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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: Zodiac
They didn't stick to a coherent narrative line ("No Country for Old Men," "I'm Not There," "Zodiac"). They stunk of the sickroom ("Away From Her," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") and were either too concerned with abortion ("Lake of Fire") or ... That seemed even more apparent after multiple viewings of David Fincher's epic "Zodiac," a patiently built correction of the flashy sadism that his own "Se7en" helped spawn. Driven by the suspense born of unparalleled craftsmanship and the cynical ... Like the Chinese and Vietnamese new years, Oshogatsu was once based on the lunar calendar, with each year marked by a zodiac sign (2008 is the Year of the Rat). Since Japan adopted the Western calendar system in 1873, it has been celebrated on Jan. 1 ... Zodiac -- It's another dark movie -- about a serial killer, in this case -- but it's possibly the most entertaining title on this list, and the one that most rewards repeated viewings. Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr. are all in top ... Proof again – if proof were needed – that animation can be just as personal an arena for filmmakers as live action. A few other films, among many, that also gave me lots to like: "There Will Be Blood," "Zodiac," "Paris je t'aime," "In the Shadow ... 1. " Zodiac ." David Fincher's film is a police procedural a la Picasso -- all of the known cliches rendered in a penetrating, startling new light. 2. " No Country for Old Men ." Following Cormac McCarthy's novel almost to the letter, the Coen ... 9. “Zodiac” – Director David Fincher re-creates the '60s down to the pre-computer, pre-cell phone newsroom of the San Francisco Chronicle. A wildly independent crime reporter (riveting Robert Downey Jr.) obsesses on catching a murderous ... There were, for example, movies that were explicitly set in the '70s like David Fincher's "Zodiac," which doggedly pursued the police investigation of San Francisco's elusive serial killer. There were attempts, with various degrees of success ... Before I kill you, I'm going to throw your baby out the window.'' -- the Zodiac killer to the stranded motorist (Ione Skye) riding in his car with her child on her lap in David Fincher's Zodiac . Best movie that will be even better in the inevitable ... Robert Downey Jr.'s deceptively languid turn as an investigative reporter in "Zodiac" (out last March). Actors turned directors — The Good: Ben Affleck, "Gone Baby Gone"; Denzel Washington, "The Great Debaters"; Sarah Polley, "Away from Her"; John ...
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