After playing sideman and sax man, Kenneth Whalum’s latest role is frontman. His latest album, Broken Land, showcases his metamorphosis from arranger and jazz musician to full-featured R&B/soul star. […]
The List: Top 5 Hip-Hop Samples of Radiohead
Over an extremely fertile 33-year career, Thom Yorke and Co. have produced loads of beautiful.weird.haunting.mournful moments, from the guitar-driven Britpop and art rock of their early albums through to the electronic and […]
MUSIC: Radiohead – Burn The Witch
After a few years of inactivity Radiohead had a mass scrubbing of all their social media accounts of the weekend. It apparently was just a palate cleanser because […]
MUSIC: Sir Sly – Expectations
Sir Sly are a trio of LA musicians who crank out electronic pop noir. “Expectations,” the first single from their forthcoming second LP, is a slow-burner with rewarding build. […]
NEW MUSIC: Radiohead – Supercollider and The Butcher
Record Store Day is tomorrow and as expected, some of our top artists are releasing special edition vinly for the occasion. Take Radiohead–no stranger to the whole vinyl […]
In Case You Missed It: Radiohead 'Reckoner'
Radiohead – Reckoner [audio:http://www.thecouchsessions.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Radiohead-Reckoner.mp3] I can easily say that this is probably one of my best discoveries and to this day an all-time favorite song. ‘Reckoner’ was released as the third single […]
Video: Thom Yorke and Flea – Feeling Pulled By Horses in LA
I was so very close to getting press passes for this show but no luck. If I did, I was going to take a quick flight to LA […]
Track: MF Doom – Gazzillion Ear (Thom Yorke Remix)
MF Doom – Gazzillion Ear (Thom Yorke Remix) [audio:http://www.thecouchsessions.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/18_gazzillion_ear__thom_yorke_remix_.mp3] Even with the MF Doom fuckery that has been going around lately, I still cosign the dude as one […]
Reader Best of 2008: Julian
This year, instead of just having me yap on about my Best of lists, I reached out to several of our readers to give their Top 5 of […]
Radiohead Wants You To Remix “Reckoner”
I know this is supposed to be a hip-hop blog of sorts, but I’m still loving Radiohead’s In Rainbows is still a top 10 album almost a year […]