The MP3 Catalog Blog
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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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50 Cent
Jay-Z, Gwen Stefani, Hawthorne Heights, 50 Cent, Paris Hilton and other big newsmakers opened up to MTV News this year. Gwen Stefani talks about how having her baby has changed her as a person and as an entertainer. (1.8.07 Paris Hilton's inheritance goes to charity The future fortune of Paris Hilton, the hotel heiress, has taken a hit after her grandfather said that he would give 97 per cent of his $2.3 billion (£1.15 billion) wealth to charity. 28 Dec 2007 That would be a 19 per cent increase on this year's estimated 109,615 insolvencies. The increase comes despite previous official figures showing that conditions were improving for thousands of people in financial difficulty. The data had shown a ... He also warned that "simmering resentment" among public sector workers over pay could lead to disputes. Mr Barber criticised the Government's two per cent limit on pay rises in the sector, saying it threatened the "recruitment, retention and morale of ... They'd be superstars on par with 50 Cent and Kanye West." Further evidence is the fact that the biggest ring tones of 2007 dominate our most-traded list. According to recent data from AT&T , Shop Boyz' "Party Like a Rockstar," Mims' "This Is Why I'm ... It hopes to be in production by May and the iron ore boom is promising 30 to 50 per cent increases in contract prices from April next year. Some analysts believe Mr Rowley's comments don't fully explain the sharp movement in the share price. "Someone ... Construction conglomerate Grupo Ferrovial slid 2.6 per cent to €48.10 while builder FCC lost 1.6 per cent to €50.50. Financials stocks were back in the doldrums, drifting in thin volume as investors remained unenthusiastic ahead of the New Year. ... Students spend 50 per cent of their time or 2,000 hours in practical work on the wards. This works out to just £3.14 an hour for diploma students outside London. "It cannot be right that 38 per cent of students work more than 53 hours a week and yet ... Fuelled by a large increase in revenue from a new television deal, clubs spent more than £460 million on transfer fees between mid-May and the end of August, about 50 per cent more than the highest figure in any of the previous four summer windows. ... In September, he bested 50 Cent in the year's most-hyped showdown of CD sales. West's Grammy-nominated Graduation has also made several best-of lists. BRITNEY Still testing the argument that all publicity is good, Spears netted another No. 1 album and ...
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