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Review – Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You Lightspeed Champion

Title: Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You by Lightspeed Champion Label: Domino Release date: February 16, 2010 Reviewed by: N.M. Get it online – Amazon | iTunes The very first line of the track of Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You – ‘nothing seems to be happening/except a shift from your world’ – [...]

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CD Review – Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea

Some call her the female John Mayer; others call her the black Norah Jones. Either way, Corinne Bailey Rae is a pop force. With sales of her debut self-titled album in excess of 4 million copies worldwide, Rae quickly garnered comparisons to Sade, Macy Gray and Erykah Badhu when she broke out in 2006. But [...]

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CD Review: Ke$ha – Animal

Artiste: Ke$ha Title: Animal RCA Records Who is this drunken girl covered in glitter? More importantly, why should we care about her? To answer the first question – she’s the Tik Tok [Amazon | iTunes] singer. If you’ve listened to your radio, watched MTV or been to a club recently, chances are you’ve heard that [...]

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Album Review: Sade – Soldier of Love

Album Review: Sade – Soldier of Love Label: Epic Records How do you disappear for 10 years, reappear at the top of the Billboard albums chart, selling over 500,000 albums in the first week of release, and over a million in mere weeks? Well, for Nigerian-born Sade Adu, that’s exactly what happened when the acclaimed [...]

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The-Dream – Love v/s Money – Review

Terius Youngdell Nash, more popularly known as “The-Dream”, released his second album – Love vs Money – on March 10 of this year. Last night, I sat down to listen to The-Dream’s sophomore effort, and I must say that it falls short lyrically of his talent and reputation. Don’t get it twisted, there are some [...]

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India.Arie’s Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics

India.Arie’s Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics, her fourth studio album, was released almost two weeks ago. I grabbed a copy a couple days ago, and I’ve had it in steady rotation in my car since. It’s a healing, spiritual and sensual CD that’s brimming with social consciousness. It’s an outstanding release from the neo-soul [...]

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