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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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...
![LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT: Indyground’s Hip Hop Stage @ Middle of the Map Fest [04.07.12]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/stik-figa-pic1.jpg&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
Bam! So there will be hip hop acts at Middle of the Map Fest this year, after all. Spearheaded by Steddy P's Indyground Entertainment imprint and the Gusto Lounge in Westport, a hip hop stage at MOTM on Saturday, April 7 is bound to bring the ruckus. DJ Mahf, Farout,...
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Topeka-based flame-spitter, Bizzy, just threw up this "Raw Flow" video about a month ago. For those that don't remember the weirdness that went down between Bizzy's old label and Strange Music, the most liked youtube comment on this new video from Bizzy should explain it...
![Miles Bonny, Reggie B, Joc Max, Brandon Draper @ Kansas City Academy [03.30.12]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/miles-bonny-EDIT.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
A tight-knit association of KC-based music icons, singer/producer Miles Bonny, singer/producer Reggie B, DJ/producer Joc Max and drummer/producer Brandon Draper will be putting on what we fully expect to be an outright clinic at the Kansas City Academy on Friday, March 30. ...
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The dapper rapper is back with a new album for Tuesday, March 27th, Synesthesia. After skimming through it a bit, this new bandcamper sounds like it's toying with various tempos and styles (as you should expect). From house-tinged attempts to more traditional hip hop on...
[pictured: Headfella, Kansas City] So this latest edition of SSS at Demencha is arriving about 13 hours late. Better late than never, I guess. These are some tracks, some local but most not, that have caught my ear within the past 7.5 days. Click HERE for previous SSS...
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Yesterday afternoon, my sister and I had the privilege of cruising up to Reggie B & The Solution's rehearsal space off Benton. Though it was the first time I'd been East of Prospect in quite a while, it was all good in the hood as the sunshine had everyone in a...
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