Let’s all be glad this isn’t 2004. If it were, suburban Detroit native and Duke graduate Mike Posner would have just graduated from the Mickey Mouse/Lou Pearlman factory […]
REVIEW: Rick Ross – Teflon Don
Rick Ross feat. Kanye West – Live Fast, Die Young [audio:http://www.thecouchsessions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/02-Rick-Ross-feat.-Kanye-West-Live-Fast-Die-Young-Dirty.mp3|titles=02 Rick Ross feat. Kanye West – Live Fast, Die Young (Dirty)] After being publicly outed as a […]
REVIEW: Big Boi – Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty
In 1994, I became obsessed with hip hop and music in general. The album that did it, Outkast’s debut, Southernplayalisticcadillacmusik. Prior to that point, all I knew about […]
ALBUM REVIEW: The Roots – How I Got Over
This album didn’t have to end up this way. The Roots are pop stars now. The Roots – The Day (feat. Blu, Phonte & Patty Crash) [audio:http://www.thecouchsessions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/the_roots-the_day_feat_blu_phonte__patty_crash-2dope.mp3|titles=the_roots-the_day_feat_blu_phonte__patty_crash-2dope] In […]
REVIEW: Drake – Thank Me Later
I know way too many people here right now That I didn’t know last year, who the fuck are y’all? I swear it feels like the last few […]
Interview with Baltimore Photographer Josh Sisk’s and his “Under the Strobelight” Exhibition – Baltimore – 4/24/10
If not already aware, Baltimore’s Josh Sisk is quickly becoming in this site’s opinion the dominant music photographer of this generation. Photographing subjects from at all levels of […]
ALBUM REVIEW: B.O.B. – The Adventures of Bobby Ray
B.O.B. feat Janelle Monae – The Kids [audio:http://www.thecouchsessions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/B.o.B_feat_Janelle_Monae-The_Kids2.mp3|titles=B.o.B_feat_Janelle_Monae-The_Kids2] B.O.B. feat Eminem and Hayley Williams – Airplanes Part 2 [audio:http://www.thecouchsessions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/bob-feat-eminem-hayley-williams-airplanes-pt-2.mp3|titles=bob-feat-eminem-hayley-williams-airplanes-pt-2] Let’s all hope and pray that Atlanta’s Bobby Ray […]
ALBUM REVIEW: Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
Erykah Badu‘s rise to fame has always been intrinsically tied to her uncompromising nature and unique soul sound. Blending a dizzying mix of new age theory with Afrocentrism, […]
Interview: Jesse Saunders – Going “On and On” with the Chicago house music innovator
Prepare to be taken to school. Yes, the Jungle Brothers talk about “house music all night long” on the legendary 1990 cut “Girl I’ll House You,” but imagine […]
REVIEW: Gil Scott Heron – I’m New Here
Let it be said here that the best albums have the richest back stories. Tracking down the Rikers Island imprisoned, possibly HIV-infected poet laureate of African-American revolutionary politics […]