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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Anita O'Day
Billie Holiday, Anita O'Day, Von Freeman, Clifford Jordan -- all the legends have been through the Mill. This weekend, the venerable Green Mill celebrates a remarkable milestone: a century in business. The Prohibition-era atmosphere of the club was ... Featuring Anita O'Day, Annie Ross, and Dr. Billy Taylor. Unrated. Plays Friday to Sunday, December 28 to 30, and Tuesday to Thursday, January 1 to 3, at the Vancity Theatre The life of Anita O'Day, the most underrated of the top-tier jazz singers, is ... VANCITY INTERNATIONAL FILM CENTRE 1181 Seymour St. 604-683-FILM. www.vifc.org » ANITA O'DAY: THE LIFE OF A JAZZ SINGER: This portrait is a tribute to jazz diva Anita O'Day. Many of O'Day's numerous friends and admirers (a who's who of jazz) provide ... Anita O'Day, 87 -- Big-band and jazz singer. Betty Comden, 89 -- Tony award-winning lyricist whose 60-year partnership with Adolph Green produced some of stage and screen's most memorable musicals. Nov. 19, 2006 Ruth Brown, 78 -- Grammy winner who was one ... The Anita O'Day/Roy Eldridge collaboration "Leave Me Off Uptown" is a classic. An amusing short features vocalist Jimmy Rushing as a dreaming saxophonist in the Basie band. The video quality is not great, and personnel credits are incomplete. Paul de ... I like Anita O'Day. The people that I'm listening to every day have nothing to do with the work that I do, on any level. Maybe I relate to some sentiment or some discourse or fragileness or melody or something that I like that made me like them that ... Death claimed Broadway librettist Betty Comden at age 89; jazz vocalist Anita O’Day at age 87; and French actor Philippe Noiret at age 76. Today’s Birthdays: Broadway composer Jerry Bock is 79. Former Labor Secretary William E. Brock is 77 ... Instead of her well-crafted original songs, the album offers a canny tour through the back pages of the American Songbook, from a slow and sassy version of Fats Waller's “If You a Viper” to a hard-swinging rendition of the Anita O'Day vehicle ... She can evoke jazz chanteuse Anita O’Day one moment and emit glass-breaking shrieks the next. She also punctuates her songs with clicks, grunts, groans and sighs. Such gimmicks can sound contrived on Spektor’s recordings. Yet Spektor is such a ... What's the last music you listened to? Over the past weekend, the disc changer dealt out Anita O'Day with the Buddy Rich Big Band, The Ellington Suites, Jean Luc Ponty, Martina McBride, Yo Yo Ma, Brian Setzer, Binghamton's own Steve Davis and Dena ...
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