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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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Squarepusher
Squarepusher's sparse take on the song is creepier than it is meaningful. Joy Division was one of those bands that made important music without trying to make important music — and without being pretentious or ridiculous. And those songs should be ... Art Brut opens. Black Dice. This percussive experimental rock band makes music that sounds like a lower-key Squarepusher. Its live shows are legendary if, you know, you're into that sort of arty thing. It plays Thursday at the Walnut Room. Ricardo ... If you thought the Proms were all about union jack hats and energetic conductors then you thought wrong. Last year we saw the likes of Rodney P, Basement Jaxx, Squarepusher, Jamie T and Klaxons to name but a few. The Electric Proms creatively merge ... If, however, you can hear hurt and anger in ‘The Libertine’ or recklessness in the titanic ‘Tristan’ (which sounds like ’80s glamour pusses ABC meets techno glitchers Squarepusher), ‘Wind In The Wires’ is, for the most part, far less ... The White Stripes, Radiohead, Squarepusher, Elbow, The Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand and Dizzee Rascal will all be revered in the future, in my opinion. They are already extremely well-known and have really made people sit up and ... Y’know, even a lack of musical knowledge isn’t without its merits – we like all kinds of music, and there are kinds of music that have informed things that we play, but it would be preposterous if we said that there was this one Squarepusher ... Moreover, its programs of major composers presented alongside collaborations with the likes of Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Joanna Newsome have been popular. Brett Sheehy, director of the Melbourne Festival from 2009, would like to program "works from ... ... Enon, Early Man, Mastodon, Oneida, Liars, Milemarker, These Arms Are Snakes, Minus The Bear, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Cat Power, Optimist Club, Collapse, October All Over, Björk, Grandaddy, Elliott Smith, Black Heart Procession, Squarepusher, Enon ... We had the album arrive at the DiSopolis last week, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to afford it airtime when we’ve new albums by Squarepusher and Isis to be exploring. At two is Justin Timberlake , for a second week, with ‘SexyBack’ . As yet ... Hello! I am writing a piece for my music course as part of my music and society module on Squarepusher and was wondering if any of you could lend your thoughts and ideas! I have to do research and interview peers on theirs, but many of my friends are ...
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