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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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Orff, Carl
Other events which have aroused enormous interest is Carl Orff's masterpiece, Carmina Burana, a gig by Michael Bolton, the Grammy-winning American balladeer, and a Mozart Festival Orchestra, all taking place in October. Interesting? Click here to ... In 1957 a further British Council Scholarship enabled him to study with Carl Orff in Munich. Travelled back to New Zealand in 1958, staying there until 1960 teaching and composing. During the 1960s spent time in both Australia and England, composing ... It's a choral work similar to Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," which the composer has said influenced him. "Karolju: Christmas Music from Rouse, Lutoslawski and Rodrigo" (RCA Red Seal; $13.98) also features the Polish composer's "Polish Christmas Carols ... Artist and printmaker Tom Linfield , of artsTRIBE , the same group that had an impressive exhibit last spring in the Overture Center that featured visual interpretations of Carl Orff's musical oratorio "Carmina Burana," e-mailed: "The Open Art Studios ... For those who are curious where her name comes from, "Mandalit" is the name of a woman in a song from Carmina Burana, a musical work from the 13th century put to music by composer Carl Orff. The guys from Car Talk also pay homage to her in their phony ... This must be Matthew Neenan's Carmina Burana . The orchestra under Beatrice Jona Affron and the members of the New York Choral Society are certainly delivering Carl Orff's ringing, thunderous music, but although press materials tell me that Neenan ... ... may be released in the spring, said TSO founder Paul O'Neil, who greeted the audience before the band's take on Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee." The band also played renditions of "Christmas Canon," Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Carl Orff's ... The band switches from 1960s standards like "Proud Mary" to Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," with a little "Flight of the Bumblebee" thrown in for good measure. One minute the guitarists riffs on Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile," and the next he's turning ... Even the music fits in bits of charm, ranging from the "O Fortuna" movement from Carl Orff's cantata "Carmina Burana" to the Waitresses' new-wave "Christmas Wrapping." Nothing's more endearing, or funny, than the two most engaging characters, Puss in ... Thursday’s performance of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” is the next event in the Texarkana College Music Series. Under the direction of Marc-Andre Bougie, the performance is at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Room at the Truman Arnold Center. The ...
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