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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Animal Collective
Anything you might call "fractured Beach Boys" isn't for everyone, but Lennox's nearly indescribable music - particularly the transcendent "Bros" - feels like a landmark achievement. (His home band, Animal Collective, also released a great album in ... Animal Collective? The freaking Pixies ? Answers on a postcard to the usual address. --- Battles Mirrored (Warp Records) Says reviewer Mike Diver: “Just where do you rack an LP that blurs boundaries like watercolour paint on a soggy page, that defies ... POLVO CONFIRM !! PLUS ANIMAL COLLECTIVE AND MORE... Fantastic news – we are very excited to announce that Polvo will be playing their first gig together in over 10 years at the Explosions in the Sky curated ATP. In addition to this we have more ... Brian Wilson is the patron saint of indie rock, so certainly they could have found anybody else to come play this gig. Paul McCartney ? John Cale ? Animal Collective ? (We can imagine the post-show now: “Mr. President, I’d like to introduce you to ... For Reverend Green," Animal Collective: Instead of making a pretentious, unlistenable mess, Animal Collective always manages to sprinkle the right amount of crazy into its sprawling masterpieces. Who knew twisted psychedelia and frantic noise rock ... Animal Collective: ‘Strawberry Jam’ Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox, is a member of Animal Collective, and his solo album “Person Pitch” is a bright, meditative wonder. I own it, I like it, but after the first 15 minutes, I need some good ... Strawberry Jam" Animal Collective (Domino) You know how they have public service announcements and reminders to do things, like "read to your kids" or "brush twice daily" ? Well, they should have those for experimental Brooklyn-based band Animal ... ... MTV airs, and cleverly subterfuges positive messages of working hard, personal responsibility and family loyalty amidst adventure, animal dung and mayhem. Like chocolate and peanut butter, Rob Dyrdek and Chris “Big Black” Boykin’s collective ... ... new clothes, where such praise is as transparent as the credibility dished out by Heat magazine – like some fantastic collision between early Genesis and Yes and Napalm Death, Dillinger Escape Plan and, oh I don’t know , Animal Collective purely ... ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam Animal Collective is making the music of the future. With their eighth release in as many years, the New York-based Baltimoreans made a sticky mess. Mixing up a vast array of techniques from electronic programmed drums ...
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