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INTERVIEW: Hip hop veteran Greg Nice still has the pulse of the dance floor…
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 [...]
Interview: Sandra St. Victor
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: Kano
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 [...]
INTERVIEW: Wallpaper
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 [...]
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 [...]
INTERVIEW: Black Milk at the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, Plays DC Tomorrow
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 [...]
Interview: Sky Nellor – From Catwalk to DJ Booth
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 [...]
Interview: Benny Tones of Electric Wire Hustle
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 [...]
Interview: New Zealand MC -David Dallas
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 [...]
Interview: Sean Peoples of Sockets Records, DC
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, [...]
Design Interview: Anthony Harrison of The Home Office Creative, NYC
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 [...]
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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 [...]
