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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Acoustic Alchemy
Melding the two halves of their rock and acoustic ego proved a potent alchemy. A Weekend In The City, Bloc Party. An edgy soundtrack to the urban existence which delivered a surprise every time you listened. And the winner is Young Modern, a bold and ... Dialectics, "Alchemy" - The young Chino Hills funk rock band has won numerous I.E. awards lately. It mixes Red Hot Chili ... Waiting for Decay, "Arena for the Unwell" - This acoustic-meets-hard rock group from Hesperia often recalls Metallica and a ... The title means "give and take," perfect for this adventurous alchemy as it wanders from the griot percussion and praise ... year-old N'Dour's voice resonates with the clarity of a singer decades younger, his high notes transcendent over the acoustic ... ... rush" on the side) and plops him in Washington Square Park, where August does his big trick: patting an amplified acoustic ... turning the dross of life into the gold of feel-good moviemaking, regardless of how naive or nuts the movie's alchemy seems ... The foursome's ambitious fifth studio release "The Alchemy Index, Vols. I & II" (Vagrant) is a concept album (actually two ... The band keeps going full force until "Gunslinger" briefly slow down for an acoustic guitar intro. Then it's full steam ahead ... ... its reputation on a post-hardcore sound heavy with guitars and screaming vocals, the first quarter of Thrice's "The Alchemy ... Earth" features a stripped-down sound with acoustic instruments, including guitars, upright bass and banjo, as well as horns ... ... talk about how, if you declare at any age that you love God, be prepared to get burned up just like the process of alchemy ... Originally, I was only going to do the acoustic version. But I had been messing around with some of the songs with a friend ... In the immortal words of the balding, Anglo songster Phil Collins: There's something coming in the air tonight. As spring gives way to summer, there's a sense of hope and excitement making its way through Boulder County. Gone are the winter storms ... It’s also about a bunch of middle class boys lucking out, creating alchemy and becoming the biggest band of their ... even sneak in ‘Til Kingdom Come’, the song they wrote for Johnny Cash that he never got to record, as a simple acoustic ... As the piano and acoustic guitars climax gloriously, this devout Christian has his head held high, bloodied but unbowed. ... The peak of Tennant & Lowe's dance-pop alchemy, as they charmed the planet with a disco retooling of the Elvis ballad. 19 ...
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