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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: The Album!
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After dabbling in an economics experiment, Radiohead has finally released its new album, only now in the physical sense. In case you don't follow the ever-shifting music scene, in late 2007 Radiohead let consumers set the price they wanted to pay for ... Jennifer Hudson won both an Oscar and a Golden Globe, and Chris Daughtry broke records with his band's debut album. Others have niche fan bases that they continue to entertain. But when someone places fourth (as Chris Daughtry did), seventh (as ... Album sales fell 15 percent to 500.5 million units in 2007, market researcher Nielsen SoundScan said Jan. 3. In 2006, total album sales fell 4.9 percent. Fourth-quarter profit will be $1.57 to $1.76 a share, New York-based Barnes & Noble ... West was the inspiration for the song "Hey Mama" on her rapper-son's 2005 album, "Late Registration." She left academia in 2004 to manage her son's career. She was chief executive of West Brands LLC and chairwoman of the Kanye West Foundation. In May ... The music industry posted a 15 percent drop in U.S. album sales in 2007 as fans bought fewer CDs. Though digital music sales have been rising, they have not made up for the revenue shortfall, forcing executives to consider new business models and ... THE CONCEPT BEHIND "Share This Place: Stories and Observations" makes the album sound a lot more bizarre than it is: a collaboration between Mirah and other musicians to score a dozen short animated films by Britta Johnson -- about insects. Luckily ... Of course, blues and gospel sounds abound; keyboard trills and tremolos replace guitar triplet runs on "Heartbreak Hotel" and other early hits, and Chestnut reserves the album's final track for a solemn, solo piano rendition of "How Great Thou Art." ... OFTEN, WHEN YOU see an album overloaded with celebrity guests from many genres, it's a sign that the host artist is sacrificing his personal vision in a desperate bid for platinum sales. But for Wyclef Jean , such genre-crossing collaboration has ... The misty ambiance never entirely lifts, but the album also includes earthier numbers. "Spring and by Summer Fall" is predominantly driving and mostly sung by Amedeo Pace, the band's other guitarist, although it contains a section featuring Makino's ... West was the inspiration for the song Hey Mama on her rapper-son's 2005 album, ``Late Registration.'' She left academia in 2004 to manage her son's career. She was chief executive of West Brands LLC and chairwoman of the Kanye West Foundation. In May ...
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