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 Summers
I interviewed Andy Summers and he told me the band was considering (big maybe) a new album. So maybe next year they'll make a real, full-fledged comeback, with new songs and everything. _____ Manassas , Va. : Hey! I thought it was a ... This trio took the music scene by storm in the late 1970s with its blend of reggae, punk, jazz and rock. Over the years, Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers created classic melodies such as "Roxanne," "So Lonely," "Message in a Bottle," "Walking ... Guitarist Andy Summers (The Police) is 65. Actor Ben Kingsley is 64. Bassist Pete Quaife (The Kinks) is 64. Actor Tim Matheson is 60. Singer Burton Cummings of The Guess Who is 60. Singer Donna Summer is 59. Bassist Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith is 56 We find ourselves saying more than once, "When I was a kid summers lasted f-o-r-e-v-e-r and now by the Fourth of July, it's all over … here comes Halloween. I've passed through all these times and now I'm in the midst the latest 20-year span ... Sting(L) and Andy Summers of The Police, performing in September 2007. A wind of reconciliation swept the music industry in 2007, making reunions of ageing rockers, including The Police, the defining theme of the year. Mellowed by age and doubtless ... But not only did Eco warrior-cum-tantric sex guru Sting, 56, Andy Summers, 65, and drummer Stewart Copeland, 55, share a stage together for the first time in 23 years, they made a mountain of dosh. Decades apart appeared to have made the sh*t-hot ... A few years later, I began to spend my summers and Christmases in jail. No, I wasn't a precocious juvenile delinquent, but if ... I was "Andy Stack" now, and old Andy went on to write more than a thousand Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana homicide ... In April, Orr, still in high school, bought the 107-year-old farm on which he had worked the previous three summers. The ... Andy was always interested in farming," says Jim Wood, who became Orr's mentor. "He'd always ask questions about why we did ... We spent our summers in Cape Cod at the family cottage fishing for fluke and stripers in the bay. It was at these places I ... And as I drove home I listened to my iPod Christmas Playlist filled with Bing Crosby and Andy Williams Christmas songs ... His first stop is strength and conditioning coach Andy O'Brien, who put together an off-season workout program that Booth ... Booth, 23, has become close enough with Vanbiesbrouck that the two play golf together during the summers. On one such outing ...
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