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
Fueled on OJ-tinged vodka, Panamanian-born Mary Ramirez, the effusive and assertive Detroit Cobras guitarist, met Detroit native Amp Fiddler down at the Metro Times offices last week. Jet-lagged and visibly drained, the spindly African-American still ... Activities kicked off Thursday and roll into the closing stretch this weekend at various locations around Detroit; the highlight is tonight's mega jam session featuring Roy Ayers, Amp Fiddler, Kloud Nine and a host of other performers. 8 tonight ... ... Urban Organic's "Connecting the Dots" theme is typified by its "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" concert on Saturday night, with headlining act jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers, emerging artists Anthony David, Kloud 9 and Monica Blaire, and host Amp Fiddler ... The sixth annual Urban Organic Festival is a four-day multi-venue hip-hop and indie-soul music festival, during which Ron Ayers, chick-magnet Amp Fiddler and others will perform. Drake Phifer, founder of Urban Organic, says, "This year's festival ... 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 their craft in), creating beats with Amp. And there he was in the early '90s, driving from his Pontiac studio to Conant ... Detroit has long had a penchant for producing talents who go largely unnoticed ... until you suddenly look up one day and see they've taken off somewhere else. Think of Amp Fiddler, posters plastered on subway walls in Europe but barely turning an ... Bruce Egnater, friendly, big guy, white-bearded, looks more like Santa than a rock dude, but that's just what he is — a 30-year veteran. As a leader in the amplification business, he's built custom gear for the likes of Steve Vai, Bob Seger and ... Bryan Ferry's 'A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall' (1973, see No 41) also hits 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 revisited 'Hey Joe' for the TT Remastered series. ... ... it transpires, goes back seven or eight 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 than try and fix it later." It's no ... Don't Wanna Do This (Universal) available to download from Nov 24. Divinyls, with the Church, Forum, Dec 15-16, $87.50, Ticketek; The Hot Barbeque, with Gotye, De La Soul, Cut Copy, Amp Fiddler and Stanton Warriors, Birrarung Marr, Jan 1, $89+bf ...
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