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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: Gypsy Jazz
It’s rare in music to be able to trace an entire genre’s roots back to one individual. In the case of gypsy jazz, it all goes back to the legendary Django Reinhardt, the Belgian guitarist who melded traditional gypsy music with the hot jazz ... Jan. 27, followed at 4 p.m. by Rabyn Taylor’s “Gypsy Jazz Chords.” Each workshop carries a $25 fee. The Grappelli reference, of course, has to do with Reinhardt’s colleague, the jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli, who also pursued a solo ... ... Francisco at 7 p.m. at the McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, re-creating the sizzling Paris night club with four short, silent films from the '20s that band members will accompany with their swinging gypsy jazz ... Now, nearly 80 years later, a similar scene will play out Tuesday, as the Hot Club of San Francisco presents “Silent Surrealism,” an evening that combines silent surrealist films with live gypsy jazz, in Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s ... He played in Israel for 50 years," Yavnai said, and "created one of the most important bands there, played Charlie Parker music with the flavor of his Bulgarian and gypsy influences. For me, jazz is more a spirit - the spirit of improvisation, of ... Is there a Gypsy dancer who does not know heartbreak? The casual virtuosity of the Greek line dancers, balancing on one leg, and the galloping pride of Argentinean gauchos add different flavors. Yet time and again, the Moiseyev dancers return to a ... After two days of marathon rehearsals, the band was ready for its first shows together — complete with a sound that mixes members’ Appalachian roots and the traditional jazz of New Orleans, American swing, blues, country, soul and gypsy music. ... Audiences can expect a mix of Bach, jazz, bluegrass, Hungarian gypsy and the Beatles (the trio has an arrangement of the Fab Four’s “Blackbird”). It’s the sort of mix that has been called “the future of music.” Is this the sort of ... ... with the Disney version -- is based on author Victor Hugo's story of a hunchback with a heart of gold, the alluring gypsy ... Expect the best of New Orleans jazz from Mr. Connick and his band -- you'll be hearing songs from his latest release, "Oh ... Gypsy/punk/electronic rock. Tickets for the 7 p.m. March 4 show go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. $22.50. (312) 559-1212. Sierra ... River Road, Rosemont: pop/Italian/classical/jazz. Tickets for the 8 p.m. April 26 show are on sale now. $55-$150; proceeds ...
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