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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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Camper Van Beethoven
DAN TYMINSKI BAND, Hot Buttered Rum, 8 p.m. Jan. 4. $39.50. Moved from Palace of Fine Arts to the Independent. Previously purchased tickets will be honored at the door. CRACKER, CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, 9 p.m. Dec. 27-28, Independent. $22. CONFLICT, 8 p ... Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker -- David Lowery obviously doesn't need much downtime. The great singer-songwriter pulls double duty here as the frontman for two bands -- CVB and Cracker. The former is a multifaceted musical ensemble blending ska ... Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven Independent. 9pm, $22. Also Fri/28. Shane Dwight Biscuits and Blues. 8pm, $12.50. *Finches, Mantles, RyRock Hemlock Tavern. 9:30pm, $7. Inferno of Joy, Death Valley High Annie's Social Club. 9pm, $7. Van Morrison, Shana ... Fir Ball 2008: Doug Fir Lounge rings in 2008 with Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. Indie alt-rock pioneers, the Campers are back together and promoting "New Roman Times," their first CD after about a 10-year layoff. After CVB originally disbanded ... CRACKER, CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, 9 p.m. Dec. 27-28, Independent. $22. CONFLICT, 8 p.m. Dec. 27, Slim's. $16. VAN MORRISON, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 27-28, Nob Hill Masonic Center. $85.50-$199.50. X, 9 p.m. Dec. 28-29, Slim's. $30. JACKIE GREENE, 9 p.m. Dec. 28 ... Motion City Soundtrack, Anberlin, Mae and Metro Station are part of the mtvU Tour, which spotlights up-and-coming bands that are as popular on campuses as R.E.M. and Camper Van Beethoven were back in the 1980s. The tour is sponsored by a sister ... Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven Close Out '07 with Gigs The holiday season can be a busy one, with all the shopping and stuffing of faces and all, but for alt-rocker David Lowery , this December will be, well, twice as demanding as he hits the road ... The band enlisted well-known producers Dennis Herring (Camper Van Beethoven, Elvis Costello, Buddy Guy) for a number of tracks, as well as Garrett ''Jacknife'' Lee (U2, Bloc Party) and the famous half of the Neptunes, Pharrell Williams, who ... Every year, electro-rocker Gram Rabbit hosts a Halloween ball and Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven have been having an annual campout there as well. Also, be on the lookout for some famous people. Robert Plant once dropped by ... ... Stiff Little Fingers), "Bastards of Young" (the Replacements), "Neat Neat Neat" (the Damned), "New Noise" (the Refused), "Rockets" (Cat Power), "Teenage Riot" (Sonic Youth), "In Sadding Around" (Jawbreaker) and "Life Is Grand" (Camper Van Beethoven). ...
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