Pitchfork — Kanye has since moved on to more Auto-Tuned pastures, but this summer's "Glow in the Dark" tour lingered long enough with Human Giant's Aziz Ansari for the comic to name his upcoming standup tour after it. Aziz also had a poster designed for his "Glo... more info

Idolator — This morning while doing my YouTube rounds, I found a clip claiming to have as its audio bed a high-quality version of Kanye West's Tears For Fears homage "Coldest Winter," so I—hoping to hear the song without all that peaking and radio static that... more info

Altsounds — Four Texan dudes called Honey Claws have come into the fiesta and they’re bringin’ the future with them. A mostly electronic, mostly funky, 14-track hip-hop epic, Honey Claws’ self-titled debut album is a pulsing, cursing, ... more info

Altsounds — Four Texan dudes called Honey Claws have come into the fiesta and they’re bringin’ the future with them. A mostly electronic, mostly funky, 14-track hip-hop epic, Honey Claws’ self-titled debut album is a pulsing, cursing, ... more info

Indie Music News — 10 years ago, Daft Punk redefined music with their milestone debut LP 'Homework'. Now they have also redefined the live performance. Daft Punk is back in America with a new live Album, 'Alive 2007' (EMI Music France), the Hardest, Best, Fastest, Stro... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DJ Mehdi @ MoNH- Oct 10, 2008 (photo by Roderick Mickens/AMNH) Last week was amazing. I took Thursday night off in anticipation of the running around I planned to do the following night, going to both this month's One Step Beyond at The American Mu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DJ Mehdi @ MoNH- Oct 10, 2008 (photo by Roderick Mickens/AMNH) Last week was amazing. I took Thursday night off in anticipation of the running around I planned to do the following night, going to both this month's One Step Beyond at The American M... more info

Idolator — At the end of my 2007 poll essay, I mentioned that Kanye West was clearly trying to ingratiate himself to the indie audience: fake videos with Will Oldham and Zack Galifinakis, collaborations with Daft Punk, dropping in on upstart indie MCs' videos. ... more info

Idolator — Ed. note: It's time for another installment of "VHS Or Beta?", where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies—from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the recent film by th... more info

Stereogum — Kanye and Ellen DeGeneres are like really tight? Sure why not. Instead of MTV or BET or even his own blog, the "Love Lockdown" premiere went to Ellen TV earlier this week, where she let us know he was her "good friend" and that the video was "brilli... more info