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Kanye West: Yeezus
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Ben Jonson said of his dead child, my sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy. We too easily take what the poets write as figures of speech, as pretty images, as strings of bons mots. Sometimes perhaps they speak the truth. --Margaret Drabble, The Millstone (1965).Every time I write these words they become a taboo Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter is true Living my life in the margin ...
read moreCoachella 2011: Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, Kanye West
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JamBase
The 12th Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is set for Friday, April 15, Saturday, April 16 and Sunday, April 17 at the beautiful Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA and the 2011 line-up includes headlining performances from Arcade Fire, Kanye West and Kings of Leon. While music serves as the centerpiece for Coachella, this year's festival will feature an expanded commitment to art, culture and community via a unique partnership with The Creators Projecta global initiative that supports leading ...
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Video: Twitter Exec Matt Graves Shares Advice for Musicians and How Kanye West Used Twitter to Connect with Justin Bieber and Raekwon
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HypeBot
How to use Twitter effectively is still a mystery to many. In this short video shot by Danny Dee at last week's Bandwidth Conference, Twitter communications executive Matt Graves shares a few tips for musicians and then the story of how Kayne West used Twitter to connect with Justin Beiber and collaborate with Raekwon. Video: How How Kanye West Used TwitterTo Connect With Justin Bieber And Collaborate With Raekwon
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Kanye West Makes a Fool of Himself Interrupting MTV Awards
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Michael Ricci
At least the shocker this year was related to music.
The MTV Video Music Awards are always willfully chaotic, keeping alive the myth of pop as the provenance of rebels by placing a bunch of moderately edgy celebrities within a festive environment and fueling the mood with sexy performances, off-color jokes and incidents" that are often staged, but good for a thousand Twitter tweets. One of these mostly bogus controversies usually goes a bit deeper, hinting at real issues of ...
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Kanye West and Several Record Labels Sued for Unapproved Jazz Samples
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All About Jazz
Grammy 2008 Big Winners: Winehouse, Kanye West and Herbie Hancock
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All About Jazz
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) - The 50 year-old Grammy Awards showed their age by giving jazz artist Herbie Hancock the Album of the Year awards. And they showed their spunk with naming troubled singer Amy Winehouse the biggest overall winner of the night with five Grammys including Record and Song of the Year and Best New Artist. The biggest surprise of the night? Herbie Hancock taking home the Album of the Year Award for River: The Joni Letters." The Grammy ...
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