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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: Chamber music
She has a great reputation as an exponent of French song, so this concert promises to deliver a rewarding musical experience. The concert is part of the Belfast Music Society's annual chamber music festival, which runs from January 25-27 ... Chamber Music Master Class Day With James Dunham, Violist Coaching & master class for H.S. & college students. Reg. req. Darlington Arts Center, 977 Shavertown Rd., Boothwyn; 610-358-3632. www.darlingtonarts.org . $45. 1/20 9 am-4:30 pm. Cheryl Dungan ... If a Seattle musician does not have a fulltime job with a major institution, such as the Seattle Symphony or the University of Washington, he or she has to hustle for opportunities. PROGRAM: A series of recitals and concerts given by more than a ... This group brings a fresh, young approach to chamber music. Other artists will include Grammy-nominated pianist Piotr Anderszewski , the adventurous Imani Winds quintet and Irish pianist Barry Douglas , the 1986 gold medalist at the Moscow Tchaikovsky ... Sponsored by the Chamber Music Society in conjunction with the DMC Department of Music. Cost: $20; $7/students with valid ID. Information: 698-1214 or 855-0264. MASTER CLASSES/CONCERTS : The Department of Music at Texas A&M; University-Corpus Christi ... ... performs American music such as Aaron Copland’s complete works for the violin and piano. Cooperstock is the chair of the keyboard department at the University of Colorado, and Terwilliger is a professor of violin and director of chamber music at the ... This includes Process and Passion, a Pogus label release of chamber music by Roger Reynolds, as well as the world premiere recording of …above earth’s shadow by Michael Finnissy to be released shortly. Mark Menzies is a National Recording Artist ... Glenn Gould, whose credentials as a serious pianist are beyond question, called them "the greatest chamber music playing I've heard in my life". But I have a sneaking fondness for the Chopin recordings he made in the late 1930s. The Mazurkas seem to ... He was also the chairman of the chamber music jury of the 2006 Brahms Competition. In his recommendation letter for Elena he wrote: “[At the competition] Ivanova impressed me with her high musicality and remarkable artistic personality. Due to the ... Chamber music: The Jose White String Quartet performs Latin-influenced music at 7:30 p.m. at the Tarpon Springs Heritage Museum, 100 Beekman Lane. Tickets: $22 and $20. Call (727) 942-5605. Sponge Docks doings: Absorb the ambience of the historic ...
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