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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Album: Anthology
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music" (2007) Part of the Reel Music series; see Beyond the Multiplex. 6:30 p.m. Thu. "Certifiably Yours: A Screening of Certifiable Program Films" Two film students showcase their latest projects, "Blue Angle ... Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music" (6:30 p.m. Thursday), a number of music historians make a pretty convincing case that the folk-music revival of the late '50s and early '60s -- and, consequently, Dylan's ascendance, as well as the ... Anthology Poetry Workshop ChyroArts Venue Mon., January 14, 8:00pm South Scottsdale Spoken Word-Poetry Dan Deacon and Ultimate Reality Modified Arts Mon., January 14, 8:00pm Central Phoenix Rock-Pop-Indie ... There may have been something special in the Tokushima Prefecture soil that helped Suzanne Kamata blossom as a writer. But in a phone interview with The Daily Yomiuri, the editor of Love You to Pieces, a literary anthology about parenting disabled ... An actor and writer, Costigan achieved notice in the late 1950s writing for dramatic anthology TV series such as "Kraft Television Theatre" and "Studio One." When I came across a yellowed copy of the anthology in a Boston bookstore three years ago, I felt as though I'd discovered the seminal gospel of what might be called the American "Reading is Fun" movement. Illustrated with cheerful ... An album has to have as many of those things as it can," he said. "A solo guitar album -- I won't say it's an acquired taste, but that's a lot of listening. "I like it to be varied, but I want it to feel more like a novel more than an anthology." E ... Just when you thought you couldn't get any more attitude in Queens, along came "Queens Noir" to make the mean streets meaner. "Queens Noir," edited by Jackson Heights resident Robert Knightly, brings old-school intrigue to the city's geographically ... Explore how politics and music sometimes go head to head at the Anthology Film Archive's screening of "Gonzo Music Diaries." The film chronicles the efforts of three men in 2004, as they created the First Annual Williamsburg Music Festival in protest ... An actor and writer, Costigan first achieved notice in the 1950s writing for TV dramatic anthology series such as "Kraft Television Theatre" and "Studio One." He won his first Emmy in 1959 for his original teleplay "Little Moon of Alban," a ...
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