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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Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon
The Met’s Live in HD season began on December 15 with everyone’s favourite diva du jour , the Russian beauty Anna Netrebko, as Gounod’s Juliette. Her Roméo should have been her regular stage beau, Rolando Villazon, but the Mexican tenor’s six ... The opera was Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette," with, in the title roles, Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna, with Placido ... Alagna, one of several tenors who stepped in for an indisposed Rolando Villazon this season, projected with ease, naturalness ... This is quite the year for Russian soprano Anna Netrebko . She's everywhere. (In the Associated Press photo at left, she is ... Her latest Deutsche Grammophon albums - Verdi's popular "La Traviata" with tenor Rolando Villazon and baritone Thomas Hampson ... Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon and Thomas Hampson and Carlo Rizzi conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Chorus. Deutsche Grammophon. An all-star cast that lives up to expectations and hype. EARLY MUSIC "An Italian Sojourn: Trio ... Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón star in the title roles, and Plácido Domingo will conduct. Tickets are $22 for adults, $20 for senior citizens and $15 for children — considerably cheaper than a plane flight to New York. For more information ... Anna Netrebko, the hot young sensation in classical music, would star as Juliette, alongside a Roméo sung by the renowned Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón. But Villazón phoned in sick. He called off all his commitments for Roméo this season, leaving ... Duets," Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón (Deutsche Grammophon,$16.98 ). This disc has ranked high on the classical charts for months, pairing as it does the most charismatic and sought-after soprano-tenor combo in the business. The fresh, ardent ... Live in High Definition" series' season--Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette," starring Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, which will open the series on Dec. 15, a dark version of Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel," directed by Richard Jones and starring ... Following in Bartoli's chart wake (and, as of late, still behind Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon's successful "Duets" album on DG) has been a clutch of promising young artists who are quickly making their presence felt. Among them: 36-year ... Vienna - Striving again to combine football and classical music, opera stars Anna Netrebko, Placido Domingo and Rolando Villazon will perform in the Austrian capital Vienna two days ahead of the EURO 2008 European football championship finals. The ...
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