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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Arab Strap
Arch miserablist Malcolm Middleton, once half of sex-obsessed self-flagellating nihilist duo Arab Strap, is releasing We're All Going To Die in answer, he says, to Simon Cowell's ruination of the Christmas chart. With lyrics like "What if ... 10 The former Arab Strap member who challenged for the Christmas No1 single with his cheerful song We're All Going To Die. 11 Along with Hannah Waterman, this Scots singer won the BBC show Just The Two Of Us without a little help from his friends. 12 ... Not bad for Arab grub." Sam sighed - his personal time with Annie was over. The Hunt had arrived. There were diamond ... Gene grabbed a canvas securing strap and drew himself to his feet. He produced from under his coat the kind of gun normally ... At one point her handlers strap her into a fatigue jacket and a bandolier, hand her a rifle, and sit her in front of a grim ... It's the same with the character; she could pass for being Arab, but she's not necessarily Arab. We didn't cast someone with ... Next up was Spencer Moody, Triumph of Lethargy member, who came out with a child-size acoustic guitar and played an somber, Arab Strap-ish song alongside nimble guitarist Tennessee Rose and then noticeably shaking while reading two pieces of short ... I think we ought to get off of the Arab habit. Stay out of Arab wars. Let them fight amongst themselves... I am excited at ... gd needs to strap his lips to an exhaust manifold if he likes breathing his gas hog's pollution so much. I don't. We have ... They're not so concerned about the utter lack of free speech or of religious tolerance or about the torture, killing, or imprisonment of gays in the territories or elsewhere in the Arab world. Strap bombs on yourself, your kids, your developmentally ... ... for trying to influence the court decision by speaking to the media, according to legal sources cited by the daily Arab News ... by Godless rag head control freaks who obviously took it up the ring when they were 2 by their bitch mother with a strap on ... ... butt, your hypothetical camel walks with a limp that matches your limp wrist. And besides your blowing smoke. Your way off base. Take "up yours" in the middle east where they play your strap a bomb on a dummy kinda game. HMmmm. I wonder if that Arab ... Arab Strap" (Scottish). "Ha Ha Tonka" (literate rock). "Scotland Yard Gospel Choir" is out of Chicago. "Mates of State," husband and wife duet. Tea Packs (a rock fusion band), "Hidden City" (a quartet), and these bands without designations or ...
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