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: Album
Radiohead, the British band which rocked the music industry last year by releasing their album In Rainbows on the web under a name-your-own-price system, has confounded critics by topping US charts. Having become the best-selling album in the UK last ... Touring in support of upcoming album Slick Dogs and Ponies (which you mustbuy), Louis XIV was at times frustratingly sloppy, a far cry from the well-orchestrated mayhem of its albums. But reckless abandon is part of the point. And when it finally ... Miss Bruni's 2002 album Quelqu'un m'a dit (Somebody Told Me) sold more than two million copies, and she seemed a perfect addition to what indeed turned out to be an exclusively melodic soirée. Highlighting how lonely Mr Sarkozy was following his ... Now that he's on tour promoting his second album, can his career survive playground parody and critical contempt? Blunt poked fun at his own terrible reputation. "You are some of the bravest people in Britain," he told the Glasgow crowd. "A James ... Excerpts from the DVD were featured on Telegraph TV in the run-up to the Led Zeppelin reunion concert. It features performances from the Royal Albert Hall in January 1970, just one year after the release of their debut album, their triumphant five ... Twenty-year-old Kate Nash 's debut album, " Made of Bricks ," will draw many comparisons to the songs of Lily Allen and Regina Spektor. But this singer-songwriter -- who graduated from the same arts school as Amy Winehouse -- is no mere copy. Her ... Judith Weir is a contemporary classical composer who has written several successful operas as well as a range of orchestral and chamber music. Click to listen to an extract from her new album. A free download from the cd is also available from her ... Can a singer become too successful for his own good? Having released the bestselling album of this century, Back to Bedlam, James Blunt has followed it up with another blockbuster, All the Lost Souls, which has already sold more than three million ... Still just 16 (Britney was 17 when she released the 25-million-selling Baby One More Time album), Jamie Lynn seems hell-bent on following in the footsteps of her famous sister on TV and in music - and, surprisingly, as a young parent, too. She first ... Her latest release, “The Chain,” may not do any more to make her a household name, but it is sure to turn some heads her way, if for no other reason than the myriad legendary guests that fill this album. “The Chain” is a collection of songs ...
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