![RECOMMENDED: The Skeptics – “1990Now Mixtape” [Mixed by Johnny Quest]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Skeptics-EDIT.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
Topeka, KS-based hip hop group, The Skeptics, have only been active for about a year-and-a-half. But they nearly sold out their show at the Jackpot in Lawrence just a couple of weeks ago, according to Lawrencian, Johnny Quest. This is not a small feat, especially when...
Several months ago, a contributing writer for Demencha wrote a blog post requesting that our readers give her some suggestions for local female musicians. I really appreciated the article; because I too am an avid fan of a strong and talented female songwriter, lead female...
![NEW: Nina Sky – “Day Dreaming” [FREE D/L]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/nina-sky-EDIT.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
The two NYC-based, singing sisters known as Nina Sky, of Major Lazer ("Keep It Goin Louder") and Alchemist ("Hold You Down") collab fame among others, have a new album coming out in July titled "Nicole & Natalie". Embedded here is the player for the latest freebie single from...
![Featured Artist of the Month: MORRI$ of Team Bear Club [Jan/Feb 2012]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Morri-FAOM-EDIT-1024x583.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
Having lived all over the country in places like Philadelphia, Texas and Chicago among others, Lawrence, Kansas seems like an odd place for MORRI$’ patented style of dreamy trap beats and DJ mixes to come out of. Soon to enroll back in school at KU as a film major, the blog...
![VIDEO: Irv Da Phenom – “Disguise” [Dir. Craig Smith]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Irv-EDIT.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
Off his All Nighter mixtape comes another official video, this one for "Disguise" over Common's "Ghetto Dreams" beat. The last video I saw and heard from the same mixtape was really kind of an eye-opener to Irv's lyricism and delivery. To me, he's one of those artists that...
Being asked to write this article just further proves that I’m like a movie critic when it comes to judging music. I can tell you what I hate, and exactly why I think it sucks, but when asked to come up with a top-ten list this year, I was just kind of like “uhhh..i...
The Weeknd's brand new mixtape, Echoes of Silence, just dropped last night. While Thursday was the underwhelming non-compliment to his great House of Balloons, we'll be sure to give this new thing a few spins in hopes that this one caps off his 2011 trilogy of mixtapes with a...
The follow up to Capybara's promising 2009 album Try Brother will hit the net (and shelves for you classicists) in early February. Capybara have been garnering a fair amount of attention the likes of which we haven't seen in our sleepy burgh since The Republic Tigers signed...
![VIDEO: i-R Neko – “The Prognosis” [prod. B.B.P.]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/i-r-Neko-pic-EDIT.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
We first came to familiarity with i-R Neko after hearing his With Love From KC mixtape a couple of months ago that included a track with Gee Watts and himself rapping on Tupac's "Temptations" beat. That prompted me to look into Gee Watts quite a bit more. But with this...
Canadian rap artist, Filip Filipi, recently collaborated with three-piece band, Mansions on the Moon, who's jaw-dropping indie sound we came to familiarity with over the winter with their Diplo/Benzi-presented, Paradise Falls mixtape. Pharrell has apparently co-signed on...
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