The News Review:
- … Premieres ‘Stronger’ Video In NYC – News Story |…
- Music Review | ‘True Colors Tour’
- Tooling Around page 1 – Music – Riverfront Times – Riverfront Times
… Premieres ‘Stronger’ Video In NYC – News Story |…
MTV.com – Jun 20, 2007
“I made so many mistakes the past year I started swimming in wack juice I needed to get out of” he said. “I would read blogs and they would be like ‘His shoelaces are untied he’s a b—h. ” He added that Late Registration co-producer Jon Brion even hinted that West should try to make music that made people see him as less annoying. “Instead of coming with ‘h I’m sorry’ that song is an emancipation” Kanye explained. As for the video itself… Well there’s no way we’re going to make Kanye abruptly end his West Coast trip pack his Louis Vuitton bags get back aboard a private jet and come straight to the MTV offices because we gave away the whole thing. But we can tell you this: There is an emphasis on performance and looking fly. There is a huge special-effects segment where Daft Punk dressed as helmet-clad scientists or doctors are pushing buttons in a control room while a machine big enough to fit a truck inside is working on Kanye as he lays on a table with wires attached to him — wearing nothing but a pair of boxers. When the clip was finished one person in the theater yelled out “Cassie! I think I love you!” But most of the praise and applause were directed at Mr. West and the video. “I’mma talk sh– and play it again” he said.
Music Review | ‘True Colors Tour’
New York Times – Jun 20, 2007
” A much more musical brand of theatricality animated the Dresden Dolls a duo consisting of the pianist Amanda Palmer and the drummer Brian Viglione. Their set was a concise demonstration of cabaret-punk. Palmer singing throatily at an electric keyboard held her own not only on the band staple “Coin-perated Boy” but also even amid the bombast of “War Pigs” the Black Sabbath screed. For vocal incandescence though she couldn’t top Beth Ditto whose band the Gossip delivered the night’s most unpolished and gripping performance. Backed by the guitarist Brace Paine and the drummer Hannah Blilie Ms.
Tooling Around page 1 – Music – Riverfront Times – Riverfront Times
Riverfront Times – Jun 20, 2007
For Beasley the point was always to do something original and unexpected. “Ben asked me to be in a band and the reason I said yes was because he just said ‘Do you want to be in a band?’” Beasley recounts. Not a punk band or a metal band (or God save us all a ska band). Just a band with no preconceived notions about what kind of music the trio would make. It worked with Corbeta Corbata eventually recording a full-length album that Beasley was later shocked (and even a tad embarrassed) to find in his peers’ stereos. “Eric and I were the dorks that the hardcore and punk people wouldn’t even pick fights with or hand flyers to after a show” 26-year-old Beasley says of his adolescence. Corbeta Corbata grew to make the rounds however frequently playing at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center CBGB and just about every dingy basement show in town.