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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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Djembe
... Today, Howard said, "most black families do not observe it, but I think all black families know it's there." He and Nia had come to the Discovery Museum, in Cherry Hill, for an hourlong presentation by a performance artist named TAHIRA. Djembe drum in ... The band integrates soulful jazz music with Caribbean and African rhythms - including using uncommon instruments like the jamba, djembe and African talking drum. The standout sounds have propelled the band to legendary jazz clubs like the Kennedy ... Appearing at the farewell performance at Arena’s were Mike McShane on djembe and conga drums, Dean Haemel on drums, Jim Miller on trumpet and Pete Boziac on guitar and synthesizer. Hoad played an electric bass, 12-string acoustic guitar, lap steel ... Kwame Williams, a Detroit native who has lived in Akron and worked as a social worker for 25 years, opened the ceremony with a drum call that he performed on his djembe drums. Beverly Woolridge, a South High graduate, performed Lift Every Voice and ... For those lucky enough to get a drum to play, djembe were handed out. Stephany Portillo, 7, and her younger brother Andrew, 3, came to the museum with their father from Venice. Her favorite part of the show was the singing. "It ... Smith’s welcome was followed by storytelling and more music in the form of Djembe, a West African drumming style. Fort Wayne resident Rita Voors, 73, was among those who attended the celebration. Voors said she feels a connection to the Earth’s ... Mack plays the djembe like a beating heart, while Mneimneh's face broadcasts a message through a slight grin — "I understand your woes, and I can relate. Crazy things happen in the world, but they all happen for a reason." That may be reading a ... He plays a goblet-shaped West African drum called a djembe, while Ed plays the djembe and the chajon, a Latin American box drum. WorldSong members play everything from an Irish hand drum called a bodhran to a Native American flute. Allen and Ed will ... It won't be your typical holiday concert when an improvisational ensemble known as Music for the Planet beats on its djembe, doumbek and hang drums this weekend. "We may do some holiday music," says Randy Brody, a Weston resident and the group's ... Manhattanville residents, Columbia students, and community leaders rallied to protest the University’s expansion plan and support student hunger strikers on Saturday to the beat of a djembe drum.
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