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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Andrew Bird
Speaking ahead of Friday's benefit match, Guildford Heat vice-chairman Andrew Bird said: "We have been inundated with requests to help the Dux family and we wanted to do something that would allow everyone to participate." Individual player ... The Famous Spiegeltent plays host to a swathe of edgy indie and contemporary chamber music with local classical crossover group Fourplay, whistling violin maestro Andrew Bird, revered American group Low, UK-based Aussie Martin Craft and British ... Andrew Bird, “Armchair Apocrypha”; John Fogerty, “Revival”; Paul McCartney, “Memory Almost Full”; M.I.A., “Kala”; Josh Ritter, “The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter”; Josh Rouse, “Country Mouse, City House”; Simian ... 4. “Armchair Apocrypha,” Andrew Bird: Chicago’s Bird has a keen sense of melody and some hellified whistling skills. “Plasticities” and “Heretics” anchor one of the prettiest and most original rock records of 2007. 5. “I’ll Sleep When ... Album: "Armchair Apocrypha" by Andrew Bird. As always, Mr. Bird is surprising, enigmatic, and the music is rather sumptuous. Concert: "Die Frau Onhe Shatten" at Lyric Opera. In the rock realm, Firey Furnaces at the Logan Square Auditorium on Halloween ... Abrahams, Sq Ldr Mark Donald, R Air Force. Adam, Cpl David, R Air Force. Bird, Cpl Anthony Charles, R Air Force. Bond, WO Peter John, R Air Force. Brown, W Cdr Michael George, R Air Force. Calame, Sq Ldr Andrew Bruce, R Air Force. Cox, Cpl Adrian Lee, R Air ... The twain meet in my best-of-2007 music list. I've already gushed about some of my favorites in the annual Christmas wish list published in these pages earlier this month. Four in particular from that article — Andrew Bird's soaring, orchestral ... Huckabee bags a bird in Iowa OSCEOLA, Iowa (AP) , Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee bagged a pheasant Wednesday ... Retired Air Force veteran Andrew Hampton grew emotional as he spoke about the difficulty he had in gaining health benefits ... On the male side of the ledger, Andrew Wilkowske will sing Papageno, the comic bird-man who is one of the most-loved roles in all opera. Wilkowske, who has also appeared with Minnesota Opera and Los Angeles Opera, was here last year singing Major ... ... after he returns from his European wedding and honeymoon. May 29 Health officials say passengers on the same flights as Andrew ... Red Mosque in a 35-hour battle; the cleric who led the mosque's violent anti-vice campaign is among those killed. Lady Bird ...
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