Led by East Coast singer/songwriter Alice Leon, the Alice Project is a Princeton, NJ-based band that specializes in melodic, hooky, tuneful pop/rock. Leon is not the sort of artist who goes out of her way to be abstract or difficult; her songs tend to be meaty and substantial, yet very accessible and easy to absorb. Leon's influences -- either... [+] Read More

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In the '90s, Amber deLaurentis became one the top female singer/songwriters in the Philadelphia area. She didn't become a huge national star in the '90s, but in and around Philly, the pop/rock/adult alternative storyteller received a lot of favorable reviews and acquired a small local following. DeLaurentis has been heavily influenced by Carole... [+] Read More

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For a few reasons -- all of them superficial -- Keri Noble has been compared to Norah Jones at times. Both of them are romantic, piano-playing singer/songwriters who were in their twenties in the early 2000s, and both of them have ties to veteran producer Arif Mardin; he produced Jones' smash Come Away With Me album, and Mardin is one of the... [+] Read More

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