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

• Kansas City's hip-hop wants a piece of Hot 103

  December 3, 2009

• Best Zumba Class

  December 3, 2009

• Clothes Whores: Inside Elisha Stetson's lycra wonderland

  Nadia PflaumElisha Stetson modeling one of his masterpieces​Clothes Whores: Enthusiastically examining Kansas City's sartorial shenanigansFirst thing's first: Elisha Stetson is a boy.I expected a girl to answer the door at Stetson's midtown apartment-slash-studio, which turns out to be a common mistake. I'd seen the Kansas City Art Institute grad's business card advertising made-to-order lycra bodysuits, and jumped to the conclusion based on the spelling of his name and the visions of a shimmy

  December 23, 2009

• Video MP3: DJ Earworm, "United States of Pop 2009 (Blame It On the Pop"

  The top 25 Billboard hits of 2009, mashed, cut, and otherwise messed the hell up in just under five minutes. Nice job there, DJ Earworm. The list of all the songs is after the jump, but you can always try and guess. Although, really -- I only knew about half. Why? Because I write about music on the Internet, and live in comic shops and record stores. My awareness of what's popular amongst the hoi polloi is limited to what I hear in gas stations and coming out of my kids' rooms. MP3: DJ Earwo

  December 30, 2009

• Concert Review: Leslie and the LY'S

  BY GORDON GUILD If you arrived at the Record Bar on the evening of New Year's Day not knowing what to expect, you were hit with Leslie & the LY's signature glitter and glam by just walking though the parking lot. Their tour van said it all: "SHAZAAM!" Decked out with a mish-mash of kittens, photos of her band, and brightly colored words proclaiming "jams, gems, and beautiful gifts," it was clear that Kansas City was in for a spectacle. ​ ​Leslie Hall and her LY's (comprising Hall, M

  January 4, 2010

• Concert Review: Lady Gaga at the Fox Theater

  The elements be damned, nary a head was missing in the screeching, sequined crowd at St. Louis' Fox Theater Thursday night. Lovers of pop and glitter had flocked there to show some love for the New York-born pop diva Stefani Germanotta, also known as the fabulous Lady Gaga. Before we begin: Allow me my brief exhortation on the brilliance of Gaga.​ By re-examining the art within the artifice, Lady Gaga masterfully straddles the line between performance art and mind-boggling pop. Melding visi

  January 8, 2010

• Video: OK Go, "This Too Shall Pass"

  Is OK Go's latest piece of video magic enough to dub them kings of the one-take video club? (Beyonce, we're looking at you.) Take a look for yourself. ​First famous for their 2005 viral video hit, "A Million Ways," OK Go's debut YouTube hit featured the band members in suits dancing ridiculously well in their backyard. Not to be outdone, the group had a YouTube sensation on their hands again in summer 2006 with "Here It Goes Again," which consisted of the same painstakingly choreographed danc

  January 13, 2010

• High-Profile Abuse

  March 18, 2010