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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Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks and Toby Keith have a couple apiece. Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton did one together. The ever-prolific Willie Nelson has at least four of them. Most country stars, and many of their pop counterparts, have a Christmas album ... A former senior partner at Universal South ( VIVEF ) and former president of Arista Records/Nashville, DuBois is responsible for discovering and signing talents such as Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, and Diamond Rio. Since the 1980s, he has worked in ... I saw Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, Tim and Faith, Rascal Flatts, Brooks & Dunn and Alan Jackson. I saw Miranda Lambert, Jake Owen and Jason Aldean. But the best overall, not one bit disappointing performance of the year was Toby Keith. It was ... I feel liberated!" exclaimed Khadija Jackson after shoving a picture of her ex-fiance with his new girlfriend into the ... Alan Manevitz, a psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, said such banishing rituals ... Trisha Yearwood and Alan Jackson both receive nods, and songwriting legend Bill Anderson is up for best country song for the George Strait hit “Give It Away.” We even got a little jazz love, as Freddy Cole’s “Music Maestro Please” is up for ... Alan Jackson, who accused the defense of withholding evidence and of tailoring its expert-witness testimony to fit a presumption of Spector’s innocence. The defense ultimately escaped court sanctions for Baden’s Hail Mary revelation, but a grimy ... Bonus points for driving by the home of someone famous, such as Alan Jackson. 5. Tell family stories Take time to share old stories of when Grandpa was a boy or the day beloved Uncle Frank came home from the war. Check out StoryCorps at NPR's Web site ... X Factor winner Leon Jackson has fought off competition from The Pogues festive classic to claim the Christmas number one. ... Alan Jones, chart consultant with industry magazine Music Week, said: "The charts do tend to be cyclical and you get runs ... Jackson: The Search If one of his siblings is sitting at his place at the breakfast table, Jackson screams. If a schoolmate ... Alan Rope, told them. Such disorders are responsible for an unknown fraction of cases of mental retardation and autism as ... Louis on Wednesday rejected Alan Echols' claim that the escape law was applied inconsistently and arbitrarily. Echols, now 43, fled while awaiting sentencing in Jackson County for first-degree murder in the 1990 slaying of his mistress's husband ...
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