By Chris Mills | March 12, 2012 at 12:25 pm | No comments
JMF3 - Strider from Quinn Brabender on Vimeo.
Lawrence's oh!mr., in conjunction with Quinn Brabender, Team Bear Club and KJHK are putting together a documentary of their Jockin My Fresh event series. This is the first Vimeo teaser highlighting a past performance by LK...
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By Chris Mills | March 8, 2012 at 2:31 pm | No comments
With a looming SXSW show in conjunction with Juicy J and others, Kansas City's young spitter, Gee Watts, has a new video out for "YNS" off the We Run KC & Demencha-presented The City's Mine mixtape.
RSVP HERE to Gee's show at SXSW. ...
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By A:42 | March 4, 2012 at 4:59 pm | No comments
The first time I saw Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) was in some videos from his comedy troupe, Derrick. The Bro Rape and Spelling Bee videos are the standouts in my mind. Then I started seeing him on TV in various brief comedy spots, and then in Community. I was...
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By Sam | March 3, 2012 at 2:09 pm | No comments
1. A little genuine enjoyment goes a long way.
When I heard that A$AP Rocky would be part of the Club Paradise tour I was overcome with giddy schoolgirl joy. After I had calmed down a bit, I began to wonder what an A$AP set would look like at the Sprint Center. The A$AP...
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By Chris Mills | February 28, 2012 at 3:41 pm | No comments
...Daniel Flynn, Duncan Martin and Sarah Romero. Yes, I really did write everyone's names on a piece of paper, shake them up in a KC fitted and pick three names randomly. I was hoping a sombrero would be needed, but maybe next time. Thanks to everyone for playing. But we...
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By Chris Mills | February 27, 2012 at 2:06 pm | No comments
This is just an example of the randomness that floods my e-mail inbox on the daily. Chicago's KidKing just released this video on youtube last week and it's about three minutes and forty seconds of some rather tenacious, non-trap themed rhymes. By the way, I like all...
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By Madame E | February 24, 2012 at 6:16 pm | No comments
Grab your most moody apparelĀ and prepare yourself to embark on a journey to a dark place of energetic bang. FS, the talented musician and producer from the duo Ming + FS, just released his solo album Half Android (Play Me Records) this week. I have to admit this album is not...
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By Sam | February 21, 2012 at 10:11 pm | No comments
First the bad news - there will be no Kanrocksas 2012. You may have assumed that already, but today there was an official confirmation of the absence of the successful first year festival from this summer's list of cannot miss events in KC. Kansas Speedway is set to have the...
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By Chris Mills | February 20, 2012 at 9:08 am | No comments
One of my goals this week is to finally get a Cafe Press account up and running. Stay...
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By Chris Mills | February 8, 2012 at 3:38 pm | No comments
50s representative, Young Devi (aka Deviossi), is back. After laying down some memorable verses on his own mixtapes and more than a couple belonging to Ron Ron, Devi's latest official video shot by Brainiak has 20,000+ views in just about thirty days. On this one,...
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