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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 [...]

August 9, 2010

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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 [...]

July 30, 2010

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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 [...]

July 21, 2010

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LIVE: The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival

Hip-Hop is still alive.

July 13, 2010

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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 [...]

June 14, 2010

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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: [...]

June 8, 2010

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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). [...]

June 2, 2010

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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 [...]

June 1, 2010

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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 [...]

May 27, 2010

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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 [...]

May 12, 2010

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