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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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Album: Plaintive Scenes
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Yearning
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Plaintive Scenes
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Year: 2006
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Rock
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... the music is much flatter, the harmonies are no longer spiky but blocky and imposing and huge choruses and ensemble scenes ... Kirov Opera's last Met tour, has a girlish avidity for life and experience abetted by a penetrating lyric soprano of plaintive ... ... would drive around a beater with a bumper sticker affixed that says “At least I can still smoke in my car” the plaintive ... Frinches, santas and even a Homer Simpson that out-numbered the presence of inflatable Jesus and/or nativity scenes by 46 ... The trail hugged the steep coastal bluff, and a chilly, salt-scented breeze swept up the slope, bearing the plaintive bleat of ... An informational panel tells of how artists were reviled for painting everyday scenes in the early 20th century, notably of ... In one of the many mesmerizing scenes in the audacious "Across the Universe" -- the high-wattage movie musical in which ... In this scene, however, the plaintive young woman is striding in slow motion across a football field as she sings a wistful ... ... attempt to put music to the plaintive questions of exhausted Americans losing loved ones in distant battle somewhere in the Valley of Elah. The this-is-America road footage is broken up with a series of studiously calibrated father-daughter scenes ... ... and unsentimental warmth that make it a treasure. Check out the special DVD features, including hilarious deleted scenes. ... really shines is in his stylish guitar work, which combines the piercing attack of Iron Butterfly and Syd Barrett's plaintive ... Most Americans have long ago now reached two conclusions about their government. First, that George W. Bush is an incompetent president with, additionally, a temperament ill-suited to the job. And second, that his grand project - the invasion of Iraq ... Aikin is a superb Anne, pure-toned and plaintive in the early scenes and powerful in her final moments in the asylum. Bass-baritone James Morris is a suave presence as Nick Shadow. Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is a glam, hilariously vain Baba the Turk ... That might be a blessing in the early scenes, which have as much peeing and belching as a PG-13 rating will allow, and ... Grendel is a horror, a plague, to Hrothgar's kingdom, but he seems plaintive, lonely, in his cave. He complains to his mother ... Rodney King is not an educated man, but his plaintive cry in the middle of the Los Angeles riots - ''Can't we all just get ... As I was advising the majority behind the scenes, I was also giving them a blow-by-blow on the flaws in their constitutions ...
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