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Into the weird

Welcome to our many small worlds
No, it's not your imagination: things are getting smaller. Or at least, it seems that way in the funhouse-mirror world of modern music, where the semi-demise of the major-label factory has colluded with the anti-star obsession of the underground to produce a chasing of microgenres into mazes of musical self-selection.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | June 10, 2010

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The Big Hurt: Billboard Top Hip-Hop and R and B songs

Who charted?
This week, a jolly traipse through one of Billboard 's most artistically fecund charts: "Top Hip-Hop and R&B Songs." What wonders await?
By DAVID THORPE | January 26, 2010

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Review: Whitney Houston | I Look to You

Arista (2009)
It's tempting to wonder whether super-producer Clive Davis, in another of his music-biz machinations, arranged for Whitney Houston to whiff last week on Good Morning America , which is reported to have altered Houston's vocals for broadcast after she sounded hoarse during her Central Park mini-concert.
By MIKAEL WOOD | September 09, 2009

Anthony's Idol at Anthony's Italian Kitchen

Music Seen
Why settle for nationwide talent on the boob tube when you could see area singers competing in the flesh?
By SONYA TOMLINSON | May 27, 2009

The Secret Life of Bees

A throwback, coming-of-age film
The real heroine is Dakota Fanning, an actress capable of conveying guilt, nerves, and idealism all at once.
By JENNY HALPER | October 16, 2008

Keys to our hearts

Interview: Alicia Keys on first love, the White Stripes, and being a Bob Dylan muse
"I’ve never been someone that goes to the ‘it’ places and does the ‘it’ things and goes to the ‘it’ restaurant and go to the ‘it’ club. I like more off-the-beaten-path kind of things."
By JASON O'BRYAN | June 06, 2008