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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Andy Bey
It Ain't Necessarily So," Andy Bey (12th Street) Newark-born Bey, a sublime jazz vocalist, can take you inside a song to divulge its intimate secrets. Recorded at Birdland in New York in 1997, this album offers nine alluring renditions via Bey's ... Not everybody could sing it," says Andy Bey, a celebrated jazz singer and pianist with a strong personal connection to "Lush Life," a song he has returned to repeatedly throughout a 55-year career. "A lot of songs had verses and refrains, you know ... It Ain't Necessarily So," Andy Bey (12th Street) Newark-born Bey, a sublime jazz vocalist, can take you inside a song to divulge its intimate secrets. Recorded at Birdland in New York in 1997, this album offers nine alluring renditions via Bey's ... Of all the great expressive traditions in jazz, the male vocal is one that has had difficulty maintaining its position in the music's evolving marketplace. The shortage of prominent male singers is especially pronounced when it comes to African ... Frank Bey & the Swing City Blues Band. 12/21-12/22. Rich Tucker Blues Experience. 12/23. 12/30. Brass Heaven Featuring Jeff ... Andy Prescott. 12/30. Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant 3 W. Gay St., West Chester; 610-738-9600. www.ironhillbrewery.com ... Samuel Everett-Bey, 6-foot, G; Maurice Graves, 6-1, G-F; Tariq Lee, 5-11, G; Paul McPherson, 6-1, F; Lamar Speller, 6-3, F-C ... Andy Bousono, 5-2, G; Zakee Moody, 5-2, G; Parris Baldwin, 6-1, C; Gerald Ortiz, 5-11, F; Elias Martinez, 5-11, F; Ben ... Andy Lastra, an assistant county prosecutor, said Johnson and Bey began arguing shortly before 3 a.m. in the parking lot of a gas station at Detroit Avenue and Council Street. Although it is unclear who left first, both men got into their vehicles and ... Despite being a child prodigy who played the Apollo Theater in New York before age 8, and who formed an eerily harmonic trio with his sisters at 17 and worked with bop giants Hank Mobley, Horace Silver and Max Roach, Andy Bey nearly got stuck in the ... ANDY BEY "Ain't Necessarily So" (12th Street records 3½ stars) Andy Bey, one of the great soul and jazz voices to emerge in the 1950s, still has startling pipes. This live trio session, recorded at New York's Birdland in 1997, was not released until ... Or jazz singer Andy Bey from 10 years ago, appearing for the first time – or Keith Jarrett from five years ago. Or pianist Yundi Li performing Prokofiev’s Second Piano concerto. Or an all- Shostakovich disc by pianist Martha Argerich, not to ...
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