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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Aqualung
WHAT: The codpiece is history, but Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull survive. The band, iconic in the 1970s for its artsy mix of rock and folk influences in signature albums such as Thick as a Brick and Aqualung, is on the road to prove that their ... Progressive classic rock band Jethro Tull , fronted by wild-eyed flutist Ian Anderson , will perform hits including Aqualung , Thick As a Brick , Bungle In the Jungle , Cross-Eyed Mary , Locomotive Breath and Living In the Past . Send items to The Ticket, The ... Barre made effortless shifts from jazzy rhythm playing to master-class solos, though he received some of his biggest cheers during the hook on "Aqualung," which only required him to play six familiar doom-laden notes. Barre used the riff sparingly, as ... Grouper is offering professionally shot footage featuring full live sets from bands like Peter Bjorn & John, Mando Diao, Annuals, Aqualung and many more. Just click here for live music goodness , without leaving your chair. ... Anderson conceded that there are a lot of songs that most likely will get played at any given Tull show, including top requests "Aqualung," "Locomotive Breath," "Living in the Past" and "Thick as a Brick." There are only two or three songs, he said ... Who's exhibiting? Major dive companies and agencies will include Aqualung, Atomic, DAN, Hollis, IANTD, PADI, SSI, TDI/SDI and Zeagle. There will be specialty gear by Cochran Computers, Pinnacle Wetsuits and Sea Life Cameras, with lots of rebreathers ... Couldn’t make it down to Texas for SXSW this year? We’ve got you covered. Last week we showed you a video from Mando Diao ’s raucous set, and this week, we’re taking you the other way with a candid ballad from British songsmith Aqualung ... These days, the band's influence is everywhere - think Keane, Snow Patrol, Aqualung - but the originators never quite made it big in America; their show, originally booked for Tuesday at the Warfield, has been switched to the more intimate Fillmore ... Sara has over 500 shows under her belt including tours with Maroon 5, Aqualung and Mika. She has performed on NBC's Today Show, Jimmy Kimmel, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and been featured in both Rolling Stone and the Los Angeles Times ... Matt Hales (better known as Aqualung) made a bit of a ruckus when his debut, Strange and Beautiful, dropped in the U.S. in 2005. A selection of lush, dreamy pop from his first two UK releases, it introduced a voice to be reckoned with — but it's ...
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