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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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Steppenwolf
, "August: Osage County." Tracy Letts' Broadway debut is a big, juicy melodrama filled with family fights and funny business, not to mention the best ensemble acting in town, courtesy of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. , "Radio Golf." The last entry ... The drama from Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a blistering tale in which family members fight furiously. The language is brutal but often very, very funny, and the cast, most of them veterans of the Chicago production, is superb. In 2008 ... GOOD BOYS AND TRUE”: through Feb. 16, Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St. By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Brandon Hardy is brilliant, athletic, popular and charming - the kind of student that makes St. Joseph’s Prep School proud to ... Thanks to the Broadway success of the Steppenwolf's "August: Osage County," America is buzzing all over again about the quality of the Chicago actor. That ensemble notwithstanding, here are 10 other great performances seen in Chicago during 2007 ... Holy crossovers! In what surely is a first for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company the setting and several characters from Steppenwolf's world premiere production of "Good Boys and True" (running through Feb. 16) will also be found on the pages of the ... Not yet on the radar of the generous donors among America's millionaires, Huckabee has dragged his band Capitol Offense into the campaign -- recently they played the old Steppenwolf song in Des Moines, Iowa. The farming state is vital because it is ... Jeffrey Richards, producer of Broadway's critical and audience sensation, August: Osage County , told Variety the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production at the Imperial Theatre has a $2.5 million advance — more, if you add group sales. "We went ... The '70s would see him share the stage with Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Frank Zappa, Steppenwolf, Santana, The Byrds, Canned Heat, John Mayall, Donovan, Hot Tuna, Country Joe and scores of others. With one foot in the blues and one ... Osage County." Tracy Letts' drama, a hit for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, concerns a venomous mother and her dealings with three daughters. Imperial. Telecharge. "Avenue Q." Love blossoms among the 20-something set - a group that includes ... ... storytelling evident in The House and Redmoon productions; boldness the likes of which underscored Next Theatre's challenging musical; the bare-knuckled acting style and keen sense of ensemble that defined shows at Chicago Dramatists, Steppenwolf and ...
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