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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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Persephone
It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life" by Judith Viorst. (Publisher: Persephone Books, new edition, 1999.) With an equally straight face, Kimmel asked the flack about a hacker named Persephone who has been waging war with the foundation. When the bit finally ended, no one laughed, the audience undoubtedly feeling a little... lost . Ah. You're getting it ... Her family gathered at a makeshift memorial that now stands at the site. Dortch’s sister, Persephone Modest, said, There's a lot of anger. There's a lot of hurt. We are banding together as a family and relying on the lord to give us strength ... The Hydra had its den at the entrance to Hades, where Pluto and his wife, Persephone, entered the Underworld. Hubble officials said the team of researchers selected the names from more than two dozen candidate names. Alan Stern of the Southwest ... I'm still busy performing in Beauty and the Beast at the Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon, so in the same spirit as last week's recycled Christmas column, this week I'm recycling (and refurbishing with fresh material) a New Year's column from 1995 ... Yet the roots of this symbol go back into Greek mythology and the story of Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, goddess of the harvest. She was abducted by Hades, god of the underworld, and taken there. When her mother finally found her, she ... In Greek mythology, it was partaking of the pomegranate that consigned the beautiful Persephone to the underworld for a quarter of every year. And it was during those three months when she was with Hades that her bereft mother, Demeter, the goddess ... There's Orpheus, Eurydice, Hades, Persephone, Hermes, and even Cerberus is there. He's the head of security in Hadestown. Even the three Fates are there." "Hadestown" is set in the future, or another world entirely. "It's a world of desperation where ... Persephone Modeste, Dortch's sister said, "My sister was loved she was a genuine, she was true what she gave she gave her all." Dortch's children could not contain their emotions. Family says Angel wanted to be a good example for them. She just got ... Michelle Hayes, associate professor of dance, choreographed the dance, “Cradling Persephone.” She said the inspiration for the dance came from the Greek myth of Persephone, a young girl abducted by Hades. She incorporated the myth with her ...
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