All that glitters: Santogold tours with Kanye
Santogold: pretty hot right now. Her self-titled debut LP is mad decent, too. That's probably why the king of bling himself Kanye West has decided to take the girl on tour with him in November»
Santogold: pretty hot right now. Her self-titled debut LP is mad decent, too. That's probably why the king of bling himself Kanye West has decided to take the girl on tour with him in November»
Blender magazine have compiled a list of Obama and McCain’s choice cuts (with running commentary from Girl Talk and Randy Newman)»
Kanye West hasn't taken kindly to online criticism of his set at the recent Bonnaroo Festival»
KanYe West likes “big tits”, it emerged last night»
A week’s a long time in the UK single charts. Songs can go up, songs can go down, songs can sometimes stay the same. It’s stirring stuff, and you need a guiding hand to lead you through it»
A line-up for this year's Lollapalooza leaked last week has been confirmed by organiser Perry Farrell, but he's none too happy with the leaker. He is, however, excited about the prospect of a number of unique onstage collaborations, including the possibility of Radiohead bashing out a tune with one of the other acts on the bill. KanYe West? Foals? Flogging Molly?»
The organisers of Lollapalooza 2008 have sorted themselves some massive headline acts»
Donda West, Supergrass bassist Mick Quinn, Amelie Berrabah of Sugababes and former-3 Colours Red drummer Keith Baxter.»
Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has spoken of his love of rap music as he bids to lead his party to victory in this year’s US elections.»
Michael Eavis has dropped the first proper hints at who’ll be headlining this year’s Glastonbury festival, intimating the race and nationality of one of the performers who’ll enjoy top billing.»
Anyway, the story – Beyonce Knowles takes on Kanye West. Read, see.»
Not to be outdone by Brighton who yesterday outlawed any music preaching a message of HATE, Iran has banned the entire genre of rap.»
Kanye West has issued an official statement after it emerged yesterday that Donda West, his mother, had died on Saturday after complications during cosmetic surgery.»
Donda West, the 58-year-old mother of rapper Kanye, died on Saturday evening in Los Angeles.»
Journalists have traced the source of Kanye West's ego back to his mother.»
Having pulled out from the event earlier in the week, 50 Cent again lost out to Kayne West at last night's MOBOs.»
No doubt some will see it as evidence that good always triumphs over evil, but personally I’d go for the less ambitious ‘average will always triumph over shit’ – liberal poster boy of rap Kanye West has trounced 50 Cent into the dust.»
Nu-wop, that’s what Kev just told me the kids are calling Sean Kingston’s smash single ‘Beautiful Girls’...»
'Familiarity breeds contempt'. Nonsense. Familiarity breeds a chart-botherer.»
With Kayne West, Lupe Fiasco (pictured) and Pharrell Williams having taken a unified bow on West's recent Can't Tell Me Nothing mixtape, Fiasco has speculatively suggested that the makeshift collective - CRS (Child Rebel Soldiers) - have more lined up after originally all appearing on the Thom Yorke-sampling 'Us Placers'...»
The top 40 - back to normal. Unshackled from the cuffs that bound it to Rihanna for ten weeks over this strange summer, the weekly chart round-up can now get back to being an increasingly dystopic sound bite on success stories bound only by their brevity.»
That Kanye West has been running his mouth off again...»
The veteran synth-rock trio took home the award for the Best Group category at the Justin Timberlake-hosted event in Copenhagen. Recently in the news for totally non-musical reasons sort Madonna was nominated in three categories - Best Pop Act, Best Female and Best Album - yet won nothing...»
Welcome to Part Something in DiS's series of News About Festivals We Can't Afford To Go To But We Really Want To: Bumbershoot...»
It's the freakin' World Cup, okay? We've other things on our mind than 'music'. That being the case, here's a run through of newsy bits 'n' pieces that we might've written more on if we weren't so STUPIDLY excited. Yes, even about Germany against Costa Rica... we've already sent someone to get us a seat in t'boozer...»
Rapper and friend to many a celebrity, Kanye West, is to release a live album later this month...»
Kanye West is to venture into the world of movie making. Currently up his sleeve is a wee project about... wait for it... himself... »
Ups and downs and turn-arounds. It's another week in the totally CRAZY world of the UK top 75 albums and singles charts.»
Dame Shirley Bassey is pretty unhappy with mega-popular rapper Kanye West right now. The Welsh singer claims that West did not ask for her permission to sample the song 'Diamonds Are Forever' for his recent single 'Diamonds From Sierra Leone'...»
US rapper Kanye West critisised George Bush on live TV on Saturday on an NBC show entitled A Concert For Hurricane Relief. West was presenting a 90-second segment with funnyman Mike Myers two-thirds through the show when, to Myers' suprise, the multi-million selling raper went off script...»
Mega-selling hip-hop star Kanye West is filing a lawsuit against a Chicago DJ, one Eric 'E-Smoove' Miller, over unreleased West songs in the DJ's possession...»