Kanye West

By Daniel Kreps Kanye West onstage and backstage: photos from his Glow in the Dark Tour. • Spike Jonze Talks Kanye’s “We Were Once A Fairytale” Short Film • Kanye West and Lady Gaga “Fame Kills” Tour Canceled • Kanye West Calls His Taylor Swift VMAs Outburst “Rude” on “Leno”

By Daniel Kreps Taylor Swift pulled a Timberlake this weekend, becoming one of a handful of artists in Saturday Night Live history to serve as both musical guest and host, for the show’s November 7th episode. Swift did a masterful job in both roles, appearing in nearly all the sketches — which were for the m...

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By Daniel Kreps Check out photos of Rihanna, onstage and off. Related Stories: Rihanna: Chris Brown Had “No Soul in His Eyes” During Assault Rihanna Opens Up About Leaked Police Photo as “Hard” Hits the Net Rihanna Confirms Slash, Will.i.am, Young Jeezy Guest on “Rated R”

By Daniel Kreps Photo: Winter/Getty When SNL returns from a few weeks off this coming Saturday night, Taylor Swift will be pulling double duty as both host and musical guest. Only a handful of stars have managed that heavy load in the past — notably Britney Spears, who was the youngest host in the show’s his...

By Rolling Stone Rihanna returned with “Russian Roulette,” the first single off her November 23rd LP Rated R, and revealed she’d perform at this year’s AMAs. Meanwhile, Chris Brown announced a Fan Appreciation tour and opened up in a radio interview. Lady Gaga spilled details about her upcoming The Monst...

By Daniel Kreps Photo: Steele/FilmMagic Kanye West’s lawyer was in a Los Angeles court today seeking the dismissal of three misdemeanor charges filed against her client stemming from a confrontation West and his manager Don Crowley had with a pack of paparazzi at Los Angeles’ LAX airport on September...

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By Daniel Kreps It looks like hip-hop is embracing the concept of the short film. Just days after Kanye West’s “We Were Once a Fairytale” — an introspective meditation about isolation — leaked, 50 Cent unleashed his own entry: the video for “Crime Wave,” the first official single off his upcoming Before I...

By Daniel Kreps Go backstage on Kanye West’s Glow in the Dark Tour in photos. • Inside a Kanye West Tour: “Glow in the Dark” Photos, Backstage Tales • Kanye West, Spike Jonze’s “Fairytale” Short Out in September • “Where the Wild Things Are”: Exclusive Look Behind the Film’s Stunning Music and Visuals

By Rolling Stone It didn’t take long for Lady Gaga to recover after her Fame Kills Tour — a joint trek with Kanye West she tells Rolling Stone was going to “keep the momentum going in terms of pop music staying innovative with hip-hop and R&B” — was canceled earlier this month. Just two weeks later she anno...

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By Daniel Kreps Photograph by Nabil Elderkin courtesy of Rizzoli Before U2 went 360 and Madonna was Sticky & Sweet, Kanye West’s Glow in the Dark Tour raised the bar on multi-sensory arena experiences with gigs that were one part eye-popping light show, one part art exhibit and, most importantly, o...

By Rolling Stone U2 will stream their 360° Tour concert at Pasadena, California’s Rose Bowl on Sunday live on YouTube. “‘The band has wanted to do something like this for a long time,” manager Paul McGuinness said in a statement on the band’s Website. “Fans often travel long distances to come to see U2 — this t...

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By Rolling Stone • News Ticker: Kanye West, Julian Lennon • Jackson’s “This Is It” Premieres • Springsteen Closes Down Giants Stadium • Lady Gaga Announces The Fame Monster LP • Oasis Officially “No Longer” • New Eminem Track, Jay-Z Hits on Renegade • Phish Announce Fall Tour • Jackson’s This Is It Track Li...

By Ian Frisch Janet Jackson “Rock Witchu” Tour (2008): After postponing numerous tour dates due to complications from vertigo, Jackson dispensed with the rest of the dates due to “conflicts in the singer’s schedule,” robbing fans of the chance to see her lose her balance or vomit onstage.

By Christopher R. Weingarten VH1’s Hip Hop Honors don’t air until Tuesday, October 13th at 9 p.m. EST/PST, but Rolling Stone was at the big event at Brooklyn’s Howard Gilman Opera House last night. At the sixth annual Honors, a cavalcade of stars paid tribute to Def Jam Records, the mainstay that laid the blueprint for the...

By Rolling Stone Kanye West stole the spotlight at the VMAs by stealing the mic from Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech, overshadowing a night where Madonna and Janet Jackson paid tribute to the King of Pop and Lady Gaga donned her wildest outfits yet. For Rolling Stone’s complete coverage, from re...

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By Rolling Stone • Kanye West Charged With Three Misdemeanors • Springsteen, Vedder Celebrate Seeger’s 90th Birthday • Chart Roundup: Kelly Clarkson Tops U2 • American Idol Takes on Country • Madonna Prepping New Greatest Hits Disc • Breaking: Ida Maria • News Ticker: Kanye West, New York Dolls, Idol

By Daniel Kreps Getting to the music, West performed a 14-song set of his greatest hits and 808s & Heartbreak tracks including “Stronger,” “Touch the Sky” and “Amazing.” • Kanye West E-Mails the Smoking Section: “I Am Nuclear Energy” • Kanye West: A Genius In Praise of Himself

By Daniel Kreps Just as Rock Band competes against Guitar Hero, Scratch will soon be confronted by DJ Hero. “I don’t have a whole lot of detail about what they’re doing. But I do know that ours is going to be a very authentic experience,” QD3 tells Rock Daily. “That’s one of the reasons I got involved; it’s that w...

Now, the guys in the band have such high esteem for Kanye...but we must say, Kanye did ask Franz singer Alex Kapranos for some singing tips. Alex told him to not to have conversations in noisy places, to not smoke, and to stay away from the spirits. Spirits?" Kanye said. "Like, ghosts?"

Kanye West announced long ago that mere hip-hop superstardom was not enough for him — he wanted to be "the number one artist in the world." So it's no surprise that his untrammeled egotism has led him well beyond the usual limits of his genre. With Kanye largely abandoning rapping in favor of d...

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By Daniel Kreps The five much-ballyhooed remixes from Michael Jackson’s twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Thriller have hit the Web. First up, there’s Will.i.am/Fergie’s take on “Beat It,” which is pretty solid, if only because it reminds us of the Alvin & The Chipmunks version of the song. Alvin a...

By Rolling Stone “This is a rock & roll moment right here,” says Kanye West on the set of his Rolling Stone cover shoot with 50 Cent. Watch the two hip-hop heavyweights get camera-ready at photographer Albert Watson’s New York studio, discuss the Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier confrontation that inspired...

On Graduation, West tries hard to address the problems on his first two... Artist: Kanye West Album: Graduation Review: There is no bigger lie on Graduation than when Kanye West claims he doesn't “try hard,� as he does on the single “Can't Tell Me Nothing.� West tries extremely hard a...

Review: Two years ago, Be was not only Common's highest-charting CD, it was also the best of his career - thoughtful, "bitch"-free and mama-friendly like all Common records, but also edgy, lush and likable all over, thanks to chief producer Kanye West. No surprise, then, that the Chicago...