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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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Cocteau Twins
Many of the various 4AD bands—from Cocteau Twins to the Pixies and Throwing Muses—share an eerie, otherworldly vibe. "It's all really moody music," Ford says of her labelmates. "You can tell that the ... Guitarist Eric Berg says the idea came from the band's cover of "Heaven or Las Vegas" by the Cocteau Twins, which is included on "Giving Machines," released in October. "We were talking about doing a song by (MBV), but we couldn't do two covers on ... The box starts in the mid-'80s with Cocteau Twins and ends with Placebo. Between those, there are plenty of momentary flashes of brilliance, such as the Trash Can Sinatras' jangly Obscurity Knocks and the backward guitar riffs of The Dylans' (Don't ... Go back and look at those VHS tapes with videos of the Stone Roses, the Jesus and Mary Chain, MBV and Cocteau Twins. There's a reason we still have those CDs in our collections. I realize that Crash ... Falsetto soaring, Greg Gilbert is the focal point of Delays ' dream-pop, his distinctive voice wavering between angelic choirboy and Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser on 'Nearer Than Heaven' and 'Hey Girl'. It's enough to make even the most hardened beer ... The first release from the 4AD label's loose, alternative 'supergroup', 'Song to the Siren' was the work of Cocteau Twins Liz Fraser and Robin Guthrie and sounds like nothing else before or since. Gospel music for the post-punk generation, it steals ... Artists: The Czars , Lift To Experience , Cocteau Twins , Explosions In The Sky , Laura Veirs , Midlake , My Latest Novel , Howling Bells If you’re older than, say, 17, the year 1997 probably doesn’t seem that long ago; Verve’s Urban Hymns and ... 5 KLIMA Klima (Peacefrog) The French singer Angèle David-Guillou made a debut all fans of Cocteau Twins, early Björk, Nina Persson or the Knife should buy, if they haven’t already. Her introspective, confessional songs have a magical, haunting ... I suppose there'll be comparisons drawn with The Cocteau Twins with your record being released through Bella Union in Europe. Do you see the comparisons yourself? Does Bella feel like a natural home for your music? Yes, but no comparisons to Cocteau ... For instance, on Harries’ Days Like These CD released this past April, the opening song “Best Intent” blends guitar, vocals, mellotron and string arrangements into an intense bliss reminiscent of the Cocteau Twins. The sound diverts to the power ...
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