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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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Mare
... for the Wirth Brothers. She covered seven furlongs in 1:24.12 and paid $6.20. "She's so fast it's scary, and she does it effortlessly," said Bates, who said he will consider sending Cher Ami to Santa Anita for the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf ... When you get into those real good horses, we just recently had a mare bring $31,500,” he said. On average, Martin said that sale prices of work horse mares have been slightly down when compared to previous years, but noted that sales of geldings ... In 1992, Findley was running hair clippers around the ears of her mare, Be a Sweet Lark, when firecrackers went off on an adjacent property. To this day, Be a Sweet Lark resists the clippers. Another horse of hers, one that is older and doesn't hear ... ARCADIA, Calif. -- The moody mare Strong Faith will have trainer Jeff Mullins guessing before Tuesday's $100,000 Monrovia Handicap at Santa Anita. If she runs her race, Strong Faith has an excellent chance to win the Grade 3 Monrovia at about 6 1/2 ... While the 1 1/16-mile race on the Tapeta main track is strictly a Sunshine Millions prep for the 7-year-old mare, she is the star attraction in the field of nine. And she may not be able to sit in cruise control most of the way as she did in winning ... K: Olindo Mare, Saints: The Saints traded for him and thought kicking indoors would cure him. It didn't. Defense: Ravens: Usually among the top five, age and injuries have taken away fear factor. All-waiver wire team QB: Derek Anderson, Browns: Went from ... The Queen on a walkabout in Weston Super Mare as part of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations in 1977 Events were planned across the country to mark the 25th anniversary of the Queen's accession in 1977 but she decreed that ... Bred in Kentucky by Lothenbach Stables, City Attraction is out of the Quiet American mare American Slew. The four-year-old Vicar colt improved to five wins in 16 career starts and increased his earnings to $251,299. For an Equibase chart, click here . ... Her win streak came to an end in the BC Filly and Mare Turf, which was won by Lahudood, who was following up a similar upset victory in the Flower Bowl. Citronnade won five graded stakes, including the Gamely, while her Frankel-trained stablemate ... Mare is currently third in the NFL with 16 touchbacks, but only one of those touchbacks came outdoors. When the Saints use two or more tight ends, they pass 58 percent of the time, more often than any other offense. • More Saints-Bears: Intel Report ...
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