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: A Night At The Opera
Dean Williamson is the conductor and Bernard Uzan the stage director. Sets are from L'Opera de Montreal and costumes from Seattle Opera. WHEN: Saturday night at 7:30 through Jan. 26 WHERE: McCaw Hall TICKETS: $25-$169, with various discounts; 206-389 ... Lara Bingle and her beau Michael Clarke nipped out for a pub crawl, spotted at East Circular Quay hotspot Opera Bar first, then footballers' favourite The Eastern at Bondi Junction late on Wednesday night. Making the most of a rare summer night off ... ... funded arts could soon be free for a week each year - from the lowliest community theatre to productions at the Royal Opera ... The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said last night that no conclusions had yet been reached about how to implement ... The works of the next 10 years, above all Weir's Eastern fantasy A Night at the Chinese Opera, added an enchanting glittery sound world and a folky melodic grace to the jokiness. Since then, her music has to some ears become darker and more "fateful ... And I've been raving at Fabric nightclub in London, at DJ Hype's drum-and-bass night. Film I saw Enchanted with my girlfriend ... Theatre/opera I can't remember the last time I went to the theatre. I've thought about going to the opera – just to get ... NEW YORK : As the curtain rises on Wagner's "Die Walkuere," the opera's hero, Siegmund, stumbles exhausted into a stranger's hut. There was a second noteworthy entrance as the music drama got under way at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night ... The station already broadcasts previews of Seattle Opera productions before the opening of each opera, as well as presenting live broadcasts of Seattle Opera productions, on the second Saturday performance night of each run. Melinda Bargreen: ... Basalt resident Todd Hartley is among the locals who will take the stage for a night of free comedy, Laugh Your Aspen Off, Thursday at Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House. The event headlines opening day of Aspen’s Wintersköl celebration. (Stewart ... January 9, 2008 -- IT took him 45 years, but Lorin Maazel finally re turned to the Metropolitan Opera Monday night, conducting a magnificent performance of Wagner's "Die Walkure." That's a long intermission, even by operatic standards. But the 79 ... Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- A full house welcomed the return last night of Lorin Maazel to the Metropolitan Opera after a strange gap of 42 years. The global maestro has been busy elsewhere, most recently as music director of the New York Philharmonic, to ...
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