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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Amr Diab
Although he admits he was one of those behind the birth of modern pop music in Egypt with hits like Mohamed Mounir’s Shababik (Your Youth), Amr Diab’s Mayyal (Impressionable), Anoushka’s Habbeitak (I Loved You), and Ali El-Haggar’s Saleina ... Amlak shares rose because it said its full year profit has grown to Dh285 million, which is a great increase," said Amr Diab, head of Gulf Arab institutional sales at investment bank EFG-Hermes. Amlak posted its second-biggest profit ever in the third ... According to the London daily Elaph, three great singers - Amr Diab, Asi Hilani and Rageb Alameh - will all be performing on New Year's Ever in ... Final Mass held at Ground Zero South China Morning Post 12/25/2007 10:09:20 PM The first midnight ... This year, it came back to Egypt, when Amr Diab was named the biggest selling Arab artist. His album El Leila Dee (This Night), released this summer amid much controversy, still managed to be the best-selling Arabic album of the year. But the event ... Ex-journalist Belal Fadl is the hottest new kid on the block so hot in fact, he even turned down an offer by director Tarek El-Erian (El-Embrator, Snakes and Ladders, Tito) to pen a vehicle starring singing sensation Amr Diab. Originally from ... Amr Diab’s second album with Rotana should hit the markets during Eid El-Adha (this coming January). The album has so far cost LE 4 million to produce. Ahmed Helmy will start shooting Zarf Tare’e (Pressing Circumstance) after Ramadan. He stars as ... For the past 100 summers or so, the latest Amr Diab album has epitomized the beach scene from Sahel to as far away as Cannes. That tradition lives on, and some of us still run out to buy his latest offering and compete to see who can memorize the ... Leili Nahary (Night and Day) Amr Diab The king of Arabic pop is back, sport- ing dark tank tops, blonde highlights in his hair and grabbing a 1960s stand-up mike in his new promotional posters. His latest release is another in a string of quality ... We have exhausted already poor citizens with this crazy consumer craze with which they can’t compete — buy this mobile, do this, do that, then we wonder how come the role models for our youth have become Amr Diab and Ruby.” As most candidates do ... A night of Sufi chanting and live circus performances or a Nancy Agram concert? Poetry readings or Amr Diab crooning live? If you think Arab youth will automatically choose Agram and Diab, think again: With smash hit venues Sakiet El-Sawy and MakAn ...
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