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Concert Review: The Very Best/Javelin @ DC 9 – 11/2/09

It’s truly the simplest of pleasures in the universe that evoke the greatest appreciation. It is by this statement that we define the success that was The Very Best’s completely sold out tour stop with Javelin at DC 9 on Monday evening. The Very Best, which takes the dark, gritty ghetto electro remixing of Radioclit [...]

REVIEW: The Foreign Exchange at Black Cat, Washington DC (Photos from NYC)

Photos from The Foreign Exchange’s NYC show at BB Kings
by Joann Gomez, Music Looks Like This. Follow her on Twitter @MLLT.
The Foreign Exchange, the North Carolina based duo of Little Brother’s Phonte and Dutch producer Nicolay is steeped in legend. Meeting online via the hip-hop site Okayplayer, they exchanged beats and rhymes over the Internet, [...]

REVIEW: Saul Williams, Afropunk Tour 2009, Toronto

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The very first Afropunk tour hit Toronto last Friday with a lineup of impressive performances from the likes of Saidah Baba Talibah, American Fangs and the legendary poet and rebel, headliner Saul Williams.
Matthew Morgan, Resident Producer of the Afropunk 2009 tour, Producer of Afropunk the [...]

REVIEW: Big Boi at Club Soda, Montreal

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Bonjour! Big ups to our homie Laurent and his peoples at 33 Mag in Montreal, Canada for providing this amazing review of this show! Look for more cross-border collaborations with Couch Sessions and 33 Mag real soon!
After a fast and absolutely unscientific survey, I can affirm that nobody could remember if [...]

Welcome to the Meshell Ndegeocello Experience.

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Meshell Ndegeocello – Love You Down (Ready for the World/INOJ cover)
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As artists, it’s our life’s work to bleed–to open our souls to the world and give you, the reader and the listener, the sincere glimpse of the traffic or peace inside. Many musicians attempt [...]

Live: Mayer Hawthorne at DC9, Washington, DC

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Mayer Hawthorne is the most unassuming guy in the room. While the openers Buff 1 and 14k were on stage, Mr. Hawthorne sat quietly in the back, observing the sold-out crowd at Washington’s DC9. With his vintage 50s ERA frames and a build that looks a bit too much like [...]

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: The Roots, Common, and Amerie at The Velvet Room, Atlanta

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Common + The Roots – Come Close, Love Is…
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Amerie + The Roots – Why Are U?, One Thing
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The Roots – You Got Me
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Download: All three tracks in a Zip file.
On September 19th, 2009, [...]

Concert Review: Matt and Kim and Amanda Blank at DC’s Black Cat – 9/16/09

Photos by: Danielle Scruggs, Danielle Scruggs Photography
Matt and Kim, Brooklyn’s twin prime ministers of awesome, visited the Black Cat on Wednesday night with Secretary of Sensual Aural Panic Amanda Blank in tow for an evening that agreed with the musical sensibilities of everyone in attendance, and portended that both acts have the talent and confidence [...]

Concert: Murs at Rock and Roll Hotel, DC

Photos By Jati Lindsay
Before MURS took stage at the Rock and Roll Hotel last Friday, he spent time talking to fans and trying his best to blend in with the eclectic and already anxious crowd that waited to see him perform. Besides being an incredible lyricist, a large part of his appeal can be attributed [...]

Old School Jams

Being that I’m moving to LA in February, might as well put you on to some events starting with this MONSTER of an Old School concert. Granted this would have REALLY cracked off in 1987 (even though there may have been alot of gang activity in the parking lot), this is still gonna [...]

Concert Review: Rock The Bells – Second Stage

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If you’re not familiar with Rock The Bells by now, you should probably consider finding a way to hurt yourself. Seriously. On Sunday, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Big Boi, Common, The Roots and several others made their way to the [...]