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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: Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer
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Of Montreal
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Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer
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Year: 2007
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Indie
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Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?" Of Montreal: You, too, might be hesitant to embrace makeup-heavy glam bands or album titles that address plantlife skeptically. Kevin Barnes' Athens-based band used to be more of a giddy, melodic psychedelic ... Of Montreal: ‘Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?’ Cognitive dissonance never sounded so inviting. Kevin Barns’ bleak lyrics about grappling with depression and a rocky marriage would logically call for minor chords and a stark, acoustic sound On Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? , Of Montreal’s latest, front man Kevin Barnes leads his merry mates through an homage to Prince’s psychedelic side. Grand Buffet , from Pittsburgh, make goofy hip-hop tracks that should appeal to anyone who ... Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? A record so deep and layered with manic depression, anger and darkness, it's the Apocalypse Now of 2007 indie rock, often improbably precious: "I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met who could ... The Shins, "Wincing the Night Away"; Radiohead, "In Rainbows"; Bad Religion, "New Maps of Hell"; Feist, "The Reminder"; I'm From Barcelona, "Let Me Introduce My Friends"; Of Montreal, "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?"; and the Foo Fighters ... 3The first time the quirky Athens, Ga., band played the Rialto after establishing Club Congress as its local venue of choice. Behind a terrific new album, "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?" and lots of costume changes, Kevin Barnes and company ... Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? by Of Montreal There was a tremendous amount of critical buzz around this album in 2007. I loved the band's last full-length, 2005's The Sunlandic Twins, but Hissing Fauna... exceeded even this exceptional effort ... Magic," Bruce Springsteen (Columbia); "Obligatory Villagers," Nellie McKay (Hungry Mouse/Vanguard); "Graduation," Kanye West (Roc-a-Fella); "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?" Of Montreal (Polyvinyl); "Traffic and Weather," Fountains of Wayne ... ... On the Edge of Town , Born In the U.S.A. , The River , The Rising and now Magic. • Neil Young , Chrome Dreams II: The old man proves he's still got it by taking us back to his rocking Crazy Horse years. • Of Montreal , Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer ... I did get pretty much every one on my indie-rock record of the year, Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Bob, you already name-checked the album's best song—the epic nervous breakdown confessional "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal ...
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