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: Amen
Forever and ever, amen. That's the closest I'll get to sentimentality on this. A corporation would have to be idiotic to come in, wipe out the name Wrigley Field and slap something like Great Dot.Com Ballpark across the front of the building and ... Mary & Martha House in Ruskin and Amen Outreach Ministry in Tampa offer shelter for women and children. But Metropolitan Ministries of Tampa is the only local agency that takes single fathers, said Tim Marks, chief development officer. "At one time ... View food as life instead of liberty. (Amen, brothers and sisters!) - Ignore the insistently ringing phone after 5 p.m. (Don't these people want to be with their families in the evenings?) - Pay my bills at face value. No more double payments, just ... The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor's living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches. And so the 53-year-old accountant from the Tampa, Fla., area ... Amen. 3208 Latta Road, Greece, (585) 413-4404. Sisterly takeout for y'all . Deneice Howard and Peggy Favata grew up in the Italian restaurant business in Florida. But when the sisters set their minds to opening up shop in East Rochester, they decided ... "Mr. Flaherty explained the declining prospects for tax cuts by noting he used up a lot of spare room in his Oct. 30 mini-budget, which doles out $14.7-billion in annual tax relief by the 2012-13 fiscal year." There was absolutely NO need to project ... THE crisis surrounding party funding deepened last night after it emerged the SNP had failed to declare a £5,000 cash donation. The sum was left to the SNP three years ago, but party chiefs only registered it with the Electoral Commission last ... Any time I wrote that Rex Grossman should be benched, it brought an avalanche of e-mails, ranging from "Amen" to "Go rot in hell." Best interview I managed to find myself alone with Barry Bonds in the visitor's clubhouse at Wrigley Field in July, and ... Rado has personally experienced the horror of what such bigotry can lead to when it's given state sanction. "People should be judged on what they are, who they are and how they act," Rado advised. I think we can all give her a hearty "Amen!" to that one KIRKLAND -- Five miles southeast of Augusta National Golf Club, far from the azaleas and Amen Corner and the greens where men like Nicklaus and Palmer and Woods became legends, is the Sunset Homes Housing Project. This is Deon Grant's Augusta. It is ...
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