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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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Grieg, Edvard
At one point, Suleman stopped in front of an enormous bronze bust of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, who died in 1907. The bust, centerpiece of the Grieg Garden, was donated in 1917 by the Scandinavian Societies of the Northwest and Alaska. Grieg ... After all, students pointed out that George Washington is memorialized with a statue near the campus' Red Square, and that a bust of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg is in a small garden on the campus. And a few such famous thinkers as Adam Smith and ... He will play two selections of Edvard Grieg: "Watchman's Song Op.12, No.3" and "Butterfly Op.43, No.1." Chu chose the pieces because "they just sound good" and has been practicing them for about a month. Kim extends an invitation for a young piano ... Pianist Andre Watts gave a similar sort of muscle and poetry to the solo part of Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto. He played up the breadth of the melodies and the rumbling power of the climaxes -- though one or two twangy notes in the ill-adjusted ... One song I learned from my mother's women's choir, it's called 'Gjendines Badnlat,' and that's a quite famous song because it was written down by Edvard Grieg," says Fuglseth. "Grieg heard some woman called Gjendine singing it out in the mountains ... The Romantic music of Edvard Grieg brought out a different side of Eleva. Although the sound of the first violins was occasionally a bit more pinched than warm, the effect of the whole ensemble was broad and warm, particularly in the popular "Holberg ... The only Norwegian composition was the Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg, who once served as the Artistic Director of the Bergen Philharmonic. Perhaps the most famous work from Norway was given a performance more than worthy of those ties. The pianist ... Bach Cello Concerto in c minor, "Autumn" and "Winter" from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" with violinist John Lindsey, Edvard Grieg's "Two Elegiac Melodies" and "Holberg Suite," and Karl Jenkins' "Palladio." To "reconstitute" J.C. Bach's Cello Concerto ... The evening's centerpiece, the Piano Concerto in A minor by Norway's most illustrious composer, Edvard Grieg, suffered the most. The popular soloist, André Watts, is incapable of a bad performance, but hampered by harsh piano sound, Monday night's ... 2007 marks a century since the death of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, and he will be commemorated in Norway and abroad through concerts and events this year. The commemoration committee GRIEG 07 is based in the composer’s home town of Bergen and ...
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