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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Akron-Family
And while I was at the Fanclub's Akron Family show in February, I, um, slept through most of it (hey, I had a really late hockey game the night before). Coming soon Looking ahead to 2008, there are already several impressive shows on the horizon ... Akron/Family, Sept. 21, Wexner Center for the Arts: They offered a hippie fest for the times with a hypnotic concert inspired by the Beatles, the Butterfield Blues Band, Pink Floyd, Can and the Flaming Lips but propelled by musical anarchy. (C.S.) ... Akron/Family's entire lineup contributes oohs and ahhs, and the DMST members join in themselves on closing track "In Mind." The Rust cover art is an old piano case with rusty strings intact that had been half ... Over the course of three albums, the Akron/Family of Brooklyn (via rural Pennsylvania) have carved a beautifully ornate heart on the aged stump of American music. Using traditional instruments — guitar, banjo, violin, bass, drums — augmented with ... Akron/Family LOVE IS SIMPLE Akron/Family built a solid reputation on their frenzied guitar rock-outs, chaotic tribal rhythms and multi-part vocal harmonies. But after their fantastic debut and excellent split LP with Angels of Light, the band seemed ... Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, Joanna Newsom. Garage rock: When the 1960s British Invasion happened, American kids with more energy than virtuosity took to their garages and bashed out some neighbor-annoying noise. Minus the lavish production budgets ... Akron/Family Workshop Sunday, September 02, 2007 The band Akron/Family is adventurous, imaginative, and known for the vitality of their marathon concerts. The fact that they are also prolific is made clear by this show, first broadcast Oct. 15, 2006 ... Early June '07, I sent in a DVD of two of my sons, Conner and Cameron , expressing great disappointment,'' Smith said in an e-mail to the Beacon Journal's Kim Hone-McMahan . (The Akron family also includes wife Jen , son Riley and daughter Lucy ). He ... Student safety is stated as the primary reason for a change in busing policy at Akron Central School. Akron family gives thanks for technology: Enjoys video conference with mother stationed in Iraq While so many of us will count our blessings and ... By the way, Eric Snow recently hosted an Akron family through his Full Court Fathers program. Selected to attend the game between the Cavs and the Utah Jazz were Akron's Bobby Eslick and his 6-year-old son, Bobby, along with Timothy Stroud of ...
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