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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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Ravi Shankar
KOLKATA, Dec. 27: “Change is constant and new genres of music are evolving. Yet, the love of classical music is undying only in Kolkata.” That was sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar in the city today. A bout of pneumonia may have slowed down, but ... With BJP now hailing Modi's big win, party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad ducked a pointed query on Wednesday over whether the CM would be brought back into the parliamentary board. "He is a big leader, he will be used for campaigning," Prasad ... His trios have had musicians from Mick Taylor, Roy Buchanan, Savoy Brown, Tower Of Power, Ravi Shankar, Big Ed Sullivan and Otis Grand. He has supported Ray Charles, B.B.King, Buddy Guy, The Scorpions, John Lee Hooker, Pat Metheny, Iggy Pop & The ... OPPENAU, GERMANY--(Marketwire - December 27, 2007) - His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has strongly condemned the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister, Mrs. Benazir Bhutto. He sends condolences and prayers to her family and to the people ... NEW DELHI: The BJP on Wednesday dodged the question of re-inducting Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi into the central parliamentary board (CPB), arguing that the party is yet to take a decision on the demand. BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad ... Think60s George Harrison after he met Ravi Shankar. -What it says about the character: A louche American expatriate novelist cum Lothario, Schwartzmans Jack spends a lot of the movie on the make for women. His facial foliage serves to emphasize a ... The BJP spokesman, Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad, today demanded that the Centre issue a directive to the West Bengal government for ensuring justice to the victims of Nandigram. “It is a serious question of constitutional impropriety and as both the ... Since the two Central agencies were being ‘demoralized’, and not allowed to work as envisaged by the Constitution, the Centre must act, BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said. Article 355 says it shall be the duty of the Centre to protect states ... Party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad, pointed out that the violence against Christians, including attack on churches, erupted after an incident allegedly involving an assault on a VHP leader. Printer friendly page Send this article to Friends by ... Citing the remarks made by Governor and the Calcutta High Court against mayhem created by CPM cadre and the subsequent police action, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad went on to add that one of the most unfortunate and revolting aspect of this reign of ...
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