Music
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Shadowland
k.d. lang is getting old. Does that sound like a bad thing? The 46-year-old doesn't think so. In press notes to her new album Watershed,...
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Bittersweet Valentine
''I would someday love to write a great love ballad,'' says jazz singer-songwriter Felicia Carter, appearing this weekend at Twins Jazz on U Street. ''Somehow...
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Writing Lessons
Michelle Burleson didn't choose to become a songwriter. It chose her. She can't explain why it happened, but it was sometime in between admiring the...
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Soundwaves
ANNIE'S PAVEMENT CRACKS... Once dubbed the ''Greatest White Soul Singer Alive'' by VH1, Annie Lennox has now been dumped on like so many soul singers...
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Musical Therapy
Three songs into Bob Mould's compelling new album, it sounds like he's giving up. As if he's not even going to bother finishing the song...
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Exorcizing Demons
Singer-songwriter Nicole Reynolds had her heart broken recently, and as history has shown, heartbreak can be a powerful artistic muse. Reynolds translated her tumultuous experience...
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Farm Fresh
There was a time when Nicole Reynolds didn't know she could sing. The 24-year-old native of Pittsburgh worked behind the scenes of the music industry,...
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Buzz Down Under
In the summer of 2005, HBO's Six Feet Under ended on a haunting note, with its characters' deaths foretold in a montage that un-spooled to...
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Rising Star
Life has changed for local singer-songwriter Tom Goss since he appeared suggestively nude on the cover of his debut album Naked Without in 2006. The...
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Retrograde
Before there was Amy Winehouse, there was Sharon Jones. In fact, Winehouse plays the mistress to Ms. Jones. That Mr. Jones Winehouse sings about in...
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Pop Maestros
In today's multi-media world, an album is only one measure of impact, especially in today's pop music scene. Compelling concerts, videos, remixes, covers, cross-promotions --...
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Mature Mary
The most surprising thing about Mary J. Blige's new album, Growing Pains (), isn't that she still gets angry -- and corporeal. She is human...
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Soundwaves
GIVING ULTRA IN 2008... It's only days away now, and the excitement is palpable. The year 2008 holds oodles of promise for pop music in...
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Friend of Judy
It's been said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that's the case, then Rufus Wainwright's live double-disc recording Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie...
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Christmas Candie
When the term ''flautist'' came along -- 1860, according to Merriam-Webster -- the traditionalists, that bunch who'd been using ''flutist'' since 1603, may have been...
