Subject: Beyonce Knowles

• Crankytown No. 2

  June 28, 2007

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  By Randall RobertsYou don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'

  December 18, 2008

• David Cook's "Happy Xmas" -- minus "(War Is Over)"

  American Idol winner and Blue Springs native David Cook sang the John Lennon classic "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" at Rockefeller Center early this month. It was a gorgeous rendition -- except for one thing:Fans of the Christmas classic might have noticed something kind of important missing. As Roger Catlin, a vigilant TV writer for the Hartford Courant, noted: The most shocking thing about "Christmas in Rockefeller Center," an event that's usually benign holiday fun, wasn't the amount of people in

  December 23, 2008

• The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop Poll winner is no mystery, but one Lawrence-based voter is.

  The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop poll is out for music year 2008. Predictably, voters named TV on the Radio's very fine Dear Science the victor. To declare a winner, the Voice's music desk tabulates ballots from hundreds of name-brand critics, no-name editors and writers, card-carrying bloggers, small-press holdovers, MP3 addicts and various hangers-on. Among the collateral results of all the sharing of opinions is a kind of music-geek social networking. The fun of submitting a ballot c

  February 9, 2009

• Beyoncé Knowles

  July 24, 2003

• Best Local Release

  October 9, 2003

• Best Hair on the Air

  October 9, 2003

• Various

  February 5, 2004

• Solange and Estelle at the VooDoo Lounge

  Photo of Estelle courtesy Atlantic Records Before last night, the extent of what I knew about Solange Knowles was limited to what I read about her on Dlisted (the celebrity blogger likes to make up stories about how her diva sister Beyonce keeps Solange locked away in the basement) and the crazy-ass outfits I see her going out in public with thanks to GoFugYourself. So, not a good look. That's why I'm so grateful that I got to see homegirl rock the shit out of a thin but passionate crowd last ni

  February 27, 2009

• Jimmy's Jam

  January 25, 2007

• Cadillac Records

  December 4, 2008

• Professor Fuller Wails

  March 6, 2008

• Various Artists

  January 12, 2006

• Christina Aguilera/Destiny's Child/Before Dark

  Sandstone Amphitheatre -- July 31, 2000

  August 3, 2000

• Crisis in Suburbia

  May 3, 2007

• Strange Alchemy

  With help from a dude in a sarong, Cody Critcheloe turns punk into pop gold.

  April 26, 2007

• Dream Works

  But it’s not perfect. Jennifer Hudson nails it as a well-worn tale struggles to transcend the Ray model.

  December 21, 2006

• Brazilian Girls

  July 27, 2006

• Hip-hop, Year 2 A.J.

  December 29, 2005

• Excess Hollywood

  In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

  May 19, 2005

• King of Beers

  Sam Beam steps aside.

  April 21, 2005

• Final Fantasy

  Forget the office football draft. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time.

  August 12, 2004

• Rock The Vote

  Use your power wisely. Rock the Vote Here¹s a refresher on the serious responsibility Pitch readers now face: electing this year¹s Pitch Music Awards winners.

  July 8, 2004

• In the Pink

  A hometown tenor follows his destiny.

  May 20, 2004

• Check Ya Later

  Hey, 2003, don't let the door smack you on the ass.

  January 1, 2004

• Rooney

  Monday, September 15, at the Bottleneck.

  September 11, 2003

• Missy Elliott / Ms. Jade

  Under Construction (Elektra) / Girl Interrupted (Beat Club/Interscope)

  January 16, 2003

• Mann Power

  Aimee Mann has earned the right to be as sad as she pleases.

  November 14, 2002

• Powers Off

  In Goldmember, Myers' mojo is running low.

  July 25, 2002

• Heat Wiser

  David Lee Roth is still crazy after all these years.

  June 6, 2002

• Jingle Bell Rock

  Giddy up, jingle horse: Here's a few Christmas-themed gems, plus plenty of lumps of coal.

  December 20, 2001

• Child Star

  Michelle Williams willingly accepts her Destiny.

  March 22, 2001

• Take This Wife

  David E. Talbert assembles a made-in-heaven lineup for his debut soundtrack.

  November 30, 2000

• Kanye did not steal KU freshman videomaker's moment in the limelight.

  Anyone catch the MTV Video Music Awards last night? Evidently, they should stop inviting Kanye West to these things. Unless you saw it and are trying to forget about it, read about his act of enormity all over the Internet. Fortunately, West had no feelings one way or the other about the award for "Best Performance in a Pepsi Rock Band Video," though had Beyonce been up for that, surely KU freshman Shane Reynolds would've been dressed down by the impulsive rapper on national TV. Instead, Reynol

  September 14, 2009

• Concert Review: Dirty Projectors at the Granada (video-enhanced)

  BY IAN HRABE Right before Dirty Projectors went on, I overheard someone on the balcony talking about the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. Talking Heads come up a lot when people talk about Dirty Projectors, enough that now they are being heralded as the heir apparent to art pop. And with good reason, too. Ian Hrabe​ Like Heads frontman David Byrne, Dave Longstreth works with complex song structures and experimental-leaning arrangements to craft what are essentially artsy po

  November 10, 2009