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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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Fela Kuti
Highlife party for Yemisi Ransome-Kuti at 60 By Benson Idonije T HE end-of-year edition of the monthly Great Highlife Party ... I was never treated any differently from Fela, Beko or any of the boys around. And I was given the same challenges, same ... ... inspired by their adventures on the road, but few bands have gathered material as harrowing and vivid as Aphrodesia, an 11-piece San Francisco ensemble that made a West African pilgrimage to the club built by Afrobeat patriarch Fela Anikulapo Kuti. ... REVIEW San Francisco's 11-piece Aphrodesia ensemble joins a growing number of stateside acts embracing and expanding on Fela Kuti's funky Afrobeat legacy. Like local comrades Albino and New York's Antibalas, Aphrodesia use West African sounds as a ... At the Afrofunk Festival , see how it all turned out with headliner Sila & the AfroFunk Experience, Fela Kuti tribute band AfroBeat Down, and Henri-Pierre Koubaka leading a big, wild bunch called Kasumai Bare. The Afrofunk Sisters show off some moves ... Favorite bands: "Billie Holiday, Etta James, Fela Kuti, Les Nubians, Dave Brubeck, Camera Obscura, Blonde Redhead, RJD2, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Serge Gainsbourg, any and all of the Marleys, Elvis (like you can just drop that name in there like ... Its music sounds similar to the Gipsy Kings, Fela Kuti and Bob Marley. BACKSTORY: Lisangaa, which translates from the Bantu dialect to mean literally "peaceful gathering" and to mean symbolically a unity of divergent elements, was founded in Kenya in ... That was kinda like listening to this dubbed-out, tuneless mess featuring members of the Clash, Gorillaz/Blur, the Verve and Fela Kuti's band. 6. Feist, The Reminder : Man, that "1234" song was awesome! And the one-continous-shot video with the ... If you like: Their MySpace page includes a daunting list of influences, including Talking Heads, Can, the Kinks and Fela Kuti. Regarding the audiences for some opening sets the Selmanaires did on a Black Lips tour, "Some people were very confused ... Kohl, who is a co-composer along with Paris Hurley, Alex Guy and Jeffrey Huston, mentioned Japanese folk songs, punk, African music (Fela Kuti), scat and classical (Stravinsky). There are even some "musical quotations" from Franz Schubert and famous ... Femi Kuti & The Positive Force perform during the 17th Annual East Coast International Blues and Roots Music Festival. News & Notes , July 30, 2007 - As son of Nigeria's legendary Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti has some big shoes to fill. But ...
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