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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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Album: Carnival Vol. II Memoirs Of An Immigrant
Jean, famous for being a party starter, began his part of the concert in a very political way telling the crowd to throw their fists in the air for the song, "Welcome to The East" from his newest CD, "Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant." For ... Who's got the biggest Rolodex in pop music? Wyclef Jean seems determined to demonstrate that he does on Carnival, Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant , the Fugee's sequel to his 1997 solo debut, which features guest appearances by Mary J. Blige, Shakira ... Producer, activist and former Fugee Wyclef Jean is back with "Carnival, Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant," another album that blends his own experiences with street sounds from around the world. He performs tonight with Lyfe Jennings at Rams Head ... Prior to releasing last December’s Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant (Columbia), which includes the addictive hit “Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill),” as well as collaborations with Paul Simon, Mary J. Blige and T.I., Jean was ... Wyclef Jean has never been an easy one to peg musically. But his restless spirit in the studio is better focused on his latest CD, Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant. Disparate styles -- metal rock, reggae, Southern rap, even Indian music ... *Wyclef Jean, who just dropped his new album, " Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant" on Columbia Records, is being sued for copyright infringement by Blahz of New York rap duo Blahzay Blahzay. According to XXL magazine, the former Fugee is ... Wyclef Jean is being sued for copyright infringement by Blahz of New York rap squad Blahzay Blahzay , who is alleging that an unauthorized sample appears on the former Fugee 's latest solo effort, Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant, according to ... The former Fugee, long on his own, is touring to support his most recent solo album, "Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant," released about a decade after his first solo effort. Jean had help on this recording from Paul Simon, Mary J. Blige and ... OFTEN, WHEN YOU see an album overloaded with celebrity guests from many genres, it's a sign that the host artist is sacrificing his personal vision in a desperate bid for platinum sales. But for Wyclef Jean , such genre-crossing collaboration has ... One of those tasks is talking to the Daily News about his comeback album, "Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant" - 10 years removed from his first post-Fugees CD, "Carnival," and several from the grand funk he suffered following the death of his ...
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