Deadwood Edition: April 28, 2009

Style Scout: Matthew Stackswell

East Village meets The Bronx

Unhip Hop

Straight outta comic-con, a crazy muggle frakker named MC Chris

While MC Chris has often been dismissed as a niche performer in the genre coined as “nerd-core,” he’s an undeniably talented lyricist and rapper who takes his music very seriously—he just happens to bust rhymes about pizza and Spider-Man.

Style Scout: Rockelle Meagher

Boots and vintage accessories are my bag...

Gnarly!

BMXers crash campus (legally!), a sign of the sport's persistent popularity

On May 2, a mildly historic event will take place. BMX freestylers, a scourge for many a year to the KU campus along with their skateboarding and rollerblading brethren, will grind away without hassle from the fuzz...

Size Matters

KC’s Olympic Size makes music for “pivotal, dramatic scenes,” as seen on MTV's Real World

With a name like Olympic Size, a band really ought to crank their amps to 11 and perform athletic feats of guitar-tapping and drum-soloing. The KC of that name is quite the opposite, purveying a slow and spacious brand of so-called “sadcore” (though it’s not really that depressing)...