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: Africa Bombastic
Remember, he was the one who defended the bombastic Darrell Hair. The axing of Bucknor could not have come sooner. Years ago I ... Now you can get all your news - from politics in South Africa, the quirkiest stories in Step Beyond, the latest from the ... ... known celebrity chef in the U.K. since his first TV show, Gordon Ramsay’s Boiling Point, aired there in 1998, the bombastic ... At the top of our must-avoid list is skinny-dipping in Shark Alley, in Gansbaai, South Africa. We’ve always admired ... AFRICA BINYAVANGA WAINAINA, 36 Magazine editor Wainaina, editor of the Kenyan literary magazine Kwani? (So What?), is the most ... Now the ANC has appointed him its leader, and he will bring a more bombastic, populist image than those cultivated by his ... But there's also shame at the often-bombastic, sharply partisan rhetoric of the traditional standard-bearers for conservative ... They may promote a cause, such as AIDS relief in Africa. But endorse a candidate? Push a partisan agenda? That could empty ... ... Steve Foster and the previously undefeated Adrian Dobson before losing a disputed majority decision in South Africa to ... Riddick and his manager, the bombastic ex radio talk show host, Rock Newman ignored the naysayers and continued their pursuit ... The bombastic, hawkish former ambassador was busy asserting that negotiations with Iran about that country's nuclear program ... according to the Journal -- at his home in Pakistan. He had been, the Journal says, taken from hiding in South Africa and ... In those seconds I loved M.I.A.: her bombastic style, her ’90s kitsch, her attitude, and her persona. And then the next ... people on the map that never seen a map.” She herself describes Kala with a string of words: “Shapes, colors, Africa ... ... has always had the keenest ears of any rock star, as attuned to the byways of American music as he is the sounds of Africa ... Sleeps, We Rule the Streets" and an appearance on the "Snakes On a Plane" soundtrack -- is devoted to keeping things bombastic ... ... loaded phrase,” the singer-guitarist said. “It conjures images of bombastic, loud guitars and synthesizers and absurdly complex music.” But “fusion,” he said, is perhaps the best way to describe his sound, which combines the music of Africa ... ... league of its own and as the host city for EuroPride 2007 the whole event was even bigger, better, bolder and more bombastic ... Europe’s only year round gay playground lies in the sun-drenched seas off the coast of North Africa which makes it the ...
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