Music Review

Chris Botti in Boston [LIVE]

2009-03-11T08:57:00.000-07:00

Christopher Stephen Botti or Chris Botti [BOH-tee] (born October 12, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. Born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Corvallis, Oregon, he spent two years of his childhood growing up in Italy. His earliest musical influence was his mother, a classically trained pianist and part-time piano teacher.

He plays a Martin Committee Handcraft trumpet made in 1940, and uses a 3 silver plated mouthpiece from Bach made in 1926, having recently retired his 1920 3C Bach mouthpiece. He counts Miles Davis among his most significant influences.

Botti attended Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon where he studied under Larry McVey whose renowned jazz program had come to be a regular stop for Stan Kenton and Mel Tormé when they were looking for new players. It was here he played alongside his friend, trombonist and future Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Todd Field.

After leaving Mount Hood, Botti studied under David Baker and Bill Adam at Indiana University. Botti also studied with Fred Sautter, a Claude Gordon student.

Yanni Voices

2009-03-11T08:53:00.000-07:00

Yanni makes a triumphant return with the addition of "voices." For the first time ever, new vocal sensations Nathan Pacheco, Leslie Mills, Ender Thomas and Chloe lend their voices and lyrics to Yanni's beloved classics and new songs.

Bare Bones - Madeleine Peyroux

2009-03-11T08:48:00.000-07:00

The third album in four years from song interpreter extraordinaire Madeleine Peyroux, Bare Bones is both an extension of the currents of 2004's Careless Love and 2006's Half the Perfect World and a bold step into previously unexplored psychological terrain. Produced, like its two predecessors, by Larry Klein, this fluid and enthralling new work is Peyroux's most personal yet, hardly surprising considering she had a hand in writing each of the 11 songs, marking the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

Raising Sand - Alison Krauss, Robert Plant

2009-03-11T08:44:00.000-07:00

The musical collaboration of the decade, Raising Sand is the sound of two iconic figures stepping out of their respective comfort zones and letting their instincts lead them across a brave new sonic landscape. Despite hailing from distinctly different backgrounds, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant share a maverick spirit and willingness to extend the boundaries of their respective genres. This spirit, expertly honed by producer T Bone Burnett, has resulted in an album pitched three steps beyond some cosmic collision of early urban blues, spacious West Texas country, and the untapped potential of the folk-rock revolution.

Supported by the unparalleled musicianship of Marc Ribot, Dennis Crouch, Mike Seeger, Jay Bellerose, Norman Blake, Greg Leisz, Patrick Warren, and Riley Baugus, Plant and Krauss -- as both solo and harmony vocalists -- tackle an intriguing selection of songs from such tunesmiths as Tom Waits, Gene Clark, Sam Phillips, Townes Van Zandt, The Everly Broth! ers, and Mel Tillis. Raising Sand finds Robert Plant and Alison Krauss exploring popular music's elemental roots while still sounding effortlessly, breath-takingly contemporary.

Quiet Nights - Diana Krall

2009-03-11T08:38:00.000-07:00

Diana Krall's 12th album Quiet Nights is an intimate recording of ballads and bossa novas from the team that brought you her best-selling GRAMMY Award-winning CD The Look of Love. Accompanied by her quartet and orchestra, Diana turns her sensual vocals and consummate piano skills to "The Boy from Ipanema", "Walk on By"and other classic tunes. Quiet Nights is initially available as a limited edition CD including 2 bonus tracks - her stunning rendition of the Bee Gee's "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" and the standard "Every Time We Say Goodbye". Also available on LP pressed on 180 Gram Vinyl.

Middle Cyclone - Neko Case

2009-03-11T08:33:00.000-07:00

The fifteen-track Middle Cyclone is Neko Case's first release since 2006's Fox Confessor Brings The Flood, the best-reviewed and best-selling album of her career. Middle Cyclone was produced by Case with Darryl Neudorf and recorded in Tucson, Brooklyn, Toronto, and Vermont. It features Case backed by her core band - guitarist Paul Rigby, bassist Tom V. Ray, backing vocalist Kelly Hogan, multi-instrumentalist Jon Rauhouse, and drummer Barry Mirochnick - along with numerous guests including M. Ward, Garth Hudson, Sarah Harmer, and members of The New Pornographers, Los Lobos, Calexico, The Sadies, Visqueen, The Lilys, and Giant Sand, among others. In addition to twelve new songs written by Case, Middle Cyclone includes covers of 'Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth' by Sparks, and "Don't Forget Me" by Harry Nilsson.

All I Ever Wanted - Kelly Clarkson

2009-03-11T08:28:00.000-07:00

2009 release, the fourth album from one of the biggest Pop stars on the planet! All I Ever Wanted was produced by Howard Benson, Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Ryan Tedder, Sam Watters and Louis Biancaniello. Kelly's debut album Thankful sold over three million albums worldwide and her follow-up, Breakaway, scanning an unprecedented 10 million albums worldwide. Kelly has enjoyed nine Billboard Hot 100 singles including 'A Moment Like This', 'Because of You', 'Breakaway' and the #1 smash hit 'Since U Been Gone'. 16 tracks including the single 'My Life Would Suck Without You'.

Astral Weeks Live At the Hollywood Bowl [LIVE] - Van Morrison

2009-03-11T08:23:00.000-07:00

Recorded in 1968 when the Belfast-bred, blues-rock music legend Van Morrison was just 22 years old, Astral Weeks immediately received critical acclaim and continues to be cited as one of the greatest albums of the rock era. Subsequently the album has been ranked on numerous Best Albums of All Time lists, including #19 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and the 40th Greatest Album Ever on VH-1's list in 2003. Both Astral Weeks and Moondance (Morrison's next album) were inducted into the Grammy® Hall of Fame.

Astral Weeks became a cult favorite and was seen almost as a religion to many artists. On November 7 and 8, 2008, four decades later, at the age 63, Van Morrison revisited Astral Weeks live in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl, and delivered a jawdropping, awe-inspiring performance.

The first half of the show featured Morrison playing timeless classics that have made him a legend, while the second half was the breathtaking performance of the Astral Weeks album.Van Morrison did not simply re-create what he did 40 years ago in a NY studio, but instead took the songs to a dramatically higher contemporary level. The jazz-rooted compositions of Astral Weeks are poetic stories of young love and the quest to find one's place in life. They were, and remain, ideal source material for musical improvisation that gives way to the sense of wonder for which Morrison has always striven.

". . . transcendence is what Morrison has been after with his music from the beginning, and it's what he achieved frequently on Friday, when he played his watershed 1968 album Astral Weeks live in its entirety for the first time. The wondrous, youthful timbre of his voice then has evolved over the years into a richer, fuller instrument, with every bit of its remarkable elasticity very much intact." (L. A. Times)

Mamma Mia! [SOUNDTRACK]

2009-02-03T06:02:00.000-08:00

Bringing the timeless lyrics and melodies of iconic super group ABBA to movie audiences, this summer is the season for Mamma Mia! Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical that has been seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and 8 languages around the world. Meryl Streep plays an independent, single mother and owner of a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, about to let go of her spirited daughter whom she’s raised alone. But the young bride has secretly invited some guests of her own three men from her mom’s past, one of whom is the girl’s biological father. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled, in this warm and hilarious adaptation of one of the most popular musicals ever written.

Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits

2009-02-03T05:58:00.000-08:00

About as complete a selection of fan and artist favorites as any single-disc Bruce collection could be, this is a surprisingly coherent listen given the many stylistic and attitudinal shifts it charts. The inclusion of only four of Born in the U.S.A.'s seven Top 10 entries leaves space for less obvious choices like "Atlantic City" and four new cuts, among them songs recorded by a briefly reunited E Street Band. The pace lags a bit near the end--"Secret Garden" is turgid enough to take its place on a Sting album--but Greatest Hits earns its place in the car CD player with stuff like "Born to Run," "The River" and "Dancing in the Dark." --Rickey Wright

Kidz Bop, Vol. 15

2009-02-03T05:54:00.000-08:00

KIDZ BOP IS BACK JUST IN TIME TO CURE THOSE WINTER BLUES! KIDZ BOP 15 features 18 of today's most popular songs sung by kids for kids! KIDZ BOP toured all through the summer to sold out crowds all around the country, entertaining old fans and creating new ones.

Only by the Night - Kings of Leon

2009-02-03T05:47:00.000-08:00

Kings of Leon return with the release of their highly anticipated fourth album 'Only By The Night' on 22nd September through Columbia Records. 'Only By The Night' is a bold and expansive sonic statement that looks set to solidify Kings of Leon's position as one of the most important international acts of 2008 and beyond. It follows rapidly in the footsteps of the bands previous albums 'Youth And Young Manhood', 'Aha Shake Heartbreak' & 'Because Of The Times', which have quickly established them as one of the most prolific and acclaimed acts around.

Already Free - Derek Trucks Band

2009-02-03T05:43:00.000-08:00

Nearly a year in the making and brimming with a newfound focus on original material, Already Free is The Derek Trucks Band's natural evolution as they move forward integrating influences that span a variety of musical genres. Known for their blues roots, the group takes this album well beyond blues to incorporate the larger sounds of rock & soul. Already Free, features a stirring cover of Bob Dylan's Down In The Flood as well as the new songs, Down Don't Bother Me and Get What You Deserve. Guest appearances on the album include vocals from Susan Tedeschi and Doyle Bramhall II.

Twilight: The Score [SOUNDTRACK] - Carter Burwell

2009-02-03T05:39:00.000-08:00

Composed, orchestrated and conducted by the award-winning Carter Burwell, the Twilight score is a must-have companion to the movie experience. Burwell is a renowned composer who is well known for his work on most Coen Brother films, including The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Burn After Reading, plus films including Being John Malkovich, Gods and Monsters, and more.

Hit Man: David Foster And Friends (CD/DVD) [LIVE]

2009-02-03T05:33:00.000-08:00

The spectacular one-night only concert of David Foster and Friends, featuring Foster, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Katharine McPhee, Celine Dion, Blake Shelton, Brian McKnight and Charice, is now available on CD and DVD. Spotlighting #1 hits, award-winning songs and other favorites-all but one originally penned and/or produced by Foster-the May 23, 2008 show at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas was unforgettable. Now 'Hit Man: David Foster and Friends' scores a direct hit with music fans at home.

Memories Of Summer As A Child - Beyman Bros

2009-02-03T05:30:00.000-08:00

The Beyman Bros are Christopher Guest (multi-instrumentalist, writer, actor, filmmaker - "Spinal Tap", "Best In Show", "Waiting For Guffman"), David Nichtern ("Midnight At The Oasis" songwriter, creator of "Om Yoga Mix", and other popular yoga and meditation albums), and CJ Vanston (keyboardist extraordinaire who has played with Ringo Starr, Joe Cocker, Tina Turner, Deborah Harry, Dolly Parton, and many more. He's also Spinal Tap's keyboardist and musical director). This release presents eleven instrumental landscapes rooted in the intimacy and lifelong musical friendship that forged the group. The fusion of Americana, world, new age, bluegrass, and jazz is an easy, natural collaboration resulting in a meditative, richly melodic album of perfectly blended acoustic chill.

The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo - Steve Martin

2009-02-03T05:23:00.000-08:00

The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo is the first full-length bluegrass album from actor/comedian/musician Steve Martin. After playing on the Grammy Award winning Foggy Mountain Breakdown with Earl Scruggs, Martin began writing a string of new banjo songs, some with lyrics and some as instrumentals. An album forty-five years in the making, The Crow features special appearances by Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Mary Black, Tim O'Brien, Earl Scruggs, Pete Wernick and Tony Trischka. Recorded in Dublin, Hollywood, Nashville and New Jersey and produced by John McEuen, of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the album consists of fifteen original tracks written by Martin.

I have loved the banjo my whole life," says Martin. "The songs on this record represent the influence of a dozen players and a thousand tunes, and I thank them all. But it's the banjo itself I thank most for generating nostalgia for experiences I never had, joy I was yet to experience, and melancholy that was yet to come."

"Steve shows the same skill at crafting a story within the lyric of a song as he does with a novel or comedic script," according to producer John McEuen. "People will be pleasantly shocked at how vast and varied this music is. This album will show Steve as a composer of unique melodies, hot licks and soulful lyrics. He is definitely a songwriter with an unusual twist for notes and lyrics."

The Crow comes packaged with a 24-page booklet, featuring Steve's writing on the role the banjo has played in his life, along with his inspiration for each song that appears on the album."

Tonight - Franz Ferdinand

2009-02-01T07:53:00.000-08:00

2009 release, the third album from Glasgow-based modern rockers. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand sees them taking a step back from the Post-Punk revival sounds that gave them their breakthrough. With Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, the band are seen to incorporate more disparate influences such as Jamaican Dub and elements of Electronica. What remains of the old Franz Ferdinand is their knack for locating a danceable rhythm and their gentle, deadpan humour. The choice of Dan Carey as producer is in keeping with this new direction, the past credits of whose include CSS and Hot Chip.

Fleet Foxes

2009-02-01T07:49:00.000-08:00

Seattle's Fleet Foxes traffic in baroque harmonic pop. They draw influences from the traditions of folk, pop, choral, gospel, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, film scores, and their NW peers. The subject matter ranges from the natural world and familial bonds to bygone loves and stone cold graves.

Soul - Seal

2009-02-01T07:45:00.000-08:00

A great voice singing great songs recorded by a great producer. That is 'Soul', the sixth studio album from multiplatinum selling, Grammy-winning, critically acclaimed Seal. Each song is a stone-cold soul classic, from Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', Ben E. King's 'Stand By Me', and Ann Pebbles' 'I Can't Stand The Rain' to Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes' 'If You Don't Know Me By Now' and Otis Redding's 'I've Been Loving You Too Long'. Produced by David Foster, 'Soul' is the perfect coming together of man, material and moment.

The Fray

2009-02-01T07:41:00.000-08:00

2009 album from the Denver-based quartet, the follow-up to their enormously successful How To Save A Life. The Fray, who exploded into worldwide success with that album, have captured the skilled songwriting that broke them and, with the help of acclaimed producers Mike Flynn and Aaron Johnson, created a set of songs sure to make them household names. The band continues their licensing success story by collaborating with ABC's hit show, Lost in a series of music video promos featuring the album's first single, 'You Found Me' for the newest season of the show. The spots also ran during the 2008 American Music Awards, where the band was a featured performer. Over the weekend of the release and performance, the Lost video had over one million views. 10 tracks.

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

2009-02-01T07:36:00.001-08:00

This is the one jazz record owned by people who don't listen to jazz, and with good reason. The band itself is extraordinary (proof of Miles Davis's masterful casting skills, if not of God's existence), listing John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on saxophones, Bill Evans (or, on "Freddie Freeloader," Wynton Kelly) on piano, and the crack rhythm unit of Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Coltrane's astringency on tenor is counterpoised to Adderley's funky self on alto, with Davis moderating between them as Bill Evans conjures up a still lake of sound on which they walk. Meanwhile, the rhythm partnership of Cobb and Chambers is prepared to click off time until eternity. It was the key recording of what became modal jazz, a music free of the fixed harmonies and forms of pop songs. In Davis's men's hands it was a weightless music, but one that refused to fade into the background. In retrospect every note seems perfect, and each piece moves inexorably towards its destiny. --John Szwed

No Line On The Horizon - U2

2009-02-01T07:30:00.001-08:00

No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2, will be released on Tues, March 3, 2009. The band’s 12th studio album calls on the production talents of long-time collaborators Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, with additional production by Steve Lillywhite. The album will be available in 5 different packages.

This version is the standard album CD in a plastic jewel case w /24 page color booklet.

We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things - Jason Mraz [ENHANCED]

2009-02-01T07:15:00.000-08:00

Jason Mraz’s first set of all-new material in nearly three years, WE SING. WE DANCE. WE STEAL THINGS. sees Mraz continuing to tread his own distinctive artistic path, melding a variegated musical tapestry with passionate, personal lyricism. Among the highlights are collaborations with British tunesmith James Morrison and singer/ songwriter Colbie Caillat.

"I’m Yours," the album’s first single, was chosen due to the undeniable fan response to the song. A demo version of "I’m Yours" originally appeared on a limited release bonus EP Mraz put out with his last album. Today the song is an online sensation, with hundreds of usergenerated videos from more than 25 different countries now appearing on YouTube. Jason will be hitting the road this April on the "Music, Magic & Make Peace Tour".

Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman [SOUNDTRACK]

2009-02-01T07:09:00.000-08:00

In composing the music for acclaimed director Danny Boyle's intoxicating new film Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman has conjured the sound of a city, fusing the frenetic scramble of daily life in Mumbai, India into beautiful fugues that ride upon the dust clouds kicked up by its everyday people.

From the movie's first frames --- with children racing through alleyways, knocking over merchants and pottery, police kicking loose clay roof tiles, disrupted birds fluttering from gutters -- we hear the sound of their commotion made manifest in "O... Saya." It's a rumbling hybrid of Bollywood and hip-hop, a brand new collaboration between Rahman and M.I.A. It's the kind of cinematic moment where image and sound coexist. And that's only the first five minutes.

Working on a Dream - Bruce Springsteen (Deluxe Version)

2009-02-01T07:03:00.000-08:00

Limited CD/DVD edition includes a bonus DVD that contains 30 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage on the making of the album. 2009 album by one of the finest American songwriters of his generation. Working on a Dream was recorded with the E Street Band and features 12 new Springsteen compositions plus a bonus track: 'The Wrestler'. . It is the fourth collaboration between Springsteen and Brendan O'Brien, who produced and mixed the album. Springsteen also wrote an eponymous song for Darren Aronofsky's 2008 film The Wrestler. The song, also titled 'The Wrestler' won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. SBME. 2009.

Analog Heart - David Cook

2009-02-01T06:55:00.000-08:00

Noel - Josh Groban

2008-12-12T23:10:00.000-08:00

Bringing Josh Groban is still majestic voice intimate music of Christmas is truly a gift this holiday season. The Young Adult Contemporary Star's fourth studio album brings together the traditional such as Silent Night with contemporaries like I have to be home for Christmas and the new, grateful. It includes duets with Faith Hill's and R & B Brian McKnight, inspiring and master of choral music, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the famous David Foster, the album's grand promises to call that classical music time Christmas trees are in this year.

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Circus - Britney Spears

2008-12-12T23:01:00.000-08:00

Circus is the seventh album of Britney Spears. It rolls in the city on the heels of a sweep MTV VMA Awards, where Britney left with three awards for Moonmen "Video of the Year", "Best Female" and "Best Pop Video" for "Piece of Me". Circus is monitoring their criticism of the album, Blackout, just in time for its 27 Anniversary. The only effect "Percussion" (produced by the production team The Atlanta emerging Outsiders) already has a noise Britney fantaics, radio and the media also emphasize more-Britney's dominance as one of the Queen of Pop.

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Funhouse [EXPLICIT LYRICS] - Pink

2008-12-12T22:53:00.000-08:00

Explicit Version. P! Nk comes directly time in 2008 with his highly anticipated Funhouse provocative and album, both their public and private person, because only P! Nk can. Hit makers again teamed with Max Martin, Billy man, and others, P! Nk is another mark in the world an unforgettable vacation! Since its inception in 2000, P! Nk (Alecia Moore) was celebrated widely fear talented singer, song and Pennsylvania native's kind of creative risk despite its engine to a Star worldwide. So far, she has 22 million albums sold worldwide cumulative. 12 tracks.

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Dark Horse - Nickelback

2008-12-12T22:46:00.000-08:00

Nickelback have been identified as one of the greatest rock bands in the world. With more than 26 million albums sold worldwide they have their traces in the history of Rock and Roll. Your new album, "Dark Horse" is one of the most anticipated releases this year. The group in the legendary producer Mutt Lange, saving Nickelback and collaborators long Joey Moi.

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David Cook

2008-12-12T22:42:00.000-08:00

American Idol winner David Cook is set to release his self-titled debut album on November 18th, 2008. Produced by Grammy winning Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Kid Rock), David Cook is a quality album full with radio hits. Cook co-wrote 9 songs from his debut, along with songwriters like Chris Cornell, Brian Howes & Cathy Dennis. The 1st single "Light On" was co-written by one of rock music's most influential innovators, Chris Cornell, lead singer and songwriter for Soundgarden and Audioslave, and acclaimed producer / songwriter Brian Howes, who has worked with superstar rock bands such as Hinder and Puddle of Mudd.

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Day & Age - The Killers

2008-12-12T22:19:00.000-08:00

Four years after the publication of his first-Emblem in 2004, MTV VMA Award-winning, Grammy nominated, multi-platinum Island Records group The Killers have their fourth album - and first new studio album in two years - DAY & AGE With the new single "Human" world debut in the Sept. 22, when the only digital released on September 30. The new album results recorded on November 25 - two days before Thanksgiving.

DAY & AGE was Stuart Price, an index in electronic music (Les Rythmes Digitales), formerly for The Killers "not Shoot Me Santa", Christmas 2007, its only music, as well as their composition, 2007, sawdust. Over the past five years, the prize as a producer, mixer, programmer and keyboardist, including The Killers' "Mr. Brightside" Remix, the Grammy nominee.

The Killers - Brandon Flowers on vocals and keyboards, guitarist David Keuning, bassist Mark Stoermer and drummer Ronnie Vannucci - found time to their new album but also packaging, were their biggest festival of Rock season in the United States and in foreign countries. Historic Events header in the prestigious England, Leeds and Reading festivals coincided with a presentation on the cover of NME is the 8 August. Prior to 2008, The Killers a home top prizes for the best band of the Year and Best Track of the Year (“tranquilizers") on the annual NME Awards Gala United States, the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, April 23.

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Fearless [ENHANCED] - Taylor Swift

2008-12-12T21:21:00.000-08:00

Why we care: There will never be a more cynical time in popular music, at least in a critical way from the account. Not only we assume that most cakes Top 40 do not make their own voices - we have adopted, on the classification of cultural effects, and artistic integrity is doomed. The 18 years of Swift's Pop-spins, all countries, the weight of a dandelion crown, but she can sing and write a Flash memory and a genuine smile. But finally, Pennsylvania Gal is one of the hottest things in music for most, what's not. Why we like it: With stand-on-beats and guitars scoreboard innocent Strum, Swift's help students down of Agriculture (see first single Love Story) details the type of tragedy and sorrow of Crescendo, the ruin a child ... at least until the place. Your voice is strong, when it must, wispy lilty and in periods of calm. She knows, created, definitely.

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Twilight Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK]

2008-12-12T21:14:00.000-08:00

Twilight is an action packed, modern love story between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan has always been a little different, and if his mother sends Bella to live with his father in the small town of rainy Forks, Washington State, does not expect something much more than changing. It then takes the mysterious and beautiful glossy Edward Cullen, a boy, unlike all never be fulfilled. Soon, Bella and Edward are swept passionate romance and an unorthodox decided. Like all vampires, it is immortal. But it has no teeth, and he is not drinking human blood. To Edward, Bella is that he has waited 90 years for a soul mate. But it get closer, more Edward must be the fight against the pull of its original flavour, which may be in him an uncontrollable rage. But what is Bella and Edward do if James, Laurent and Victoria, Cullen "vampire mortal enemies in the city in search of it? This is the first film in the series book author Stephanie Meyer. Series are currently some of the most popular books for young adults, with a turnover of more than 50 million copies around the world since the Twilight debut in 2004 and more than 7.7 million copies sold only in the United States. The fourth book in the series, Breaking Dawn, was filed on August 2 2008 and has sold over 1.2 million units the first day.

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And Winter Came-Enya

2008-12-12T21:05:00.000-08:00

Twenty years after its emblem of the album Watermark, Enya's seventh studio disc, and winter came remains a phenomenally successful career, more than 70 million albums sold worldwide. And winter is a charming evocation of the changing landscape of winter and the holidays of celebration of the feast. One of the most successful of all time and, secondly, that U2 for the sale of the greatest Irish artist in history, Enya, and affix its beguiling ethereal music is on the darkest but most full of hope and the winter season.

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Live In Las Vegas- A New Day-Celine Dion.

2008-10-01T07:55:00.000-07:00

If you have a handful of people ', Celine Dion's failed Mega-race in Las Vegas, not worry: Celine Dion: A New Day is one of the rivets, beautiful front-row seat on all flamboyant of the experiment. Reviews as a go-DVD is a spectacle of a lifetime, nearly six hours with not only the costs of non-production values and everyone avoids Dion's Song famous show, but supplements as a priceless. Dion's voice is essential in great shape, and gleams on the signature tunes such as "A New Day Has Come", "The Power of Love" and, of course, the theme of "Titanic", "My Heart Will Go On "

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Pure 80's-Various Artists.

2008-10-01T07:50:00.001-07:00

I like the 80s, music. I had one of these discs but something happens, and it would not work. I was pleased to see that you have had. Very happy.

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The Block [Deluxe Edition] [ENHANCED]-New Kids On The Block.

2008-10-01T07:12:00.000-07:00

You know, 'em, you love' em, can not live without it. New Kids on the Block are back with his first new music in 14 years. This is the deluxe CD-block. It comes with 4 songs, a poster brochure. Their last appearance on the Today Show summer concert series has one of the largest masses the network has seen such a show.

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Modern Guilt-Beck.

2008-10-01T06:56:00.000-07:00

Beck's new album Modern Guilt, with Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton are released on July 8, 2008.

The new album contains 10 new songs and, with the exception of the final Grammy nomination, digital-only single "delay", modern debt is the first new substance Beck says, because the path that successful production platinum 2005 and 2006 the Information Guero generally recognized.

Modern debt is mounted near a group of songs, the lyrics range in its introspection and social commentary on the games and word headline concern humor. Musically, the album ten tracks vary between economy and experimentation, hybrid of pop and classical, but to demonstrate consistent Beck and Danger Mouse is a common interest in the psych-rock, folk, electronic minimalism and 'orchestration.

Beck is at a round by the UK and Europe, followed by a series of US-objectively and concerts Festival, which has its peak in Beck's, as more hometown show to date, September 20, 2008 the Hollywood Bowl.

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Seven Lives Many Faces-Enigma.

2008-10-01T06:35:00.000-07:00

Limited Edition 2008 contains the bonus disc. Seven Lives Many Faces Enigma is the seventh album. This album expands its list of earlier versions, and is expected to lead to a new Omni-culture wave. The lead single "Seven Lives" is a powerful fusion of traditional and modern elements. Enigma is a project of electronic music, Michael Cretu, David Stone Fair and Frank Peterson in 1990. Cretu is also the composer and the manufacturer, its ex-wife Sandra Enigma often singing tracks. Jens Gad co-produced and played guitar on three tracks albums.17 tracks.

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ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits

2008-08-18T08:03:00.000-07:00

Anyone looking for the key to Abba's enduring appeal should look no further than "Voulez Vous" and "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" for their answer. There was an innocence to the Swedish quartet, even when they were singing about one-night stands and the invitations to them. Gold establishes that the band, while appreciated as campy, were actually multifaceted in their execution. "S.O.S." has a raw urgency in its chorus, and "Does Your Mother Know" draws its energy from classic '50s rock & roll. Likewise, you don't have to be Priscilla to swoon over "Mamma Mia" or "Dancing Queen." And when it comes to drama, those soaring vocals on "The Winner Takes It All" turn the song into a bitter anthem of every relationship that has ever fallen apart. The much-covered "Lay All Your Love on Me" is practically epic. --Steve Gdula

Pocketful of Sunshine ( Natasha Bedingfield )

2008-07-13T21:05:00.000-07:00

On Pocketful of Sunshine, Natasha Bedingfield sounds like Joss Stone only bouncier. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, the brightness and buoyancy of this record will keep it spinning long after CDs that shoot for hipster credibility--with funked-up bells and fancy production whistles--have been deposited back into their jewel cases for all eternity. Check it out: "Love Like This," with Sean Kingston, puts its hands in the air for puppy love--the kind that'll bring you back to your "middle school kiss"--and a couple of other songs follow the youth-themed suit. "Backyard" time-travels to an idyllic childhood, while "Freckles" fleshes out, for the benefit of the insecure, the beauty in imperfections. Elsewhere, Bedingfield is her indomitably upbeat self. Opener "Put Your Arms Around Me" reeks of reassurance and tenderness. "Happy" implores would-be gloom-and-doomers to snap out of it, and while the title track doesn't wander all that far lyrically, it benefits from a chanted verse brimmed in (positive) attitude. The vibe, overall, is beach-blanket warm and blue-sky ready. Sunshine earns a pocketful, if not more, of pop-music props. --Tammy La Gorce

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Where The Light Is:John Mayer Live In Los Angeles [LIVE]

2008-07-05T22:44:00.001-07:00

Two CD set. This album captures the multi-Grammy Award winning, platinum selling singer and songwriter in the element where fans love him the most - Live on stage! The special concert includes three sets: an acoustic performance, a rare set with John Mayer Trio (with Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino), as well as a set featuring Mayer's full band, all recorded during the night of December 8, 2007 at the Nokia Theater in LA. This album features the quintessential performer as an acoustic songwriter, electric guitar slinger, bluesman and vocalist. Highlights include many of Mayer's biggest hits, 'Waiting On The World To Change' new interpretations of cover songs, 'Free Fallen' and a previously unreleased Mayer gem 'In Your Atmosphere'.

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Spirit ( Leona Lewis )

2008-07-03T07:13:00.000-07:00

UK singer and songwriter Leona Lewis will release her debut album, Spirit, in America on April 8, 2008. For the first time, Clive Davis and Simon Cowell teamed up to sign Lewis to J Records/SyCo Music (Cowell's joint venture with Sony BMG), and are both actively involved in the recording process for Spirit. Lewis, a 22-year-old London native and winner of the hit TV show the X Factor, a British talent show, has broken all-time sales records there with Spirit entering the album chart at Number One and becoming Britain's fastest-selling debut ever. Spirit has scanned more than two million copies worldwide since its release in November. In addition, Spirit's lead-off single "Bleeding Love" -- co-written and produced by OneRepublic frontman Ryan "Alias" Tedder -- was the U.K.'s best-selling single of 2007, claiming the Number One spot for seven weeks. Ushering in 2008, Leona received four prestigious Brit Award nominations, the UK equivalent of the Grammy Awards. Leona is currently in the studio recording two brand new tracks for the U.S. release of Spirit - "Forgive Me" by singer/songwriter superstar Akon and "Misses Glass" from the cutting edge producer/writers Madd Scientist and Rock City. Spirit is a mix of fresh pop and R&B, filled with "songs with a contemporary edge," as Lewis puts it, ranging from soulful up-tempo numbers ("I'm You," "The Best You Never Had," and "Whatever It Takes," which Lewis co-wrote) to ballads ("Better in Time," "I Will Be," and "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" -- a song that Roberta Flack made famous). Tracks were written and produced by an array of top-notch hit-makers, including Tedder, singer/songwriters Akon and Ne-Yo, songwriters Josh Alexander and Billy Steinberg, and songwriter/producers Dallas Austin, Stargate, J.R. Rotem, and Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald -- all of whom have worked with some of the biggest names in pop. In addition to gracing the covers of UK fashion publications like Harper's Bazaar, US media are touting Leona as the artist to watch in 2008: People Magazine labels her "the UK's hottest star in an "Introducing" piece," Vogue presents her in their "People Are Talking About - The Vogue 25 Cultural Highlights of 2008" and Entertainment Weekly declares her one of "8 To Watch in 2008."

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Rockferry ( Duffy ).

2008-06-22T08:23:00.000-07:00

Rockferry, the Welsh singer's lovingly constructed debut album, has already succeeded beyond expectations, and although Duffy may not quite be the ingénue portrayed by a clever press campaign (she nearly won a local television talent show a few years back while a single credited to Aimee Duffy is still available on iTunes) she is surely the most appealing of the current flood of young soul sirens. The astonishing title track, co-written by Bernard Butler, sounded like a lost transmission that had taken decades to get through as soon as it hit radio last year. But the gently rolling soul ballad "Stepping Stone", that strapping, inescapable monster hit "Mercy", the ice cool "Serious" (the one time she really does channel the spirit of Dusty Springfield) and the wistful, elegant "Warwick Avenue" are similarly effective. Suggestions by some that Rockferry is little more than sixties pastiche are churlish. Butler's previous work with David McAlmont (featured here as a backing singer) showed his skill at writing and arranging the dramatic, while her other collaborators such as Steve Booker and the team of Jimmy Hogarth and Eg White are hardly lightweights. But despite some wonderful orchestral settings, it's Duffy's terrific voice that makes this so satisfying, even overpowering Butler's exquisitely underplayed guitar work on "Rockferry" itself. Growling the blues on "Syrup & Honey" or belting it out over his lovingly arranged wall of sound on "Distant Dreamer", she sets the tone throughout, several of her songs dealing with escape, both physical and romantic. The sound of someone singing herself to stardom, Rockferry is at times genuinely amazing. --Steve Jelbert

All I Intended to Be ( Emmylou Harris )

2008-06-16T01:26:00.000-07:00

On her second Nonesuch disc, Emmylou Harris assembles an extraordinary cast of veteran musicians and fellow singers, all of them longtime friends, for a set that indeed showcases this Nashville icon, and 2008 CMA Hall of Fame inductee, as all she has intended to be - a singularly expressive vocalist, a brilliant interpreter of other people's songs, a graceful and confident songwriter. In particular, the album displays Harris's ability to bring new life to songs that may have been overlooked, forgotten or lost along the way. Some of the most affecting material here may be the least well-known - though not for long: John Wesley Routh's celtic/country "Shores Of White Sands" and trucker-poet Mark Germino's heartrending story-song, "Broken Man's Lament." Harris has chosen these songs with conceptual care. Like much of the gently uplifting All I Intended To Be, the stories may be bittersweet, the characters may be downtrodden, but somehow a sense of redemption always vanquishes regret. The shared history of all the artists involved deepens the feeling of hard-won wisdom that informs All I Intended To Be. Producer Brian Ahern was behind the boards for such early Harris classics as Elite Hotel, Pieces of the Sky and Blue Kentucky Girl. The players and guest stars are not only a veritable who's-who from the worlds of country, bluegrass and folk, but they have each intersected with Harris throughout her four-decade career as a recording artist. They include Dolly Parton, singers Pam Rose and Maryann Kennedy, dobro player (and longtime Seldom Scene member) Mike Auldredge, keyboardists Glenn D. Hardin (of Harris's Hot Band and Elvis Presley's legendary TCB combo) and Bill Payne (of Little Feat). Two songs - the June Carter tribute, "How She Could Sing The Wildwood Flower" and the breathtakingly beautiful "Sailing Round the Room" - were co-written by and performed with Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Singer-songwriter Karen Brooks, whose own eighties-era version of "Shores of White Sands" was the inspiration and thematic jumping-off point for this entire album, contributes backing vocals throughout; Randy Sharp, Brooks' singing partner, did the vocal arranging. (Harris won a 2005 Best Country Vocal Performance Grammy for her rendition of Sharp's "The Connection.") Harris's own songs, like the heartache ballad "Gold" and the elegiac "Not Enough," blend seamlessly with work by Patty Griffin ("Moon Song"), Merle Haggard ("Kern River") and Billy Joe Shaver ("Old Five and Dimers," from which the album title is taken). Harris revives what is arguably Tracy Chapman's most eloquent song, "Fast Car" notwithstanding - "All That You Have Is Your Soul," a cautionary tale with a simple but profound prayer of a chorus. Displaying the maturity, elegance and ease that distinguished All The Road Running, her best-selling 2006 collaboration with Mark Knopfler. Harris has created a riveting emotional and spiritual journey. All That I Intended To Be is everything a listener and fan could hope for.

Perfectly Clear (Jewel)

2008-06-12T22:37:00.000-07:00

It comes as no surprise that Jewel, an acclaimed American singer, songwriter, actress, poet, painter, philanthropist and daughter to an Alaskan cowboy singer-songwriter, finds herself in the embrace of country music for the release of her seventh career album, Perfectly Clear.

Nashville Connections

Jewel's personal odyssey, partly chronicled on one of the best selling debut albums of all time, the twelve-time platinum Pieces of You, comes full circle with her forthcoming country album, Perfectly Clear, the debut release on newly launched Nashville-based independent label The Valory Music Co.

Jewel is set apart her whole career for not only singing, but writing all her songs, and this album is no exception. "I've been writing country songs my whole career; some of the songs on this record date back to when I was 18 years old. I've been hanging on to them until now. They were meant for a record like this one."

The record's first single "Stronger Woman" is a powerful and positive message that resonates with women of any age. Perfectly Clear is produced by Jewel and John Rich of Big and Rich fame. "Jewel is probably one of the greatest American singer-songwriters we have. It is such an honor to work with anyone of that caliber of talent," Rich says. Jewel has spent a lot of time in Nashville over the last few years, and has naturally been drawn to and accepted by the Nashville music community. "If I were discovered today, there is no doubt that I would be signed as a country artist. Songs like "You Were Meant For Me" would have been a country hit today, and not a pop hit as it was in the 90s. The genres have changed more than I feel I have," says Jewel.

Viva La Vida (Coldplay)

2008-06-07T01:40:00.000-07:00

Track Listings
1. Life In Technicolor
2. Cemeteries Of London
3. Lost!
4. 42
5. Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love
6. Yes
7. Viva La Vida
8. Violet Hill
9. Strawberry Swing
10. Death And All His Friends

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2008-06-05T07:18:00.000-07:00

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Carnival Ride Carrie Underwood

2008-05-25T01:13:00.000-07:00

Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts, hastily made and released some five months after she won the 2005 American Idol crown, was surprisingly solid and tuneful. For her follow-up, producer Mark Bright steers her toward the big Martina McBride skies, with a plethora of strings and huge emotional crescendos. Underwood co-wrote four songs, mostly with the tried-and-true tunesmiths who made Some Hearts soar. On the torchy heartache ballad "I Know You Won’t," she gives a beautifully nuanced and controlled performance, but if that song would suit any number of lush female pop stars from Celine Dion on down, "Flat on the Floor" rocks hard while preserving co-writer Ashley Monroe’s Appalachian angst. Still, there are missteps: the easy tears of the unlikely war ballad "Just a Dream," a too-obvious attempt to repeat the sass of "Before He Cheats" ("The More Boys I Meet"), and the Shania-ish bad-girl-on-Cuervo stomp of "Last Name." The big payoff, then, is how much 24-year old Underwood has improved as a vocalist. How often listeners line up for this Carnival Ride depends on their attitude about country music’s continual melding with pop, and how they feel about a princess upstart taking home the awards that used to go to her heroes.

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