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LIVE: The Summer Spirit Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion
All photos by Boney Starks | @boneystarks. PLEASE support. I’m convinced that the Summer Spirit Festival is the grown and sexy Woodstock. Over 20,000 people made the pilgrimage to the Merriweather Post Pavilion to see Eyrkah Badu headline an amazing lineup of modern soul and hip-hop talent, including Common, Janelle Monae, The Roots, B.O.B. and [...]
Interview – Mark de Clive-Lowe
Mark de Clive-Lowe is one of the most respected and prolific figures in the world of electronic music, and is credited with ushering in the broken-beat scene along with London cohorts 4hero and Bugz In The Attic. With a revolving door of top-notch vocalists, and improv being the hallmark of his live shows, it’s impossible [...]
INTERVIEW: Diamond District
PHOTO CREDIT: Neal Maclean / Brooklyn Bodega / The Couch Sessions What do you think of when you think DC Hip-Hop? In some circles it’s not Wale, or Tabi that gets mentioned, but the DMV’s own Diamond District. From LA to SXSW to Toronto, to NYC, it seems like the trio have been on the [...]
FEATURE: GRAFFIT’ ASIA
Far far across many a wall, great and small … well far away from where I sit counting … runs the great wall of Shenzhen in China. It isn’t your usual weather beaten, human watching and saddened sort of wall, it is of the slender bodied, winding cemented kind, dancing to the rhythm of its [...]
LIVE: The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
Hip-Hop is still alive.
PHOTOS: The Roots Picnic Part 1
Photos by @gravity508 and @titi_215. Please support. The Roots Picnic is almost like a pilgrimage that is stoked in legacy. Each year hundreds of Roots devotees descend on Philadelphia to hear the headlining act as well as some performers which Questlove and company has hand picked for the event. Having an open mind for music [...]
FEATURE: GRAFFITI BRAZILIAN STYLE
The world is being rewritten in coloured bombs, its waves the shape of spray cans. Its name is Graffiti. Massively unleashed by the gods of Art in the 60s in Philadelphia and very quickly thereafter in NYC, tinted bursts and lacquered explosions hit subways and streets from then on: a new iconography has been born: [...]
TRAVEL: Touring Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall with Bluebrain
Bluebrains’ Track Sends Visitors Underwater at the Sant by sim1ontharun Bluebrain – Deeper Than Light by BLUEBRAIN Last Saturday, I walked into the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, a spacious hall with high ceilings, buzzing with the chaos of out-of-towners toting fanny packs, that unshakable tourist accessory that somehow neva goes outta style (sigh). [...]
FEATURE: Worldwide Graffiti – You must have SEEN it
Photo Credit: World of SEEN Nadia Ghanem is a Parisian-born writer and photojournalist who is currently living in London. She is contributing profiles of graffiti writers in three countries–USA, Brazil, and France–and will share her stories withint the coming months on The Couch Sessions. Follow her on Twitter at @ayatghanem. The world is being rewritten [...]
Live: AudioTRIP at Lux Lounge
Dj Stylus, Dj Jahsonic, DJ Rich Medina, DJ Spinna Words by Cherisse Rivera. Photos by Jefry Andres Audio Trip”, a music, cuisine, and lifestyle event, took place Tuesday, May 18th, at Lux Lounge in Washington, DC’s Mount Vernon Square neighborhood. Originally, I didn’t know what direction the evening would take, but I knew that it [...]
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Interview: Chiddy Bang
If ever there was a case study about the speed of how the Internet makes stars, Chiddy Bang would be on the first page. The Philly-based duo parlayed their Swelly Express mixtape into a label deal with the venerable Parlophone records and a top 10 track in the UK. In less time then it takes [...]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Gilles Peterson presents: Worldwide
Gilles Peterson has been a champion of new music for the past 10 years thanks to his BBC Radio 1 program, Worldwide, as well as being the head of several influential record labels, the latest being Brownswood Recordings. But the music isn’t just new, like…it’s not the new Justin Bieber or Katy Perry record. The [...]
Mixtape Review: G.O.O.D. Ass Mixtape
Download: Kanye West and Perajok Present: G.O.O.D. Ass Mixtape G.O.O.D. Ass Mixtape is a sprawling 30-track collection that was put together by Russian blogger/Kanye fan/ MTV Russia Host, Perajok. This unofficial mixtape includes music from all G.O.O.D. Music members and is a compilation of recent leaks and releases from the G.O.O.D. fam. G.O.O.D. Ass Mixtape [...]
SINGLE REVIEW: “HUFF + PUFF” by Just A Band
This joint right here is real sexy-like. Your body will automatically go into autopilot: your head will start boppin’, and you’ll break into a soulful yet swingin’ two-step (think of the Robert Palmer video girls…on speed). The very beginning of the song reminds me of Supernature-era Goldfrapp with heavy synths keys, some la-la-las, and a [...]
REVIEW: Forget Spotify, MOG is the future of Music
Disclaimer: The Couch Sessions is a part of the MOG Music Network MOG All Access can be found at MOG.com. Music in the Cloud. If you’ve frequented music business websites like I have you might have heard of the that term being the “next big thing” in music. A revolution that will have a greater [...]
