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- … Clobbers 50 Cent In Week-Two Sales – News Story | Music…
- … Win In Court; Sets LP Release Date – News Story | Music…
- Education and titillation in Detroit
… Clobbers 50 Cent In Week-Two Sales – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Sep 26, 2007
textContenturl:window. href} {button:true} );For the last month or so everyone in the music industry has been abuzz about Kanye West and 50 Cent — or more specifically the epic sales campaign the two waged during the weeks leading up to the September 11 release of their latest LPs ‘Ye’s Graduation and Fif’s Curtis. And last week the results came in with West the undisputed victor (see. But who’d come out on top after week two? Would West’s sales continue to eclipse 50′s or would the tables turn resulting in a come-from-behind coup?Well neither ended up being the case and the results stayed pretty much the same: Sales of Graduation were significantly stronger than those generated by Curtis and interest in both sets waned… claims the #113 spot with just over 6000 copies grabbed up. Gospel artist Byron Cage’s Live at the Apollo: The Proclamation opens at #118 with 5700 copies sold while Ministry’s swan song The Last Sucker comes in at #130 selling 5000 units. Doom-metal force High on Fire’s Death Is This Communion comes in at #142 with 4500 scans followed five spots down at #147 by German metallers Rammstein’s live offering Völkerball which sold close to 4500 copies. And last but not least finishing out the week at #173 it’s the debut solo album from Havoc one-half of the hip-hop duo Mobb Deep; The Kush sold 3900 units its first week in stores.
… Win In Court; Sets LP Release Date – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Sep 26, 2007
: Bigger Than Life” follows the rapper’s life from his early days to his death with interviews from many of the behind-the-scenes music-industry figures and friends who watched the rapper rise from a street-corner hustler to one of the biggest rap stars in the world. The film also features several minutes of previously unreleased footage shot by a bystander of the scene on the night Biggie was gunned down. The fan’s video — which director Peter Spirer (“Beef” “Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel”) said has been reviewed by authorities — doesn’t capture the moment Biggie’s car was shot at but it does have audio of the shots and shaky footage of the chaotic aftermath… A second woman has filed a lawsuit against Lil Wayne over a. According to an AP story Carlisa Dixon said she was impaled on a metal pole after the crowd surged to snatch up money that was being tossed from the stage. Dixon is seeking $1 million from Wayne’s record label and touring companies and another $1 million from the university claiming she underwent surgery for a puncture wound as a result of the crowd surge. A lawsuit was filed in August by another woman who claimed she was trampled in the same money-throwing incident. A spokesperson for Wayne could not be reached for comment at press time.
Education and titillation in Detroit
Detroit Metro Times – Sep 26, 2007
For the public it was another good night spent observing and addressing the immediate environment. Detroit artist Vito Valdez erected a public sculpture commemorating Native Michiganders. Metal armature holds a raised bed upon which a skeleton rests. Above this open-air coffin dangles a sculpture of a lone wolf with its head cocked as if crying out to the city. Valdez’s piece is one of few in Detroit dedicated to our native people. “Can you believe that?” he asks. A sculpture of a Native Michigander carrying a canoe once stood on Washington Boulevard… Not all art has intentions so sober. In fact if you take yourself or your work too seriously please talk to Mary Fortuna. “Yeah I thought to myself this summer I could do something important — or I could sit around and knit monkeys!”That’s what Fortuna said later that same night as she stood in the doorway and watched the crowd soak in representations of life and death at Zeitgeist Gallery. The exhibit Azutunarasharedo — an amalgam of the artists’ names of course thought up by Fortuna — presented her stuffed animals and insects on a “Tree of Life” as well as work by Azucena Nava-Moreno Kathleen Rashid and Mary Laredo Herbeck. Zeitgeist has always recalled some sort of William Burroughs vision a swirling Michigan Avenue hallucination in between empty lots. While the programming tends to recycle the same cadre of artists it is in its own way one of the city’s few “live” art spaces. There was no more proof of that than this opening night of art by four women.