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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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Keb' Mo'
Despite the presence of several musicians, get-up-and-shout energy doesn't make nearly the impact it should, and even a blind streetwise bluesman (guitarist Keb' Mo') comes across as didactic. When Sonny hops atop a car parked outside the ... Keb' Mo', 8 p.m. Feb. 22, $35 and $42.50. Hotel California, "A Salute to the Eagles," 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27, $17.50-$28. Prices listed do not include service charge. Available at the Saenger box office, 208-5600, and other Ticketmaster outlets. New ... Almost 30 years later, Browne, Raitt and Nash delivered to Congress petitions signed by 120,000 including Melissa Etheridge, Keb' Mo', Patti Smith, Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and Natalie Maines and Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks. The musicians and a host ... Keb Mo, finding something even smoother and silkier in ''One of These Nights.'' Seal, who seemed to take the original ''One of These Nights'' groove that Keb Mo didn't use, and transplanting it into ''Best of My Love'' instead. Michael McDonald ... The concert, billed as Herbie Hancock & Friends, has Hancock's jazz quartet welcoming such guests as bluesman Keb' Mo', Brazilian-born percussionist Cyro Baptista and singer-guitarist Raul Midón. Also appearing in the June Festival are British rocker ... I feel kinda bad about not getting a new blog up before the other one collapsed sometime today beneath the weight of more than 1,000 posts, but hey, it took me a few days to find my way out of the labyrinthian Opryland Hotel and recover my rental car ... Springsteen was joined by a collection of performers that spanned generations and genres: country act the Dixie Chicks, hip-hoppers Jurassic 5, bluesman Keb' Mo' and classic rockers John Mellencamp and Jackson Browne. The artists, touring under the ... They also do Cowpie Radio, a 30-minute weekly program that Vaus describes as like an old-fashioned family-around-the-campfire experience but including with their music, the songs of Paul Simon and Keb Mo and others.” “We've realized we're not ... A mix of well-known roots singers (Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’), rock stars (Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen), and actors doing spoken word (Danny Glover, Tim Robbins). How it sounds: Folk-bluesy, heart-tugging. Highlights: Jon Bon Jovi & Mighty Sam ... ... Feb. 11), Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (Feb. 13), Chris Botti (Feb. 14), Barrage (Feb. 15), Martin Short (Feb. 16), Imani Winds (Feb. 17), AXIS Dance Company (Feb. 18-19), Chick Corea & Bela Fleck (Feb. 20), Salman Rushdie (Feb. 22), Keb' Mo' (Feb ...
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