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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Album: Arabian Waltz
The luscious tones of the "Blue Danube Waltz" would be preceded by another waltz from the same composer, the "1001 Nights" or Arabian waltz. By this time, those watching Golka work could tell that, no matter how close he might come to dancing on his ... ... teenager who holds a dance party while his mother is away on holiday -- were voted best modern Arab act at the first Arabian ... Couples caught dancing anything other than the waltz, the polka, or Russian folk dances were subject to arrest. Members of ... Of all the special dancers, my favorites were Arabian Queen Katie Stelmack and her attendants. Magically appearing from ... Heavenly harps helped Dew Drop Fairy Rachel Schwartz and her entourage of Flowers in their waltz. Entertaining, exuberant ... ... these costumed 8- and 9-year-old girls scamper back to the sides to gaze with wonder at company members dancing "The Waltz ... But when Kristi Wilhelm debuted in such a role years ago, she knew she wanted to someday dance the Arabian variation in the ... With the Waltz of the Snowflakes (and a wild onstage blizzard), Drosselmeyer pulled the audience into Act II, where the ... The famous divertissement of "Spanish," "Arabian," "Chinese" and "French" whirled by, distant seeming, with only "Russian ... Certainly overexposure has dulled our appetite for another Waltz of the Flowers . But for some of us, we learned to ... And among the character dances, the Arabian, with its sinuous limb-twisting and the Chinese, with its visual puns - or the ... ... 1891 Russian ballet, the orchestra will perform “Overture Miniature,” “March of the Toy Soldiers,” “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” “Russian Dance,” “Arabian Dance,” “Chinese Dance,” “Dance of the Reed Flutes” and “Waltz ... Carpenter this year will perform in the Snow Court and the Waltz of the Flowers, as well as the Arabian Dance number. She’s starred as both the younger and the older Clara and performed as the Snow Queen in years past. “Every year, it’s always ... Yes, there is sporadic music in this version, but even though well played by an off-stage orchestra, it's a pale shadow when compared with Tchaikovsky's familiar Spanish, Arabian, Russian, and Chinese dances -- not to mention his wonderful "Waltz of ... It is during the visit to the Land of Sweets that Clara and the prince are treated to a celebration of six dances that include Spanish, Arabian, Russian, Chinese and Mirliton dances, as well as the Waltz of Flowers. Hawkes, Waldner and Eliason agree ...
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