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Feel the noise
(CBC News - Canada)
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Welcome to Feel the Noise, a weekly feature on CBCNews.ca in which two music writers throw down on a new album.
Last week, CBCNews.ca writers Sarah Liss and Andre Mayer faced off on Madonna; this week, they debate the virtues of Neil Diamond?s Home Before Dark....
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May 9, 2008 @ 03:00 PM
NEIL DIAMOND: I'M TOO MUCH OF A LONER
(The Daily Express - UK)
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NEIL Diamond is booked to perform at Glastonbury this year and no, he is not the novelty act. His appearance at one of the world's most popular festivals is not meant to be ironic or post-ironic or satirical or a joke. Neil Diamond has been invited to Somerset on merit.
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May 9, 2008 @ 03:00 AM
Neil Diamond breaks out the goods in NYC
(Today.com)
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Neil Diamond played an intimate little gig at the NYC West Village venue The Bitter End on last night, May 7. He performed classic songs set mixed with new songs from his latest album, Home Before Dark, which I'm listening to as I write this....
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May 8, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
SIRIUS to Present an In-Depth Interview with Neil Diamond
(siriusbackstage.com)
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SIRIUS will broadcast an up-close and personal interview with legendary singer-songwriter Neil Diamond on his Neil Diamond Radio channel available exclusively on SIRIUS....
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May 8, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
Secret Show: Neil Diamond Plays The Bitter End
(WNEW News)
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WNEW.com's own Kristen was able to make her way into the suprise Neil Diamond show at New York's The Bitter End last night, braving the crowds who started turning out after news of the MySpace Secret Show broke late yesterday. One of only 150 people who got in, Kristen and the other lucky few got treated to a seven-song set of classics including Kentucky Woman, and of course, Sweet Caroline....
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May 8, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
Neil Diamond: Home Before Dark review
(Times Online - UK)
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"Follow that!" If there are two words that will haunt Neil Diamond to the grave, it'll probably be the ones he was said to have directed at Bob Dylan as Diamond walked offstage at the Band's legendary 1976 farewell show the Last Waltz. That the episode has assumed such notoriety speaks volumes about the way music fans once perceived Diamond. What he lacked in self-awareness, he appeared to make up for in self-regard....
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May 8, 2008 @ 01:00 PM
Neil Diamond On Track For First No. 1 Album Ever
(Billboard)
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Forty-one years after he first appeared on The Billboard 200, Neil Diamond looks to be on course to earn his first No. 1 album ever on next week's chart as first-day sales of "Home Before Dark" (Columbia) lead the Nielsen SoundScan Building chart released May 7....
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May 7, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
Diamond embarks on emotional journey of rediscovery
(Times Colonist)
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Super-producer Rick Rubin kickstarted Johnny Cash's late-era comeback by pairing him with some red-hot source material and session players that included everyone from Tom Petty to Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
For Neil Diamond's surprise 2005 turn, 12 Songs, Rubin let the Brooklyn bard speak for himself. The results were no less authentic. 12 Songs wasn't nearly as dramatic as Cash's star turns with Rubin, but the outing was a fine showcase for Diamond's tough-love songs, which on recent recordings had begun to become parodies of themselves....
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May 7, 2008 @ 09:00 AM
Neil Diamond Treats NYC To 'Secret Show'
(Billboard)
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Neil Diamond is set to perform a free show at New York City's The Bitter End tonight (May 7) as part of the MySpace Music "Secret Shows" series....
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May 7, 2008 @ 08:00 AM
The Feel of Home
(University of Maryland Diamondback)
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Neil Diamond has had a hectic week. He played his arguably best-known song, "Sweet Caroline," on the roof of Jimmy Kimmel's show April 29, hopped to American Idol to perform "Pretty Amazing Grace" the next day and saw SIRIUS Satellite Radio launch an all-Neil Diamond channel two days after that....
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May 6, 2008 @ 08:00 AM
Neil Diamond: Home Before Dark
(Boston Globe)
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Three years ago, with the release of "12 Songs," Neil Diamond reminded the world that under all the sequins he is a serious and often striking folk-rock songwriter....
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May 6, 2008 @ 08:00 AM
Diamond's new 'Home'
(Washington Times)
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By rights, Neil Diamond shouldn't have a lot left to prove. The 67-year-old singer grew up as a child of Tin Pan Alley before becoming one of the most commercially successful singer-songwriters of all time....
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May 6, 2008 @ 07:00 AM
Aiken Finds His 'Way'; Diamond Is Right at 'Home'
(Washington Post)
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Aiken may sing through gritted teeth, but Diamond, who found himself similarly adrift in schlock during his post-"Jazz Singer" years, always seemed to enjoy himself immensely. At least until he met producer Rick Rubin, who rescued Diamond from his rhinestone leisure-suited purgatory more than a decade after working similar magic on Johnny Cash....
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May 6, 2008 @ 07:00 AM
CD reviews: Neil Diamond...
(Dallas Morning News)
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DIAMOND'S DAY: Johnny Cash sealed the revamp of Neil Diamond's reputation with his 2000 album American III: Solitary Man, imbuing the title track - one of Mr. Diamond's best-known compositions - with the cool imprimatur only the Man in Black could provide....
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May 5, 2008 @ 07:00 PM
DIAMOND WANTS HALL OF FAME ACCOLADE
(contactmusic.com)
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Veteran crooner NEIL DIAMOND is desperate to land a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame - because he thinks he has 'paid his dues' to the music industry....
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May 5, 2008 @ 02:00 AM
Listening to Neil Diamond's Unreleased New Album Home Before Dark...w. Rick Rubin!?!
(MOG)
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Picture this. I'm nestled in a chair next to the music producer icon, the one and only Rick Rubin, (founder of DefJam Records; one of Forbes 100 most influential ppl in the world; co-head of Columbia Records), along with 10 other diligent reporters (Rollingstone, LA Weekly, Flaunt Magazine, etc..) in a quaint little listening den in Santa Monica earlier this wk. The occasion? To listen to the unreleased Neil Diamond album HOME BEFORE DARK (out May 6th)....
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May 4, 2008 @ 05:00 AM
CD Review: Neil Diamond -
(LAist - Los Angeles)
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Neil Diamond's new album, Home Before Dark, is an intimate portrait of a man. A very intimate portrait. A portrait of every single thought that runs through Neil Diamond's head while he just happens to have a pen handy...
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May 3, 2008 @ 08:00 AM
Diamond finds "Home" field advantage with Rubin
(Billboard)
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Neil Diamond doesn't mess with success. That's why he "never doubted" he'd work again with producer Rick Rubin, who steered their 2005 collaboration, "12 Songs," to a No. 4 debut on the Billboard 200, Diamond's best since "The Jazz Singer" in 1982...
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May 2, 2008 @ 11:00 PM
Billboard CD reviews: Neil Diamond
(Billboard)
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Though Neil Diamond is riding the good will created by 2005's Rick Rubin-produced "12 Songs," there is a song on "Home Before Dark" called "Don't Go There," and the danger of overemotive "Heartlight"-ness always looms....
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May 2, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
Neil Diamond's passion for song still growing
(MSNBC.com)
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Nearly a half century after Neil Diamond recorded his first song - a doo-wop ditty about being dumped by a girl - the singer-songwriter's passion for performing has never waned. If anything, it's grown stronger...
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May 2, 2008 @ 03:00 PM
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