“This is life music.” Here’s something special to end the work week. Vic Mensa of Kids These Days has been in the lab with Thelonious Martin, and the two have an EP on the way entitled Part Two. Today they add plenty of anticipation to the project by releasing the EP’s first song and video,...
I had one thought as I locked up my bicycle outside of Bottom Lounge, directly in front of the tour bus carrying Killer Mike, El-P and Mr. MFN Exquire. My only thought was that hopefully none of them would walk out of the bus to see their eventual-interviewer chain lock an undersized bike to the...
“Everybody can’t be Lil’ Wayne,” Danny Brown says bluntly, just a couple hours before his set at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Brown makes this statement in relation to the online music community’s incessant demand for content that forces artists young and old to flood the web with new music and videos. While Danny Brown understands...
Mikkey Halsted knows plenty about patience. The veteran emcee is still waiting on his major label debut, a puzzling occurrence given the fact that he’s been signed to Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, and Jermaine Dupri all at different times in his career. For one reason or another, things haven’t gone the way of Mikkey Halsted,...
In the very early days of Closed Sessions, the early-early days, we would sit around and talk about our hopes for the label and what we wanted to do. I remember at those earliest meetings, we would throw around the names of our favorite emcees and make a hopeful list of future Closed Sessions...
Thanks to the rise of deadmau5, David Guetta, Skrillex, and the EDM scene, the term “button-pusher” is a hot topic right now. Many in the music world are a little confused when it comes to what to do with the DJ/producer live sets that at times come pre-recorded and set off by cue points rather...
When we first spoke to Numonics, he was working on a debut compilation, Being Cool Doesn’t Pay The Bills. In the years since, Numonics hasn’t changed the mantra, but he is starting to change his tax bracket. The constant workhorse has an album on deck this month, and practically every month for the rest of...
Shortly after we secured Action Bronson to play the November edition of Digital Freshness, I told him jokingly via Twitter that Chicago’s finest meats and cheeses awaited him in the windy city upon arrival. I say that to many of our guests, but this time it took on a new meaning given Action’s former career...
On October 2nd Kendrick Lamar will release good kid, m.A.A.d. city, his major label debut album with Interscope and the legendary Dr. Dre. The LA based emcee has made major strides in just a year after releasing his critically acclaimed Section.8o. The young emcee has had a unique affect on the music industry, in a...
Yelawolf celebrated July 4th by releasing a new mixtape (Heart of Dixie) as well as a self-directed extended video for his song “Growing Up In The Gutter” off of his Interscope debut LP, Radioactive. The new material from Yelawolf comes at time that is also somewhat of a comeback. After breaking out in 2010, and...
