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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: How To Write Love Songs
Family, love, death and circle-of-life themes play heavily in Johnson's new songs. Recently, Johnson has helped raise his two sons, but also watched close ... Johnson's eldest son, Moe, 3, helped write key lines in a song about a relationship ... ... interview, she makes it clear she's not revealing the inspiration for songs on her ... yet another brutally revealing look into the heart, soul and messed-up love life ... But I don't talk about who I write about." So aware is Morissette of her diary ... With apologies to Paul McCartney, many of us have a decidedly low threshold for silly love songs. And that goes double for ... When Roz and I started to ask writers to write love letters, one of the worries was that we would get 40 letters back that ... ... is soft.” And this despite the fact that grown men here call each other “love ... He defies the conventional wisdom that only Americans can write successfully of ... His songs resonate in a way that is beyond any ebb and flow of fashion. “What ... ... of music, and it has all kind of been a melting pot of all the different styles I have come to love,” Williams said. The singer-songwriter said that writing music is a great way to handle the stresses of everyday life. “The songs that I write are ... We love Ocala. I just think the listeners in that area, we just have a special relationship. So this is our gift to ... He continues to write praise songs, and he records for Six Steps Records, the Billboard Web site stated. The Gospel Music Association ... His songs, including favorites "I'm From New Jersey," "Love Is Our Cross to Bear" and "Road of Good Intentions," are notable for sharply etched ... Write songs in '07 and make something in '08 for '09. Now I have to gather and sort the songs and get ... ... charts, and Nanci Griffith duetted with Stewart on his song Sweet Dreams Will Come on her Little Love Affairs album. In earlier years, his songs ... The early stages of Alzheimer's disease prompted him to write I Don't Drive Anymore. Stewart is survived ... ... lot of people think we are just a genre band then maybe we are, but we all love ... We already had two or three songs that were demoed and ready to go,” said Paget ... had this vibe, it was done on a different tuning that was really inspiring to write ... Singing was okay and I saw it as a bonus to being an actress and being able to write songs was just another ... confident in what I'm doing, I know how to gauge an audience within a couple of minutes, I know what songs I should be playing. "I love ...
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