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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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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
FEB. 4: The celebrated South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo performs a special engagement. The symphony musicians will not perform. FEB. 7-9: The youngest person ever to win the prestigious Chopin Competition, pianist Yundi Li is the featured ... South African Grammy Award winners Ladysmith Black Mambazo perform their latest a cappella hits from the 2008 release ''ILIMBE: A Tribute to King Shaka,'' at 3 p.m. at Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia. Tickets: $39-$65. 215-893-1999 or ... Ladysmith Black Mambazo "Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu" — Ladysmith has been on mainstream America's radar since Paul Simon's "Graceland" hit shelves in 1986. On its latest release, the vocal ensemble pays tribute to Shaka, the famed first leader of ... Let's give due kudos to soul-R&B legend Mavis Staples' partnership with the great Ry Cooder, who produced and performed this dazzling set of gospel and blues interpretations (vocal ensembles Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Freedom Singers also turn up LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO, 8 p.m. Feb. 28, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. $49.50. KELLEY STOLTZ, Grand Archives, 8 p.m. Feb. 28, Independent. Part of the Noise Pop festival. $14. CURSIVE, 8 p.m. Feb. 29, Great American Music Hall. Part of the Noise Pop ... With free parking and a beautiful 2300-seat auditorium, the Artist Series at Wheaton College is the place to see and hear Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Festival of Russian Dance, the State Symphony ... Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Grammy Award winning vocal group from South Africa that has conquered nations in its own way with a joyous and spiritually charged brand of vocal music and native choreography, pays tribute to this historical icon with ... ... he earned his first number one record when Closer skyrocketed from number 11 to the top spot on the Billboard album charts. In 2006, Groban released his third studio album, Awake, featuring guest appearances by the vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo ... ... breathes new life and meaning into that era's freedom songs on We'll Never Turn Back . Producer Ry Cooder shows his knack for melding the old with the new and makes wise use of original Freedom Singers along with South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo Their profile of Ladysmith Black Mambazo's Joseph Shabalala won a Silver Award at the 2004 Third Coast International Audio Festival. Before joining the Arts desk, Freymann-Weyr was an Assistant Producer for NPR's Performance Today . In 2001, he ...
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