For an album that was initially rejected by its label, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's double-disc effort "Animal!/Not Animal" (Epic) has done pretty well for itself. The title recently broke out on the Top Heatseekers Chart at No. 40 while the eight-piece band has been tapped to tour with bands like Rogue Wave and the Fray.
"The album has this grand, very composed idea. We really wanted to compose and work on arrangements," vocalist and guitarist Richard Edwards said.
Originally formed in the spring of 2005, the Indianapolis band released its debut "The Dust of Retreat" via Epic in Oct. 2007. That effort, however, never received the fuss that "Animal!/Not Animal" has; interest was fueled by a creative debate between t |
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Rapper Mickey Factz started his music career just two years ago, but he's accomplished plenty in that short amount of time.
After leaving New York University law school to focus on music full-time, the 23-year-old Bronx-bred MC began releasing mixtapes online in 2006. First came "In Search of the N.E.R.D.," on which Factz laid lyrics over beats made by Pharrell Williams' group. A year later he released "Flashback," followed by the critically acclaimed "Heaven's Fallout." Thanks to tracks like the sneaker-inspired "Supras," the latter mixtape quickly became a fan favorite.
At the beginning of 2008, Factz began releasing a new track every week as part of a series appropriately titled "The Leak." On "The Leak Vol. 1" and "T |
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On a brisk March day in Rahway, N.J., Beyoncé and Adrien Brody are filming a crucial scene for their upcoming movie "Cadillac Records." The set is an old Ukranian social club that has been converted into a 1950s production studio, complete with vintage instruments and cream, perforated walls. Musicians, dressed in porkpie hats and carrying rusted saxophones, mill around the room atop a grey and rose pink tiled floor.
Dressed in an off-the-shoulder blue brocade dress, teal earrings, long black eyelashes and a frosted blonde wig, Beyoncé is channeling the fiery Etta James. Brody is playing Chess Records founder Leonard Chess in the film based on the '50s blues label that released such greats as James and Muddy Waters. Beyoncé, as James, is about to perf |
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It took her a month, but Lisa Hannigan hand-stitched all of the lyrics to her album "Sea Sew" for its liner notes. The cover features felt dice arranged on navy knitted wool. "I feed your words through my buttonholes," she sings on swaying opener "An Ocean and a Rock." "Pin them to my fingerless gloves/Green and prone to fraying."
The patience required for the sewing and the folksiness of the lyrics help define the 27-year-old singer/songwriter, who is best-known to American audiences as the former backing singer for Irish star Damien Rice. A professional singer since age 20, Hannigan spent seven years accumulating material for "Sea Sew."
"I've always been writing, but I never performed those songs for people. I spent si |
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From exposing her erotic side on her 2002 "Stripped" album to emulating pinup dolls in videos like "Candy Man" and "Ain't No Other Man" on "Back to Basics" in 2006, Christina Aguilera is all about reinventing herself.
Now, with the Nov. 11 release of "Keeps Getting Better: A Decade of Hits," which will be sold exclusively in Target, the 27-year-old singer is reinventing some old hits.
The album includes new versions of "Genie in a Bottle" and "Beautiful," titled "Genie 2.0" and "You Are What You Are (Beautiful)," respectively, plus the new songs "Keeps Getting Better" and "Dynamite." Staples such as "Dirty," "Come on Over" and "Hurt" also appear.
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On the eve of the release of her second album, "Fearless," which is due Nov. 11 on Big Machine Records, multi-platinum country star Taylor Swift shared her thoughts on a variety of topics with Billboard.com.
On getting her song, "White Horse," in the season premiere of "Grey¹s Anatomy":
This is my life's goal, to have a song on "Grey's Anatomy." It's one of the songs that I am really proud of on the record because it's so sparse: it's just guitar, piano and cello. It talks about falling in love and the fairy tales that you are going to have with this person, and then there is that moment where you realize that it is not going to happen. That moment is the most earth-shattering moment. You should've seen tears streaming |
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