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With all due respect to every blipster emcee and party starter that tried, and in many cases has succeeded in doing this hip hop/party/electro thing, you were clearly close, but ultimately doing it wrong. Let’s re-introduce the man to the table who has been doing it right all along, who is back at the forefront [...]
There are not a lot of lovers of music in the industry anymore, there’s just a lot of people trying to be in the music business… What makes a legend most? For some, it’s all about how far you’ve risen to the top. But for Sandra St. Victor, it’s a different story. Her rise to [...]
Interview by Couch Sessions contributor DeVon Thompson (@soullovenet. ) I sat down last week and via phone talked to London MC Kano. His latest album drops on August 30th some may have heard of him as the Grime sound trickled over to this side of the Atlantic but he’s been making noise in the UK [...]
The Bay Area has been producing some of the most unique sounds lately. Whether its Trackademicks, The Park, or Oakland’s Wallpaper, the fusion of old sckool groves with new school vibes is slowly taking off on the other side of the country. Take Wallpaper, who returns to DC after a spirited show at DC9 earlier [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dilla is the greatest producer I’ve ever heard. Slum Village, Dilla, Royce Da 5’9, Eminem, Dwele, and so on. Both the underground and overground of hip-hop have been dominated it seems by one Midwestern city. Detriot, often ridiculed and maligned, has had a longstanding musical history, and the torch has been passed in recent generations [...]
Photo’s courtesy of Abby Greenawalt for W Washington DC Being a successful female DJ is not an easy feat these days. It’s no big secret that it’s still very much a male-driven industry, so when I got put on to Sky Nellor a few months ago I immediately became an instant fan. The Australian born turntablist got her [...]
The last 18 months has seen the recognition of what us Kiwi’s have known all along…New Zealand has a bubbling (and very dope) music scene. With artists such as Julien Dyne, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Electric Wire Hustle and David Dallas getting widespread international attention, it’s no surprise yet another buzz-worthy release has come out of [...]
Last year we introduced you to David Dallas, a New Zealand MC who’s explosive single and video “Big Time” crept up on hip hop heads here in the States with a loud bang. The feedback we received from that video was quite overwhelming and as the months went by we couldn’t help but notice that his [...]
Right now its in this period where [DC] in peaks and valleys. I think we’re hitting a peak. Ask anyone in the DC music scene and they would have most certainly heard of Sockets Records. The indie label has been growing for the past few years, adding a diverse array of artists to their roster, [...]
The packaging that your shoe comes in. The album cover of your favorite artist. That ad in a magazine. Do you ever think of the minds behind the things we take for granted? They come from the mind of graphic designers like New York’s Anthony Harrison Jr. Anthony has designed products and ad campaigns for [...]