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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Amp Fiddler Group
Joseph “Amp” Fiddler’s story is dedicated to anyone who ever danced to R.J.’s Latest Arrival’s “Shackles On My Feet ... That really exposed me to a lot of people.” Among those people was Enchantment, a soul group responsible for the ... ... roses” on which Wilson and Cedric play twin fiddles through an old Fender amp ... Cajun French, but roots specific to southwest Louisiana,” wrote Cajun music fiddler ... Racines, the group, has a good dose of both these things. They are undoubtedly ... Inohs Sivad, who performed in the group's first artist showcase six years ago, calls Urban Organic "a valuable resource ... with headlining act jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers, emerging artists Anthony David, Kloud 9 and Monica Blaire, and host Amp Fiddler ... There he was at P-Funk keyboardist Amp Fiddler's home studio on 7 Mile (the same one J Dilla and Slum Village's DJ Dez learned ... Meanwhile, Five Ele, the late MC Proof's former group, rhymes on "Majestic." And bass MC Omega and Cadillac Dale, the ... A rotating group of hosts will welcome a performance lineup including such indie soul beacons as Eric Roberson, Gordon ... Roy Ayers headlining a Saturday night concert hosted by Amp Fiddler and featuring emerging acts from Detroit and other markets. ... the spot, Spirit's 1976 take on 'Like a Rolling Stone', is a guitar tour de force to rival this Hendrix cover, and Amp Fiddler ... These whey-faced New Yorkers began as the whitest group on earth. This swampy cover of Green's bluesiest track served ... This is just the actions of a group of individuals who had been in power for so long that they thought they could get away with anything. They simply didnt realise that they are in opposition now and therefore the gloves are off, people arent scared ... ... years, to when a mutual friend recommended Plant check out the virtuoso fiddler ... If an amp didn't sound exactly right, he'd find another one that did, rather ... You can tell I'm out of a beat group in 1963, trying to be black, and getting ...
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