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: Arabic Belly Dance Music
... of Middle Eastern music. “When I first came to America, Arabic music was viewed as music that was played in cabarets,” he recalls, “music for belly dancers ... Presenting the best of Arabic music, dance, poetry and craft, Mahrajan Al-Fan, another ... MS. PERINO: Because he is the commander on the ground, Helen. He's the one who is making sure that the situation is moving -- Q You mean how many more people we kill? MS. PERINO: Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row ... The sweaty scorch of the body armor bit into my belly, the helmet ... resembled that of any resort, including an adjacent open-air dance floor which that night blared Arab techno music. ... disgusted when he heard of the firing of gay translators of Arabic ... The troupe, which performs to Arabic and Spanish music, incorporates belly dancing styles from Egypt and Turkey, and tribal fusion from ... Strangely, says Jillina, some women who belly dance in parts of the Middle East are frowned upon. "There is ... But when the music starts, they become one with the dance. "American Tribal Style Belly Dance is a powerful, passionate art form that touches my soul," said ... Mary Faia particularly enjoys performing at various fundraisers, haflas (Arabic dance parties ... ... image and lighting designer Hiroaki Umeda; the Tunisian Wacl (Connecting), a dance ... show, best director for the young and virtually unknown Shadi Sorour, best music ... produced only two plays this year, Keid El-Nisaa (Female Intrigues) and an Arabic ... ... Heart Away) has a vigor that conjures up images of forceful strutting on the dance ... city’s best-dressed list), he makes up for in scholarly knowledge of music. His ... blasting out of an engine-powered felluca, complete with blinking lights and belly ... AMMAN - Architecture, language, gastronomy, music, commerce, costumes and ... hall and at the entrance, on the parquet, tens of Portuguese words of Arabic ... Columbian, long ago hoarded by these immigrants, for lack of it), belly dancing - at a dance ... Iraqi pop music booms out as they sway and dance under flashing strobe lights. Nearby, a woman nicknamed ... In the corner, At'outa, whose nickname means ''little kitten'' in Arabic ... flock to the districts of Shemisani and Rabai, where clubs feature belly ... The music was exclusively Egyptian, featuring the great Omm Kalthoum and the tunes of Baligh Hamdi. ... A Japanese trainer is teaching Japanese young ladies how to belly dance Egyptian-style; she is also learning Arabic, as are some of her students.
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