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: American Me
Grand Blanc singer has 'American Idol' aspirations Adam Graham / Detroit News Pop Music Writer Beth Stalker is being stalked ... When I got up there, it was overwhelming with all the lights and just seeing (the judges) in front of me. It was surreal ... Is it bad to love American Idol because it makes me feel morally superior? So, the show is back, a constant in my life, as predictable and comfortable as the SoCal winter. I would even go so far as to say that watching last night was Chicken Soup for ... ... Wars fan (with Princess Leia hairpieces) and self-declared “goofball” who went ballistic after the judges halted her strained performance of “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me.” As the episode ended, she was still railing against American ... I don't want to sound like a snob, but to me, American cheese really isn't cheese because it's processed — with no ill respect to those who make American singles sandwiches,'' she said. Troyer advocates her family favorite — lacy baby Swiss ... Philadelphia made its American Idol debut last night, and the city looked good. At least, the little bit of it that the wildly ... Watson sang "Follow Me," by Uncle Kracker. But before he can become a legend, Watson has to become an idol. The field he'll ... After a little research on the web ( and believe me, it didn't take much ), Starpulse contributing editor Casey Johnson and I determined that a couple of last night's American Idol "contestants" weren't exactly auditioning as serious contenders for ... Since I happened to be an Asian American figure, it just made sense to use myself. Not only did that allow me to do some self-analysis, to explore my own position vis-a-vis these personal and political issues, it also meant that I was the one in the ... But I'm ready to make the move and I think it's definitely the right decision for me." A freshman All-American in 2005 and a two-time All-Pac 10 selection, Chung figures to rank among the top three or four safety prospects in a draft that does not ... Don’t get me wrong; I love this sappy stuff. But could it be any more obvious that the “Idol” producers, believing last season’s ratings sagged because viewers didn’t care enough about the finalists (except Sanjaya), have really amped up ... The season has been dubbed "The Albee Season" and includes Peter and Jerry at Second Stage; Me, Myself and I at the McCarter Theatre; The Sandbox and The American Dream at the Cherry Lane Theatre; and Occupant at the Signature Theatre Company. The McCarter ...
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