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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 The Spirit
That's the spirit one has to capture in our film songs,' he added. Sameer, who has written over 5,000 songs, has reduced his workload thanks to composer Himesh Reshammiya's decision to curtail his work. 'You see Himesh and I had formed a team. I ... "Ring of Fire" includes musical acts staged on a prison set. Even when they step forward and state "I am Johnny Cash," the singers don't try to look, act or sound like the Man in Black in "Ring of Fire," the Richard Maltby musical homage to the late ... ... Music That Inspired the Movement.” It's an appropriate topic for a woman whose music has long celebrated the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. She returns to Golden Hall at 5 p.m. to headline a three-hour concert that will feature songs ... ... its fans were concerned, seeing their sideways-baseball-cap-wearing heroes on stage spitting out much-loved classics such as "Triumph" and "Protect Ya Neck" with spirit was a rare pleasure that didn't need to be spoiled by not-so-familiar new songs. ... This song is going to hover over the culture year like the Holy Spirit. "Ringo for president!" yelled someone. "He doesn't ... This was a cultural mystery tour taking in favourite songs and favourite bands (Echo & the Bunnymen, the Wombats, Garry ... ... re not too far off from who Adam and I were when we wrote the songs. So it's almost like real life in a way that I think is just so perfect." Watching the film and talking with Dawson, it makes sense that the singer relates to Juno's can-do spirit ... Aimee Duffy is definitely going to go far - but let's also take a moment to recognise the existence of the Welsh music scene from where she emerged. You might not understand the words but the spirit and passion of the music and songs is palpable and ... This time she concentrates on songs about love, showing it can be a heartfelt joy - or a bummer. You'll love it, too. "Love ... A grand finale on "Running" might spirit you back to memories of "Flashdance," but it works. There's a lot to like here ... I don’t know a lot about Gerard Way, other than he fronts rock band My Chemical Romance, which has had hits with songs ... So, to get in the spirit, we’ll take a look at Steve Niles’ and Nat Jones’ “Giant Monster” about, you guessed it, a ... The movie recently opened in limited release, it received the most nominations for this year's Independent Spirit Awards , and ... I made a film about the Glam rock era called Velvet Goldmine [where we] requested some songs from David Bowie — the film ...
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