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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: Concert Classics
WATERLOO --- Instead of cobbling together an EP or demo disc of concert classics, Waterloo's "Give Away The Plot" wanted to create something special with their first release. So the progressive rockers crafted "The Ecliptic," a concept album about ... A Norwegian concert pianist hits the world stage Out of the land of Grieg comes Leif Ove Andsnes. His mission: to compete ... On Jan. 15, EMI Classics released the Grieg documentary he made last year on the centenary of the composer's death ... The canon of classical music is a hard club to break into. The membership rolls were printed up long ago, and the very predictability of contemporary concert life can be a self-fulfilling prophecy - if a piece is never performed, goes this line of ... The symphony also will continue its five-concert "Classics" series at St. Bede Catholic Church in Williamsburg. The programs will include works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. An 11-concert series at Chrysler Hall and smaller series at ... A full house certainly raised the roof for the cockney duo who got the audience really going in the second half of their concert with such classics as Rabbit, Gertcha and my favourite Sideboard Song. They ended with Ain't No Pleasing You which had ... He'll take his instrument to concert halls, outdoor festivals, coffee houses, jazz clubs and dive bars. His choice of repertoire is equally broad, ranging from the Bach cello suites to his own arrangements of rock classics. Haimovitz is in the ... Jan. 23 - The Juilliard based Manhattan Piano Trio is one of the most promiment and active emerging Chamber music groups in America. Besides the classics and romantics, their concert includes solo-duo-trio selections including Tangos, Waltzes, and ... ... which he wrote with former Green on Red axe man Chuck Prophet and which was helmed by Tony Visconti , mastermind behind classics ... Known for his balance of blockbusters ( Silence of the Lambs , Philadelphia ) and concert films ( Stop Making Sense , Neil Young ... The first half of the concert will consist of the Italian classics and music from "The Godfather." Other selections include Cordiferro's "Core 'ngrato," Leoncavallo's "Mattinata" and "Vesti La Giubba," Curtis' "Torna a Surriento." "I try to create a ... NEW YORK, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Iconic sunglass brand Ray-Ban has announced that they will be hosting a five part concert ... 12pm -- 5pm, large, flat-screen televisions will be set up around the Ray-Ban RockBand Bar so patrons can view film classics ...
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