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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: Sitar
... Went to Hamburg -- the red lights were on/With George and Paul and my friend John'' will have fans feeling wistful. Gone are the Days, another nod to Ringo's glory ('I know you will believe me when I say it don't come easy''), taps the mystic sitar ... Sitar recital by M S Pradeep Kumar, Yavanika, Nrupathunga Road, 6.30 pm (ph 22287170) South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring: Vibgyor international film festival,screening of film - As Padshah Bai (There was a queen) Charles Ranson ... How in the world do they recreate it live? “We had thought of that while we were writing the music. It was all done on sitar and acoustic guitar; so we can have a live drum progression version of a particular piece. You can sometimes even turn it ... Repeat a few times, with Shia LeBouef, a cover of "Sweet Child of Mine" by Guns-n-Roses, played on the sitar, a clip from The Daily Show, and a few other videos, and you have the first day in copyright infringement The Digg Reel. YouTube built itself ... Though there’s a conscious effort to sidestep monotony, Ehab puts in the proverbial ballad, the tempo-tweaked dance/disco track, and even a song punctuated with Indian sitar-based samples. There are no hit singles here, though. Even the title track ... Almost like the drone of a sitar, the bass line vibrated continuously. Taking the Con moto at a rapid clip minimized Schubert's temporal experimentation, but Mr. Lupu was so good at managing his phrases that I began to enjoy, albeit grudgingly, this ... Black Satin" epitomizes this pressure-cooker aura as shaken bell trees, snap-to-it handclaps, humid tabla thumping, searing sitar drones, acrid organ and guitar stabs, and a rhythm that foreshadows drum-n-bass's convolutions coalesce into a ... ... and the new creative potential that can be found in doing so. The orchestra will perform pieces arranged specifically for the occasion, combining western orchestral instruments (violins, violas, woodwinds) with the zheng, erhu, pipa, bansuri, sitar ... It will be an evening of music with renowned musicians Louis Banks on Keyboards, Sivamani on percussion, and Niladri Kumar on the Sitar. The Bangalore Hospice Trust (Karunashraya), is a charitable trust helping patients with advanced cancer for the ... One thing you notice about Breathing Under Water is that Shankar was willing to go beyond the confines of classical Indian music (her previous discs contained material written by her father, legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar, who guests on the disc ...
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