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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Arabic Dance
Leili Nahary (Night and Day) Amr Diab The king of Arabic pop is back, sport- ing dark tank tops, blonde highlights in his hair and grabbing a 1960s stand-up mike in his new promotional posters. His latest release is another in a string of quality ... During a traditional Arabic dance class at school, she was noticed by a director Kate Gillick. Gillick realised Abouzeid didn't have her heart in dance and thought spoken word might suit her better. "I said tell me about your life. She started talking ... ... and there were a number of private parties held at people’s homes as well as clubs – many offering a dinner and dance ... The Diplomatic Club hosted an Arabic night limited to families. A few tickets at QR400 per person were available in the ... NATALIE BASSINGTHWAIGHTE, So You Think You Can Dance : "To not take on as much, enjoy life more, to get fit and start a ... It's like a kind of Arabic pre-cursor to the guitar. It's my favourite sounding stringed instrument in the world." MIMI ... As she recounts her struggle in a mixture of broken Arabic and New York-accented English, I think of the myth of Sisyphus ... years, Noussa worked on restoring people, as she calls it, with special nights for poetry readings, jazz and Oriental dance ... ... the Ababda and the Besharin present. “One of the problems we were facing early on is that many of them did not speak Arabic ... The men dance in circles around each other, stabbing the sky with their swords. As the music ends, the dancers lay down ... Dance the night to popular tunes and live music by our lively band flown in especially for the occasion from the UK. Indulge ... Delicious cuisine from the far corners of the world will include Arabic, Mediterranean, French, European Alpine, German, Far ... On the dance floor or off, Sally is a woman in constant, fidgeting motion. If shes not playing with her long, jangly earrings, shes pulling a sour face as she combs the ends of her flowing red hair for split ends. Her eyes zip constantly between the ... ... munshi or chief secretary of the Governor of Ghazni, Bhai Lal in a short time acquired great efficiency in Persian and Arabic ... A session of the vigorous folk dance is part of the weight-loss programme designed by SSP Naunihal Singh, who was reportedly ... Barack - "blessed" in Arabic - was born Aug. 4, 1961. His father left his family to study at Harvard when his son was 2 ... The women doted on him, chiding him for not eating enough, laughing when he showed off his dance moves, joking about his ...
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