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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: Year of the Rat
BRAINTREE - The Chinese New Year used to have little meaning for Mary Coulter Bennett and Steven Bennett of Stoughton, but that all changed seven years ago when they adopted daughter Mia Qi. Now the family celebrates many traditions, including ... I hope the Year of Rat will bring more prosperity and more progress to China." The Spring Festival, the most important holiday for the Chinese, falls on Feb. 7. The year of 2008, according to the Chinese calendar, is a Year of Rat. The ... The temple accepts 1,000 applications everyday; A security guard speaks to a devotee outside of the "pacifying Taisui" registration office at Longshan Temple. Even though it's only 9:30am, the 1,000 available numbers for that day have already been ... As you may already know, 2008 is the Year of the Rat. Yes, you could be forgiven for thinking that was 2007, particularly with all those finance companies falling over but, according to the Chinese, it's not just a rodent, but a brown rodent, and a ... MIDDLETOWN — A rat year, according to the Chinese zodiac, is actually a good thing. So say members of the Jersey Shore Chinese School who performed Saturday afternoon at the Middletown Public Library to ring in their official new year next month ... The Ho-la Diner and the Jiashing restaurant opposite have run five or six rat eateries out of town over nearly six decades of business to become the top two ahead of the Year of the Rat, which begins on February 7. Both display hairless rat carcasses ... With minimal space and care requirements, rats and mice are ideal pets for some people, especially in the Year of Rat. The website tianjindaily.com.cn reports that as the Spring Festival approaches, many people are rushing to pet shops to purchase ... I did (the Final Mile) last year, but we didn't have the club," said Courtney, who braved blustery winds and cold temperatures at a recent run. "It's just fun to be able to run the miles to get up to 25." - John Streit, 639-4805 or vb.beaconsports ... The Chinese Year of the Rat begins next week. In the Internet underground, it is already shaping up to be the Year of the Clever Rat, as crooks scurry to perfect ways to steal data and commit fraud. One pioneering gang is taking over home network ... None of the events will take place on Feb. 7, the first day of the Year of the Rat. The Year of the Rat is the beginning of the 12-year astrological cycle on the Chinese lunar calendar. The rat represents ingenuity, cunning and prosperity. February's ...
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