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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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Stephen Malkmus
... private Dylan, Haynes also managed to land the rights to a number of classic songs ("Tombstone Blues," "Ballad of a Thin Man," "Idiot Wind," "I Want You"), some performed by Dylan himself, some pleasantly if unremarkably covered by Stephen Malkmus ... Playing in a run with Stephen Malkmus and members of the Shins, he was poked in the eye. Though he suffered some "floaters" over the following weeks, he didn't think anything of it. "Then, months and months later, my vision disappeared one night ... Entrance and Stephen Malkmus (Neumo's) and Cave Singers , Head Like a Kite and the Divorce (Comet). Sadly, our favorite freedom rockers Whalebones have had to bow out of the Comet show due to a dental emergency, but if you feel up to driving south, they ... Stephen Malkmus, Pig Lib , "The Ramp of Death." 4. King Sunny Ade, Best of the Classic Years , "Synchro System." 5. British Sea Power, The Decline of British Sea Power , "Blackout." 6. The Strokes, Room on Fire , "Reptilia." 7. Missy Elliott, This Is Not a ... Other bootleg specials and rarities include "Moonshiner" (by Bob Forrest), "Man in the Long Black Coat" (Mark Lanegan), "Can't Leave Her Behind" (Pavement's Stephen Malkmus), "Mama, You've Been On My Mind" (Jack Johnson) and the highlight of the ... ... private Dylan, Haynes also managed to land the rights to a number of classic songs ("Tombstone Blues," "Ballad of a Thin Man," "Idiot Wind," "I Want You"), some performed by Dylan himself, some pleasantly if unremarkably covered by Stephen Malkmus ... Silver JewD: Michael Tully In the early Nineties, David Berman began releasing records (with then-co-worker Stephen Malkmus of Pavement fame)... Two discs with serious props given to Stephen Malkmus ("Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Can't Leave Her Behind"), John Doe ("I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" and "Pressing On") and a few older singers (Roger McGuinn, Richie Havens) who might not do much for ... Blitzen Trapper Play The Bay, Then Abroad by staff | 10.23.2007 With the release of their forthcoming album Wild ... Related Links » Filter's Top 10 of 2007, Day Seven: Filter's Picks » Stephen Malkmus Confirm New LP, Shows » 20 Bands Rock For The ... The Bashers serve as a kind of house band, backing other tracks by Yeah Yeah Yeahs vocalist Karen O ("Highway 61 Revisited"), Stephen Malkmus ("Ballad of a Thin Man," "Maggie's Farm") and Tom Verlaine ("Cold Irons Bound"). Muscular rock songs are ...
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