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Kanye West

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    May 25, 2012

    Chuuwee on Watching the Throne, his Soundset approach

    By Mike MaddenRelated:Bambu on the L.A. riots' 20th anniversary, his Soundset debutTraveling from his native Sacramento to take over Shakopee, Chuuwee might be the best bet among this year's Soundset freshmen to blow up by the time May 2013 rolls around. Not long removed from his excellent Wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Kanye West channeled Michael Jackson for Halloween

    ​The celebrity blogs are hopping this morning with photos of stars in their Halloween costumes (Heidi Klum is by far the scariest and most stunning), but there was one that caught our eye: Last night, Kanye West showed his love for the King of Pop by dressing as Michael Jackson.The photo comes cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    City Pages Halloween Soundtrack, Vol. 1

    B FRESH PhotographyPrepare your party guests for a roller ghoster of a night​It's that time again: finalizing plans for your Halloween party, and getting your scares in a row. City Pages has saved you the trouble of putting together a spooky mixtape, as we present our Halloween Soundtrack Vol. 1.& ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Kanye West, Jay-Z cancel Minneapolis "Watch the Throne" tour date

    ​Kanye West and Jay-Z have been taking fans in the Twin Cities on a roller coaster ride this week -- and not the fun kind with glitter cannons and verses about which rapper's watch cost more money. No, this roller coaster found people getting amped up over the announcement of an October 8 show at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Minnesota Twins phase out local music programming, amp up Top 40 hits

    Photo by Andrea Swensson​With the first month of the Twins season completed, Minnesota baseball fans may have noticed something a little different about this year's home games: The music. That's because longtime music director Kevin Dutcher, who was with the team from 2000 up until last year's ina ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Gayngs at Coachella, Nikki Sixx phones it in at the Fitz, and more notes from the weekend

    Photos by Denis Jeong Plaster​April is continuing to roar by us at a steady clip, and this past weekend our local scene was so bustling that we had to export some of our musicians out to Indio, California before the whole town overflowed.

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    Diddy Dirty Money with Lloyd and Tyga at Epic, 4/13/11

    Photos by Erik Hess​Diddy Dirty Money with Lloyd and TygaApril 13, 2011Epic NightclubFor this write-up, I could have skated by making jokes about how Diddy changed his name three times during the show or whatever -- but I'm a journalist dammit, not Jay Leno.  I came to check out the Dirty Mon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Nicki Minaj to join Britney Spears at Xcel Center show

    ​After some waffling by Enrique Iglesias (note to publicists: might be a good idea to check with the artist before announcing that they will be joining your tour on national TV), the Spanish pop star has dropped off the Britney Spears tour and has been replaced by buzzy new hip-hop artist Nicki Mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Twins, at home opener, to unleash gladiator tunes on unsuspecting opponents

    ​For the home opener, I could drone on about the new scoreboard, the new salty snacks, the lack of trees, or my take on whether or not the Twins have figured out their Target Field home run problems. Instead, I'm going to focus on the thing that bothered me most of last season: What is that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Kanye West at SXSW 2011: Let the rumors begin

    ​And here I was just thinking earlier today that it's weird that there haven't been any super crazy SXSW rumors yet. Well, thanks to this very suggestive video that was sent to @SXSWpartylist, we have our first tidbit of Kanye speculation for the 2011 season.

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Kanye West and Jay-Z debut 'H.A.M.'

    by Matt Bardins​If a day is a week in internet time, then we've been waiting on "H.A.M." for nearly two months now (announced last week), or two and a half years since Kanye and Jay-Z announced that they would be releasing a collaborative album (back in August). Our long national interwebby dayma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    13 most fascinating hip-hop album covers of all time

    Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Riccardo Tesci's art for their freshly announced single "H.A.M." seems a love-it-or-hate-it type situation. Rotts, nautical stars (remember high school, when the seniors started to get tattoos?), scopa crowns, and platinum does not a consensus make, apparently. All up in that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Most popular Gimme Noise articles of 2010

    ​With 2010 coming to a close, we thought it might be a good time to look back and see which Gimme Noise stories garnered the most clicks this year. Numbers don't lie -- from the tragic to the funny to the just plain weird, here are the top 10 posts that drove traffic to our blog in 2010, with link ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Kanye West flips cocktail party guest list into overloaded, blah single

    ​If there's a Guinness record for "most pop artists performing on a pop single," it's probably held by "We Are The World" or its lame-ass sequel from earlier this year. But "All of the Lights" - the fourth single from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - boasts a longer and more random guest list t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    George Bush calls Kanye West rant lowest point of presidency

    ​MATT LAUER: You remember what he said? PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes, I do. He called me a racist. A brief excerpt has been posted of Matt Lauer's interview with former President George W. Bush, set to air this Monday night on Matt Lauer Reports.For a man who dammed the river of scientific prog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    'Equality is the prime rib of America' and other surreal political moments in pop music

    ​Lady Gaga proclaimed yesterday that "Equality is the prime rib of America," simultaneously empowering and confusing the hell out of legions of GLBT activists as they rallied against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." While the nation's top socio-political scientists try to decode what Gaga could have possi ... More >>

  • Music

    July 14, 2010

    5ingles

    ​Lady Gaga proclaimed yesterday that "Equality is the prime rib of America," simultaneously empowering and confusing the hell out of legions of GLBT activists as they rallied against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." While the nation's top socio-political scientists try to decode what Gaga could have possi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Music, politics, more: Check out City Pages' wrap on the decade

    Just for you, we've rounded up all our end-of-the-decade content - so far.

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    MP3: Sole's 'Everyday I'm Hustlin'' (plus his favorite books?)

    Sole hollers at us with a new MP3 and, oddly, a list of his favorite books.

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    October 1, 2009
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    May 27, 2009
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    March 11, 2009

    The Popstream: Blackstreet ft. Janet Jackson, "Girlfriend/Boyfriend"

    This video cost 1.5 million dollars... for some reason.

  • Calendar

    March 4, 2009

    N.A.S.A.

    This video cost 1.5 million dollars... for some reason.

  • Music

    February 25, 2009

    Estelle, Dillinger Four, and more

    This video cost 1.5 million dollars... for some reason.

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    October 29, 2008

    Minnesota Writers Series: Junot Diaz

    This video cost 1.5 million dollars... for some reason.

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    August 6, 2008

    James Blunt

    This video cost 1.5 million dollars... for some reason.

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    July 30, 2008

    Chaka Khan

    This video cost 1.5 million dollars... for some reason.

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2008

    Breakfast of Champions 6/27: Pestilence

    This video cost 1.5 million dollars... for some reason.

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2008

    Interview: Matthew Santos

    This video cost 1.5 million dollars... for some reason.

  • Music

    June 11, 2008

    Critics' Picks: Kanye West and more

    This video cost 1.5 million dollars... for some reason.

  • Music

    January 23, 2008

    What's Playing

    The Top 10 Songs This Week on B96

  • Music

    December 26, 2007

    5ingles

    The Songs We Can't Escape

  • Music

    December 19, 2007
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    December 5, 2007

    KDWB Jingle Ball

    2007's Best Rap

  • Music

    October 24, 2007

    What's Playing

    The top ten tracks this week on KTTB, B96 FM

  • Music

    October 10, 2007

    What's Playing

    Ten Songs This Week on 101.3 FM, KDWB

  • Music

    October 3, 2007

    What'$ $elling

    Ten Songs This Week on 101.3 FM, KDWB

  • Calendar

    September 19, 2007

    Ice Rod CD-Release

    Ten Songs This Week on 101.3 FM, KDWB

  • Calendar

    September 19, 2007

    Common

    Ten Songs This Week on 101.3 FM, KDWB

  • Music

    September 12, 2007

    What's Playing

    Top 10 spins this week at KDWB, 101.3 FM

  • Music

    September 12, 2007

    Soulstice: Dead Letter Perfect

    Top 10 spins this week at KDWB, 101.3 FM

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2006

    City Planner: Friday 11/10

    Top 10 spins this week at KDWB, 101.3 FM

  • News

    December 28, 2005

    Artists of the Year

    Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2005

    Guess your present: Music edition

    Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

  • Music

    November 2, 2005

    Welcome to the Superdome

    How Hurricane Katrina made Public Enemy relevant again

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2005

    9/5: Morning Communique

    How Hurricane Katrina made Public Enemy relevant again

  • Music

    January 26, 2005

    John Legend

    "Used to Love U," "Ordinary People," "Number One"

  • News

    December 29, 2004

    Artists of the Year

    12 Rods, Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, Quentin Tarantino, Garrison Keillor, MF Doom, Lawrence Lessig, Randi Rhodes...

  • News

    December 15, 2004

    Just For The Record...

    Ten scientifically approved verdicts about the best albums of the year

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