But at clubby awards banquets in New York and Beverly Hills, Grammy voters awarded album of the year to...

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It's the band's fifth album and its second release for the New York-based Glassnote Records.

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New York-based country singer Tift Merritt put out her first solo album, Bramble Rose, in 2002, following a stint with a band called The Carbines.

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New York rockers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, claimed their third consecutive top 10 album as their latest release, Mosquito, entered at number nine.

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It debuted at number one on the Billboard Album Chart and received positive reviews from the Los Angeles and the New York Times.

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Take this list as an addendum to that album: further study into two states whose output rivals that of New York, California and Texas in terms of the quality and quantity of regionally issued funk masterpieces.

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Here he is meeting Cecil Beaton, partying with David Bailey in East London, throwing the party of the year in New York to herald the arrival of the Rolling Stones, raising horses in Arizona, releasing an album in July, and "doing up" (though he would hate that term) homes for the likes of Rod Stewart, Charles Saatchi and Princess Michael of Kent.

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On "Touch the Sky, " from his 2005 album, "Late Registration, " he recalls how his mother drove him from Chicago to New York in a U-Haul van.

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