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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: Pleasure and Pain
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Year: 2005
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R&B: Soul
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Given that VH1 's lineup is littered with reality shows about faded stars who make fools of themselves for our guilty-pleasure ... There are some very disturbing scenes with Conaway moaning and writhing in pain as he goes through withdrawal. "Life is ... As for the show itself, it absolutely tanked — 5.3 million fewer viewers tuned in this year than last. ... T-Pain , former Pretty Ricky singer Pleasure , Jazze Pha and Mannie Fresh have lent their skills to Dem Franchize Boyz 's second effort, Da Point of ... "Opioids are chemicals that attach to certain receptors in the brain. … These drugs both prevent pain and stimulate the pleasure center in the brain. Those drugs that are the most effective in terms of attaching to those receptors give the most ... T-Pain , former Pretty Ricky singer Pleasure , Jazze Pha and Mannie Fresh are among the artists who will appear on Dem Franchize Boyz's sophomore album, Da Point of No Return . It is scheduled to drop on March 25. The first single is "Talkin' Out Da Side ... ... and things get more interesting: bodies levitate in white space, seemingly relaxed or asleep yet contorted as if in pain or ... Of course, it is the confrontational nature of his work, his pleasure in expanses of mottled flesh and denial of any sort of ... ... will be largely negative – stray dogs, gypsies, corrupt officials and the like – settling in can be reasonably pain ... Getting a work permit is especially laborious, with low-level officials seemingly taking a perverse pleasure in finding one of ... When I got married, it was as if I had been cut all over again, but my friends told me that if I showed my pain, my husband would divorce me. They told me I must pretend that I was having as much pleasure as my husband and cry out every now and then ... ... possibility and take my time determining if I really, really want to commit myself to something that might cause me pain or ... I figure if I allow myself the pleasure of rock climbing or swimming every week or two, I will still be getting exercise but ... It is particularly important to intervene when a child is insensitive to the obvious distress of an animal, repeats a harmful behaviour or derives pleasure from causing an animal pain," it states. "It's a sign of a serious problem," says Shelagh ... The price of our American pursue-pleasure, avoid-pain attitude comes at the expense of our creative ability to resolve our problems, our discovery of inner power, our growth from claiming daily responsibility for our moods, attitudes, actions and ...
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