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WHEN STARS LOSE THEIR SPARKLE

How do you resist the industry’s pressure to stick to a proven formula? And if you do shift to a more mature music, what music is that? Artists such as Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Maren Morris and their fellow thirty-somethings are wrestling with those issues now.
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JANIS JOPLIN; Her Pain And Her Pride

She You’ll find a blueprint for boisterous female rock leads like Liz Phair, the Wilson sisters, Cat Power, Fiona Apple (right) and so on. Janis Joplin’s staying power will never fade away and, at the end of the day, she was just a girl trying to find herself in a world that couldn’t quite hold her style. Little did she know, she was in the right place all along.
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DON´T PASS BY POKEY !

An understanding that with all we have, we have more than we deserve so we rejoice and sing in gratitude,”
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OPPENHEIMER wins big at Oscars

The 2024 Oscars undoubtedly felt less exciting than some previous years. After all there were no big shockers like the Moonlight mishap, no major underdog vindications like the culmination of last year’s Everything  Everywhere   campaign.
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childrens books : by  MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER

In the age of miracles, songs become stories, the stories become children´s books and memories are preserved.

THE FCR BELT IS ON LANZAROTE

To date, the "Guanche Warrior" has achieved 8 victories as a professional and only one defeat
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BEST BY AGREEMENT,….not quite

That one of my favourite music journalists, Matt Mitchell at Paste on-line magazine trundled through all the previous award winning albums at the annual Grammy awards there were only nine examples from all the decades for which he didn´t feel to compel his own ´should´ve won´award.
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KACEY MUSGRAVES:  DEEPER WELL

“Deeper Well” features everything you could want from a Musgraves track:
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SARAH JAROSZ, welcoming the future

There’s something in the way she uses her voice that is profoundly captivating—there’s a directness that conveys the nuance and clarity of her stories to the listener as though you are the only two people in the room
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NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

The nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2024 were announced recently.