KC-based producer and drummer, Ghost, recently began making beats under the pseudo name, Mr. Rainman. Most recently, Ghost competed in the Versus Beat Battle at Riot Room just a couple of months ago wherein he dropped his own instrumentals and played drums on top of them. Read...
Kansas City's heralded DJ/producer/singer, Miles Bonny, recently dropped a project with NYC beat monster, B.Lewis. On this project, Miles is doing vocals over some of Lewis' original productions. While I don't necessarily think that Miles' voice and the electro-soul beats...
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...
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With STL/KC transplant, Les Izmore citing the phrase "MIDDLE OF THE MAP" in his own music and even his e-mail signatures for years, this weekend's Middle of the Map Fest presented by Ink and the Record Machine now seems more fulfilled. Just yesterday, Les announced a...
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...
When I first got the link to Logikally Speaking’s Soundtrack To A Somber Day it took me about a week to actually get to listening to it. You see, I suffer from musical regionalism. In the past I’ve struggled to enjoy or give credit to anything that doesn’t come out of a...
A most sought after show coming up this Friday featuring KC's very own Hearts of Darkness opening up for Seun Kuti (son of Fela Kuti) & Egypt 80 at The Granada in Lawrence. I am not sure why this show has been so downplayed...perhaps there is a lack of afrobeat followers in...
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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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