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Vanessa Carlton – Interview
Vanessa Carlton is back with “Harmonium”, the follow-up to her multi-platinum debut “Be Not Nobody”, which produced the number one single “A Thousand Miles” along with the top ten hit “Ordinary Day.” “Harmonium” produced by Third Eye Blind front man Steven Jenkins, combines melodic hooks, strong songwriting, and the signature Vanessa Carlton piano lines. I…
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Family Business: Season One
Cast: Adam Glasser Studio: Showtime Rating: 7/10 Corporate Line: Family Business is a reality-style series about Adam Glasser and his alter-ego “Seymour Butts”, his meddling but well-meaning mom, Lila, and his cantankerous cousin Stevie, all working in, yes, the family business . . . which just happens to be adult entertainment! The series follows Adam…
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Nelly Furtado – Folklore
Artist: Nelly Furtado Title: Folklore Label: Dreamworks Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: The timeless and the cutting-edge comprise essential components of the energetic mélange that has made Furtado one of pop music’s premier artists. This mix emerges with an explosive new simplicity and breadth on Folklore. The album is Furtado’s follow-up to her multiplatinum debut, Whoa,…
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Mandy Moore – Interview [2004]
While on a diplomatic trip to Europe with her parents, budding teenage beauty Anna Foster (Mandy Moore) exacts a promise from her father, the President of the United States (Mark Harmon), which allows her a night alone, unescorted by the battalion of Secret Service agents that safeguard Anna from danger. But when her dad has…
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Tori Amos – To Venus And Back
Artist: Tori Amos Title: To Venus And Back Label: Atlantic Rating: 8/10 “Concertina” sums up this album with its elegance and grace. Every word that Tori Amos sings is meaningful, as important as those that precede and follow them. This album unbelievably follows up last year’s From The Choirgirl Hotel. On top of the first…
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Holly Williams – Interview
Holly Williams could have come from anywhere. She might have started singing and writing long before she actually did. Her bloodline could have been nobody’s concern. It doesn’t matter. Well it doesn’t hurt when your father is Hank Williams Jr.! She still would have written songs that explore the tender recesses of love. Her lyrics…
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The Shield: The Complete Second Season
Cast: Michael Chiklis Studio: Fox Rating: 9/10 Corporate Line: 2002 Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series 2002 Television Critics Association Award Winner for Individual Achievement in Drama. Michael Chiklis returned to series television this year in the groundbreaking drama THE SHIELD starring as “Detective Vic Mackey,” leader of the elite…
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Air – Premiers Symptomes
Does the hit import single “Sexy Boy” ring a bell? If not, check out Air. Ambient, psychedelic space music is the best way to describe their Premiers Symptomes. This collection of B-sides from ’95 through ’97 is now released for the first time, and it’s one spaced out record.
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Willa Ford – Interview
Willa Ford planting flowers? “I’m trying to do the homeowner thing with flowers but everything is flying around” said Will as her plant falls to the ground. “Hey little guy, are you alright?” What kind of flowers are they? A palmeria. I have no idea about flowers. The are the flowers they put on the…
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Big Fish
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Danny DeVito Studio: Columbia Rating: 8/10 orporate Line: Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) has always been a teller of tall-tales about his oversized life as a young man (Ewan McGregor), when his wanderlust led him on an unlikely journey from a small-town in Alabama, around the world,…
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