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Jay Z, Kanye West: Game Of Thrones: Kanye West: Yeezus (Def Jam) ****/Jay Z: Magna Carta… Holy Grail (Virgin EMI) **

Review by Dorian Lynskey, Q, September 2013

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN the world's two most famous rappers start to lose their grip on the mic? ...

Kanye West: Kanye West: TD Garden, Boston

Live Review by Maura Johnston, The Boston Globe, 4 September 2016

"IT'S A GOOD YEAR to be a Kanye West fan," Kanye West said near the end of his show at TD Garden on Saturday night. ...

Pharrell Williams, Jungle: Pharrell Williams/Jungle: Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 11 September 2014

He looks dapper, and he opens the show with a brilliant blast of robot funk, but the R&B pioneer is a bit too reserved on ...

Kanye West: 808s & Heartbreak

Review by Dorian Lynskey, Q, January 2009

AT THE END of August, Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis was waiting for her flight to the Democratic National Convention in Denver when a fellow passenger ...

Coldcut, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: You Spin Me Round

Overview by Martin Aston, Q, November 1997

"Two turntables and a microphone," are, says Beck, "where it's at." For more than a decade Technics 1200 record decks have provided the backbone of ...

Roni Size and Reprazent, Dynamite MC, Carl Cox, Fatboy Slim, Jungle Brothers, The, Propellerheads: Lords Of The Dance

Report by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 30 April 1998

IS ELECTRONICA STILL THE NEXT BIG THING? AT THE WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE, IT'S ALL THAT AND MORE ...

N*E*R*D: Dweebs In Pepperland: N*E*R*D: Fly Or Die (Virgin)

Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Word, May 2004

As producers, the Neptunes rule the world. But as N*E*R*D they're losing their way — by Dorian Lynskey ...

Goldie, Pat Metheny: When Goldie Met Metheny

Interview by Kate Mossman, The Word, August 2011

Obsessed drum'n'bass muscle writes daily letters to jazz wizard (and to Beethoven and Elgar). Eventually he posts one. Word arranges a summit ...

Kanye West

Profile by Stephen Dalton, The National, September 2009

WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA branded rapper Kanye West a "jackass" for his one-man stage invasion at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York last Sunday, ...

Kanye West: The Life Of Pablo (GOOD Music/Def Jam)

Review by Simon Reynolds, The Wire, April 2016

The seventh album by Kanye West dismantles the traditional concept of the album while laying bare its author's inner conflicts. ...

Elvis Costello, Roots, The: Elvis Costello and Questlove

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, MOJO, September 2013

Forged in the unlikely surroundings of an American late-night TV show, the transatlantic union between Elvis Costello and The Roots' drummer and co-frontman Questlove has ...

Cher, Bon Iver, Jay-Z, Ke$ha, Britney Spears, Kanye West, Migos, T-Pain, Travis Scott: How Auto-Tune Revolutionized the Sound of Popular Music

Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 17 September 2018

An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher's 'Believe' to Kanye West to Migos ...

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