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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 Music
If I Gave You The Mic (Phat Beats Down mix) Various Play Sample Play Video Add to Cart Midnight Marauders Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie Play Sample Play Video Add to Cart Runnin' (Styles Mix) - Fat Freddy's Drop Fat Freddys Drop Play Sample Play Video Add ... There's a world of music in our town that's streaming just below the radar and beyond the realm of nightclubs and theaters ... for musicians and artists; in recent months it has hosted shows by organic trance outfits, modern rock bands, indie-soul ... It is rooted in neither rock nor pop, soul nor reggae. "My music is straight from the heart - soft ballads with Sufi influences," the musician says. "You could say my songs in a way represent the essence of Sufi mysticism, they depict my love ... So who believes R&B and Soul Music is dead? Well I for one certainly don't!! The truth and reality is (in my humble opinion) that the powers that be, Mass Media, Clear Channel Radio, video outlets, etc... and the music buying public (Pre-teens, teens ... series’ – charts the evolution of soul music, with a fascinating combination of rare archive footage and more than 100 contemporary interviews. Watch: From rhythm and blues, via soul, Motown, funk and hip hop, this documentary series tells the ... For gospel music purists, it means embracing secular artists and for soul music fans, it means broadening a palate for music beyond what's popular. There is a narrow crossroad where gospel and secular music meet, and right smack dab in the middle is ... Why are people currently responding so strongly to soul music, compared to a few years ago? I don't think they ever stopped. What it is now, why people are responding is because they're hearing it? This year will be 13 years that me and the Dap-Kings ... We cover all genres and styles of music made in New Zealand including hip hop, urban, rock, pop, roots, reggae, electronic, dub, contemporary, ambient, spoken word, rap, funk, soul and jazz. As long as its kiwi, we're keen to be involved. All files ... But the result of Cobain's many dysfunctional admissions, standing on their own for 96 minutes, is a sad confessional for a suicidal soul, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. There's no Nirvana music in the documentary (tied up in lawsuits ... She leaps from the cab and stands outside her PR office, puffing a fag, contemplating where the canyon-sized melancholy in the sound of her music might come from. 'I don't have a hole in my soul,' she chirps, puffing away. 'I'm not insecure in any way ...
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