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Montreal
SUMMER TRAVEL: The Montreal Jazz Festival
Each year the Festival International De Jazz De Montréal (aka Montreal Jazz Festival) brings in over a million spectators to the French Canadian city. The Couch Sessions returns to Montreal this week for our 3rd year covering the festival which has included such acts as Lionel Ritchie, Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett, Public Enemy, and Wu-Tang. [...]
REVIEW: Big Boi at Club Soda, Montreal
Photos by EvaBlue. PLEASE SUPPORT! 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 [...]
Interview: A Chat with Paul of Paul’s Boutique, Montreal
You might remember the record shop, Paul’s Boutique from my previous travel in Montreal. I went back there when I was in MTL earlier this month and to my surprise I learned that my post generated a lot of business for the shop. I came back the next day to drop this interview with the [...]
Couch Sessions in Montreal
So if you didn’t know from the Twitter, I’m heading out to Montreal this weekend to cover the 30th annual Montreal Jazz Festival. Last year I had the opportunity to hang out with Chuck D and Flava Flav of Public Enemy and discovered some new and upcoming talent. This year, I’m checking out Joshua Redman, [...]
Montreal Snapshot: Arianne Moffatt
Arianne Moffatt – Point de Mire [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Arianne Moffatt – Follow Me (Remix) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] So I know this is probably not your cup of tea, but bear with me. So on Sunday night in Montreal, I wandered into Metropolis for what the Jazz [...]
Montreal Street Art/Graf
Montreal has some of the best graf in North America. Check it:
Dope Spot: Paul’s Boutique in Montreal
Paul’s Boutique is a dope store near Mount Royal in Montreal that specializes in rare and vintage vinyl and is simply a crate digger’s dream. The spot has a heavy focus on hip-hop, and they also have a large selection of old school 45s as well as mixtapes from local DJs and DVDs. The Beastie [...]
Performance: Public Enemy at Montreal Jazz Festival 2008
Public Enemy played It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in order from beginning to end, with commentary in between. It was like a live version of VH1 Storytellers with Chuck droppin’ such tidbits how Hank Shocklee at the last minute flipped the ordering of the songs of the cassette and played [...]
Press Conference: Public Enemy at the Montreal Jazz Festival 2008
With Flava Flav in the building, we already knew that this would not be just any ordinary press conference. Say what you want about the man, but the dude is living life to the fullest. I ran into Flav twice in Montreal and he’s keeps it real—he’s the same person that you see on TV, [...]
Review: De La Soul – Montreal Jazz Festival
So the drinking age in Quebec is 18. Add to that the fact that De La played at an all ages joint that is notorious for not carding. The result? I was surrounded by a bunch of drunk 17 year olds and I felt old as hell. Having that said, the teens in that building [...]
Review: Stephanie McKay – Montreal International Jazz Festival
To be honest, Stephanie McKay was off my radar for the longest time. I remember her from that track that “Take Me Over” off her first album, which was solid. And I still keep confusing her with Alice Smith. But that’s all under the bridge. Ms. McKay has taken me over. She really needs to [...]
O Canada: Montreal AND Toronto
So I’ve made slight modifications to my Canada trip, extending it by three days, thereby contributing more of my slowly dwindling funds to y’all Canadian economy. One of my good friends moved to Toronto a few weeks ago, so I figured I would hit him up while I’m “in the neighbourhood,” so to speak. Here’s [...]
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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 [...]
