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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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Lee Ranaldo
Putting Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth and Stephen Malkmus of Pavement up front in his version of Dylanology was a polite way for Haynes to say, step aside, fogies, we're the canonizers now. It's weird for us aging indie hipsters to be in that position ... ... Calexico, Cat Power, Yo La Tengo w/Buckwheat Zydeco, Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet, My Morning Jacket, Mason Jennings, Joe Henry, John Doe, Michelle Shocked & Jimmy LeFave, The Roots, Mark Lanegan, Ian Ball & Olly Peacock (of Gomez), Lee Ranaldo ... It even features the collaborative talents of Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and euro-wunderkind, KT Tunstall. The lead-off single, "New York is a Woman," personifies the city into a lover that has been through the gutter but is still standing. The follow ... Digressions aside, talk concerning the Lee Ranaldo-produced BOSS (Ecstatic Peace!), wherein Ambrogio and multi-instrumentalist Pete Nolan veer away from the smeared, No Wave noise improv they'd been dispensing since forming in western Massachusetts ... ... producer Jimmy Hogarth (Corrine Bailey Rae, KT Tunstall, Sia), Suzanne Vega’s music on the new release “Beauty and Crime” is laced with synthesized textures created by noted album mixer Tchad Blake, Gerry Leonard (David Bowie) and Lee Ranaldo ... Dylan that he never released on an album, "Can't Leave Her Behind" and "What Kind of Friend Is This," both by Stephen Malkmus and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. (Mr. Dylan's versions appear in the documentary "Eat the Document." And you can find them on ... Members of Yo La Tengo came out with Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural and some others including Terry Adams and actually pulled off a fantastic version of “I Wanna Be Your Lover.” Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth put together a slew of musicians, including ... The prestigious group of performers include Cat Power , Calexico , My Morning Jacket , the Roots , J Mascis , Lee Ranaldo & the Million Dollar Bashers , Mark Lanegan , Yo La Tengo with Buckwheat Zydeco , Al Kooper (organ player on Dylan 's "Like a Rolling Stone ... Yolanda Ross with a cast mate from the new play she is working on at the Public Theater. Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo The casting director, Laura Rosenthal, far right, with Bruce Greenwood (who plays the BBC reporter in the film) and a friend of Christine ... With the departure of multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke, S.Y.'s now back to their "classic" lineup of guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, bassist-singer Kim Gordon and drummer Steve Shelley. On this tour they perform their just-reissued ...
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