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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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Villa-Lobos
To be played are the rapturous “Sonata in E Minor for Cello and Piano” by Johannes Brahms, the cheery “Three Bagatelles” by Paul Schoenfield and the joyful “Jet Whistle” by Heiter Villa-Lobos. There will be an ardent homeland ode, the ... MARCH 17: The Nightcap Series presents An Evening of Cello, featuring cellist Felix Wang, soprano Amy Dorfman and Blair student cellists performing solo and collaborative works by Bach and Villa-Lobos. MARCH 28: The Blair String Quartet performs ... City Ballet of Los Angeles is the most progressive and intriguing new ballet company in Los Angeles utilizing the music of Bach, Sinatra, Villa Lobos, Lenard Bernstein, and The Streets to create tantalizing, smooth, classical movements, nevertheless ... Hull will perform the works of John Dowland, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Mauro Giuliani, and others during Parents’ Weekend at Bradley. Joining him will be alumnus Erik Swanson, who teaches at Heartland Community College, Lincoln College and Lincoln ... And they came out, and I shook his hand, and I figured he was going to play something like Villa-Lobos. And he gave the downbeat, and I knew what I was in for. Eighty minutes later, they had done the whole Mahler Second. Q How was it? This was the ... He says his "main repertoire is romantic," though he also plays a lot of Debussy, Bartok and Villa-Lobos. "I don't play avant-garde music," Freire explained. "I leave that to those who feel it better than I do. But I really have quite a broad ... He kept after us from the time he was four to almost eight years old, and he didn't let anything sway him," says Timothy's mom. "Finally we broke down and gave him lessons, and I'm so glad we did!" Timothy, plays the Choros No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos ... A visual artist and musician from Veracruz, Mexico, Alberto Villa-Lobos hand paints vibrant masks and murals that draw upon politics, culture and nature. At the opening reception on July 26, he'll perform folk music from his hometown as an added treat She has sung three times with the New York Philharmonic and has cut albums of everything from works of Bach and Villa-Lobos to South Pacific and The Mother Magoo Suite. She has lived most of her life in the Hollywood area and has been a singer ... The Eroica charmed us with an encore arrangement of beautiful "Bachianas Brasilerias" of Heitor Villa-Lobos. The frustrating aspect of this smashing performance was that it wasn't held in Williamsburg. It's no secret, except, apparently, to the Arts ...
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