The MP3 Catalog Blog
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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Album: 51-50 Ratchet
Hurricane Chris' disappointing CD, 51/50 Ratchet , has sold only about 80,000 copies. In ways good and bad and utterly unpredictable, rappers might have to reconsider their place in the universe and their audience. But if sales continue falling ... He released his debut album, "51/50 Ratchet," on Polo Grounds Music/J Records in October and is currently on tour with pop/R&B star Chris Brown. "It's been a big change on the music scene coming from right here"» And now we've been grinding away from ... Other top 50 debuts were Hurricane Chris' "51/50 Ratchet" (J) selling 26,000 (No. 24); Say Anything's "In Defense of the Genre" (J) moving 25,000 (No. 27); and Ryan Adams & the Cardinals' "Follow the Lights" EP (Lost Highway) pushing 19,000 (No. 40 ... 51/50 RATCHET," Hurricane Chris (J) Say something to Hurricane Chris about the dumbing-down of rap music, and he might have a three-word response: "a bay bay." The 18-year-old rapper from Shreveport, La., uses those words as his lucrative catchphrase ... Hurricane Chris is touring with his major-label debut CD, "51/50 Ratchet." The tour will stop Sunday at Club Rio, 13307 San Pedro Ave. There'll be two shows, one at 4 p.m. for high school students (a school ID will be required to ... Artist: Hurricane Chris Album: Ratchet 51/50 Record label: J Records Rating: Reviewer: Roosevelt Treasurechest A lead single generally sets the tone for an album. It gives the listener something to look forward to, or in some cases, something to ... For the majority of us, Mobb Deep’s seminal classic Hell on Earth was our first introduction to the Queensbridge triumvirate that is Infamous Mobb. Going hard on the classic “Animal Instinct”, the trio has since released two albums: 2002’s ... NEW YORK, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Hurricane Chris, Polo Grounds Music/J Records' newest hip-hop phenomenon, has been selected to perform his hit single "A Bay Bay" from his upcoming debut album 51/50 Ratchet, on the 2nd Annual BET Hip Hop Award ... Ay Bay Bay himself, Hurricane Chris, opens at no. 24 with 51/50 Ratchet , selling just 26,200 copies, despite the overwhelming success of his single. 50 Cent's Curtis continues to fall -- from no. 21 to no. 30 this week, moving 23,800 copies, putting ... Other big chart debuts this week include Hurricane Chris' "51/50 Ratchet" (J) at No. 24 with 26,000, rock act Say Anything's "In Defense of the Genre" (J) at No. 27 with 25,000 and Ryan Adams & the Cardinals' "Follow the Lights" EP (Lost Highway) at ...
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