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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: Scriabin
The evening's musical selections will span the centuries, from classical to jazz and modern composers, and will include works by Chopin, Duke Ellington, Gershwin, Hancock, Scriabin and Beethoven. The young musicians will play a Bluthner small concert ... Or maybe she was waiting for the birthday of her namesake, Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, who was born in Moscow on Jan. 6, 1872. Either way, the healthy baby girl was born by Cesarean section at 9: 10 a.m. Tuesday, making her the first baby ... Mozart and the fifth piano sonata, Op. 53 written by Alexander Scriabin in 1907. You’ll also enjoy the string quartet playing Mozart and Shostakovich by favorite performers: Marya Giesy, Alan Brundage, Marion Wolfe and Thomas Hanselmann. Call Tom ... The father picked "Alexandra," the feminine form of his favorite composer, Russian musician Alexander Scriabin, 1872-1915. Washington County's first baby was born to Kimberly Rusher of Fayetteville. The baby girl was born at 10 a.m. at Willow Creek ... Unlike Curlionis or Scriabin, Messiaen does not actually project an accompanying light show, but he does labor intensely to create a synaesthetic effect. When he describes the holy glow surrounding the manger, he suggests "violet blue, flecked with ... There was also a Russian Symphony Orchestra from 1904 until 1918, which debuted numerous works by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Rimsky-Korsakov, and an Italian Symphony Orchestra that appeared in 1913. Ultimately, the New York Symphony won out over ... There are interesting contributions from the composer/pianist Ferruccio Busoni, the noted Scriabin specialist Vladimir Sofronitsky who heard Lipatti play in Russia in 1924, Emil von Sauer, a pupil of Franz Liszt and Maryla Jones who studied with ... A piano sonata by Scriabin in the improbable key of G-sharp minor began with self-communing, confiding chords projected so clearly beneath the lowered acoustic canopy, and ended with a fleet tarantella crisply delivered by Trpceski's well-balanced ... Following in the path of Alexander Scriabin, Wassily Kandinsky, Oscar Fischinger and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Zazou’s live Prague premiere of “Quadri+Chromies” (Archa, Nov. 25) will feature the Mondrian-esque projections of the late motion-graphic ... The Sunday program included pieces of the 19th century composers — Alexander Scriabin, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert and Frederic Chopin. During the second part Mikhailov performed compositions of one of the greatest 20th century composers ...
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