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Michelle Branch is one such shining example in the musical firmament. After being signed to Madonna’s recording label, Maverick (no small feat in itself), her debut single, “Everywhere,” has ignited radio waves from coast to coast, and her first album, The Spirit Room, has peaked to date at number 84 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart. That’s not too shabby for any artist breaking into the business, but at the age of 18, Branch’s accomplishments simply astound. Granted, other kiddie stars have climbed...
Despite Room’s inherent strengths, Alicia Keys (another new-ultra-young-woman-with-substance) will likely overshadow poor Miss Branch. Keys, positively ancient at 20 years of age, has been catapulted further into public attention. Her debut LP, Songs in A Minor, has gone double-platinum in less than three months, with a no less impressive, but certainly more well-publicized effort. Like her songs, Keys is sultry, confident and poised, but she lets her material speak instead of her figure. She and Branch seem to share a kinship in that they mark a return to musical...
...solo flag quite as high as the Pavement. In the meantime, the other smithereen of the Pavement disintegration, led by ex-Pavement guitarist Spiral Stairs (all guitarists should have names this cool) has come into its own under the moniker Preston School of Industry. Preston’s debut album, All This Sounds Gas, is an album of shameless, shambolic and possibly pointless waster-rock, it is also a wonderfully pretentionless record of a band diving head-first into their record collection like one of those big foam-rubber pits and throwing stuff around to their hearts’ content...
...made his Harvard debut at the Crimson Key talent show—freshmen would remember him as the very last performer, who received at least three proposals from random women before he finished his soulful rendition of “The Way You Look Tonight.” He says the attention has died down since that night, but then again, he’s no stranger to fame...
Tanenhaus handsews each distinctive bag, stitching craftstore doll legs and arms to fabric sacs in pink, purple, yellow, black and yellow. Her line of designs will be sold at the debut of a newly opening Soho boutique called “Patsy.” Tanenhaus has also sold her handbags to European fashionistas at a CD release party at Up & Co., a NYC nightclub...