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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Aura Noir
Blanchett makes do with a majestic red wig and a queenly aura of boundless self-confidence. Actually, the film begins with King Philip II (Jordi Mollà) of Spain placing a curse on Elizabeth I for her Protestant heresy and for her mistreatment of her ... Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who previously declared aides saw an "aura" of light around him when he spoke to the U.N., today boasted I know I have sort of arrived in a scary way, because now I'm not being attacked for what I've said and done These are little packages of sweet perfection, so soft that they practically need only to be placed on the tongue, savored and swallowed for full enjoyment that includes the aura of caramelized carrot puree and truffle cheese. The Pinot Noir sauce is ... ... visual and narrative poetry; out of a promiscuous dabbling with inherited material—the screwball, the Western, the noir ... to cinema art—culminating in the goofy mess known as Schizopolis —eventually stripped Soderbergh of his Wunderkind aura ... ... much of what the “New Hollywood” of the 1970s stood for, it’s Roman Polanski’s ambitious and masterful neo-noir ... It‘s certainly atmospheric enough but lacking the romantic aura of the Goldsmith score. So, is this the definitive version ... Smoking looks so effing tight!” However, there is a way to cheat the devil when it comes to radiating the aura of suaveness ... Film Noir, as it is aptly named, is cold-hearted and cool. Leather is definitely the dominant note here. Other brooding ... And he figures that Hughes has such an eccentric aura, the crazier the action in the text, the more likely people will buy it ... They're like gifted, bumbling private eyes in a farce-streaked film noir. In Hallstrom and Wheeler's view, once Hughes got ... ... recording of usable location soundtracks, valuably delineating aural atmosphere on such movies as the Richard Widmark noir ... I love the sound of trains because that's what gives them their aura and mystique. You can get a sense of the weight and ... But no matter how aware you are of the revelation to come, there's no escaping the supernatural aura that envelopes the first fateful hour as Scotty (James Stewart) is hired to follow the beautiful Madeleine (Kim Novak), who believes herself to be (a ... A noir book always has humor. Science fiction has humor. But not humor in the sense of laughing out loud, just the bit that ... Something else I also dislike in games are puzzles simply for the sake of puzzles.....as in 'Aura, Fate of the Ages' or ...
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