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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: Continued
TOKYO, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks nosedived more than 5.5 percent Tuesday to the lowest closing level since September 2005, as fears over a possible U.S. economic recession and concerns of Japanese economy continued. The benchmark 225-issue ... ZURICH (Thomson Financial) - Schulthess Group reported full-year sales of 358.7 mln sfr, up 17 pct year-on-year on strong demand in its heating and cooling technology division. Analysts had forecast sales of 355.8-365.7 mln sfr or 360 mln on average ... ... sharp downturn in the U.S. economy. "The Fed and the government should be implementing policies fairly aggressively to head off the risk of the economy slipping into a recession, and they are appearing to be doing that," Sheard said. Continued... ... STOCKHOLM, Sweden : Investor AB, the investment group controlled by Sweden's Wallenberg family, said Tuesday it swung to a fourth-quarter net loss due mainly to continued turbulence on the financial market. The Stockholm-based company recorded a net ... The krona has continued to depreciate due to the very poor performance of the Swedish stock market,'' Johan Javeus, chief currency strategist in Stockholm at SEB AB, wrote in a client note. ``With this development likely to continue, a retest, and ... A global stock-market rout continued today as Asian equities tumbled by the most since 1990. The slump has wiped more than $5 trillion from share markets around the world this year on concern global growth is faltering. Luxembourg Finance Minister ... The bodies have continued washing ashore in the weeks since. The latest possible clue to what's killing the rare reptiles is an unknown parasite that scientists found in the dead gharials' liver and kidneys, according to Dr. A.K. Sharma of the Indian ... Documentaries, a huge commercial fiasco coming out of Sundance last year, continued to assert themselves artistically, with "Polanski" and "American Teen" kicking up chatter in the bars and coffee shops of Park City; the conversations had nothing to ... Fears of subprime and credit market-related writedowns continued to dominate the sector. Deutsche Bank fell 3.3 per cent to €70.18 after Morgan Stanley cut its price target and Merrill Lynch added the stock to its "least preferred" list. Raw ... In the past five recessions, stock prices reached their lows two quarters ahead of the biggest year-on-year decline in earnings growth and rose 22 percent on average over the following six months as earnings continued to drop, UBS said. ...
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