:13 pm | No comments
pictured: Dessa, of Doomtree @ Kanrocksas 2011
I caught Doomtree at Kanrocksas earlier this summer and they rocked it. The Minneapolis-based live hip hop collective have a new record out titled No Kings (cop it HERE). Dessa, one of the group's core MCs, just released...
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By Chris Mills | December 7, 2011 at 2:21 pm | No comments
Check their official website for more on their music, additional tour dates and other occurrences - http://ilovem83.com/. I want to hear...
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By Chris Mills | November 15, 2011 at 2:22 pm | No comments
With this being the second official release from Newman and Quest (CLICK HERE for the duo's debut from last year), the KC-based MC and the Lawrence-based DJ/producer have come together once again to release Skinny Jeans For Fat People today. Our favorite cut off their new...
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By Chris Mills | October 21, 2011 at 2:27 pm | No comments
Okay, so tonight probably won't be quite as wild as when this featured image was taken after the Jayhawks won the NCAA tournament in 2008, but here's a couple of flyers that we'd like to use as encouragement for KC heads to roll out to LK tonight. This time of year, Lawrence...
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By Chris Mills | October 2, 2011 at 4:33 pm | No comments
Malcom Gladwell’s best-selling 2000 book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, crept into our membrane while listening to Kansas City-based, Greg Enemy’s awaited hip hop record Xtra Small, released just last week. Gladwell’s book converged on...
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By Chris Mills | May 5, 2011 at 2:28 pm | No comments
Approach - "Brothafly Effect" [prod. SALVA] (2007)
^^^That was a small piece of Salva's previous work with Lawrence/KC-based hip hop artist, Approach, from 2007. Nowadays, most listeners are more familiar with him for doing this crazy beat music stuff (which you can...
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By Chris Mills | March 1, 2011 at 2:58 pm | No comments
The Brooklyn-based hip hop trio, Das Racist, are coming through to the Granada in Lawrence on Wednesday, March 30th. Local piggy-backers include Stik Figa & DWill, Greg Enemy and Ebony Tusks. The show starts at 9pm and advance tickets are just $12, with a hike on the day...
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By Chris Mills | September 1, 2010 at 1:39 pm | No comments
@ The Granada in...
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By Chris Mills | September 13, 2009 at 1:21 am | 2 comments
Someone named Will kept throwing up a bunch of comments here on demencha over the past couple of weeks. I had no idea who he was until he pointed me out last night at the Record Bar and had me figured out as the author of this super cool local music blog. He said that it...
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By Chris Mills | September 1, 2009 at 5:31 pm | No comments
Stik Figa Live @ The Granada from Bumps & Grinds on Vimeo.
video courtesy of Johnny Quest for bumbsandgrinds.blogspot.com
Peep the Ron Ron and Greg Enemy guest appearances towards the end of the video for "Caked Up." It's the last song that Stik...
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