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: Apocalypse
Hitch those mules of the apocalypse to the powerful and often exquisitely beautiful melodies - which demand volume - and you have the year's top record. The album opener, “Black Mirror," clearly states that AF is the same band that created ... "Look!” says the angel, “he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be!” The Book of Revelation is the ultimate I-told-you-so ... Francis Ford Coppola, maestro of The Godfather, The Conversation and, greatest of all, Apocalypse Now, produced Youth Without Youth, which is, by all accounts, terrible. Having made the dismal Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino released Death Proof — not ... Anybody else think the NFL Network is a sign of the apocalypse? I'd much rather kill time watching "MythBusters." Top role model: Tiger. "Who is probably the most famous athlete in the world? Which athlete does the most for underprivileged children ... People have been predicting an apocalypse. I see more of rapture than an apocalypse," he quipped. "There will be some rough quarters to get through, but the long-range economic outlook is an upward trend for the region." Snaith acknowledged the crisis ... Docked several notches for a too-soon end-of-the-world episode that made the apocalypse look like an attack by an old Dio album cover. On DVD on Jan. 22; season 2 begins Jan. 26. 9. Damages, FX: Over-the-top, insane and illogical, this legal drama ... References & comparisons to Nirvana are obvious, but something special is at work here as we witness a band capable of penning beautifully depressing songs such as ?Apocalypse? alongside teen spirit power rock tunes such as ?Mindache?. Watch this ... The film: It is said about many films that the drama behind the camera on would make a film itself. This is a film-behind-the-film that actually got made. As Francis Coppola struggled with the Sisyphean task of filming his 1979 epic "Apocalypse Now ... Bastard Sons of Apocalypse, Needles, Dopecharge, Acephalix Bender's Sat., January 5, 9:00pm Mission/Bernal Heights Rock/Indie/Etc. The Bennys, Mostro, 2Me Hotel Utah Sat., January 5, 9:00pm South of Market ... In a related development, newspapers across the country downsized or eliminated the space and manpower devoted to book reviews. Either a literary apocalypse is coming, or we'll all muddle through. More articles To subscribe, click here. Copyright ...
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