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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Astor Piazzolla
Most memorable concert of this year's festival was the finale, interweaving Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" with Astor Piazzolla's "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires" and bassist-composer Evan Premo's quirky "A Seasonal Song Cycle ... 20: “Tango Fire,” 7:30 p.m. at The Tennessee Theatre . $26.50 and $39. “A thrilling production featuring passionate dancers, brilliant young musicians, and a great singer performing the music of the Astor Piazzolla. With raw energy and precision ... The trio plays "La Muerte de Angel" by Astor Piazzolla. Julia Sheriff , 16, admits she can't bear to be away from the piano. "My family went to Costa Rica for a vacation last year, and I was nervous the whole time," she says. "I brought a score with me ... The Gotham Chamber Opera kicks off its new season with the rarely performed work, Astor Piazzolla’s “Maria de Buenos Aires.” The operita explores Maria’s life, motherhood, and violent death through singing, dancing, and poetry intoned over ... It was 1980, I think, and my brother introduced me to (composer) Astor Piazzolla. Then it started." A little context here. Levy hardly came at this life-changing experience as a clean canvas, as a non-critical thinker, as a groupie. Born into a family ... Osvaldo Golijov's Last Round for Strings, composed in the 1990s, was a tribute to the work of tango master Astor Piazzolla, but it was no mere tango tarted up to sound good in an orchestral setting. It was, rather, a deliciously original composition ... Bach, Isaac Albeniz, Turlough O’Carolan, William Lawes and Rogue Valley composers Mark Knippel and Mark Jacobs. Also on the program will be music by Argentinian musician Astor Piazzolla and Los Angeles-based musician Andrew York, as well as guitar ... Favorite books: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carroll Favorite movie: "Young Frankenstein" by Mel Brooks Favorite music: Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer; Paolo Conte ... Astor Piazzolla's "Le Grand Tango," composed for Mstislav Rostropovich in 1982, was given a muscular, rapturous reading; powerful. And after an hour of music, the duo at last left the stage for intermission. The concert's second half began with "Bodas ... To judge from Tuesday's performance of Astor Piazzolla's Le Grand Tango , Ma's tango hasn't improved since his 1997 album of that genre - at least if you like that music played bitter and nasty. If Ma has that sort of thing in him, it doesn't come out ...
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