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		<title>J&#8217;adore Adele</title>
		<link>http://reviewartists.com/2011/03/07/j%e2%80%99adore-adele/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a little over three years ago. I was a hopeful contestant three rounds into my college's attempt at American Idol, and in desperate need of a new song to showcase another layer of my vocal abilities. In response to my anxious pleas, I was met with dozens of suggestions from friends, all good, but none of which I felt would accomplish what I needed: everything had been sung (or shrieked) at local dive karaoke contests. I needed a secret formula. Then, in my eleventh hour, my New Zealand-raised roommate said the sentence I'd been waiting to hear: "I know the perfect song for you" ;no one in the U.S. really knows the artist, but her music; oh my God! her voice is unbelievable!

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		<title>Grammy Musings</title>
		<link>http://reviewartists.com/2011/02/14/grammy-musings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn't watch the Grammys live this year, but thanks to the efficiency of social media, I was quite up to speed on each and every development. A few things worth discussing (or deliberating):

1. ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œWho is Esperanza Spalding?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â Question of the night the year. Yet, while all of the world's Beliebers (and nonBeliebers) are in a Twitter tizzy about an alleged musical coup d'ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â©tat, Espe is laughing all the way to her next sold out show with a shiny, golden gramophone in hand. I'm impressed that the Academy chose to honor an unconventional nominee, at the risk of infinite backlash (Drake and Florence were nominated for Best New Artist too, Beliebers). Not that the Grammy panel cares about a swarm of prepubescent tweens.

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		<title>Sound of 2011</title>
		<link>http://reviewartists.com/2010/12/24/sound-of-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Stokes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago BBC 6 Music announced its 'Sound of 2011' longlist, featuring 15 unsigned but up-and-coming artists they expect to make it big in the forthcoming year. Normally I'm not one to pay any attention to these polls, but previous years have proved the accuracy of the 6Music shortlist, with all previous winners going on to some extent of mainstream success.

The criteria for making the list are simple. Artists can be from any genere, country and be performers of 'any description'. The only rule is that they must not have had a UK top 20 single or album and they cannot already be famous - i.e.  XFactor contestant/ soap star// ex-member of previous hit band etc... The shortlist is then decided upon by a list of 161 'tastemakers' who each pick their top 3.

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		<title>And the nominations are&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://reviewartists.com/2010/11/19/and-the-nominations-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Stokes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's that time of the year again, as the winter draws the collating and categorising of the year's releases begins in earnest, for award nominations are upon us.

This week it was the turn of BBC Radio 2 to announce the nominations for the Folk Awards 2011. As always there were some obvious additions, the odd surprise and also some glaring omissions - most notably, from my perspective,  any member of Team Lakeman. Although if I'm honest with myself, Seth's new album hardly rates against the might of Hedonism, and while he is an excellent live performer, his performance style hasn't changed at all over the past year.]]></description>
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		<title>Green Day wins two</title>
		<link>http://reviewartists.com/2010/06/17/green-day-wins-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jameson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the 64th Tony Awards, which aired on June 13th, handed out two awards to an unlikely group of winners, Green Day&#8217;s ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œAmerican IdiotÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â won for Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting Design. It was also nominated for Best Musical but lost to &#8220;Memphis.&#8221; Green Day however did rock the show, which was held in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday&#8230;to Us!</title>
		<link>http://reviewartists.com/2010/05/23/happy-birthday-to-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ReviewArtists</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, Happy Birthday to us. Happy 1st Birthday reviewartists.com! Since our initial launch of our blog over a year ago, we have been able to create 150 posts for you viewers to read. Isn&#8217;t that fantastic? These blog posts have some serious opinions to them and some great content. We have a database of pictures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are album sales the only indicator of talent?</title>
		<link>http://reviewartists.com/2009/09/18/are-album-sales-the-only-indicator-of-talent/</link>
		<comments>http://reviewartists.com/2009/09/18/are-album-sales-the-only-indicator-of-talent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Stokes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the upcoming Mercury prize, asking whether or not the winner should be solely chosen by the critics. Well last week the judges decided and, as is their wont, they undermined the bookies in favour of hip-hop artist Speech Debelle. Now, not having any particular favourites amongst this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 MTV VMAs were a hit..and has some surprises.</title>
		<link>http://reviewartists.com/2009/09/15/2009-mtv-vmas-were-a-hitand-has-some-surprises/</link>
		<comments>http://reviewartists.com/2009/09/15/2009-mtv-vmas-were-a-hitand-has-some-surprises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TheÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â 2009 MTV Video Music AwardsÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â took place inÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â Radio City Music HallÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â inÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â New York CityÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â on Sunday September 13, 2009. This event brings together artists, bands, fans, and the media all together to recap on all of the year&#8217;s music videos that have done so well. TheÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â MTV Video Music AwardsÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â (VMAs) were established at the end of the summer ofÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â 1984Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â byÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â MTVÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mercury Music Madness</title>
		<link>http://reviewartists.com/2009/08/14/mercury-music-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Stokes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time again. The nominees for this year&#8217;s Mercury Prize have been announced and the inevitable backlash has begun. But amongst the grumblings about who has and has not been nominated for this, one of the most prestigious industry awards, is the argument that it ignores the fans&#8217; wishes. Now, I have never been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to our Contest Winner for July &#8211; Audio Weapon</title>
		<link>http://reviewartists.com/2009/08/01/congratulations-to-our-contest-winner-for-july-audio-weapon/</link>
		<comments>http://reviewartists.com/2009/08/01/congratulations-to-our-contest-winner-for-july-audio-weapon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ReviewArtists</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œAudio WeaponÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â for Winning the July Contest. They did a great job achieving enough votes to secure a win. Also, we would like to thank &#8220;The Hiding&#8221;, our previous winner, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œTouchdown MaryÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â, Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â and ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œTwelve O&#8217;Clock in EnglishÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â for participating; and we wish them the best in their music careers. You can check out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations &#8211; June Contest</title>
		<link>http://reviewartists.com/2009/06/30/congratulations-june-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ReviewArtists</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œThe HidingÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â for Winning the June Contest. They did a great job achieving enough votes to secure a win. Also, we would like to thank ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œThe CompromiseÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â, a previous winner, and ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œThe TransferÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â for participating and we wish them the best in their music careers. Artists today need to be aggressive to become [...]]]></description>
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