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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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Devendra Banhart
Through Feb 24. "Abstract Rhythms." Works by Paul Klee showing his affinity for music, and drawings by Devendra Banhart. Ongoing. San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum War Memorial Veterans Bldg, 401 Van Ness, fourth floor; 255-4800, www ... DEVENDRA BANHART There are those I suppose who feel that spidery-fingered mystery minstrel Devendra Banhart has finally gone too far with his new album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Mountain (XL). Consider, though, that this soothsaying singer-guitarist ... To give bite to the accusation, Frere-Jones names a few names, beginning with the Arcade Fire and adding Wilco, the Fiery Furnaces, the Decemberists, the Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Grizzly Bear, Panda Bear, and Devendra Banhart, plus indie-heroes past ... Banhart's debut album, Oh Me Oh My..., distributed by Young God Records. Weekend Edition Saturday , May 24, 2003 - At 21, singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart has drawn an unusual mix of comparisons: Billie Holiday, Beck, Tiny Tim. His debut album ... Besides releasing her debut full-length, The Milk-Eyed Mender , on the hip Drag City label last March, Newsom has toured and played recently with such indie luminaries as Will Oldham, Cat Power, and Devendra Banhart. She's currently on tour with ... Presented by Spaceland and Arthur Magazine. Performers: Devendra Banhart, Bert Jansch, Espers, Buffalo Killers, Jackie Beat, Axolotl, Grouper, Yellow Swans, Belong, Numero Uno DJs. Reviewed Oct. 19, 2006. Also (with different line ups) Oct 20-22. You ... ... and electronic music label, finding global success with the Prodigy in the mid-'90s. The Prodigy exited after four albums, but XL now boasts an eclectic roster, including London rapper Dizzee Rascal , neo-folk singer/songwriter Devendra Banhart ... It is in that spirit we present to you our version of what might take place if freak folkers Devendra Banhart (born in Houston, by the way) and Jana Hunter (also from Houston) were to interview each other. ... Socialite Paris Hilton. "Rachael Ray: Actress Susan Lucci. Late-night talk "Conan O'Brien," NBC: Actor Ted Danson; Patton Oswalt; singer Devendra Banhart, 12:37 a.m. ET/PT. "Craig Ferguson," CBS: Actor Samuel L. Jackson; The Cliks perform, 12:37 a.m. ET ... Representative of the new hippie movement or freak folk, as he refers to himself, is a charismatic Texas citizen who grew up in Venezuela of all places – Devendra Banhart. Devendra first embraced the freak folk term, but he prefers something else ...
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