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Dido, Fiona Apple and Diana Krall are three phenomenal artists. But what if I told you that you get all three wrapped up in one? Well, you can. Her name is Amy Fabry and she is a sensational singer, songwriter and musician. Her album, Cultivated Pearl is a groundbreaking project ...

It's lucky the first song's got a catchy enough chorus cause by about the sixteenth time around I'd be getting plenty bored with it. It's called "People Fall Down" and it's a yammering, stammering, drunken stupor of an opening track that does nothing to suggest edge of your seat excitement, ...

And Electric Frankenstein takes a bride… Then again she don't look like she's ripe for anyone's taking, forget her green skin shade, it's just the first thing that popped into my head in viewing our vindictive cover page vixen with the taste for weaponry. "Lost Souls Day," took me about ...

With all the buzz about AMERICAN IDOL Season Two, and the singles from almost tied two finalists Clay Aiken and winner Ruben Studdard being released on 06/10/03, last year's ORIGINAL AMERICAN IDOL, Kelly Clarkson, released her Debut Album, "Thankful" with probably less notice than it would have received at another ...

Three years in the making, the revamped Arena-rockers come out with a revitalized form that embraces their storied past and focuses to the future. "Cyclorama" is Styx full circle, arriving some thirty years after their self-titled sleeper, and it's an album that boasts the confidence of top-level talent and also ...

Despite an on-again, off-again American tour (it's on again, with dates in Seattle and NYC) and a backlash to their "next big thing" status, the Libertines have sparked quite a buzz as England's answer to the Strokes/Hives "rock is back" phenomena. They finally did get a proper chance to play ...

Guerrero follows up his "Junk Collector" 2001 EP with more evocatively drawn drama for full chill out effect on this soulful new work. "Soul Food Taqueria" features 17 tracks that employ a variety of sensuous, trippy styles expertly commanded by TG, successfully transcended from skateboard to in-studio enthusiast with a ...