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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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Youssou N' Dour
... UMVD Import) , a fine album by Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso that employs a rock band of younger musicians; Zamazu (Enja/Justin Time) , by Cuban jazz pianist Roberto Fonseca ; and Rokku Mi Rokka (Wea/Atlantic/Nonesuch) , by Senegal's Youssou N'Dour . All ... Y OU MAY HAVE heard about Fathy Salama whose album Egypt, which won the Recording Academy’s Best World Music Album for 2004 at the 47th annual Grammy awards. The disc features the vocal talents of the famous Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour and ... Host Bob Boilen looks at some of the most anticipated CDs coming out before the end of the year, with NPR reviewers Meredith Ochs, Tom Moon and Robert Christgau. Hear new music from Radiohead, Neil Young, Youssou N'Dour and more. ... The campaign has received high-profile support from Senegal's superstar singer Youssou N'Dour, who ends each slot with a word of advice. Sitting in an empty wooden fishing boat, N'Dour pleads: "Please do not risk your life for nothing. You are ... Host Bob Boilen looks at some of the most anticipated CDs coming out before the end of the year, with NPR reviewers Meredith Ochs, Tom Moon and Robert Christgau. Hear new music from Radiohead, Neil Young, Youssou N'Dour and more. ... Martin Scorsese, painter Rebecca Horn, Youssou N'Dour, writer Wole Soyinka, actress Kate Valk and choreographer Jiri Kylian ... Mamie Van Doren is still very much alive and high-kicking. A minor bombshell who was major fun, she is launching a line of ... ... which tells the story of William Wilberforce, a British parliament member who led abolitionists in their crusade to end the slave trade in the late 18th century. The film stars Ioan Gruffudd as Wilberforce, international music star Youssou N'Dour ... YOUSSOU N 'DOUR, 8 p.m. Dec. 6, Union Theater, www.uniontheater.wisc.edu . UW MADHATTERS, 8 p.m. Dec. 7-8, Overture Hall, www.overturecenter.com . THE ROCHES, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13, Barrymore Theatre, www.barrymorelive.com . "HOLIDAY AND BROADWAY " FROM TOM ... Tell Me More , November 26, 2007 - Recognized in Time Magazine 's 2007 list of the world's 100 most influential people, Senegal's Youssou N'Dour is known in some circles as "the most famous African singer alive." He discusses his new album ( Rokku Mi ... President Thabo Mbeki told the draw ceremony, which included Senegalese standout Youssou N'Dour and stars from "The Lion King" musical, that South Africa wanted to stage an event that will send ripples of confidence from Cape Town to Cairo. "We want ...
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