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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: Soul and Bossa
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Lisa Ono
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Soul and Bossa
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Year: 2007
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Jazz
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... known for her retro coolness, routinely cranked up the jukebox at one of her favorite London bars, playing the soul classics ... Sandman" by the Chordettes, "Thunder Road" by Robert Mitchum, "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors and "Bossa Nova Casanova ... The bossa-nova will breeze in with award-winning Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes, whose main stage airing will be ... Benjamin and Phyllis Madikwa (RSA), The Manhattans featuring Gerald Alston and Blue Lovett (US), as well as as The Soul ... NPR.org , January 23, 2008 - Jazz has always thrived on a bedrock of popular songs — tunes drawn from the blues and bossa ... Despite the growing dominance of rock, soul, R&B, hip-hop, and country in American popular music, jazz's standard repertoire ... By contrast, Blossom Dearie's delicate bossa, "In a Silent Tear," was a somber tale of love lost. Silvano delivered it with ... Mal Waldron's tender ballad "Soul Eyes" found the singer in soft voice, delivering another timeless jazz theme. Lovano ... Founder Scott Kettner studied samba and bossa nova with jazz drummer Billy Hart, but then wanted to explore further. Hart suggested maracatu, an old regional style that was not widely heard even in Brazil. Kettner set off for Brazil in 2000 and ... As that list shows, Pearson excels at everything from jazz to blues, soul, rock, country and jam band settings, and he’s ... They’ll be performing examples of Samba, Bossa Nova and other styles; and several members of the NJW’s new Brazilian ... The Layabout Trio, lead guitarist/record producer Rich Mouser and Bossa Nova guitarist Shohei Urata will be accompanying ... The vibe of their music is similar to rap groups such as Black Eyed Peas, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest. 2005-06-18 ... ... when knocking back those $8 glasses of vino, you're golden. DJ Brian Gillespie will be spinning hip hop, funk and soul. At ... styles as he is at post-bop modernity, Weatherston has great technique and a voice ideally suited to the ballads and bossa ... ... ability to comfortably slide into any musical genre - from hip-hop (she often raps, and surprisingly well live), to pop, to reggae, to soul, to an a cappella cover of Sublime - is impressive. At one point, a band member jokingly improvised some bossa ... ... fave is Scottish band Belle and Sebastian, who projects an aesthetic somewhere between The Smiths and the Northern Soul ... which was reviewed at hipster paradise PitchforkMedia.com last week, and he has crafted a seamless concoction of folk, bossa ...
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