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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A Touch Of Jazz
Utah had to rely on outside shooting and eventually lost its touch at the end. Utah finished 40-for-73 from the field, but couldn’t make a field goal in the final minute. The Jazz were coming off a 123-109 road loss to the Lakers the night before. ... Boston outrebounded Utah 41-30, and Garnett and Kendrick Perkins kept the Jazz from developing much inside. Utah had to rely on outside shooting and eventually lost its touch at the end. Utah finished 40-for-73 from the field, but couldn't make a ... Quick, what rhymes with "Ratatouille"? Good year for bands, bad for clubs Paul de Barros' top jazz concerts The Times Footlight ... John Carney's modern musical is the simple tale of two young people in Dublin who touch each other's life with song. Almost ... Okemos students, staff show 'Touch of Class' By DAWN PARKER Staff Writer OKEMOS — An auxiliary gymnasium transformed for the ... The Someko Singers and the Jazz Band provided musical accompaniment to the lunch hour. Chairperson Heidi Breckner is in her ... While Peterson was known for his lightning-fast keyboard runs, jazz piano veteran Hank Jones called attention to his finesse and deft touch on melodic slow-tempo tunes. "He had a beautiful approach to ballads, which a lot of pianists forget," the 89 ... No one image can capture this "don't touch my imaginary white picket fence" feeling that many of us harbor. But the map at ... Then comes the tied-up-in-Albany-knots plan to jazz up Belmont Park with slot machines. And, at the other end of the ... Ultra-spare but richly rootsy arrangements touch on folk, country, gospel, swamp and boogie. Kane and Welch, whose ... Jazz The Nels Cline Singers Draw Breath (Cryptogramophone ***) Guitarist Nels Cline is one of those unknowable cats. Just when ... ... imposing Bob Marley smoking a joint that, to the intimidated young boy, looked ``as big as my leg.'' Launched in 1958 by jazz ... People are not necessarily in touch with their musical history,'' he says. ``In 2007, it's sing it one time, I'm going to ... CHICAGO: In the second half of the 20th century, no jazz pianist could touch Oscar Peterson when it came to sheer mastery of the instrument. Oscar Peterson whose talent and speedy fingers made him one of the world's best known jazz pianists. Picture ... The legendary jazz pianist has been playing in the new year at the Georgetown club since 1980. "The marvelous thing about it ... Miles Davis, wrote in his autobiography that Jamal "knocked me out with his concept of space, his lightness of touch, his ...
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