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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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Mary J. Blige
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Now that she's banished the drama and achieved her "Breakthrough," Mary J. Blige is in a good space. Fans used to hearing her pour her pain out on record will just have to get used to that. The singer's latest effort, "Growing ... Now that she’s banished the drama and achieved her “Breakthrough,” Mary J. Blige is in a good space. Fans used to hearing her pour her pain out on record will just have to get used to that. The singer’s latest effort, “Growing Pains ... NEW YORK (Billboard) - Josh Groban's "Noel" ruled the pop album charts for a fifth week Thursday, a record for a Christmas release, while Mary J. Blige's new CD provided some stiff competition as overall sales surged in the holiday shopping frenzy ... The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul is back, not that she ever really left. Mary J. Blige has been on a major career run in recent years, and she's still working it with "Growing Pains," her eighth studio album, which debuts this week at No. 2 on the U.S ... MARY J. BLIGE 's first week of release could not topple JOSH GROBAN 's record-breaking feat at #1 with his Christmas album entitled Noel . Released in 1957, ELVIS 's Christmas Album stood at #1 for four non-consecutive weeks prior to Josh's ... If you're of a mind to sidestep the rowdy revelers and overpriced drinks and stay home this New Year's Eve, you'll catch one of the strongest NYE lineups in recent memory, with big names such as Alicia Keys, Plain White T's and Mary J. Blige ... Brisbane, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Monster Cable) - Monster Cable is offering two lucky Mary J Blige fans an amazing getaway: two roundtrip tickets to Las Vegas, a one-night hotel stay and two premium seats to the hottest show at the 2008 Consumer ... It's funny to remember that there was a time when Mary J. Blige was left in Whitney Houston's shadow. Now, with Houston relegated to empty celebrity tabloid status, Blige is steadily building her legacy with a succession of career-defining albums ... Sweet Music: John Legend, Mario, Maxwell, Patti LaBelle and Rosie Perez, congratulating Mary J. Blige on her new album, Growing Pains, at a Target party at the Soho Grand in New York City. Color Test: Jaime Pressly, getting a customized Tan Naturelle ... Also: MTV has its show from 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. This one is a masquerade party, live in MTV's Times Square studio, hosted by Tila Tequila. It will cut to music by Mary J. Blige, Kid Rock, Fabolous, Paramore, Good Charlotte, Wyclef, Boys Like Girls ...
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