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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Afghan Market
... troops patrolled the nearly deserted streets of Bhutto's home city of Larkana, where rioting left shops at a jewelry market ... Azerbaijan's leader signs amnesty · Hundreds of thousands mourn Bhutto · DOD: 405 military deaths in Afghan area · A glance ... It is 9.30 a.m. and the shops have just started opening at Lajpat Nagar’s busy Central Market. But there is a flurry of ... The capital is a home away from home for Fadratullah, Najiya and many other ethnic Afghan refugees living here since the past ... Before the rally, Bhutto met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and told him that if she were elected prime minister she would work with him to fight terrorism, the AP reported. WASHINGTON (AP) - Things aren't getting any better in the housing market. The Commerce Department reports that new-home sales have tumbled 9% in November, to their lowest level in more than 12 years. It's a weaker reading than economists had expected ... Wood said Afghan and foreign troops have killed or arrested many Taliban field commanders and other militant leaders and thwarted their offensive operations. As a result, there have been an increase in the flow of foreign fighters into the country and ... Before the rally, Bhutto met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and told him that if she were elected prime minister she would work with him to fight terror, the AP reported. 2006 - A suicide bomb explodes in a crowded market in an Afghan town just a few hundred yards from where the U.S. ambassador is meeting with local leaders. Ten Afghans are killed and 50 wounded in the deadliest of a recent series of attacks. 2007 ... ... in the chaotic days that followed the fall of Kabul and the disintegration of the Taliban regime, I drove out of the Afghan ... In Gardez, a market town halfway to Khost, I found the local governor in his hujra, the guestroom in which males usually come ... ... as Canadians have witnessed, means dwindling public resolve and political unity to keep troops committed to the Afghan ... Meanwhile, al-Qaida's increasingly slick propaganda arm, As-Sahab, will undoubtedly market the assassination -- which it may ... He further informed that this draft would be discussed with Pakistani authorities in the next Pak-Afghan Joint Economic Commission meeting and would be decided bilaterally. The revision in ATTA would provide transit rights to Pakistan to market its ...
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