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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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Verdi, Giuseppe
On Friday, 15 students in Wood's class are going to Sacramento to watch "Otello," an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello," by 19th century Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. "I'm pretty excited about it," said 17-year-old Caleb Austin. "It's an after ... Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti and Giuseppe Verdi. All three had so many hits, so quickly, that they might well have opted for early retirement — and two of them took that option. Faced with changing musical tastes and a fat bank account ... In 1871, Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" had its world premiere in Cairo, Egypt. In 1907, investigative reporter I.F. Stone was born in Philadelphia. In 1920, Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance, singing Jacques Halevy's "La Juive" at the ... Galbraith looks to build upon the legacy of the late Al Ruocchio and will feature Giuseppe Verdi’s “Falstaff” as the first performance in a three-month celebration of Shakespearean-inspired operas. “I am looking forward to embracing a new ... Giuseppe Cavataio, who is 5 years old and attends Lowrey School in Dearborn, will have the honor of switching on the lights at ... their performances to Mayor Guido will be the Dearborn Public Schools' Honors Choir, Dearborn High Orchestra and the Verdi ... ON A HIGH NOTE Wichita Grand Opera's season opens Saturday with Giuseppe Verdi's "A Masked Ball." BY CHRIS SHULL The Wichita Eagle Wichita Grand Opera is all about beautiful singing. It's about gorgeous dancing, too. The company's 2007-2008 season ... Giuseppe Verdi's " Macbeth, " 12:30 p.m. Jan. 12. - Manon Lescaut's " Puccini, " noon Feb. 16. - Benjamin Britten's " Peter Grimes, " 12:30 p.m. March 15. - Richard Wagner's " Tristan und Isolde, " 11:30 a.m. March 22. - Giacomo Puccini's " La Boheme, " 12:30 p.m ... Directing soon became "the light for me to express my way," and he made his professional debut in 1994 with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Three years later, he became the first foreign principal guest conductor at the Mariinsky ... Giacomo Puccini's La Rondine (Fri, 8pm) and Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth (Wed, 7:30pm; Sun, 2pm; Tues, 8pm). "Sidecar Staged Readings" Boxcar Playhouse, 505 Natoma; 776-1747, www.boxcartheatre.org . $10. Wed-Thurs, 8pm. The company presents readings of ... We look at two different operas today, a very funny work by British composer Benjamin Britten and some more traditional work by one of opera's favorite sons, Giuseppe Verdi. Opera North is in the midst of a production of Benjamin Britten's opera ...
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