Demencha Magazine LLC

05/04/2017

“Raven” is a metaphor placed on someone who has been senselessly neglected and humiliated by fellow citizens, framed and demoralized by society’s law enforcement, dramatized by society’s authors and media, and banished from society. The first next door neighboring family that I …

01/01/2017

As Editor-in-Chief here at Demencha Magazine, I feel as though I have enough experience in local music to know who the four best Kansas City-based DJs are in 2016. They all still perform at least once a month in Kansas City. None …

14/12/2016

Face it. "Politics" are a part of our every day lives. It's not some fantasy or nightmare living up in the hills of Washington D.C.

Words by Patrick Sumner, M.A.

Words by Patrick Sumner, M.A. It seems that people confuse politics with voting every four years and winning and losing like at a horse track. Fighting and cheering and jeering and politics are that too. But as I’ve navigated the narratives of …

07/12/2016

Everyone who has come out in such loving support of Kanye West’s recent hospitalization, and the people who somehow believe he got what he deserved because they like to pick and choose who gets the right to freedom of speech, are missing …

06/12/2016

Stik F**a >>>

LBL.

9 track album

04/12/2016

Peace to Oakland and the 100% Silk Label.

01/12/2016

LOCALS BEFORE LEGENDS.

S/o Diallo Javonne French

[Pictured above: Diallo Javonne French, Javonne Films] Kansas City-based film producer, photographer and Demencha contributor, Diallo Javonne French, just released a brand new documentary through vimeo titled Kansas City Dreamin’: Music In Shadows. Javonne has photographed various musicians for Deme...

30/11/2016

816/913/785 - Welcome Grammy Award winning pianist and producer, Robert Glasper, come February.

If the upcoming Mary J. Blige and Maxwell tour stop in Kansas City isn’t future enough for soul music enthusiasts across the KC metro, look no further than The Folly Theater in downtown Kansas City, MO on February 18th, 2017. By that …

29/11/2016

Justus West, still in his teens, just released a new acoustic/mellow rock track on his bandcamp page. It is called “Feet On The Ground” and he’s utilizing it as a means to spike interest in his upcoming album, which will be called …

28/11/2016

Kansas City's Progressive Youth Organization (PYO) Anchor The Local Underground.

21/11/2016

Alex Niedt.
Kansas City.
Singer.
Songwriter.
Get familiar.

Right out of Kansas City, singer/vocalist Alex Niedt, is probably one of the most low-key brilliant singers out of this medium-sized Midwestern city. This post does not come without a hint of “we-told-ya-so”. Back in the summer of 2012, we brought you …

20/11/2016

Photo courtesy of https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/exploring-the-planets/online/solar-system/comets/meteors.cfm “NASA on that bu****it, they always croppin’ out my crew,” TDE rapper, Ab-Soul, on his 2012 single, “Nibiru”. To be clear, I don’t know much about astronomy, but I don’t necessarily…

19/11/2016

This is still floating. Joc Max is probably the most influential DJ in Kansas City. That takes time.

“Eyes of Dreams” Extra Medium “Akousa” Georgia Anne Muldrow “without you”(j dilla rmx) Lucy Pearl “Trouble”(dj spinna rmx) Jose James “Voyager/5000” Karriem Riggins “Fall in Love(your funeral) Er

18/11/2016

Poverty grinds away the hours and crushes the last wasted cigarette butt under foot. In the cold the winds creep beneath the thin jackets of summer and send the desperate out in search of the abandoned. The stink of rolled up carpets …

15/11/2016

Kansas City rap rhymer, Ish1da, has a brand new track on his soundcloud page. It is called “Blakc Hoodie Flow”, and there’s no spelling error in that song title. Ish1da popped up on our radar earlier this year. His brash lyrics have …

11/11/2016

10/11/2016

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10/11/2016

Can you be "out here" without a beer in your hand?