Kanye West

A Damn Good Reason to Watch the Grammy Awards

New Releases: Michael Jackson, British Sea Power, Indian Jewelry, Robert Pollard

Last Night: Kanye West at the Key

Poor Kanye: The Reckoning

Last Night: Aziz Ansari at Triple Door

Who: Aziz Ansari Where: Triple Door When: 7:30 p.m. Thurs., November 13 I stared blankly at my computer screen after receiving an e-mail from our Brian Barr yesterday asking if I wanted to check out Aziz Ansari at the Triple Door. Who the fuck is Aziz Ansari? I wondered. Barr then went on explai ... More >>

My Best of 2008

Lists are problematic for all the usual reasons. As in, I'll probably forget stuff and pay too much attention to labels I tend to frequent. Alas, I still love makin' em. *edit: I already forgot to mention Grand Archives and the Black Angels. See? Twelve Of My Favorite Local Albums Released In 2008Sa ... More >>

Is Kanye West on Drugs?

Because if he isn't, he's clearly lost his friggin mind. Most folks know that Kanye West is eccentric and egotistical. He's the king of throwing temper tantrums. Some would argue he's the queen of throwing temper tantrums but that's a DL conversation for another day. Regardless, just watch this vid ... More >>

Best Pregnant Performance in History?

Even her fetus has swagger Considering that M.I.A.'s due date was last night, it seemed impossible that the Sri Lankan pop singer would even attend the Grammy's yesterday let alone perform at them. But sure enough, the biggest surprise, and in my opinion, most captivating performance of the night w ... More >>

Open Books

Seattle bio-rappers tell it like it is.

Common, N.E.R.D.

Thursday, September 18

Ratatat

Monday, July 7

Were Kanye and Beck Separated at Birth?

Let’s consider the evidence.

Decibel Fest: Turn It Up

Decibel's fourth year is harder, better, faster, stronger!

Michele Scoleri

Bumbershoot's Artistic Director is a sucker for meat on a stick and English troubadours.

2005 in the Mix

We asked Seattle Weekly's music writers to compile a CD-R of their favorite music from the year. Here's what they came up with.

Edutainment

Kanye West gets an honorary degree in Afro-American studies.

Slowed Down

On their first album in years, Brand Nubian don't rock the set.

Renegades of Funk

Hip-hop mixtapes and mutations.

DJ Craze and DJ Klever at War Room Tonight

One of my favorite turntablists of all time, Miami's DJ Craze is hitting Seattle tonight to perform at the War Room. He's a three-time DMC champion and used to be Kanye West's DJ up until recently. I profiled him this week and you can learn more about Craze by reading that piece. He's arriving her ... More >>

Geek-Love Eye Candy Book Spot On... Kind of.

NPR blogged that authors Sarah O'Brien and Lacey Soslow of the book Geeky Dreamboats got a few guys right (Michael Cera, Jason Schwartzman, Justin Long) in their celebration of the word's sexiest straight-A studs, but were off the charts by naming Kayne West and Jake Gyllenhaal as geeks. To give t ... More >>

A-Trak

Saturday, July 18

A Shot in the Dark: Get Tanked by the Tank

And find free music at the Triple Door.

MTV Loves Kanye West for the Crap He Pulls

​I wish people would stop acting surprised at the antics that Kanye West displays during award ceremonies. I'm not convinced half of it isn't staged or at least hinted at before it takes place. The man has a long history of acting like a royal jackass every time he doesn't win an award that he ... More >>

Kanye Busts a Rhetorical Noggin

Novoselic In Singapore 1992. Photo: Kurt Cobain​Now Kanye West knows what it's like to embarrass yourself on the VMA's - at least dropping a bass on my head wasn't on purpose so there was no need to make any apologies!!!!

Video of Kanye's Apology on Jay Leno

​I like Kanye West when he's an asshole. Most of you do too. You won't admit it outright, but Kanye running around kissing babies and shaking hands is not what you want to see. We like Kanye throwing temper tantrums. Kanye with swagger. Kanye ready to put his foot up somebody's ass (paparazzi ... More >>

Kurt Cobain Took That Photo of Krist Novoselic Over on the Daily Weekly

Photographer and friend.​See it now for the first time. Novoselic -- a Reverb contributor and Daily Weekly columnist -- added it to a post in which he notes that Kanye West now knows what it feels like to be embarrassed at the VMAs. Krist can sympathize.

Last Night: Pink Slams Kanye, Covers Led Zeppelin, and Forgets Her Lyrics @ Key Arena

Dave HoganPink performed at the Key Arena on Tuesday, Sept. 15. ​Tickets to Pink's concert sold so fast that the concert was moved from Wamu Theater to Key Arena to accommodate a larger audience. Its popularity can likely be attributed to the fact that the Funhouse Tour is the first national t ... More >>

What Gives Now? Kanye West & Lady GaGa Tour Canceled.

​The Fame Kills Tour is no more, according to Live Nation's website. The pop-tastic venture co-headlined by egomaniacs Kanye West and Lady GaGa was scheduled to begin November 10. No explanation was given for its cancelation. The whole deal is bizarre and rumors are already swirling - the ma ... More >>

Sasquatch!

​The Fame Kills Tour is no more, according to Live Nation's website. The pop-tastic venture co-headlined by egomaniacs Kanye West and Lady GaGa was scheduled to begin November 10. No explanation was given for its cancelation. The whole deal is bizarre and rumors are already swirling - the ma ... More >>

Eagles at the Key, Kanye Vs. SNL, and NME On the Dum Dum Girls Avi Buffalo

​-- SeaTimes: Jonathan Zwickel on The Eagles' KeyArean set: "Hating the Eagles is hating a little part of yourself. Loving the Eagles -- their decades of hits along with their decades of acrimony and bloat -- is loving yourself, flaws and all." -- NahRight.com: "Fuck SNL and the whole cast, t ... More >>

Dwele

​-- SeaTimes: Jonathan Zwickel on The Eagles' KeyArean set: "Hating the Eagles is hating a little part of yourself. Loving the Eagles -- their decades of hits along with their decades of acrimony and bloat -- is loving yourself, flaws and all." -- NahRight.com: "Fuck SNL and the whole cast, t ... More >>

Rakaa

​-- SeaTimes: Jonathan Zwickel on The Eagles' KeyArean set: "Hating the Eagles is hating a little part of yourself. Loving the Eagles -- their decades of hits along with their decades of acrimony and bloat -- is loving yourself, flaws and all." -- NahRight.com: "Fuck SNL and the whole cast, t ... More >>

Kanye West Responds By Sympathizing With -- But Not Apologizing To -- George W. Bush

​In the wake of George W. Bush's bitchfest to Matt Lauer about Kanye West's diss to him five years ago, West phoned in to Houston's 97.9 The Box to offer the following response: "Well I can definitely understand the way he feels to be accused of being a racist in any way because the same thing ... More >>

Kid Cudi Evolves Existentialist Hip-Hop with Man On The Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager

​Artist: Kid Cudi Album: Man On The Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager Label: G.O.O.D. Music / Universal Motown Release date: November 9 (Today) Rating (Skip, Stream, or Buy): Buy Download: "Erase Me" Featuring Kanye West Mr. Solo Dolo, long a frontrunner in the brooding emo-rap that Kanye Wes ... More >>

Feed His Ego: Sol Drops a New Single in the Wake of His Hype Machine Success

​And in case you didn't know, the Hype Machine isn't some sort of corporate publicity factory--it's an NY-based music blog aggregator, and the people who frequent it recently took a real shining to Seattle's own Sol and his song "So Damn High" off recent EP Dear Friends, Vol. II. From his site ... More >>

Top 10 Reasons I Hate Year-End Top-10 Lists

John Roderick is the singer and songwriter responsible for Seattle's the Long Winters. His column appears on Reverb every Tuesday. Follow him on Twitter @johnroderick. ​1. Ranking things in order of how much you like them is a coping strategy of 9-year-old girls. I know people like to make top ... More >>

Kanye West In Uncredited Sampling Shocker! Also: Dumb Eyes' New Video for Beat Connection's "Silver Screen"

Kanye West premiered the video for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy's epic linchpin "All of the Lights" on Saturday, but because I was in Portland all weekend having birds put on me, I didn't get around to seeing it until last night--and then largely because of some protest on Facebook from local ... More >>

Ninjasonik

Kanye West premiered the video for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy's epic linchpin "All of the Lights" on Saturday, but because I was in Portland all weekend having birds put on me, I didn't get around to seeing it until last night--and then largely because of some protest on Facebook from local ... More >>

Kucinich Chimes In On Flag-Waving: "Freedom Rocks!" (Exclamation Point Mine)

​After he filled out this week's Reverb Questionnaire, Dennis Kucinich -- rock fan, Rep., and appreciator of Kanye on Katy -- took a second to chime in on the subject covered in the music lead of this week's paper, "True Patriot Pride." I asked the Ohio congressman, and sometimes presidential ... More >>

Official or Otherwise, Kanye's Oedipal "Mama's Boy" Satisfies a Craving for the Early Days

​Kanye stans have been waiting for "Mama's Boy" with bated breath ever since he debuted the track (then called "Mama's Boyfriend") a cappella from a tabletop stage at Facebook headquarters, then with doubled anticipation when the legendary DJ Premier spoke on his involvement. Ironically, the v ... More >>

My Summer Playlist 2011: Beyoncé, John Maus, Witch Gardens, Washed Out, and More

​Beyoncé, 4 (June 24, 2011): The lead single off Beyoncé's 4, "Run the World (Girls)," is less a song than a strange melange of aggressive shouting and bizarre samples, ostensibly meant to encourage females to take control and "run this mother." As a single, though, "Run the World" is decept ... More >>

Jay-Z/Kanye West's "Otis" May Have Less 'Bitches,' But It's Overflowing With Soul

​"You know I thug 'em, fuck 'em, love 'em, leave 'em cause I" ... want to cuddle? OK, maybe there's a generation gap, but Jay-Z/Kanye West's new single "Otis," which finally dropped yesterday and sparked a monsoon of YouTube fakes, is a rather impressive feat.The single, from the much anticip ... More >>

Jay-Z & Kanye West's New Video For "Otis" May Not Change Any Minds About The Song, However May Induce Lifestyle Envy

Get More: JAY Z and Kanye West, Music, More Music Videos "Otis", the Otis Redding-sampled track from the dynamic duo's blockbuster album Watch the Throne, has been a polarizing track due to its relatively simplistic take on the classic Redding song, and its instrumental has been borrowed for more " ... More >>

The New Wave: Extremely High Quality Unofficial Fan Videos

Kanye West and Jay Z - No Church In The Wild (music video) from High5Collective on Vimeo. Just this morning, Los Angeles-based artist collective called High5Collective released an unofficial music video for Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church In The Wild" (above), a track from Watch The Throne. Such ... More >>

Big Sean

Kanye West and Jay Z - No Church In The Wild (music video) from High5Collective on Vimeo. Just this morning, Los Angeles-based artist collective called High5Collective released an unofficial music video for Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church In The Wild" (above), a track from Watch The Throne. Such ... More >>

Ten Artists We Can't Stop Listening To, Even Though They're Assholes

​We couldn't help but notice that when they released the Grammy nominations last week, neither Kanye West nor Taylor Swift received nods in the Album of the Year category, despite both having released worthy albums within the requisite period. Surely, we can expect a classic Kanye meltdown any ... More >>

Feeding The Monster: Kanye Turns Diva, Jay-Z Basks In Our Love, Friday At The Tacoma Dome

Stephen GiangJay​ The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West) Friday, December 16 Tacoma Dome To the surprise of exactly no one, spectacle was the order of the night Friday, when The Throne Inc. pulled into Tacoma. Even outside the T Dome, the event had provoked action and reaction: a radio station kara ... More >>

Jay-Z & Kanye West

Stephen GiangJay​ The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West) Friday, December 16 Tacoma Dome To the surprise of exactly no one, spectacle was the order of the night Friday, when The Throne Inc. pulled into Tacoma. Even outside the T Dome, the event had provoked action and reaction: a radio station kara ... More >>

Check Out the Results of Village Voice's 2011 Pazz and Jop Polls

​The results are in! Village Voice has revealed the results of 2011's Pazz and Jop poll, which asks music critics across the country to name and rank their top ten albums and songs of the year. Here's the top ten albums:1. tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l 2. PJ Harvey, Let England Shake 3. Jay-Z and ... More >>