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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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Nine Inch Nails

Radiohead started this earlier this year: end-running traditional music labels and releasing its album directly to fans via the Internet, letting them determine how much to pay. Nine Inch Nails followed suit. Madonna signed with LiveNation. Jay-Z ... Nine Inch Nails "Survivalism" It's about goddamn time Trent Reznor came up with something as good as this buzz-and-clank vision of a dystopian near-future, which has us cowering beneath an overturned sofa with a flashlight, a kitchen knife, and a ... Nine Inch Nails, "Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D" (Interscope) - Industrial craftsman Trent Reznor wisely invited talented collaborators (Saul Williams, Bill Laswell, the Faint) to remix and overhaul tracks from his mediocre 2007 album, "Year Zero." Considering that ... They're joined by Nine Inch Nails tourmate Popo and Univox. M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., Sunday, $8, 215-739-5577, www.themanhattanroom.com . HIP-HOP The Zodiac: Sagittarius Edition: These monthly sets keep getting better, but this bill will be hard to top MC Lars' myspace profile lists Nine Inch Nails and "Weird Al" Yankovic as influences, among others. MTV News-worthy and in his 10th year with First Night, Martin says the musician has earned his way to the late-night slot of honor. "He will bring so ... Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails 13. Wincing the Night Away - The Shins 14. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon 15. Is Is - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Please visit Rock.com at http://www.rock.com/bestof2007 to read the entire feature and user feedback as well as stream the related ... Do you sell crack?" · "Best Music Video Trapped in a Movie" Award — The highway killing scene in "The Hitcher," scored to Nine Inch Nails' "Closer." · "Best Nine-Word Summary of a Bad Situation" Award — "Juno" actor Rainn Wilson: "This is one ... You hear that really easily with - even though I love Trent (Reznor)'s music) - Nine Inch Nails . There's always that thing where it's not quite as multifaceted or it doesn't have as many connections to it because you can mainly hear Mr Dictator ... Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero: Trent Reznor believes today's political climate doesn't afford us the luxury of apathy, and tapers his growl between anger and disappointment, between the industrial buzz of chainsaw guitars and the brooding beats of ... Hurt, Johnny Cash -- You can't get grimmer than Nine Inch Nails, but Cash did in 2002, with his bare-bones reading of this NIN heartbreaker. 86. Golden Ring, George Jones & Tammy Wynette -- Golden Ring is NOT the song you want played at your wedding ...
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