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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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Paganini
Paganini." Cleo Laine, now 75 but with her idiosyncratic style and range amazingly intact, turned in one of her most ingratiating sets of performances in memory, even when focused more upon Billie Holiday ("Fine and Mellow") than Ella. Her husband ... www.last.fm/music/Sergei+Rachmaninoff/ — the composer plays it himself. www.amazon.com/Rachmaninov-Piano-Concerto-Paganini-Rhapsody/dp/B0006SSOOK — featuring the Chinese pianist Lang Lang www.amazon.com/Tchaikovsky-Concerto-No-Rachmaninoff-2/dp ... Bach, Paganini, Prokofieff, and Sarasate. Kleven is a student of Marcia Henry Liebenow and is preparing for a career in orchestral performance. He teaches violin, and acts as co-concertmaster of the Bradley Symphony. For more information, call 677 ... The annual fundraiser focuses on the humble birth of Jesus more than 2000 years ago and highlights the plight of today's family who can't afford a home of their own, says committee chair, Loretta Paganini. The mission of the charity is to foster ... 1. You won't ever hear better music than this, and it's free, too. We love free. Dmitri Berlinksy, a onetime child prodigy in Russia and the youngest winner in the history of the Paganini International Violin Competition, performs the Brahms Violin ... Her recent recordings include a 2003 effort, ''Paganini: After a Dream'' where she played a rare violin the famed composer donated to the Italian city of Genoa. Carter was one of a handful of violinists -- and the first jazz player -- to perform on ... One of Mindy's goals was to perform on From the Top, and she accomplishes this by wowing the audience with Paganini's "Variations on One String on a Theme by Rossini," with Christopher O'Riley at the piano. Pianist Daniel Walden, 18, has actually had ... All through her childhood, she stayed on the Paganini track with a vengeance: giving up public school so that her mother, a former teacher, could home-school her while she worked away, tirelessly, at her instrument. It's that same kind of dedication ... Lomazov and Rackers returned for “Variations on a Theme of Paganini” by the great Witold Lutoslawski, who was Polish. It’s witty and eccentric and, as performed by Lomazov and Rackers, simply dazzling. Rackers was joined by a fine string quartet ... In September, he swept nine awards at the prestigious, grueling 17-day event where 51 young participants from 22 countries went head to head, round after round, playing pieces by Bach, Paganini, Beethoven and others. Even after years of performing ...
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