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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: Era Vulgaris
... at Guildford Mall in Surrey, hurl an umbrella on-stage, run away laughing, and brag about it on his MySpace page. Ass! For taking the time to abuse us, Cody Blanchard receives Led Zeppelin’s Mothership and Queens of the Stone Age’s Era Vulgaris ... Era Vulgaris," Queens of the Stone Age; "As I Am," Alicia Keys; "Bone Palace Ballet," Chiodos; "Icky Thump," White Stripes; "Super Taranta," Gogol Bordello; "Cassadaga," Bright Eyes; "Writer's Block," Peter Bjorn and John; "Here Lies Empty Orchestra ... Queens of the Stone Age's "Era Vulgaris." Frontman Josh Homme's methodology is hard to beat. He puts melodic sheen on his weighty sound and mixes beauty with agitation, with no two songs sounding remotely alike. Plus unlike many vocalists in hardcore ... On their new album, Era Vulgaris , QOTSA runs the gamut between half-hearted romanticism on "Make It Wit Chu" ("If I told you that I knew about the sun and the moon, I'd be untrue") to cut-to-the-chase frankness when romancing the swine on "Run Pig ... The entry titled "Javy a no-risk signing; best CDs of 2007," and any of the comments about it. Let me start by saying there is absolutely no truth to a rumor that the Braves were going to bring David Justice out of retirement, but decided after the ... Band members have met with Hollywood studio executives with a view to making a movie about Bulby, the character featured on the front of the group's last album Era Vulgaris, according to Internet reports. Bulby has appeared in the group's most ... The same could not be said of album sales. Although some albums with singles featured in the game (Weezer's 1994 debut album) did see sales increases of 47 percent, Queens of the Stone Age's Era Vulgaris , released this past June, showed no such signs ... Forthcoming fifth album, Era Vulgaris —recorded by the sole constant of singer-songwriter/guitarist Josh Homme, drummer Joey Castillo and multi-instrumentalists Troy Van Leeuwen, Chris Goss and Alain Johannes, with a little help from Mark Lanegan ... Though die-hard fans have grown accustomed to the band's consistent reinvention, QOTSA move in an altogether different direction with their latest release, Era Vulgaris . Homme, frequent production collaborator Chris Goss, and current members Joey ... And the guitarist revealed that the band are currently throwing around ideas for the follow-up to the recently released ‘Era Vulgaris’ . “Theres always something going on with us” he says. “Even though we just put out this record, we started ...
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