LK Jazz • Upcoming Performance
Cynthia Utterbach
Legendary Ladies of Jazz
Cynthia and the Eric Jones Trio celebrate the legendary women of jazz. $75 per person includes the concert and Southern brunch buffet.
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About the DNKYBongsTV Network
DNKYBongsTV is an independent underground hip hop network — radio, original shows, journalism, three record labels and a community, operating as one connected home rather than a scatter of accounts on other people’s platforms.
The network was built around a straightforward observation. Independent artists have never had more tools and never had less control. Distribution is cheap, reach is rented, and the platforms that connect artists to listeners take a cut of the money and all of the relationship. An underground hip hop network that owns its own radio, its own publication and its own release infrastructure can offer artists something different: a place where the audience is the network’s, and the artists get access to it.
What Runs on the Network
Gemwork Radio is the flagship show — new independent releases, artist interviews and culture conversation. Around it sit AfroScne, covering African and African-descended history and achievement; The World Eclectic, a video spotlight on a different artist each episode; Til The Tape Pops, behind the recording and mixing process; and The Discussion, long-form conversation about music and the industry. All of it is available through the podcast feed.
Journalism and Labels
G.U.M.M. Magazine is the network’s independent music and culture publication — editorially separate from the labels, reporting on platform power, streaming economics, sync licensing and the craft itself.
Three imprints handle releases. Grown RenegadeZ Music covers independent hip-hop and R&B. Last Kind Recordz gives new and emerging artists a first proper release. LK Jazz handles jazz and live-instrumentation work. They share infrastructure and keep separate creative identities.
Where the Audience Comes In
Sound Check puts two unreleased tracks head to head and lets listeners vote on which one the network releases first. It’s the clearest expression of how this place is meant to work — the people listening have a say in what gets made available, not just what gets streamed.
For Artists and Professionals
Independent artists, producers and labels can submit music for radio, playlist and editorial consideration at no cost. Approved DJs, programmers and music supervisors can pull promotional releases, clean versions and instrumentals through DJ Access.
The network broadcasts from Los Angeles, Redlands, Phoenix, Memphis and New York. To follow it properly, join the network.
An Underground Hip Hop Network, Not a Playlist
Most of what gets called an underground hip hop network online is a playlist with a logo on it. This one runs actual infrastructure: a weekly radio show with a working studio behind it, a staffed publication, three record labels with releases in circulation, and a DJ pool servicing clean versions and instrumentals to people who play records for a living.
That distinction matters to artists more than to listeners. A playlist can add you and drop you. An underground hip hop network with its own broadcast, editorial and distribution can put a record in front of an audience, explain why it’s worth hearing, get it into DJ crates, and still be there for the next one. DNKYBongsTV was built that way on purpose, and it stays independent for the same reason.
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