Austin Sound Check » kanye west http://www.austinsoundcheck.com Austin Sound Check explores the explosive music scene of Austin Texas. Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:43:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Music to Vote By: Election 2008 Edition http://www.austinsoundcheck.com/2008/11/music-to-vote-by-election-2008-edition/ http://www.austinsoundcheck.com/2008/11/music-to-vote-by-election-2008-edition/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:58:54 +0000 http://www.austinsoundcheck.com/music-to-vote-by-election-2008-edition/ Post from: Austin Sound Check

]]> Today, Americans face one of the most important elections in the history of our nation. In light of that fact, I’m taking a respite from the usual topic of Austin music today to bring you some videos to watch and hopefully be inspired by.

Yes We Can – Will.i.am

Rise – Flobots

B.Y.O.B. – System of A Down (Lego Version)

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Stronger – Kanye West

Pull Up The People – M.I.A.

Mosh – Eminem

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]]> http://www.austinsoundcheck.com/2008/11/music-to-vote-by-election-2008-edition/feed/ 0 Beauty Bar gets a Cease & Desist order from Kanye West http://www.austinsoundcheck.com/2008/05/beauty-bar-gets-a-cease-desist-order-from-kanye-west/ http://www.austinsoundcheck.com/2008/05/beauty-bar-gets-a-cease-desist-order-from-kanye-west/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 19:30:21 +0000 http://www.austinsoundcheck.com/beauty-bar-gets-a-cease-desist-order-from-kanye-west/ Post from: Austin Sound Check

]]> If you are a regular reader of this blog, you’ll recall a post on April 30th about a Kanye West Glow in the Dark Tour afterparty at Beauty Bar. The bash was being hosted by DJ Craze, Kanye’s tour DJ. Normally I’d link you to the post at this point, but at the request of Kanye West’s legal team and the management at Beauty Bar, the post has been removed.

Kanye West’s legal team contacted Beauty Bar and threatened them with legal action over the promotion of their After the Glow party. The full email I received from Beauty Bar is below, along with the original artwork I received promoting the event.

Ana, my name is B___ Im one of the owners at Beauty
Bar. We received a Cease and Desist letter from Kanye
Wests legal team regarding the Austin Soundcheck post
about the DJ Craze show last wed. 4/30. the url for
the blog post is still up and it needs to be taken
down otherwise we could be sued for falsely promoting
Kanyes name, which we never did. But they are saying
we are responsible for what your blog posted. I
REALLY appreciate you helping us out and help
promoting the event, but its causing some friction so
if you could please take it down and let me know I
would much appreciate it.
Thanks!

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I’m no legal expert, but from my perspective this is absolutely heinous. Legal action was threatened a full week after the event had taken place. Aside from that, DJ Craze is Kanye’s tour DJ. There’s nothing false about promoting a show as such. Seems to be another case of Kanye West’s inflated ego.

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