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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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Nikita Mikhalkov
The market was sure that first letters of the group's name were taken from the Nika motion-picture prize, and the group was working for renowned film director Nikita Mikhalkov. The ambitious-looking holding was founded on the base of AO Kaustik of ... Film director and head of all Russian cinematographers Nikita Mikhalkov definitely affects politics with his movies. Meanwhile, film director Eldar Ryazanov, not mixed in politics, became the last in the rating’s top ten. He served as president of ... ... is through films -- remember, for example, the popular comedy Îñîáåííîñòè íàöèîíàëüíîé îõîòû ("Peculiarities of the National Hunt") or the colorful çàïîé (binge-drinking) scene with General Radlov in Nikita Mikhalkov ... Longtime Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov climbed into the top ten from last year to seventh, with Joseph Kobzon, an iconic Soviet crooner and currently one of Russia's most experienced MPs in eighth. Oscar winning actor and film director Nikita Mikhalkov ... At the same time, the Kremlin is courting some big-name cultural figures like Nikita Mikhalkov, the once-pampered enfant terrible filmmaker of Soviet days, today a big promoter of Mr. Putin. There are signs of a backlash. In late October, a television ... A fawning televised film by Oscar-winning director Nikita Mikhalkov sang the president's praises on his birthday. An open letter from a group of politically connected luminaries, including Mikhalkov, implored Putin to stay in power. Billboards ... But there was nothing muted about the discussion on Oct. 25, when the host, Viktor Erofeyev, a well-known novelist and essayist, sparred with Nikita Mikhalkov, an Oscar-winning director, over a fawning letter to Putin from Mikhalkov and the sculptor ... It was produced by Nikita Mikhalkov, a director who won the 1994 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for his "Burnt by the Sun." Last month he put his name to an open letter asking Putin -- required by the constitution to step down when his second term ... Film director Nikita Mikhalkov, whose 1994 anti-Stalinist allegory "Burnt by the Sun" won an Oscar for best foreign film, wrote an open letter this month asking Putin to stay on in power to gurantee stability. Kremlin opponents say Putin has allowed a ... The film, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, generated $1.7m from 354 screens for a $4,860 screen average. And Timor Bekmambetov's blood-sucking sequel Day Watch , released by Gemini Films and Fox International fell just shy of the $1m mark this weekend ...
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