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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Adagio
The beauty of the Adagio was breathtaking. At the end, the audience stood up as one -- a real standing ovation! I will never forget that performance. The magic of that concert stayed with us the following days so much so that we wrote to Kent Nagano ... Albinoni's Adagio; Romance for Violin and Organ by Ralph Vaughan Williams; Beethoven's Trio in G for Violin, Viola and Cello; Handel's Organ Concerto in F and Dvorak's Bagatelles for Two Violins, Cello and Harmonium/Piano. Tickets are $15. Those ... A 5-year-old boy is being treated at a Dallas hospital for a gunshot wound, although police were unsure at noon how the child was shot, police said. The shooting was reported at 11:05 a.m. at the Adagio Palms Apartments, 8201 Fair Oaks Crossing in ... The beauty of the Adagio was breathtaking. At the end, the audience stood up as one - a real standing ovation! I will never forget that performance. The magic of that concert stayed with us the following days so much so that we wrote to Kent Nagano ... Performance will include the group's signature Baroque arrangements such as Bach's Concerto in D major as well as contemporary favorites like Barber's "Adagio." Canadian Brass sprang from modest and experimental roots in Toronto in 1970. Through ... This set also will include a transcription of Handel's Adagio and Allegro, along with a fun-filled new work with a calypso beat, 'Mary's Boy Child,' by African-American choral director Jester Hairston. The Symphonic Band then will take the stage ... But after nearly two years' hard labour, Beethoven produced an extremely original set, teeming with such novelties as the tragic Adagio of Quartet no.1 inspired by the tomb scene from Romeo and Juliet , or the almost concertante use of the first ... The opening night's Sugar Plum Fairy, Maria Kowroski, mistress of adagio dancing, gave a ravishing account of the ballet's climactic duet. Her Cavalier, Charles Askegard, was secure enough to toss her into the air for a moment midway through their ... Mahler Symphony No. 10 ("Adagio") and Shostakovich Symphony No. 14. (ECM, 3 stars) Schubert String Quartet G major (Op. 161) (ECM, 4 stars) These two discs by violinist Gidon Kremer and his ever-adventurous chamber orchestra search for something ... Description: West Coast Chamber Orchestra will perform a full, rich-textured menu of perennial 18th century classical favorites: Mozart’s Adagio in E Major (K261), Symphony No. 21 in A Major (K134), Quartet for Flute and Strings (K285), and the ...
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