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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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Antonio Carlos Jobim
Cam Newton He will be performing all original music, including pieces from his most recent release, "Ipso Facto," which incorporates expressions of Cam's admiration for the spirit and musicianship of Django Reinhardt, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Mason ... Guitarist Charlie Redd, son of the vibraphonist, contributed his customary bossa-nova interlude, a sunny performance of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Agua de Beber." In addition to the Redd brothers, the core ensemble featured trumpeter Tom Williams ... For its latest project, the combo has teamed up with bossa nova chanteuse Luciana Souza to explore the charms of the Latin American masters, including Brazilian pioneers Hermeto Pascoal and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Hear the hot six-strings on Thursday ... Sergio and Odair Assad develop four short compositions by bossa nova icon Antonio Carlos Jobim, including "Trem para Codisburgo," and they all sound more fit for the concert hall than the jazz lounge. The Assad brothers' vast repertoire even extends ... The other significant addition was a big swerve south toward Brazil, where not only the vast treasured songbook of Antonio Carlos Jobim awaited, but also the possibilities of re-routing American material into bossa nova territory. Pizzarelli's new ... Turned on to Brazilian music at a young age by her mother, Monheit reiterates her devotion to the music throughout “Surrender,” perhaps most powerfully in her duet with Lins on “Rio de Maio.” Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Caminhos Cruzados ... Rather than further explain, he sits at the "retired" concert grand piano in the corner - "it takes 30 years to break one in" - and drifts into the syncopated softness of a tune by Antonio Carlos Jobim. There is joy in his face when he looks up to ... She chose three compositions by the Brazilian legend Antonio Carlos Jobim, music penned by Sergio Mendes (an early influence) and numbers written by Latin masters such as Roberto Menescal and Pablo Beltran Ruiz. Irene also has the ability to shape jazz ... And, if one is to believe the calendar, he played bossa nova when it was still an infant, not a craze credited to Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, and Antonio Carlos Jobim when the three released Getz/Gilberto in 1963. Babasin played on and contributed a ... Latifah calls her current approach “jazz eclectic,” a mix of jazz, blues, soul, pop and folk, including Phoebe Snow’s “Poetry Man,” Antonio Carlos Jobim’s bossa nova classic “Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars” and standards associated with ...
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