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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: Songs Of Love and Hate
NPR.org , January 18, 2008 - The Magnetic Fields may build albums around high concepts — see: 69 Love Songs , i — but Distortion ... With its unexpected mantra ("I hate California girls"), the anti-summer, anti-superficial cold-weather anthem, from under ... If London-based singer/songwriter Sami Yusuf had been crooning love songs, he would be just another face in the crowd. But as a ... Sure, he was the guy everybody loved to hate when he first came out in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s, but now, over 15 ... They wrote songs about it. One, I recall, was "I love coffee, I love tea, I love the java jive and it loves me; coffee and tea, the java and ... You could claim guilt by association and I'd hate to be on a jury having to decide that because you ... On "Distortion," Merritt, the auteur behind 1999's magnificent "69 Love Songs" and 2004's "lesser i," has given us another ... THE-DREAM "Love/Hate" (DefJam, 3 { stars) Terius "The-Dream" Nash is the man behind Rihanna's "Umbrella" and J. Holiday's ... I Love That Band ... ... But, boy, did THAT song suck ... Published on 1 ... musicians — this is not the time to improvise and start listing bands and songs ... the tune I like best, I’m gonna identify the song from each artist that I hate ... I hate that song," Belichick said during a moment of levity in yesterday's media ... When those songs play, it means it's not going well for us. I've never been with ... going to be a lot smarter, but it won't change." . . . Wouldn't the Chargers love ... Good or bad vocals, love or hate the songs - it all plays a part in making karaoke at the Melody Bar all that it is. That is, with the exception of Queen's song Bohemian Rhapsody, if you ask Peter Styles. "I don't think I have ever seen someone take ... ... constant buzzing gives the upbeat-sounding "California Girls" the proper weight to deliver the twisted punch line, "I hate ... Trisha Yearwood's "Love Songs" (MCA Nashville); The Eels' greatest hits "Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006, Vol. 1" (Geffen ... In the '90s, Stephin Merritt's primary band, The Magnetic Fields, released six albums, climaxing with the three-CD 69 Love Songs ... They come on like squares / then get off like squirrels / I hate California girls." It's a very Merritt-like turn of ... ... re a colorful trio of siblings named Deedee, Rooney and Moe Doodle who rock out, singing hip, high-energy songs ... They love you one second and can hate you the next," McNamara says. "Children are so innocent. They are looking at you for leadership or ...
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