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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Alphaville
Separately, the Financial Times' Alphaville Weblog said the company may be taken over by Brazilian iron-ore miner Cia. Vale do Rio Doce, without saying where it got the information. Miners BHP Billiton Ltd., the world's ... The shares jumped after the Financial Times's Alphaville Weblog said Xstrata may be taken over by Brazilian iron-ore miner Cia. Vale do Rio Doce. ``Anglo is quite interested in bulk commodities and Xstrata would give it those,'' said ... The memo was posted on FT.com's Alphaville site. Northern Rock has won an injunction restricting publication of some of the details of the memo. The memo outlines three options -- a "preferred option" of selling all of the company and two alternatives ... Sounding more than a little like a boyish Neil Young or Alphaville falsettoist Marian Gold, Bridwell's sweeping near-soprano first stunned alternative and college radio listeners on the simultaneously heartbreaking and anthemic "The Funeral," from ... Well before Jean-Luc Godard went commie ( Weekend ), sci-fi ( Alphaville ), or infuriatingly pretentious ( Notre Musique ), the touchstone French New Wave filmmaker debuted with Breathless . A 2007 viewer will recognize every cliché in the film universe ... ... and sector topics Think fast, react first and beat the competition with our daily Morning Headlines email, sent at 8am. UK and US editions available For the best-informed start to the financial working day get the 6AM Cut from FT Alphaville ... The utterly engrossing live transcript of FT Alphaville's Chat on November 1st, when the big banking losses started to scare the stock-markets, shows all the gallows humour of a truly bleak picture for UBS, Merrill Lynch, Citi, etc. We're not quite ... Shares in Xstrata surged to a record high of £38.46 on Friday as speculation that the mining group would receive a bid approach intensified. The FT’s Alphaville website reported that Brazil’s CVRD, the world’s second largest miner, had hired ... The clever lads at FT Alphaville have got hold of the sale memorandum for Northern Rock and put it on their website. And – curses – it doesn’t include the one really vital piece of information for any bidder, which is precisely what the Rock is ... The campaign generated a vigorous virtual debate, with candidates accusing each other of playing the "age card", a dispute about alleged tampering with the online vote and a leaked document in The Alphaville Herald pointing to collusion between Mr ...
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