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: Alchemy
A CLOSE friend represents all the best of the English. He's Oxbridge educated, but is from the hard working-class city of Liverpool. The combination, by whatever social alchemy, makes him practically Australian. In fact, he is Australian these days ... The group, whose shareholders include Jon Moulton, head of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners, and Advantage Capital, the buy-out fund, is reported to be worth £50m. In a statement this morning, John Charcol said it had appointed investment ... By Frances Kissling Obama's double magic By allowing voters to both vent their anger and overcome it, while embodying the transcendence of America's racial wound, Barack Obama offers not just hope, but alchemy. By Gary Kamiya Mike Huckabee wants to ... Like a bit of social alchemy, after he took up dance, kids knew him for his skills, not his awkwardness. “I may have been skinny,” he said, “but damn, I could dance.” Now an illustrator and musician as well, he still credits his dancing with ... Its current shareholders include Jon Moulton, who heads private equity firm Alchemy Partners , buy-out fund Advantage Capital and Charcol's own employees, who have a 25 per cent stake. Charcol has branches in Manchester, London ... 71 - Jon Moulton is the managing partner Alchemy Partners and one of the founding fathers of the modern private equity industry. He played a part in setting up Permira, originally an arm of Schroders, in 1985, as well as setting up Alchemy in 1997 ... ... Bear Stearns (BSC.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) held preliminary merger talks with Fortress Investments in the weeks before Chief Executive Jimmy Cayne resigned, the Financial Times reported. *Jon Moulton, head of private equity firm Alchemy ... By Frances Kissling Obama's double magic By allowing voters to both vent their anger and overcome it, while embodying the transcendence of America's racial wound, Barack Obama offers not just hope, but alchemy. By Gary Kamiya Mike Huckabee wants to ... LONDON (Thomson Financial) - John Charcol, the UK mortgage broker, said it is examining its financing and ownership options after receiving a number of expressions of interest from third parties. The broker, part-owned by private equity firms Alchemy ... By Frances Kissling Obama's double magic By allowing voters to both vent their anger and overcome it, while embodying the transcendence of America's racial wound, Barack Obama offers not just hope, but alchemy. By Gary Kamiya Mike Huckabee wants to ...
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