Steve Stoure With Gayle King; Arcade Fire Responds To Open Letter

February 24, 2011 JUKEBOXDC Staff Interviews, News No Comments  
I’m already tired of this issue, honestly. You can check out that audio from The Gayle King Show below, but of course, you had to expect somebody who won an award to fire back….from Arcade Fire’s manager Scott Rodger:
“Arcade Fire deserved the win this year. They made the best album. If the award was names ‘Album Sales Of The Year’ award, there would be no discussion. Stoute’s letter was nice piece of self publicity. Did he see Kanye’s tweets when we won and the praise he gave us?? He needs to tune in. Eminem made a big selling album but it was far from being his best work. Katy Perry made a big pop record that simply didn’t have weight or credibility. Gaga’s repackage, great album but it was a repackage of the main release. I think everyone felt it was going to be Lady Antebellum’s moment having won 5 out of 6 awards to that point. We all felt that way too.
“I’m proud of this band and what they have achieved,” he continues. “We didn’t lobby any organisation for this nor did the band play the game. We paid our own overhead to do the event, thus the lack of on stage gimmicks. No label picked up the tab.
“Arcade Fire are now one of the biggest live acts in the world. It’s not all about record sales. It’s about making great records and it’s about building a loyal fan base. The band make great albums, they’re not a radio driven singles band. On top of that, they own their own masters and copyrights and are in complete control of their own destiny. Things couldn’t be better.”
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Yung L.A. Is An Idiot Explains Facial Tattoo

February 24, 2011 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  
From XXL. You can read more at the link, but for now, an excerpt:
“That tattoo just comes from something in the city. My cousins grew up with a lot of people from Zone 6, I know a lot of people from Zone 6, and the people from Zone 6, there whole movement is called Duct Tape and I just had been really getting up with these guys. Everybody in the city from Zone 6, Zone 3, Zone 1, from Duct Tape to YGC to CDB to 30 Deep, there’s so many cliques in Atlanta and I just wanted to be the Robin Hood, I just wanted to be the guy that could have relationships with everybody in the city.”
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Rhymefest Forces City Council Run-Off

February 24, 2011 JUKEBOXDC Staff News, Videos No Comments  

Wow:
Wherever you are in the city/Chicagoland area, we need your help! You can phone bank, you can canvass. E-mail unify20thward@gmail.com! Even if you can only do an hour, 10 people for 1 hour is 10 hours of service which goes a long way.We have 42 days to make this happen. I’m going out today to get to work immediately but I cannot do this alone.

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